Just a reminder to get ready for the Silent Riot! They will not be silenced. pic.twitter.com/IAwdLO1pRf
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) April 9, 2025
Liberals’ lead could change if domestic concerns surpass U.S. tensions, says pundits, pollster
The Liberals have been boosted in the polls because of public concern about how Canada should deal with the United States, but a shift in focus to more domestic policy issues could make the outcome of the election much harder to predict, say lobbyists and pundits.
“The way I see it is, these last two weeks have been marred and had the cloud of [U.S. President Donald] Trump hanging over the election, and I would argue that the rubber hasn’t hit the road yet,” said Andrea Sarkic, a public affairs counsellor for Compass Rose Group and a former Conservative staffer.
WTF?
What is wrong with 72% of Canadian female voters?
Can someone explain why women would vote for anything other than the CPC? pic.twitter.com/yVltquUhqS— Pascal Anglehart (@DemosKratosCA) April 13, 2025
WTF?
This mildly offensive, yet funny video would get him a lifetime prison sentence in England. pic.twitter.com/xpJSTLYqnK
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) April 12, 2025
Crescent rising over Russia: the numbers that keep Putin awake
Canadian director Denys Arcand’s film “The Decline of the American” Empire opens with a professor, played by Rémy Girard, telling his students: “Three things are important in history: numbers, numbers, and numbers again”.
Khomeini knew about numbers and in 1989 he wrote a letter to Communist Party Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev in which the ayatollah invited the Soviet leader to embrace Islam to “fill the void in your system.”
The Soviet Union fell, Khomeini and Gorbachev died, but that letter seems to have found its way thanks to numbers.
Butler Resident Charged With Threatening to Murder Trump
The Trump hate train continues to go off the rails.
Today, 32-year-old Shawn Monper was charged by the Department of Justice for making threats to assault and murder President Donald Trump, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, and other U.S. officials.
Monper is a Butler, Pennsylvania resident — the same place where an attempt was made to kill President Trump while on the campaign trail last year in July.
Canada is more conservative than politicians think
Finally, some good news for Canada’s Conservative party. For the first time since the federal election was announced, a poll last week showed them in the lead, and polls over the weekend show them closing in on the Liberal party. They’re not where they were, but it’s progress.
In early January, the much-loathed Trudeau was stepping down, both Liberals and the New Democrats were highly unpopular, and the Conservatives, with a no-nonsense economic platform were considered a shoo-in for the next election.
Trump’s Tariff Fire Works
Despite the great deal of sound and fury that it has generated, it is perhaps too early to assess the lasting impact of President Donald Trump’s latest fireworks on tariffs.
Some things, however, are certain.
Contrary to assertions by talking heads on the small screen, we are not heading for a global trade war.
True, the US is the world’s biggest economy and ranks second as a trading power. But its share of world trade hovers around 12 percent, or under 10 percent of its GDP. The remaining 88 percent of world trade by 192 nations won’t be immediately affected.
How did Canada’s deadliest killer go unpunished?
They are the chilling names of Canada’s most infamous serial killers: Clifford Olson, Paul Bernardo, Robert Pickton.
All of them eventually captured, convicted and condemned to life in prison.
‘You Don’t Have To Patronize Me’: Maher Battles WashPost’s Rogin on His Trump Meeting
HBO Real Time host Bill Maher recapped his recent meeting with President Donald Trump on Friday’s show where he emphasized the importance of talking to people even if you disagree with them. He also claimed that Trump, in private, is quite personable as contrasted with the more combative public persona that people either love or hate. However, Washington Post foreign policy columnist Josh Rogin was not a fan as he showered Maher with praise despite claiming he fell “into the trap,” leading Maher to shoot back “you don’t have to patronize me, dude.”
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Business leaders, ex-bank heads throw support behind Poilievre with open letter
A number of prominent business leaders are throwing their support behind Pierre Poilievre in the upcoming federal election because they feel his Conservative Party will best handle Canada’s slowing economic growth.
The group of more than 30 current and past executives includes Fairfax Financial CEO Prem Watsa, Canaccord Genuity CEO Dan Daviau, former Royal Bank of Canada CEO Anthony Fell and former Scotiabank CEO Brian Porter.
Nato’s ‘drone wall’ that would see Russia’s invasion coming
Germany is seeking to build a “drone wall” along Nato’s eastern border with Russia to help defend its Baltic allies from a future invasion.
Friedrich Merz, the incoming chancellor, has vowed to rearm Germany in response to the threat from Russia, passing historic reforms last month that unlock potentially unlimited spending on defence projects.
The German arms industry is now discussing the idea of building a fleet of drones – or a “drone wall” – to defend all or parts of Nato’s eastern flank.
Pierre Poilievre’s path to victory runs through the GTA. Here are some races to watch
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has not moved to the GTA, it just seems that way as he goes door to door with candidates, searching for a pathway to the Prime Minister’s Office.
After three elections in which Halton, Durham, York and Peel voters elected enough Liberal MPs to be dubbed the “Greater Trudeau Area,” opinion polls as recent as January suggested the seat-rich 905 belt was ready to swing back to Conservative domination.
Wisconsin Teen Who Killed His Parents to Get Money to Kill Trump Linked to Satanic Cult
A Wisconsin teenager has been charged with two counts of murder in connection with the deaths of his parents in a bizarre conspiracy to “obtain the financial means and autonomy necessary” to assassinate Donald Trump and “perhaps the vice president,” according to a manifesto discovered by law enforcement.
Illegal crossings at US-Canada border drop — but enforcement shrinks: ‘Opportunity for terrorists’
US officials are pleading for help at the Canadian border, claiming the “most dangerous people are coming through” the largely unchecked crossing.
The number of illegal entries from the often-overlooked northern border have plummeted since President Trump’s election in November, but the gains have mostly stalled in recent months as Customs and Border Patrol has turned its full attention to Mexico.
“They had to shift manpower to the southwest border which opened up an even greater opportunity for terrorists to come through our northern border,” said Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA), who co-chairs the Northern Border Security Caucus.
Harvey Weinstein Rape Retrial to Begin Tuesday in New York
(AFP) — The retrial of Harvey Weinstein, whose prosecution and conviction for rape and sex assault ignited the “MeToo” movement, kicks off in New York on Tuesday.
The disgraced movie mogul’s 2017 conviction by a jury was overturned seven years later by an appeals court that ruled the way witnesses were handled in the original trial was unlawful.