At 8:30 p.m. Eastern, as the English‑language leaders’ debate was close to wrapping up in Montréal, our team at Abacus Data pushed a national, English‑only survey into field. Within roughly ninety minutes we captured responses from a representative sample of 1,200 Canadian adults.
Major EV Fire Breaks Out Aboard Ro/Ro at Zeebrugge
On Wednesday, a fire broke out aboard a ro/ro cargo ship at the port of Zeebrugge, Belgium, prompting an immediate – and successful – emergency response.
Ro/ro fires are a serious issue, and the growing popularity of electric cars has made the potential consequences more severe. Fires can spread rapidly within enclosed ro/ro decks, and EV fires are even harder to put out. New industry guidance calls for operators to respond with evacuation, ventilation shutdown and initiation of CO2 flooding very early in the firefighting process – before the fire can spread or injure anyone.
Got Lucky. h/t Simus
Giancarlo Zorrilla attended a campaign rally for the first time in his life in March. It was a rainy night near Vancouver — typical weather for Canada’s west coast — but that wasn’t stopping the 29-year-old Canadian from seeing Pierre Poilievre speak.
“It’s time for a change,” Zorrilla said on his way in to see the Conservative leader give a fervent, hour-long speech on skyrocketing housing prices and the failures of former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Sure, Trudeau has stepped away from politics, but even a Trudeau-less Liberal Party is “still the same rock band,” Zorrilla mused.
A Massachusetts family is demanding answers from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice), complaining its agents smashed a car window with a large hammer and detained a man whom they say had applied for asylum.
A lawyer for the family also claims agents were not looking for the man in the car, Juan Francisco Mendez, when they grabbed him on Monday in New Bedford while he was driving to a dental appointment. He is now believed to have been taken into Ice detention.
The lawyer, Ondine Galvez-Sniffin, told the Associated Press in an interview that the agents claimed they were looking for another man with a different name before they dragged Mendez and his wife out of the car.
"Do you want it hard or easy?" Feds break car window of illegal who wouldn't open door via @NewBedfordLight #mapoli pic.twitter.com/VtgcFdLc7Q
— JohnFGately (@johnfgately) April 15, 2025
I don’t remember Christians getting a shout out when the fidei defensor was celebrating Ramadan.
What’s the point in having a monarch who warbles on about climate change and any other religion, but is silent about the satanic sexual abuse of his own subjects? https://t.co/oun6kjnLPg pic.twitter.com/t3wbGFT64j
— Laurence Fox (@LozzaFox) April 18, 2025
h/t Patti Jo
Heading into the Easter long weekend, Mark Carney’s Liberals have a slim lead over Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives in the April 28 election, according to Star’s election predictor, the Signal.
“There’s a bit of a narrowing of the lead. If the trend continues, it could be a very tight race,” Clifton van der Linden, a McMaster University political science professor and the CEO of Vox Pop Labs, the independent research organization that developed the Signal, which analyzes publicly available polling data in a supercomputer.
WASHINGTON — The US and Ukraine will finally sign a long sought-after mineral rights agreement next week after months of negotiations, according to officials from both countries.
President Trump announced in the Oval Office Thursday that an agreement had been reached, estimating that it would be formalized April 24 at a location to be determined later.
In a little-noticed series of X posts early Wednesday, Ukrainian Minister of the Economy Yulia Svyrydenko announced that “a positive new step has been made in the ongoing progress with the United States on the Economic Partnership Agreement and the creation of an investment fund for the reconstruction of Ukraine.”
The Star – Federal leaders’ debate recap: Carney faces attacks from Poilievre and others; post-event scrums cancelled last minute
Yves Blanchet saying “ouuu” & “ouch, that’s painful” in his French accent while Pierre Poilievre decimated Mark Carney took this clip to the next level…
True Canadian Heritage moment right here.#Pierre4PM pic.twitter.com/oro1dQ9PyZ
— Goldie Ghamari, JD | گلسا قمری (@gghamari) April 18, 2025
CBC – 6 big moments and takeaways from the final leaders’ debate
CTV – Carney and Poilievre trade barbs about Trump in only English election debate
This is the exact moment @MarkJCarney lost the election.
Watch. Share. And make sure that anybody stupid enough to still vote for the liberals is reminded of their stupidity.
Because if you vote for the liberals, you are an idiot. pic.twitter.com/uiKIKLcl44
— Viva Frei (@thevivafrei) April 18, 2025
NP – Mark Carney takes shots from left, right and Bloc during English debate
BBC – Five takeaways from Canada party leaders’ big TV debate
Listen to what WEF globalist whore @MarkJCarney says at the end here. Truly astonishing.
That his intent is on “maximizing the harm in the US”.
And he calls @realDonaldTrump the threat to Canada.
If you vote for Carney, you are an idiot. pic.twitter.com/fh2XK0U1W0
— Viva Frei (@thevivafrei) April 17, 2025
NYTimes – 5 Takeaways From Canada’s Election Debate
Globe – Post-debate press scrum scrapped at last minute over lack of ‘proper environment’
The press scrum after Thursday night’s English-language leaders debate was scrapped only minutes before it was set to begin, after an argument in the media room led the debate commission to conclude it could not provide a “proper environment” for reporters to ask questions of the leaders.
This is likely the guy who started the fracas
Some journo is having a full-blown meltdown about Rebel News being at the debates.
He is so unhinged that Ezra Levant has to remind him to control his emotions.
Wow. pic.twitter.com/14DIwNW6jS
— Kat Kanada (@KatKanada_TM) April 17, 2025
Jamie Sarkonak: Who won the debate? Poilievre, easy
Friends and relatives of 17-year-old Karmelo Anthony, the Texas high school student accused of fatally stabbing another teen, are promoting t-shirts with his face on them with slogans like “FreeMelo” and “#Justice4KarmeloAnthony.” When he was taken into custody after the fatal stabbing of Austin Metcalf at a Frisco High School track meet, Anthony admitted that he was the killer.
Bastard lawyer
Karmelo Anthony presser starts off by attacking Austin Metcalf’s dad: “It is disrespectful” of him coming here pic.twitter.com/1iXhg7IfnK
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) April 17, 2025
JUST IN: Minister Dominique Alexander, who is representing Karmelo Anthony, attacks journalist @SarahisCensored and says “racist bigots” are trying to shut down support for their family
Alexander falsely claims Kyle Rittenhouse had an “AK-47” and sh*t “three people in the… pic.twitter.com/CfpPCLHrK2
— Unlimited L’s (@unlimited_ls) April 17, 2025
h/t XC
While often portrayed both domestically and internationally as an environmental laggard, Canada has some of the cleanest air in the world — better than any other member of the G7 nations — according to a new study by the Fraser Institute.
Mark Carney and Brookfield recently took a $250 million loan from the People’s Bank of China.
Sam Cooper lays out the timeline of Mark Carney’s disclosed dealings with the CCP. It seems like this might be a conflict of interest.
Full episode premieres everywhere tomorrow, April… pic.twitter.com/VWuJixXMrO
— Jason James (@jasonjamesbnn) April 15, 2025
Some voters have not locked in their choice and may hold the keys to who governs Canada after election day.
A new Angus Reid Institute (ARI) poll finds 37% of Liberal supporters are less than “very committed” to casting a ballot for the Liberals.
Shy Poilievre supporters anyone?
On Wednesday, Attorney General Pam Bondi released police records showing Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the “Maryland man” who was deported to his native El Salvador by the Trump administration, was in fact a member of MS-13 and was in the United States illegally.
Contrary to the assertions of Garcia’s lawyers (and many in the corporate press) that there’s no evidence he’s a member of MS-13 and that the cops just made it all up, the police affidavit from Garcia’s arrest in March 2019 shows that he was arrested with multiple other confirmed MS-13 gang members, was wearing clothing associated with the gang, and was identified by a confidential police informant as an MS-13 gang member with a rank and a moniker.
Rajeev Syal, an editor for The Guardian, recently wrote on the “disproportionate” use of force against Muslim convicts while incarcerated in English prisons:
Muslim prisoners are disproportionately subjected to force including pain-inducing techniques by jail staff, according to new data.
Freedom of information requests found that in eight out of nine prisons with high Muslim populations, Muslim men were more likely than the average inmate to be confronted with batons, made to wear rigid bar handcuffs, or deliberately held in a painful position.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has identified $1.4 billion in fentanyl-linked suspicious transactions, naming China, Mexico, Canada, and India as key foreign touchpoints in the global production and laundering network. The analysis, based on 1,246 Bank Secrecy Act filings submitted in 2024, tracks financial activity spanning chemical purchases, trafficking logistics, and international money laundering operations.
h/t handy n handsome
I’ve found my soundtrack for spring: the caterwauling of fellas in dresses following yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling. It’s delicious. They’re raging about the ‘fascism’ of no longer being allowed to get their knobs out in the women’s changing room. They’re agonising over where they’re supposed to take a shit now. Their Adam’s apples are getting a mighty fine workout as they wail into the void about being ‘erased’ by ‘transphobes’. It’s the sound of men being stripped of their entitlements by women who’ve had enough of their crap, and I am so here for it.
