New York Magazine has a profile of Alex Soros, the man-boy who took over George Soros’ political empire as his father declines into a shriveled version of Emperor Palpatine.
Seriously, the resemblance is uncanny. Even in his best recent photos you can see it. If Klaus Schwab looks like a Bond Villain, Soros looks like a man dedicated to enjoying the pleasures of power the Dark Side of The Force can bring.
Despite suggestions that votes cast in Western Canada don’t influence the result of general elections, an analysis of results from past elections challenges this notion.
The perception about the irrelevance of Western votes may have become popularized by the statement “Screw the west, we’ll take the rest” by Liberal political organizer Keith Davey in the 1980 federal election. It turned out to be a winning strategy for the Pierre Trudeau Liberals, who prevailed with a majority win against the Progressive Conservatives led by Alberta MP Joe Clark.
Former The View co-host, actor, and the celebrity face of self-deportation Rosie O’Donnell told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer the election of Donald Trump forced her and her “non-winery child to leave” America for Ireland.
Not a president!
With the media focus on Trump and his usurping of power, making him so omnipotently powerful, Canadians could be forgiven for forgetting that we have a parliamentary system of government, so this is a reminder — we elect Members of Parliament, who elect one parliamentarian as our prime minister, who is the the leader of the party with the most seats.
An investigation has been opened into death threats received by the head of a French university who has been accused by conservatives of a “chilling indulgence” towards Islamist activists.
The inquiry into the threats made against Isabelle von Bueltzingsloewen, the president of Lumière Lyon 2 University, comes at a time when French higher education establishments are riven by the sort of divisions that have emerged in the US since the October 7 attacks by Hamas.
OTTAWA — Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives will run $100 billion in deficits over four years thanks to a bevy of tax cuts and $34 billion in new spending, according to their costed platform released hours after millions of Canadians have already cast their vote.
Over four years, a Polievre government would incur a roughly $31 billion annual deficit in 2025-2026 and 2026-2027, $23 billion in 2027-2028 and nearly $15 billion in 2028-2029, according to the platform published Tuesday morning.
Community leaders condemn “blatant antisemitism” after couple told to leave pharmacy at Bloor and Spadina for wearing Jewish symbols
h/t MP
TRURO, N.S. – Mark Carney may be a political novice but he is quickly learning the value of staged photo ops.
The new Liberal leader is clearly not in the same league as his predecessor Justin Trudeau when it comes to apparently spontaneous, meticulously planned shots, like the time the former prime minister jogged past teenagers on their way to a prom.
Early in the campaign, Carney was in danger of losing a digit when he tried his hand at woodworking at a trades school in Vaughan, Ont.
Bernie Sanders and AOC caught exiting private jet — what happened to concern for the climate, that's right, it's all a lie.pic.twitter.com/xRgFIHdUKT
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) April 22, 2025
h/t Mauser
The US Commerce Department has announced plans to impose tariffs of up to 3,521% on imports of solar panels from four South East Asian countries.
It comes after an investigation that began a year ago when several major solar equipment producers asked the administration of then-President Joe Biden to protect their US operations.
The proposed levies – targeting companies in Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam – are in response to allegations of subsidies from China and the dumping of unfairly cheap products in the US market.
If there is such a thing as the luck of the Irish, then Mark Carney, until recently an Irish passport holder, seems to have it in spades.
Canada’s ruling Liberal Party, which the former governor of the Bank of England and the Bank of Canada now leads, was riding to almost certain defeat in next week’s Canadian general election, sitting some 20 points down in the polls.
Then along came Donald Trump with his imbecilic threat to annex Canada alongside Greenland and Panama, and the Liberals’ fortunes turned on a sixpence.
Geezuz. @fancypants_s https://t.co/xeNEQNaInj
— Auntie Polly (@auntie_polly) April 22, 2025
h/t Auntie Polly
Humans have gathered to feast and enjoy a tipple together for thousands of years, but research suggests chimpanzees may also bond over a boozy treat.
Wild chimpanzees in west Africa have been observed sharing fruit containing alcohol – not in quantities to get roaring drunk but, possibly, enough for a fuzzy beer buzz feeling.
Domestic extremists pushing ‘corrosive’ narratives in Canada’s election: report
Canadian domestic extremists are using the federal election to amplify “corrosive” narratives around democracy, immigration and conspiracy theories, a new report suggests.
The Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) found Canadian extremists are capitalizing on the deteriorating relationship between Canada and U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration to draw people towards their movements.
Who is the Institute For Strategic Dialogue? –BBC Cites Pro-Censorship Group, Claims Growing Hate Speech on Twitter
Who funds the Institute for Strategic Dialogue?
Funding for the ISD has come from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Omidyar Network, the Gen Next Foundation, and the Open Society Foundation.
In 2004, Daniel Gonzalez went on a three-day killing spree. Could predictive AI have identified him as a threat before it was too late?
At age 24, Daniel Gonzalez was well-known to the authorities. He was an intelligent child, with an IQ of 125. But by his late teens, he had already racked up a long history of violence – from punching a bus driver over a disputed fare to threatening his carer with a knife.
Diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia aged 19, not helped by a fondness for LSD and Ketamine binges, he was soon spending time on the streets, in and out of mental hospitals, and in prison.
