This was not one election but two. For the Liberals and their supporters, this was an election, first and foremost, about Donald Trump, and his designs on Canada.
And so far as it was about Mr. Trump, and since it was unclear what, if anything, there was to be done about him, then it was about leadership, on which the Liberals happened to enjoy a decided advantage. Polls showed the public clearly preferred the Liberal Leader, Mark Carney, to the Conservative Leader, Pierre Poilievre.
While a comprehensive investigation will take weeks to complete, today’s massive power outages across Spain and Portugal present compelling evidence of the inherent vulnerability in renewable-heavy grids and likely offer a stark lesson in the dangers of sacrificing grid stability on the altar of green energy. While officials scramble to restore power to millions and politicians inevitably deflect blame, the catastrophic failure aligns perfectly with warnings that power grid experts have been sounding for years: systems with high penetrations of solar and wind generation have diminished mechanical inertia and are inherently vulnerable to collapse.
MONTREAL — The last thing Quebecers and Canadians want is instability in the federal Parliament, according to Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet, calling on his federal counterparts to drop partisanship and work hand in hand to fight U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats.
“I do not see any other scenario than collaboration for at least a year,” said Blanchet during a somber press conference the morning after an “atypical election.”
Allo Yves-François Singh!
On one side there were thousands of working-class people waving the Irish tricolour and belting out the Irish national anthem. On the other there was a gaggle of Trinity thin kids and sun-starved lefties, the kind of people who put the soy into socialism. One was a witch (she / they) who was there to ‘protest against Nazi cunts’. They chanted about ‘revolution’ yet it looked like a strong gust of wind might take them out. ‘32 counties, 69 genders’, said one banner, which I think means they want a United Ireland in which people with cocks get to cosplay as lesbians. Ah, just as Pádraic Pearse envisioned.
That was the craziest election yet, and it wasn’t even over on Day 1 after the voting. The numbers were still changing Tuesday afternoon.
The Liberals picked up a Bloc Quebecois-leaning seat, raising their total to 169, three short of a majority.
The Conservatives won their highest percentage vote in decades but still lost badly. They’re 25 seats behind the governing Liberals.
The NDP is losing official party status after Canada’s election. Here’s what that means
Sean “Diddy” Combs’ legal team has claimed that the disgraced music mogul might not have been mentally capable of committing crimes due to his substance use.
Combs, 55, faces a minimum of 15 years in prison after being charged with sex trafficking, racketeering and fraud. He is locked up without bail and his trial is set to begin May 5.
We still do not know the immediate cause of the massive power outage that impacted Spain, Portugal, and parts of southern France on Monday. But this has not impeded wild speculation, dubious explanations, and blame avoidance to deter discussion of the role played by the EU’s ‘Net Zero’ agenda and the cultural mindset that accompanies it.
The cultural mindset that dominates energy policy today reflects a dystopian outlook that views human development—the ‘human footprint’—as the problem rather than the potential solution. We are told that the development of industry and technology must be measured in units of carbon, which should be reduced rather than expanded.
The new Canadian parliament won’t survive Trump
Two narratives were at play in Canada’s election: either the Great White North was going to continue on its liberal sonderweg, rejecting the Right-populist surge that has erupted elsewhere in the West — or it was going to take the same plunge into the unknown that their American and British cousins had taken with Trump and Brexit.
Instead, they have delivered a muddled, mixed result that neither fully confirms nor denies either of these projections. With the long, dramatic count not yet completed, it looks like the parliament will be divided between a returned but humbled Liberal government under Prime Minister Mark Carney, holding on to minority status, and a rising but still not triumphant opposition Conservative Party under Pierre Poilievre. Both these parties made sizeable gains, the more consequential performance likely coming from Poilievre, who stole a number of working-class seats from progressive parties. But both will nonetheless also have to deal with the sting of dashed expectations. Neither side was handed a decisive victory: Carney and Poilievre each fumbled the historic leads they held at different turns of the campaign, failing to provide a compelling or unifying vision of leadership before the electorate.
Bonus Ignatieff!
h/t DS
One of the great Americans of our age, David Horowitz, died on Tuesday at the age of 86.
David Horowitz was one of the towering intellects and most perceptive thinkers of the late twentieth century and early twenty-first; he was also a man of unusual courage and remarkable vision. Though few people today realize it, David Horowitz was also one of the most influential people of our time, as he was one of the first leftists of any prominence to leave the leftist ranks and become a stalwart warrior for freedom.
Kathy wrote for Frontpage.
The president has learnt the lessons of his first term and is more willing than ever to trust his political instincts
President Donald Trump’s impatience was evident the first time he chatted with journalists at the back of Air Force One after returning to power.
I was among the small press pool as we flew from Las Vegas to Miami, and listened to my colleagues soften him up: “Is it nice to be back on Air Force One? Are you still planning to change the paint scheme?”
Mr Trump scanned the faces in front of him with a bemused expression as if to say: “Jeez, I’m the commander in chief. Is this the best you’ve got?”
How foolish are Canadian voters? They have just kept a politically inexperienced prime minister and largely discredited Liberal minority government in power because of their frustration with a US president.
That, in a nutshell, is what happened in Monday’s election in the Great White North.
Canada's new PM, Mark Carney: "We can't stabilize climate until we get to ZERO NET emissions"
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) April 29, 2025
This trans tiktoker fled to the UK and is now miserable and traumatized after realizing nobody really cares about him being trans there and getting robbed on the train pic.twitter.com/d58FLetJG9
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 29, 2025
OTTAWA — Some of the biggest election night fireworks happened on live television.
During an interview as part of CBC’s election coverage, newly reelected Bowmanville-Oshawa North MP Jamal Jivani accused Ontario Premier Doug Ford of sabotaging the federal Conservative campaign after his comments critical of the Conservatives triggered headlines and grumbling from the federal Tories.
Dougie I Will Leak The Audios Of You And Your Team From The Recent Election.
When The Moment Is Crucial For You.
And Thats Piece Of Shit Patrick Brown Eyeing The Conservative Seat.
We Got Dirt On All You Guys….
— 401_da_sarpanch (@401_da_sarpanch) April 29, 2025
Jamil Jivani tears a strip off Doug Ford "And all his goons around him all the time, they wouldn't make anything better."
"He has taken the provincial Conservative Party and turned it into something hollow, unprincipled, something that doesn't solve problems."
"He's glad… pic.twitter.com/bR6v06fiNZ
— cbcwatcher (@cbcwatcher) April 29, 2025
Not many people know, but before painting the Mona Lisa, da Vinci spent time doing this.
Find an inspirational ritual and you will go on to do great things too . pic.twitter.com/bmfNcDsWPy
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) April 29, 2025
