Voters didn’t demand much substance when they handed Justin Trudeau that 184-seat majority in 2015.
Despite a decade of steady decline during three terms of his leadership that brought Canada to the brink of ruin, history could repeat itself in the April 28 federal election. If polls are believable, newbie politician Mark Carney who returned to ‘save’ Canada after years abroad is positioned to head a Liberal majority government.
Recovery and rebuilding efforts from the devastation unleashed by Hurricane Helene on towns like Chimney Rock, North Carolina has largely faded from the headlines and the public’s awareness.
Over the past 6 months, however, a team of 2,000 volunteers from the Great Needs Trust, a Pennsylvania Amish community, have been quietly and steadily rebuilding the town’s homes, businesses and bridges.
#BREAKING: A wild report from a firefighter in Tennessee confirms that an Amish community whose sawmill completely burned to the ground on the night of April 8th…
…had been COMPLETELY REBUILT AND WAS ALREADY FUNCTIONING on April 17th, just 8 days later
Read that again. pic.twitter.com/EeaSQCUK15
— Matt Van Swol (@matt_vanswol) April 23, 2025
To those who say that President Trump abandoned Western North Carolina…
…I will just leave this video right here for all of you, because CLEARLY not a single one of you lives here
The progress has been absolutely truly jaw-dropping. pic.twitter.com/mJlPpNsHrT
— Matt Van Swol (@matt_vanswol) April 21, 2025
In studying historical events, there’s a tendency to apply a “what if” analysis. This involves pondering “what if” some other influence had intervened and whether it could have resulted in a more favorable outcome.
For example, what if Colonel George Custer had waited for the reinforcements which were already on the way to assist him before charging into the Battle of the Little Big Horn? Or what if the captain of the Titanic had opted to hit the iceberg straight on rather than trying to glance off its side? Or what if a German soldier during World War I named Adolf Hitler had been killed on the battlefield rather than merely wounded?
Every election, the message from exasperated pundits and pedants is the same: Canadians don’t actually vote directly for their prime minister.
But on a rural intersection south of Ottawa, residents could be mistaken for thinking otherwise.
Hammered into the freshly thawed mud and gravel are campaign signs for the Liberal leader, Mark Carney, and Conservative leader, Pierre Poilievre, at the only place in the country where the dividing line between parties is as literal as two signs facing off on opposite sides of the road.
But what will your neighbors do?
These early voting numbers suggest voter turnout is likely exceed 70% this year, up 10.7% from 2021.
Since 1946, 5 of 6 elections with a 5%+ increase in voter turnout led to a change in governing party. https://t.co/o2agtVD67H pic.twitter.com/X2rbI0AVVX
— golden pup (@Golden_Pup) April 23, 2025
h/t Mauser
Young women and men are gravitating towards opposite political extremes, with potentially explosive consequences.
Throughout history, poverty, class and economic self-interest have driven radical political movements. The Bolsheviks harnessed the anger of impoverished workers and peasants to create a movement that controlled the world’s biggest country for seven decades. The Nazis came to power due to both the Great Depression and resentment towards a small but economically nimble Jewish community.
Today, extremist politics is not bubbling up primarily from the economically disaffected, as occurred both in medieval and modern times during periods of upheaval. The self-professed radicals of our age seem more driven by their own inner cultural angst and disturbed psychology.
The Democrats have responded to their repudiation by the voters by tripling down on the toxic ideas and preposterous policies that make sense only when one remembers that, as DOGE has exposed, in the end, they are patent grifts, opportunities for enriching themselves and their plutocratic, corporate globalist co-grifters.
The Conservatives had enjoyed a lead over Liberals in the region largely because of rising housing and food costs. But President Trump’s tariffs have shifted the equation.
A year of rapidly slumping poll results for the Liberal Party that has governed Canada for nearly a decade was bad enough. But then there came the almost unthinkable: a defeat in a special election in downtown Toronto, the party’s longtime electoral fortress.
The defeat last year, many analysts believe, triggered the chain of events that led to Justin Trudeau’s resignation as prime minister and the federal election that will be held on Monday.
Voters in Toronto had been vital to keeping Mr. Trudeau and the Liberals in power through three elections. So the loss of a Toronto district — held by a prominent Liberal for 28 years — to the Conservatives was a stunning blow and an omen of worse to come in a general election.
Not so fast Katie Telford’s typist…
This explains Liberals hitting panic button today https://t.co/Fl4bhKPSdR
— Kathryn Marshall (@Lawsome_) April 24, 2025
This will lose more Carney support than is gained.
Woman speaks up during public interviews at TMU in Toronto pic.twitter.com/ob3MHj9GBp
— 6ixBuzzTV (@6ixbuzztv) April 24, 2025
No amount of training could have protected disgraced karate instructor Jeff Doucet from the surprise attack that awaited him when he arrived at Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport on March 16, 1984.
Doucet was escorted through the terminal in handcuffs in front of a procession of TV news cameras.
Lurking by a bank of telephones with his back to the commotion, a baseball cap pulled down over his eyes, and a receiver pressed to his ear, was an incensed Gary Plauché. He had a score to settle.
Gary Plauche, the man who executed his sons k*dnapper and r*pist with a single bullet pic.twitter.com/oGRTOWzMec
— Crime Net (@TRIGGERHAPPYV1) March 25, 2024
It is time for us to take back the idea of patriotism from the elites, and to free national consciousness from all the negative labels they have attached to it.
Amid all the confusion and uncertainty about Donald Trump, trade tariffs, and the prospects for peace in Ukraine, one thing should be clear: the “End of History” dreamworld of the globalist elites is itself coming to an end. Their fantasy of a peaceful, prosperous borderless world order run by bureaucrats and bankers has been brutally exposed.
Instead we live, as I wrote here last month, in “a new world of nation states.” Democratic nations now have to wake up and defend the interests of their people in turbulent times.
Preston Manning’s idea of a “Canada West Constitutional Conference” would begin doing something about the prospect of another four years of Liberal, anti-Western rule.
The opening line of Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto (1848) reads: “A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism.” Well, these days, a spectre is haunting Western Canada, too, but it sure ain’t communism.
If Canadians elect Liberal Leader Mark Carney in the 2025 election, they will have chosen the path of “severe pain,” Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson said in a Tuesday interview with American podcaster Joe Rogan.
“People correct course either by waking up or by experiencing severe pain, and it looks to me like we’ve chosen the severe pain route,” said Peterson, forecasting that a Carney government would yield accelerated economic decline and an increase in social disorder.
The Hebrew word mechdal has no precise equivalent in English. It signifies a great catastrophe for which human beings are responsible by inaction, error, or irresponsibility. The Yom Kippur War of 1973, which began when an unprepared IDF was taken by surprise by simultaneous Syrian and Egyptian attacks, has often been referred to as a mechdal. The October 7, 2023, attack was an even greater mechdal.
The more you learn about the events of that day, the more it seems that almost everything that could go wrong did go wrong. In fact, things could easily have gone far worse.
If Canada had stuck to 2015 trends, we’d all be $4,200 richer per year, and thousands killed by crime, drugs and health shortages would still be alive
Throughout the 2025 campaign, the Conservatives have frequently referred to what they call the “Lost Liberal Decade,” a reference to the fact that Canada has lagged dramatically on virtually every available indicator since the Liberals first came to power in 2015.
In sum, the economy is worse, crime is worse, public services are worse, affordability is worse — and there’s a whole galaxy of niche indicators, such as firearms incidents, refugee backlogs, even life expectancy, that are worse than they’ve ever been.
ELON MUSK SAYS DECLINING BIRTH RATES KEEPS HIM UP AT NIGHT
“The birth rate is very low in almost every country. Unless that changes, civilization will disappear.”
In 2023, the number of births in the US fell to the lowest level in over 40 years‼️ pic.twitter.com/uuua14x8BP
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 24, 2025
A Different Way to Read the 2025 Federal Election
With four days left before Canadians cast their ballots in one of the most unpredictable and high-stakes elections in recent memory, we’ve been doing everything we can to understand what’s really going on beneath the surface.
This past weekend, while many pollsters asked their standard vote intention questions, we tried something a little different.
Instead of asking Canadians who they personally plan to vote for, we asked: “How do you think most of your neighbours are voting in this election?”
Worth a read and worth a watch.
Canada’s TOP pollster says the POLLS ARE WRONG (w/ @MurrayDavidJ) pic.twitter.com/7B0mNvAb6u
— Candice Malcolm (@CandiceMalcolm) April 24, 2025
