For dramatics, the Canadian election campaign was never going to compete with the American one.
How many campaigns do you see where one party’s nominee is the target of two assassination attempts, one of which sears his ear?
How many do you get when the other party’s nominee is in fact liquidated by his own tribe, the mutiny taking place after the poor fellow staggered through a debate trying to look like a vigorous 80-year-old while coming across as 110.
“Out! Out! Out!”
The voice in the Telegram video is insistent. Loud. Sometimes musical.
And the message unambiguous.
“All of Hamas, out!”
On the streets of Gaza, more and more Palestinians are expressing open defiance against the armed group that’s ruled the strip for almost 20 years.
Many hold Hamas responsible for plunging the tiny, impoverished territory into the worst crisis faced by Palestinians in more than 70 years.
Liberal Leader Mark Carney is arguing that he can “tighten” industrial carbon taxes without increasing costs for consumers. That’s a tough sell. After all, a carbon tax on businesses is a carbon tax on Canadians that will make life more expensive for families struggling to make ends meet.
New polling conducted by Leger for the Canadian Taxpayers Federation shows that Canadians overwhelmingly understand that the costs of an industrial carbon tax, like the one championed by Carney, are passed on to consumers.
It’s the summer of 2023 and Ukrainian troops are furiously digging trenches under Russian fire in the pine forests outside Kreminna. Suddenly, a rocket crashes to the ground, and Zhakhar, a special forces sergeant, shouts at his troops to retreat to the car.
It was a dispiriting pushback, but at least it gave him a chance to inspect his latest battlefield trophy. Examining two boxes in his hand, he saw markings that were not Russian, but clearly Chinese.
City councillors spent thousands on podcasts, parties and popcorn – and Toronto taxpayers got the bill.
Councillors’ office expenses for 2024 were recently released, and some of the spending ranges from seemingly wasteful to weird.
Toronto’s 25 councillors each had a budget of $58,411.87, and some spent almost all of that. Lily Cheng, the biggest spender, came in at $58,404.53, barely beating out Chris Moise’s $58,383.99.
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For socialists, they’re sure a couple of high flyers!
Far-left New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was spotted exiting a private jet with her comrade in arms, Sen. Bernie Sanders, after shuttling between stops for a campaign dedicated to denouncing the wealthy.
During his campaign for the Conservative leadership in 2022, Pierre Poilievre said he would never pivot.
“I am who I am,” he said.
To a great degree, that has held true — despite periodic suggestions from the commentariat that he should change course.
It could take up to five years to develop a domestic supply chain to supplant China’s global monopoly in processing rare earths into materials needed to produce everything from iPhones to F-35 fighter jets.
While the United States has most of the 17 rare earth elements and 50 critical minerals underground, it has no industrial capacity to refine them into processed metals and magnets, according to Melissa “Mel” Sanderson, American Rare Earths board member and Critical Minerals Institute co-chair.
HAMILTON — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said Wednesday he would give police more power to dismantle tent cities, which he claims are making public spaces unsafe.
During a policy announcement in Hamilton, Ont., Poilievre said Liberal policies, including the funding of safer supply programs, are responsible for the increase in homeless encampments across Canada.
“For those trapped in these camps, our brothers, our sisters, our friends, our neighbours, they are left to suffer in the cold, to overdose, and sometimes to die alone,” he said. “Letting these tent cities spread is not compassion. It is chaos.”
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— Auntie Polly (@auntie_polly) April 24, 2025
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Attorneys delivered opening statements on Wednesday in the New York retrial of Harvey Weinstein, with prosecutors accusing the disgraced film producer of using his immense power in Hollywood to sexually harass and abuse three women.
“The defendant wanted their bodies, and the more they resisted, the more forceful he got,” Assistant District Attorney Shannon Lucey told jurors on Wednesday.
In his third trial in five years, Weinstein is accused of sexually abusing a former television production assistant, an aspiring actress and a model.
China says it wants to partner with Canada to push back against American ‘bullying’
OTTAWA — China’s ambassador says Beijing is offering to form a partnership with Canada to push back against American “bullying,” suggesting the two countries could rally other nations to stop Washington from undermining global rules.
“We want to avoid the situation where humanity is brought back to a world of the law of the jungle again,” Chinese Ambassador Wang Di told The Canadian Press in a wide-ranging interview.
“China is Canada’s opportunity, not Canada’s threat,” he said through the embassy’s interpreter.
Wang — whose office requested the interview with The Canadian Press — said that China and Canada appear to be the only countries taking “concrete and real countermeasures against the unjustified U.S. tariffs” imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump.
Donald Trump has accused Volodymyr Zelenskyy of jeopardising what he claimed was an imminent peace deal to end the war in Ukraine, as he gave the clearest hint yet that the US would be willing to formally recognise Russia’s seizure of Crimea as part of any agreement.
The US president claimed a deal to end the war – largely negotiated between Washington and Moscow – was close, while the vice-president, JD Vance, said the agreement would include a proposal to freeze the conflict roughly along the current frontlines.
It was unclear how Ukraine and its European allies, who were meeting in London on Wednesday, would respond to a plan largely constructed in their absence. Zelenskyy countered by proposing a simple ceasefire without conditions on both sides, though this did not immediately gain any traction from the US.
