In the last two weeks, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been sent several messages, but judging by a press conference he gave a few days ago, they are falling on deaf ears.
The first message was sent by voters in the Liberal stronghold of Toronto—St. Paul’s. In an astonishing upset, the riding went to the Conservatives. Although byelections are often won by opposition parties, it’s telling that it has been over four decades since the Grits last lost a byelection in Toronto.
A tense Hollywood drama will begin to unfold this week in a New Mexico courtroom when Alec Baldwin stands trial over the death of a cinematographer on a film set.
The 66-year-old actor denies a charge of involuntary manslaughter after the gun he was rehearsing with in October 2021 went off, fatally wounded Halyna Hutchins.
WASHINGTON – Canada will be reassuring allies of its commitment to the western alliance as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau travels to Washington, D.C., this week to take part in the NATO leaders’ summit at a critical time for war-ravaged Ukraine.
Shops have been boarded up in cities across France as the country braces for possible violence in the aftermath of election results tonight.
In Paris, police warned local businesses along the busy retail strip of rue de Rivoli to secure their windows as anti-fascist protesters are expected to protest sweeping gains for Marine Le Pen’s party.
Polls opened today and results are expected late this evening, with reliable exit polls to be published at 7pm UK time.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau heads to Washington for the NATO summit early next week with more than $30 billion in recently awarded military equipment contracts and a new defence policy that promises a major cash infusion for the Canadian Forces.
But that spending spree will likely carry little weight and Trudeau can still expect criticism that Canada isn’t doing enough on defence.
As Britain succumbs to sectarianism, the implications are grave not just for Jews but for society in general
On October 8, as the world was beginning to comprehend what had just happened in southern Israel, most decent people – including many who would go on to decry Israel’s retaliatory campaign – expressed genuine horror at what Gaza’s Islamist barbarians had done. But a substantial minority was openly cheering. Not just in Turkey and Iran, but in Toronto and London.
In these cities, Muslims and non-Muslims alike lost no time in congregating and marching to chants of “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” and other slogans known to glorify the disappearance of Israel. Some of those making merry sported the image of the paragliders used by Hamas to land in Israel just a day or two before. I cannot imagine the pain and disgust that friends and relatives of the victims must have felt on seeing those displays.
Ask the average renter and they can tell you: Canadian rents have soared in recent years.
The latest data from Rentals.ca and Urbanation shows the average asking rent for all property types in May rose above $2,200 for the first time. That’s up 9.3 per cent year over year, the same jump seen the month before.
In some of Canada’s least affordable markets, like Toronto and Vancouver, two-bedroom apartments are now costing renters well over $3,000 a month.
This is insane.
Nigel Farage has said Reform UK’s “dominance” on social media has won it a “rapidly growing” following among the under-18s who could boost the party’s chances at the 2029 election.
The Reform leader said his party’s surge in popularity with young people — Gen Z — had yet to convert into votes as many were too young to go to cast ballots on Thursday. However, with Reform now in parliament with five MPs, Farage said the trend showed “what this party is going to be capable of doing over the next six months, over the next five years”.
When Justin Trudeau took over the leadership of his party in 2013, he vowed there would be no more “hyphenated Liberals.”
That was a reference to the leadership dramas of the past, particularly the long-running battle between Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin, during which partisans came to define themselves by their loyalty to the prime minister or his likely successor.
Let him stay. I hope he takes the LPC down with him.
In February, Patrice Motz, a veteran Spanish teacher at Great Valley Middle School in Malvern, Pa., was warned by another teacher that trouble was brewing.
Some eighth graders at her public school had set up fake TikTok accounts impersonating teachers. Ms. Motz, who had never used TikTok, created an account.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently addressed the issue of unsustainable home prices and their impact on retirees at a private seminar with Canada’s leading advocates of a home equity tax.
Blacklock’s Reporter says Trudeau emphasized the need to curb real estate speculation to prevent housing from becoming solely an investment vehicle rather than a means of building family and community.
On Feb. 21, 2021, 800 days after the Chinese government locked up Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig, Don Valley North MP Han Dong, a Liberal, called China’s Toronto Consul General, Han Tao, to discuss the case, which he shouldn’t have done.
Dong testified later that he could not remember the details of the conversation, but a CSIS transcript of the call said that he encouraged the Chinese to keep the two Michaels in jail, because releasing them would help the Conservatives. Two CSIS agents were so rattled by this and upset about Liberal inaction that they told Global News about it. Global ran a story. Dong denied it and sued Global, and on June 21 a judge ruled that the case can proceed, which was bad news for Global.
A day after President Joe Biden’s high-profile ABC News interview was meant to reassure members of his own party that he is mentally capable of holding the nation’s highest office, another House Democrat is publicly calling for Biden to step aside from the presidential race.
Drip drip drip.
In most crime-infested blue cities, officials make at least the pretense of caring about law and order. Sometimes they even take temporary or sporadic action in response to particularly egregious events, hoping to placate the public until the next blow-up.
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The trans movement is in full bloom. Many are scratching their heads as to how we got here.
A survey of the last two centuries reveals that it was long in the making, with deep roots found in feminist ideology, as discussed at length in my book, The End of Woman. Feminism ushered in significant shifts in thinking about women, fundamentally changing the way Western civilization considers biology, language, and law.
