Poilievre defends election campaign but promises changes

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre defended his top-line campaign message in the election but acknowledged that he also has to make changes to win the next time.

Mr. Poilievre arrived on Parliament Hill Tuesday morning to meet with his MPs after their election loss – and the loss of his own seat.

For the first time since election night, he acknowledged the voters of his former Carleton riding, thanking them for their support over the last 20 years.


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Conservatives expected to point fingers at Jenni Byrne during election post-mortem

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is expected to hear on Tuesday from caucus members’ discontent over mistakes made over the course of the campaign, with fingers pointing to campaign manager Jenni Byrne.

Conservative MPs and insiders who spoke to National Post did not lay the blame on Poilievre, who they said was busy crisscrossing the country, but rather the operational and internal decisions spearheaded by Byrne during the campaign.

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Ireland’s asylum backlash

Huge crowds have staged anti-migrant protests in Ireland amid growing anger at the government over an increase in arrivals and asylum claims.

Over 1,000 are believed to have joined a march in County Donegal’s Letterkenny over the weekend, with several hundred having organised a counter-protest.

Ireland has seen anti-migrant anger growing in recent months, over the sheer number of asylum seekers being housed across the nation. Many of them are unable to get accommodation, forcing them to sleep in tents which has further incited anger.

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Is VE Day our last celebration of white men?

It’s hard to see how the relentless shaming of our national story will help restore our psychological readiness for war

Every year, VE Day gives the British public the rarest of gifts: an opportunity for unapologetic, unabashed pride in their country. Britain’s self-loathing is deep and pervasive. We tiptoe over virtually every aspect of our past, but on May 8, we’re permitted to wave flags, watch parades and enjoy a moment of licensed patriotism and unity.

It’s also a celebration of predominantly white male heroes. Sanctimonious halfwits will spend the rest of the year attempting to shred former glories – tearing down statues of Edward Colston in a bizarre display of solidarity with “Black Lives Matter”, besmirching Winston Churchill, without whom Hitler would likely have prevailed, and reducing the legacy of Admiral Nelson to his moral failings by modern standards, but on VE Day, the great men of our history are safe.

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Why the Spain blackout is being framed as preview of Canada’s future

At the precise moment that Canada was handing electoral victory to one of the world’s most vocal boosters of green energy, 60 million Europeans were plunged into a catastrophic blackout caused in part by green technology.

And in Alberta, at least, last week’s blackout in Spain and Portugal is being cited as a preview of coming attractions if the green visions of Prime Minister Mark Carney come to pass. “Albertans would be left to freeze in the dark,” said Alberta Premier Danielle Smith.

On April 28, the conjoined power grids of Spain and Portugal plunged into complete shutdown, leaving both nations without electrical power for 10 hours. Grid operators were ultimately forced to reboot the system from a cold start; the “nightmare scenario” according to an analysis out of University College Dublin .

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What’s behind Mark Carney’s aggressive rhetoric toward Donald Trump?

There are many reasons why Mark Carney became the prime minister of Canada — and one of the biggest is Mark Carney himself.

While perhaps initially more a consequence of luck than talent, Donald Trump’s threats towards Canada changed the terms of the election.

Canadians were looking for a leader who could chart the waters of international turmoil and uncertainty. Carney’s skills at managing global crisis, his proven track record of running large organizations and a calm and calculating demeanour could not have been a better fit for the time and circumstances.

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From One Fake Left-wing Hysteria to the Next

The decade-old age of fables like Russian collusion, laptop disinformation, or the pangolin/bat cause of COVID is not over; it is just hitting midstream.

For much of April, amid stock downturns, in the classical paranoid style, we were assured by the Wall Street Journal news reporters and the liberal press that Trump had either a) guaranteed an inevitable recession, b) engineered a losing trade war he likely regretted, c) crashed the stock market, d) lost his once majority favorability ratings, e) mostly had a failed first 100 days, or f) all of the above.

Some of us thought these diagnoses and prognoses were absurd. How in mediis rebus, during a radical counterrevolution never quite seen before, could anyone issue such bleak predictions? Would these same observers have said the U.S. was doomed to lose World War II after the bleak first five months of mostly failure in the Pacific, or North Africa, after the utter U.S. army disaster at the Kasserine Pass?

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Peter Menzies: Canada’s free and independent press is (mostly) dead—now what?

Only a few years ago, it was impossible to imagine that Canada would become a country within which the overwhelming majority of journalists are paying their mortgages and feeding their kids thanks to the government.

Way back in the 2010s, a scenario such as that would have been considered so morally repugnant, so ethically objectionable and embroiled with conflicts of interest, that it would have been dismissed with a wave of the hand as not just unlikely but impossible.

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Carney, Trump trade barbs, talk tariffs in first face‑to‑face at the White House

Prime Minister Mark Carney and President Donald Trump opened their first in‑person meeting Tuesday with a brisk handshake outside the Oval Office, then shifted to a lively joint press conference that set the tone for a new chapter in Canada-US relations.

Moments earlier, Trump had used Truth Social to accuse Ottawa of taking “$200 billion” a year in US subsidies and enjoying “FREE Military Protection,” adding that America needs “NONE” of Canada’s cars, energy, or lumber.

Read this entire thread

H/T XC

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WTF?

h/t Mauser

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The best argument against multiculturalism is staring you in the face

Whitechapel Market London

Nobody likes the yookay aesthetic

When it emerged as the guiding organisational principle of the British state, multiculturalism was sold, in the words of the hugely influential Parekh Report, as “perhaps the country’s biggest single national advantage”. The arrival of peoples from all over the world, bringing with them their unique perspectives, cuisines, religions, dresses, and cultures, would allow Britain to move on from “a narrow, English-dominated backward-looking definition of the nation” into something altogether more vibrant and exciting. Multiculturalism was to “widen a society’s range of options and increase its freedom of choice, for it brings different cultural traditions into a mutually beneficial dialogue and stimulates new ideas and experiences”. All those within society would thereby gain the opportunity to escape the narrow constraints of the culture they happened to be born into, instead becoming free to choose from the plethora of practices they would encounter every day, in doing so creating all sorts of dynamic new cultural mixes.

h/t Patti Jo

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Carbon Capture: The Scam Agreed Upon

Don’t be surprised at this, but your tax dollars are being spent to subsidize a burgeoning industrial complex bent on producing… nothing of value.

Welcome to the world of carbon capture and sequestration, which is modern capitalism’s answer to Holland’s 17th-century tulip craze.

In case you’re thoroughly unfamiliar with all this, here’s a quick synopsis: chemical plants, oil refineries, and other manufacturing and industrial facilities generally emit carbon dioxide either directly out of smokestacks or indirectly due to using a lot of electricity.

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Canadian universities have an Islamist problem

In what was once considered an inconceivable scenario, a London-based law firm acting on behalf of Hamas submitted a legal challenge to the U.K. Home Office demanding its removal from the British government’s list of proscribed terrorist groups.

The case has a Canadian connection, too: Charlotte Kates, co-founder of the Vancouver-based terror group Samidoun, contributed an “expert report” as part of the legal challenge “against the criminalization of Palestinian resistance in Britain.”

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Does The European Union Actually Expect Radical Islamists to Reform Themselves?

The European Union’s decision to grant the Palestinian Authority (PA) a sum of $2 billion to assist them to “reform themselves” can only be the result of willful blindness, cognitive dissonance and what by now can only be ascribed to a proud European tradition of Jew-hate.

The PA, despite claiming to be secular, is saturated with an Islamist mentality in support of jihadists. The PA plays the West by displaying a veneer of reasonableness, victimhood and the bogus claim that it would, in an ever-extending future, accept some kind of peace with the Jews. This fiction is supposedly backed by an equally bogus claim that it would be willing — under conditions which would always be suicidal for the Jews to accept — to establish a two-state solution in Israel’s ancestral homeland.

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