Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre speaking off-the-cuff at a press conference Saturday morning said the difference between the Tories and the Liberals is consistency — or lack thereof.
“We have always been the same, the Liberals will say whatever they need to get elected,” said Poilievre.
It’s become fairly obvious over the past week that there is a highly political campaign to take down Pete Hegseth as America’s defense secretary.
Since the emergence of so-called “Signalgate,” Democrats and media hacktivists alike — many of whom opposed Hegseth’s appointment from the beginning — have orchestrated a seemingly coordinated campaign calling for the Army veteran to lose his post over the incident. From the profanity-laden statement issued by Illinois’ junior senator to the unhinged op-ed authored by man-child David French, the flurry of faux leftist outrage amplified by America’s corporate press has been nothing short of remarkable.
This month’s Doublespeak Award goes to the BBC. President Trump is spearheading a ‘purge’ of America’s top museums, it breathlessly reports. The madman in the White House has instructed the Smithsonian Institution to put back all ‘memorials and statues’ that were ‘improperly removed’ from federal property in recent years, the Beeb says. Hold up. Call me a stickler for linguistic accuracy, but isn’t a purge when you tear monuments down, not when you put them back up?
Do you believe your eyes? Or do you believe the polls?
Many polls are online surveys from companies that have as few as 200 unnamed participants and up to 2,400. So, it’s just a few deciding for the many how an election campaign is going.
As for what your eyes see?
The stories beyond the rise of untimely deaths
The window had no curtains, no blinds. Though the back of a big screen TV obscured a portion of the view into the living quarters of the duplex. Passing by I’d often see a young man on a couch, facing the TV, controller in hands, inexplicably wearing a medical mask over his mouth and nose; inexplicably, I say, because he was alone. I’d only ever seen him leave to take the trash out. He’d walk with stiff and jagged gestures, with the unsteadiness of old age though he looked to be in his 40s.
Neighbors didn’t judge; he was a veteran and Lord knows what he’d seen.
When Daniel and Victoria Van Beuningen first toured their future home, a quiet villa in the Polish city Wroclaw, it had been abandoned for years, its windows sealed up with bricks. But something about its overgrown garden spoke to them. They could imagine raising chickens there, planting tomatoes and cucumbers. They could make something beautiful out of it, they thought — a place where their children could run and play.
They moved in knowing very little about what happened at the villa before World War II, when Wroclaw, formerly Breslau, was still part of Germany; or what occurred there during the war, when Soviet forces held the city under a brutal siege; or even what became of the house during the war’s aftermath, when hundreds of thousands of local Germans were forcibly resettled from what was now Polish territory. All their neighbors could tell them was that the villa had once housed a Communist newspaper.
Still, the couple wanted to know more, and their inquiries eventually led to the Meinecke family in Heidelberg, Germany, elderly siblings who said they were born in the home. Over a long afternoon, they showed the couple pictures of the place from happier times before the war, but they also offered the Van Beuningens a surprising warning: The couple might find the remains of some German soldiers buried in the garden. Maybe a few, maybe more; they couldn’t be certain.
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Donald Trump and his tariffs will not be the only key issue that determines who will be prime minister after April, 28. Canada has been plagued by a diverse set of problems for years, all of which will be remembered by voters on election day, including immigration.
Prior to Trump’s election and his decision to threaten Canada, one of the biggest controversies in Canada was the abrupt end of an uncontested pillar in Canadian political culture — immigration. It crumbled as if struck by a sledgehammer after just a few years of the Trudeau government’s careless mass-immigration policies.
The Star whitewashes the Century Initiative of course.
Pierre Poilievre has the ‘Century Initiative’ and its links to Mark Carney in his crosshairs. So what is it?
When Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre mentioned the “Century Initiative” at a campaign rally in Hamilton, Ont., the crowd booed loudly.
Poilievre has made an attack on the immigration-focused group a part of his stump speech in the first week of the campaign, and has criticized Liberal Leader Mark Carney for appointing one of the group’s co-founders to a key advisory council.
Century Initiative co-founder Mark Wiseman says "a lot of the screening" of immigrants is "a waste of time".
"Let's let people in by and large, and if we have to do the screening ex post, that's fine" pic.twitter.com/SIGOepeUrQ
— Riley Donovan (@valdombre) March 27, 2025
The Walt Disney Company’s latest live-action flop Snow White – a movie beset by disenchanting ticket sales, a comically progressive leading lady and even angry little people protests – tells you everything you need to know about the state of Hollywood.
In the classic Snow White tale, the heroine is awoken from her poison-apple induced slumber by Prince Charming. But there’s no prince in Disney’s remake – and the terror now gripping Tinseltown is that there’s no one coming to rouse them from their nightmare either.
More than a dozen Hollywood insiders ranging from an Oscar-nominated producer to the writer of one of the most successful TV shows ever have spoken exclusively to the Daily Mail about an industry in ‘crisis mode.’
JSO, the climate activist group, is planning its final protest next month after senior figures were given long prison sentences
Just Stop Oil had looked on enviously at Dutch environmentalists who managed to rouse thousands of people to block a main road outside parliament in the Netherlands to protest against fossil fuel subsidies.
They had hoped to emulate their success in central London by gradually swelling a small demonstration to a mass protest that could “reclaim parliament”.
But the logistics of having enough people to occupy Parliament Square and the deterrent of potential jail sentences killed the idea in the end. “The firepower wasn’t there,” Jonathon Porritt, a JSO supporter, said.
A growing number of Canadians believe refugees and asylum seekers receive excessive government benefits, according to internal research by the Canadian Museum for Human Rights.
Blacklock’s Reporter says the findings align with a decline in public support for high immigration levels, as documented by the Department of Immigration.
Amid a changing global security landscape and ongoing sovereignty taunts from U.S. President Donald Trump, one military expert says Canada may need to reconsider its position on nuclear weapons.
In the current geopolitical environment, Canadians need to start thinking about “difficult questions” around national security, Jean-François Bélanger, assistant professor of Military Operations at the Royal Danish Defence College, said in a Tuesday interview with BNN Bloomberg.
“What does it mean when our Number 1 ally in the first place decouples from European security and also mentions that they’re tired of paying for Canadian security collaboration, and on the other hand threatens annexation?” he said.
“Ivanka is Donald Trump’s biggest supporter and most trusted advisor,” gushed one woman’s magazine in 2017. And, by all accounts, nobody else in the Trump administration had the president’s ear more than his first daughter, Ivanka Trump. Along with her husband, real estate mogul Jared Kushner, Ivanka was the ultimate power behind the MAGA throne.
Indeed, she was even described as her father’s “eyes and ears.”
Wheels within wheels.
“Jared Kushner couldn’t find a buyer for 666 Fifth Avenue, an expensive office building that almost sank his family’s business. Brookfield leased the building whole, paying nearly a century of rent in advance.”https://t.co/sR4QP5Vn3V https://t.co/VjTBt867V3
— Andy Lee (@RealAndyLeeShow) March 29, 2025
Never much cared for Ivanka and her hubby.
h/t DMB
To be as well-informed as possible about the present election campaign, I have read Liberal Leader Mark Carney’s book Value(s): Building a Better World For All . I knew before I began about the author’s impassioned climate views and his faith in authoritarian regulatory government as the method for imposing upon people goals he holds to be in their long-term interest even, and especially, if they are not immediately shared by the public. It is the most turgid work of a political leader that I have read since Hitler’s Mein Kampf, (though in no other respect would I compare it to that book although Hitler, hard though it is to believe, at least as an author, had a better sense of humour than Mr. Carney). The title is also the most sanctimonious of a political leader that I can remember since the retired Irish Taoiseach Charles Haughey, (who was caught with both hands in the cookie bin up to his shoulders), who modestly styled his memoir “Conscience of a Nation.”
We have a serious mental health crisis in this country pic.twitter.com/vNFACg6wef
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 28, 2025
As Conservative infighting over how the campaign is handling U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff threats spills into the open, sources within the party are describing a “dysfunctional” campaign with too much centralized power and belittling and aggressive treatment of staff.
More than half a dozen Conservatives, who spoke to CBC News on the condition they not be named for fear of retribution, describe a campaign that is “highly disorganized” and “a mess.” The sources include individuals both inside and outside the campaign.
