There was no real expectation that Chrystia Freeland would win the Liberal leadership race and make history as Canada’s second female prime minister. Even so, Sunday’s results must have been a blow. With Mark Carney’s landslide win, she placed second – with a mere eight per cent of the vote, compared to nearly 86 per cent for Mr. Carney.
In raw numbers, Mr. Carney received 131,674 votes; Ms. Freeland, only 11,134.
No way to polish that turd. Freeland was Trudeau’s toxic handmaiden.
How many weeks, or months, will the prime minister-designate, Mark Carney, be facing off with U.S. President Donald Trump in our current trade war? And how much damage could Carney do to Canada during this time? Does he know how to handle the whims of Trump’s ego-driven relationships with world leaders?
Democrats thought Trump’s second presidency would be a repeat of his first. They cornered him last time by triangulating lawsuits, the bureaucrats and RINOs to stymie a president they believed unworthy of the title.
Republicans in the Senate saddled the newbie with a Cabinet of Termites. He trusted them. Bigly yuge mistake.
Ha ha ha. 8 years later, the establishment has not changed its playbook. Football may be a game of inches, but politics is a game of adjustments. Trump adjusted.
France 24 is a state-owned, taxpayer-funded TV news station that broadcasts French propaganda. That’s its explicit, intended purpose: In the leadup to its 2006 launch, then-President Jacques Chirac proclaimed, “We must have the ambition of a big, round-the-clock news channel in French, equal to the BBC or CNN for the English-speaking world. It is essential for the influence of our country.”
Politicians in Canada are mostly pretending they’re desperate to crack down on money laundering, according to the stark, well-constructed argument of a University of Calgary law professor, Sanaa Ahmed.
Ahmed says the real reason federal and provincial governments have not made a significant dent in the laundering of dirty money is, basically, because they like the cash in the economy.
At the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos this January, Klaus Schwab’s wife, Hilde Schwab, opened the annual meeting with the assertion that Antarctica is melting.
“Antarctica, which holds 91% of the world’s glaciers, faces catastrophic ice loss, contributing to rising sea levels,” she claimed.
That statement is simply not true. According to a recent study, Antarctica gained 661 billion tons of ice during 2009-2019. “The Antarctic continent,” in fact, “has not warmed in the last seven decades.” A December 2024 study, in addition, concluded that “iceberg calving, the detachment of ice blocks from ice sheets and glaciers… a primary process in mass loss from ice shelf systems in Antarctica and a major source of uncertainty in future projections of sea level rise” is not necessarily a consequence of climate change, not even when we’re talking about “extreme calving events”.
An Ontario town is considering bringing a statue of Prime Minister John A. Macdonald back out of storage after it was defaced in 2020 amid a heated debate over the legacy of Canada’s first prime minister.
A former senior Facebook executive has told the BBC how the social media giant worked “hand in glove” with the Chinese government on potential ways of allowing Beijing to censor and control content in China.
Sarah Wynn-Williams – a former global public policy director – says in return for gaining access to the Chinese market of hundreds of millions of users, Facebook’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg, considered agreeing to hiding posts that were going viral, until they could be checked by the Chinese authorities.
Premier Doug Ford government’s plan to rip up Toronto’s bike lanes faces its first legal challenge on Tuesday morning, with a hearing scheduled for a temporary injunction that could pause their removal for three weeks.
Cycle Toronto sought the injunction after Justice Markus Koehnen “strongly” urged the provincial government on Jan. 8 to pause its removal of bike lanes on Bloor, Yonge and University Streets until the cycling advocacy group’s Charter challenge hearing scheduled for April 16.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says his government is suspending its 25 per cent surcharge on electricity exports to three U.S. states after securing a meeting in Washington with the commerce secretary.
In a day filled with escalation between Ford and U.S. President Donald Trump, the premier announced the meeting with Howard Lutnick in the afternoon — hours after Trump said he would impose a 50 per cent tariff on Canadian aluminum and steel imports.
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While Ontario Premier Doug Ford is fighting U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canadian imports, he’s also imposing a higher provincial tax burden on Ontario families than the previous Liberal government of Kathleen Wynne, according to a new study by the Fraser Institute.
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia — The Trump administration will immediately lift its pause on military and intelligence support for Ukraine after Kyiv’s endorsement of a U.S. ceasefire proposal, according to a joint statement by Ukraine and the United States.
“Ukraine expressed readiness to accept the U.S. proposal to enact an immediate, interim 30-day ceasefire, which can be extended by mutual agreement of the parties, and which is subject to acceptance and concurrent implementation by the Russian Federation,” the statement says. “The United States will communicate to Russia that Russian reciprocity is the key to achieving peace.”
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith wants the new leader of the federal Liberal Party to change its approach toward the oil and gas industry and its environmental policies.
Mark Carney won the Liberal leadership on Sunday evening with an overwhelming majority of the vote of party members.
On Monday, Smith re-iterated her calls for an election to be called so a prime minister is in place with a mandate from voters across the country.
How Carney hides billions of dollars in his companies so he can’t be taxed while taxing you into oblivion
