TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford is warning that Donald Trump’s recent remarks in the Oval Office are a reminder that the U.S. president really does have designs on Canada.
“It’s not just words. He wants to do it,” Ford told an audience of policy leaders in Toronto on Thursday afternoon. “He wants to destroy our auto sector. He wants to destroy our manufacturing sector. He wants to try to take over Canada.”
Sharks are not naturally inclined to bite humans. But even the most patient predator has its limits — especially when being poked, prodded and posed by an overenthusiastic tourist intent on capturing a selfie.
A growing number of shark “attacks” can be blamed on social media influencers encouraging tourists to try to “stroke” them, scientists have said.
In New York, Frank Sinatra says, they want to be a part of it. Chicago, he claims, has all that jazz. But it turns out Toronto is where people are going.
Toronto was the fastest-growing metropolitan area in Canada and the U.S. for the second consecutive year and saw an estimated population increase of nearly 269,000 people from July 2023 to July 2024, according to data from Statistics Canada and the U.S. Census Bureau.
… In 2021, 47 per cent of Toronto residents were born in Canada. According to the Census, there were 1,286,140 immigrants in Toronto, or 46.6 percent of the population. In Canada overall, immigrants made up 23.0 per cent of the population.
Thousands of faithful queued in Vatican City to pay their respects to Pope Francis on Friday, days after the pontiff passed away on Easter Monday at the age of 88.
It is the last day for the public to see the pope’s coffin ahead of his funeral the day after. Until 7 p.m. local time (1700 GMT) mourners can bid farewell to the late pontiff before his coffin is sealed.
OTTAWA — Liberal Leader Mark Carney is admitting that U.S. President Donald Trump reiterated his threat to annex Canada to the United States during their call on March 28 despite claiming publicly at the time that Trump “respected Canada’s sovereignty.”
Carney has already lied about the fact..
– That he’s against carbon taxes
– That he saved the Canadian and British economies
– That he “just got here” and hasn’t been the backbone of the Liberal economic platform for years...Now even CTV is questioning his honesty ♂️. pic.twitter.com/8CRSXPUqJb
— An Oil Exec (@CanadianOilExec) April 24, 2025
Brookfield ex-employee wrote the Poilievre hit-piece for the Globe and Mail.
This is unbelievably unethical. https://t.co/DDCQIMv8Yp pic.twitter.com/54Lvq2VTCu
— Dean Skoreyko (@bcbluecon) April 25, 2025
H/T Mauser
US federal prosecutors have filed a formal notice seeking the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, the man accused of shooting dead a healthcare boss in New York.
Prosecutors argue in the filing that the 26-year-old killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson “to amplify an ideological message” and spark resistance to the health insurance industry.
The move was made just hours ahead of his plea hearing on four federal charges later on Friday.
Long before he entered politics, Mark Carney was a full-throated supporter of social engineering via progressive policy. His platform, released Monday, has confirmed that his government will be no different in that regard than that of Justin Trudeau.
Carney’s plan shallowly pushes diversity both in form and in substance. Form-wise, his platform alleges itself to have been “reviewed through an equity lens using a GBA+ analysis,” meaning that for each commitment has been mulled over extensively by the privilege police.
It is an open secret around the White House that many in the Trump administration are desperate to see the back of Elon Musk.
While the president himself still holds great affection for the world’s richest man, who bankrolled his election victory in November, many in the cabinet have wearied of the mercurial tech billionaire.
A row last week between Musk and Scott Bessent, the Treasury secretary, in which the two men went “chest to chest” in an expletive-ridden shouting match outside the Oval Office, is only the latest in a string of confrontations between the Tesla boss and senior Trump officials.
The costed Conservative election platform released this week largely eschews the hyperpolarizing language that had defined Pierre Poilievre until recently. The word “broken” shows up seven times in the 30-page document, but nowhere does the Tory platform apply that descriptor to Canada as a whole, as Mr. Poilievre had been endlessly doing until the federal election campaign began. Rather, the platform refers to “broken” Liberal promises and our “broken” immigration and health care systems. Hard to take issue with that.
"Many nine-year-olds" wrote letters about tariffs, Mark Carney claims.
Show us the letters, Mark. pic.twitter.com/qsn6SjF7z0
— Alex Zoltan (@AmazingZoltan) April 24, 2025
h/t Mauser
The Metropolitan Police has been accused of “misleading” a minister over violent placards at a trans rights protest.
Officers from the London force told Dame Diana Johnson, the policing minister, that no threatening signs were on display at Saturday’s demonstration in Parliament Square. This led her to insist in interviews that there was no evidence the law had been broken.
In fact, several were visible, including two with hangmen and slogans such as “the only good terf is a —- one”, implying gender-critical feminists should die.
No different than in Toronto where police have surrendered to the mob.
GRIMSBY, ONTARIO – NIAGARA REGION – For the third time within about four months, Harmony Jewellers in Grimsby has been the target of robbers. But tactics used by the culprits seem to be escalating. Instead of using sledgehammers to smash the windows of the Main Street West… pic.twitter.com/vliHHX3iSk
— Canadian Crime Watch (@CrimeWatchCAN) April 24, 2025
I am prioritizing parties’ and politicians’ stances on Gaza when I vote in the federal election on April 28 — but please, don’t call me a single-issue voter.
As a Palestinian Canadian, Gaza feels like the best test I can use to gauge a politician’s actual commitment to human rights. The core principle behind human rights is that they are universal (apply to everyone) and inalienable (cannot be taken away). Over the past 18 months, I have watched Israel violate just about every human right that I learned about in school, while so many Canadian politicians stayed silent. If a politician isn’t willing to fight for the human rights of Palestinians, how can we trust they’ll defend Canadian rights? You might think our existing laws safeguard your rights against those who would take them away, but I’m sure many Americans thought the same thing about due process, too. Things can change fast.
A government research group will explore whether Earth could be cooled by bouncing away sunlight
Research into whether the sun could be dimmed to combat global warming will be given the go-ahead by the government within weeks and £50 million is expected to be spent on experiments and analysis.
The geo-engineering techniques that will be explored include spraying aerosolised particles high into the stratosphere to deflect a small fraction of the sun’s energy away from the Earth.
HALIFAX — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says if his party is elected, it will scrap Canada’s electric vehicle sales mandates.
Canada has mandated that 20 per cent of all new vehicles sold must be electric by 2026 and 100 per cent by 2035.
Electric vehicles made up just shy of 12 per cent of the Canadian sales in 2023, but government rebate programs meant to encourage people to buy EVs came to an end in January.
Winner!
