In a little more than five weeks, either Mark Carney or Pierre Poilievre will be the prime minister of Canada.
But it is abundantly clear that this election campaign is more than a faceoff between the Liberal and Conservative leaders.
It’s also going to be a tug of war between change and stability — and which one of those forces is ultimately most important to Canadians at this tumultuous time for the country.
Why is TikTok allowing Trump supporters to post content? And some of them are monetized!
This liberal female displays signs of mid-stage TDS compounded by social media addiction. pic.twitter.com/VjwGPdWdQq
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) March 23, 2025
Let’s say, if just for the sake of argument, that the outcome of the federal election depends on how the vote goes in Ontario.
Because that’s the way it usually goes, and nothing in the dynamics of this campaign suggests there’s a compelling reason to expect it to be different. Conservative Leder Pierre Poilievre can sweep all of Alberta and the best he’ll pick up is two Liberal seats. Ontario has 74 Liberals, more than three times the total for all of western Canada. That being the case, Poilievre has considerable work to do to if he wants the province to help make him prime minister.
Well, I’ve reached the end of the internet. That’s enough for me for a while. pic.twitter.com/j5PdWFOjBe
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) March 23, 2025
The Chinese scientist who was imprisoned for secretly creating the world’s first genetically-engineered babies has claimed he will be remembered as China’s Charles Darwin for ultimately eliminating natural selection.
He Jiankui, who shocked the scientific world in 2018 when he said he had rewritten the DNA of two twins, Lulu and Nana, told The Telegraph that he had no regrets over the controversial experiment.
An investigation by Chinese authorities – which also revealed a third gene-edited baby – resulted in a three-year prison sentence.
In 20 years, gene editing in human embryos will be as popular as iPhone pic.twitter.com/BWoJ52h6ei
— Jiankui He (@Jiankui_He) December 21, 2024
A new class divide?
Why Western intel agencies help Putin and Xi keep their darkest secrets.
Scientists who, in 1978, quickly concluded the previous year’s global flu pandemic originated in a lab leak in China or Russia chose not to advertise their findings. Their overriding priority: protect diplomatic relations with Russia and China.
“A laboratory release was the most likely origin,” wrote clinical pathologist Martin Furmanski in a 2014 revisitation of the incident, “but they were content not to publicize this.”
By the time many of your read this, Canada is expected to be into a federal election. And the front-runner is a man who has never been elected to public office and has never faced Parliament.
He isn’t even an MP. And he is keen to call a general election because he doesn’t have to go through a byelection where he would be the sole focus of public scrutiny.
As Elon Musk pursues his “draining the swamp” in Washington, D.C., his plan to reduce the size of the US federal government may have a number of unintended consequences.
To be sure, few people might disagree with ending payments to millions of people who continue drawing their Social Security benefits years after having died and been buried.
Even fewer might approve of channeling millions of dollars in aid to NGOs in such emerging economic giants like India and Indonesia, not to mention sinkholes such as Afghanistan or active anti-American states like South Africa.
An update to what flags the Waterloo Catholic District School Board (WCDSB) flies could be coming.
A meeting on Monday, March 24 looks to discuss a motion brought forward by Trustee Conrad Stanley that aims to ban rainbow, pride flags, and other political symbols.
Inside the motion it cites “ongoing complaints, protests and delegations” from Waterloo Catholic parents, constituents and rate payers as one of the reasons. Adding that the “international identity-based flags like the rainbow, pride and progress flags remains divisive and unpopular.”
Secret surveillance of Britain’s notorious double agent, Kim Philby, made public for the first time in archived documents, reveals how keenly the Security Service wanted to confirm or disprove early suspicions of his high-level treachery.
In daily bulletins submitted to MI5 in November 1951, undercover operatives describe how Philby, codenamed Peach, moved about London.
They said he gave “no outward sign of being either nervous or on the alert, but your well trained man should not do so; every movement is natural – again as it should be”.
Canadian-born actor Mike Myers has injected himself into the looming Canada election by appearing in a rinkside video with recently anointed Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney to embrace the Maple Leaf flag and declare his allegiance to the Liberal leader.
Variety reports the video pairing the two was launched Saturday and begins with former Bank of Canada and former Bank of England boss Carney watching a hockey game in a Team Canada jersey.
Hypocrisy is the default setting of smug Canadians.
Mike Myers talks about what a great privilege it is to have become an American citizen
"America is a great country"pic.twitter.com/w4KCMeu0aI
— The Pleb Reporter (@truckdriverpleb) March 23, 2025
h/t Mauser
History records this of the famous Nixon Watergate scandal.
In the summer of 1972, as an American presidential election featuring incumbent Republican President Richard Nixon and Democrat Senator George McGovern swirled, two young, green Washington Post reporters, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein by name, learned of a break-in at Washington’s Watergate Hotel and office complex. A break-in at the offices of the Democratic National Committee.
It was at a news conference back in January that Toronto police gave members of the public a glimpse at an investigation involving what they described as “violent” Mexican organized crime group known as the Jalisco New Generation Cartel.
The group, police said, was linked to the largest cocaine bust in the service’s history. Investigators confirmed that more than half of the $83 million worth of cocaine that was seized as part of the drug squad probe was found in a transport truck that travelled from Mexico, through the United States, and into Canada. Two of the six suspects arrested in the case were Mexican nationals.
First scuffle of the day between pro-Palestine and pro-Israel supporters.
No arrests made at the time. #cdnpoli #Toronto #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #AlQudsDay #ProtestMania pic.twitter.com/1khcfCsMFr
— Caryma Sa'd – Lawyer + Political Satirist (@CarymaRules) March 23, 2025
I had a conversation last week with a Canadian journalist about the culture war on American campuses. After we finished talking about that, she had one final question for me.
“What the hell is Trump thinking about Canada?”
She wasn’t just asking about President Trump’s tariff threats. She was also asking about Trump’s obsession with referring to Canada as the 51st state. The tariffs were somewhat understandable, even if terribly misguided. They are, after all, one of Trump’s few consistent policy obsessions. He likes tariffs perhaps even more than he likes walls.
The New York Times David French is very very high.
