OTTAWA — Despite the carefully crafted strategy that delivered Pierre Poilievre a resounding victory in the federal Conservative leadership race, campaign insiders say they were caught off guard during the six-month campaign by the thousands of young people who flocked to take out memberships and support Poilievre.
It seems the Democrats’ plan for our military is to have them vaxxed, woke, and broke. Thanks to a scorching case of Bidenflation, active service members are struggling to make ends meet here on the homefront. Rather than tossing our soldiers a well-deserved raise, the Pentagon’s official response is, “Get on the dole, dogface.”
Pierre Poilievre’s new challenge
Pierre Poilievre needs to engage the issues with serious debate and policy and leave behind the fringe theories and divisiveness of his leadership campaign.
The candidate is now the leader. Can Pierre Poilievre rise above the divisive tactics of his Conservative leadership campaign to grow into the role of a potential prime minister in waiting?
That is, after all, the role that Poilievre now has after his overwhelming win to become leader of the Conservative Party of Canada and leader of the official opposition.
The answer to that question will determine whether Poilievre can build the Conservatives to be a credible challenger to the governing Liberals, a task that requires the support of a broader base of Canadians beyond what he built to win the leadership.
Germany’s economy and climate minister has angrily lashed out at Angela Merkel’s party, accusing it of being responsible for “16 years of energy policy failure”.
While the ongoing gas crisis across Europe gets steadily worse, political tensions in Germany appear to be growing, with the country’s economic and climate minister, Robert Habeck, angrily lashing out at his political rivals in the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the party of former chancellor Angela Merkel.
In the United States, the midterm elections are now in full swing – and while the outcome on Nov. 8 will determine whether the Democrats lose control of the House of Representatives and Senate, the effects will reverberate to Canada too.
Germany’s “dithering and inaction” since the Russian invasion of Ukraine is prompting other European states to question its value as an ally, the Polish prime minister has said.
While Berlin has pledged at least €1.2 billion worth of military aid — more in absolute terms than any other country except the United States, Britain and Poland — Kyiv and some of its more gung-ho backers are dissatisfied with the slow pace of deliveries.
Actor James Woods took to Twitter on Sunday to air his grievances about a report that 9/11 planner Khalid Sheikh Mohammed — along with four of his co-conspirators — could be on the verge of a plea deal with U.S. military prosecutors.
The Green Party’s two MPs were both prepared to walk away from their party and sit as Independents if the federal council cancelled the party’s leadership race, according to an email forwarded to CBC.
One of MP Mike Morrice’s staff members sent three federal councillors a message on Friday evening urging them not to suspend the leadership race. In addition to warning that the MPs might quit the party, the email also warned against the federal council closing the party’s Ottawa headquarters, a decision that CBC has reported the party may have to make because donations have plummeted.
… It might be nice, for a change, for someone who has a vague idea of ordinary life to run the country for a while.
Who doesn’t dance or prance, but came from a hard beginning, applied himself to the art and practices of democratic representation, didn’t opt for a dilettante career and then simply waltz into high office on name and fame?
You can normally expect Russian state TV’s flagship weekly news programme to trumpet Kremlin successes.
But yesterday’s edition opened with a rare admission.
“On the frontlines of the special operation [in Ukraine], this has been the toughest week so far,” declared sombre-looking anchor Dmitry Kiselev.
“It was particularly tough along the Kharkiv front, where following an onslaught by enemy forces that outnumbered ours, [Russian] troops were forced to leave towns they had previously liberated.”
#Ukraine: A Russian Su-25[SM] CAS jet crashed shortly after takeoff and was destroyed. This is claimed to have occured recently in Crimea, but so far the precise date and location is unclear. pic.twitter.com/44V2M9lxib
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) September 12, 2022
Federal Liberals should be very worried.
Pierre Poilievre’s decisive victory Saturday confirmed not just that the Conservative party belongs to him — but also that it is now more unified, more focused, more organized and better packaged to win.
For the first time since the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative parties merged, the Liberals face an opposition leader who must make no real effort to keep his party united.
The death of Queen Elizabeth has prompted an outpouring of grief and widespread praise for her 70 years of service as sovereign. But a few dissenting voices have begun to emerge from those who believe the monarchy is outdated and anti-democratic.
Within hours of King Charles being officially proclaimed monarch at a ceremony in London on Saturday, the Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda announced plans for a referendum on whether the islands should keep the monarch as head of state. On Friday, politicians in Australia issued calls for that country to become a republic as soon as possible, and petition has started circulating in Wales to stop the use of the title “Prince of Wales.”
The federal Liberals say they are determined to do more to help Canadians feeling the pinch from inflation.
The caucus is meeting in St. Andrews, N.B., this week for a retreat where the cost of living is front and centre on every MP’s mind.
Rachel Bendayan, the parliamentary secretary to the associate finance minister, says MPs all heard very clearly from constituents over the summer break just how difficult it has become to keep paying the bills.
The far-right Sweden Democrats party was the big winner in the country’s election on Sunday, increasing its share of the vote by two to three percentage points and becoming the second largest party, but the overall result was too close to call as counting continued.
With 95% of votes counted, the rightwing bloc had 49.7% of the vote, which would give it a majority of one seat in parliament over the incumbent leftwing bloc.
OTTAWA — Pierre Poilievre began putting his mark on the Conservative party Sunday after a stunning victory in the leadership race which put to bed all questions about how big a mandate he’d get from the membership.
Poilievre swept 300 of the 338 available ridings, analysis of Saturday night’s results shows.
Among them: those represented in the House of Commons by two of the other candidates in the contest, Scott Aitchison and Leslyn Lewis, and the riding of York Centre, which another candidate, Roman Baber, once represented provincially in Ontario.
