Friday afternoon, I received a tele-marketing call from the Liberal candidate in my riding in Calgary. She went through the usual spiel of “having a strong voice to speak on my behalf in Ottawa”.
She added the polls in the riding look like it’s a toss-up between her and the Conservative candidate, but if I cast my vote for her, “we can elect a government and a prime minister in Mark Carney that will stand up to Donald Trump and protect Canadian sovereignty”.
Trump has inverted every issue that the major parties expected to talk about, and inadvertently pushed a new main player onto the stage. On Monday, we will see how the drama ends
This is the election campaign that wasn’t.
Everyone knew what this thing was going to be; it had been building forever.
It was going to be a reckoning on 10 years of Liberal government, a volcanic vent for the public’s exhausted fury with the party and Justin Trudeau, who, to some, had become a walking expletive. We were going to have a referendum on affordability and wokeness and whether Canada had gone off the rails.
President Donald Trump asserted that the United States would be prepared to lead military action against Iran “very willingly” if diplomatic negotiations fail, underscoring his administration’s “America First” approach. Trump warned that if Iran refused to make a deal to stop its nuclear program, there would be consequences.
If the latest polling is accurate, Canadian voters on Monday may grant Canada’s Liberal government another four years in power.
The party, which has been in power since 2015, was given a new lease of life in the form of former central banker Mark Carney – who has boosted its standing in the opinion polls.
But despite the Liberals’ makeover, all Carney represents is the continuity of Justin Trudeau’s appalling legacy.
BREAKING: Over 100 illegals arrested in a DEA sting operation targeting an illegal, underground nightclub in Colorado Springs, CO.
The DEA says there was drug trafficking, pr0stitution, crimes of violence, and weapons seized.
Over a dozen active duty military members were… pic.twitter.com/VBizzS2cTe
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 27, 2025
At a recent Liberal Party rally, Prime Minister Mark Carney responded to a heckler who accused Israel of perpetrating a genocide in Gaza with the words: “I’m aware. It’s why we have an arms embargo.” That sentence was not just a deflection — it was a tacit endorsement of one of the most dangerous and legally baseless accusations circulating in today’s global discourse.
This is honestly just too funny while also being very accurate. pic.twitter.com/KmDFKrIxa2
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) April 26, 2025
Despite its still large number of adherents, Christianity has borne the brunt of ruling class hostility toward religious faith.
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi held a press conference Tuesday where she formally launched the White House Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias.
The issue of anti-Christian bias extends as well into the halls of academia. U.S. President Donald Trump mandated the task force through a Presidential Executive Order in February. The decision is designed to end the anti-Christian weaponization of government and unlawful conduct targeting Christians.
Joining the attorney general were members of President Trump’s cabinet and key government agencies as well as people purportedly affected by anti-Christian bias during the Biden administration.
Canada is tragically a nation in decline. For a number of years, the key economic and quality of life metrics have slowly but surely worsened. This has happened while comparable countries have done much better. And it’s largely been a policy choice. We are not in accidental decline, but managed decline.
This is where we find ourselves, as we are on the cusp of a momentous national election. The choice voters face on Monday is whether to continue down this path or to turn things around by going in a different direction.
China, according to Reuters and Financial Times reporting on April 25, is not uniformly imposing its new 125% across-the-board tariff on American goods. In short, certain imports from the U.S. are in fact coming in tariff-free. Beijing’s new policy has not been announced and is not official.
“Companies in sectors including aviation and industrial chemicals said that some of their products had already been granted a reprieve, while local media reported that some semiconductors had been spared tariffs,” the Financial Times noted.
American Chamber of Commerce in China President Michael Hart told Reuters that some pharmaceutical company members of his organization had said they were now able to import products tariff-free.
While cost-of-living issues and U.S. trade tensions have dominated discussions during the federal election campaign, a long-simmering issue is drawing concern among some experts who say the potential consequences warrant greater federal attention: Canada’s declining fertility rate and its long-term implications for population growth.
Canada’s birth rate has for decades been below the level needed to replace the population, with an even steeper decline in recent years, according to a recent report published by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute titled “Baby Steps: How to reverse Canada’s falling fertility rates.”
While declining fertility is a global trend seen in other developed countries like the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom, Canada now lags behind many of its peers in fertility.
A Cambridge University museum has claimed Britain’s exploration of Antarctica was “colonial” – despite only penguins living there.
The university’s Polar Museum holds personal artefacts linked to the explorers of the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration, including Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton.
The museum informs visitors that the daring and often fatal expeditions to the South Pole were “in the colonial mould”, despite the southernmost continent having no human population to conquer or exploit.
Pierre Poilievre is trying to win over young people when he says he needs the “biggest voter turnout in Canadian history” to reverse a Liberal victory some polls suggest is a foregone conclusion, political experts say.
Newly eligible voters, specifically men, are most likely to support Poilievre’s Conservatives — but they’re also the least likely demographic to vote according to historical trends, said David Coletto, founder and CEO of Ottawa-based polling and market research firm Abacus Data.
“He needs, I think, an extraordinary level of turnout,” Coletto said.
Young Canadians favor Conservatives in election despite Trump threat
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the infamous “Maryland Man” of media renown (who is actually an illegal immigrant and accused MS-13 gang member from El Salvador with no legal right to be in the United States) was the subject of yet another story on National Public Radio.
The online version of the radio report by Eric Westervelt and Joel Rose for NPR’s All Things Considered Wednesday added some more sympathetic details to the Maryland man’s media mythos — he’s just a quiet family man!
Ontario man in custody on allegations he tried to join terror group: RCMP
A 32-year-old Ontario man has been arrested under the terrorism peace bond provisions of the Criminal Code after allegedly trying to leave Canada to join a terrorist organization, according to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP).
The arrest was made by the RCMP’s Integrated National Security Enforcement Team.
