As the Ontario election campaign begins, a new poll has found that four in ten voters say Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford would make the best premier for the province.
The poll, conducted by Ipsos exclusively for Global News between April 29 and May 1, found that when asked which leader would make the best premier for the province, 41 per cent of Ontario voters named Ford.
The two front-runners in the race for the Conservative Party’s top job traded blows over their records in the first leadership debate of the campaign Thursday.
Making it clear who he thinks his main opponent is, Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre used much of his speaking time to attack former Quebec premier Jean Charest, a man he branded as a tax-hiking Liberal interloper.
Poilievre accused Charest of being too critical of the anti-vaccine mandate protest convoy that occupied much of downtown Ottawa earlier this year, saying he was proud to stand with “law-abiding” and “peaceful” truckers who were protesting COVID-19 restrictions.
At Conservative leadership debate, Pierre Poilievre takes aim at Jean Charest when asked re: his support for the Freedom Convoy. “The average trucker has more integrity in his pinky finger than you had in your entire scandal-plagued Liberal cabinet,” he says.#cpcldr | #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/XeaGlJhJRr
— CPAC (@CPAC_TV) May 5, 2022
Only chicanery could prevent a Poilievre victory after this debate and the CPC braintrust are just the men for the job.
If President Biden’s climate czar has her way, Americans will washing dishes by hand and drying their laundry on a clothes line.
Climate advisor Gina McCarthy is waging a war on your appliances.
As more transit riders who can afford to pay fares jump them instead, will U.S. cities step up efforts to increase collections?
Two cities on opposite coasts may be experiencing the gentrification of fare evasion. Janno Lieber, head of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, recently complained that security cameras had captured among the 12.5 percent of riders who don’t swipe at subway turnstiles “countless images of people in designer clothes, carrying $7 lattes, waltzing through emergency gates at Wall Street or on the Upper East Side.” Fare evasion could cost the MTA as much as $500 million this year, Lieber noted. The complaint echoed that of Peter Rogoff, the chief of Seattle and Tacoma’s Sound Transit, who recently singled out riders who paid for seats and $13 beers at a Mariners game but didn’t pay their fares afterward. Rogoff recently said Sound Transit was facing insolvency and was on a “financially unsustainable” trajectory.
Conservative victories against Netflix, Disney, Subway, and more.
There have been war correspondents since Herodotus chronicled the Persian War of 499–449 B.C. Newspaperman Ernie Pyle famously embedded himself with American foot soldiers during World War II to give folks back home a welcome grunts’ perspective, before he died by enemy fire at the battle of Okinawa. Fox News reporter Benjamin Hall was badly wounded covering the Russo-Ukrainian War when his vehicle got shelled and two colleagues killed. Being a culture war correspondent is much safer than a shooting war one, yet no less historically valuable. As such, I can report that last week brought some major victories against the Left in several battlefronts I’ve covered.
There is an coordinated organized effort in play by George Soros, Clinton and Obama staffers and European governments to pressure advertisers to stop advertising on Twitter. The reason, of course, is because it will soon be under the control of Elon Musk if the deal is officially completed. Leftists are so nervous about voices other than their own being given free reign on the social media platform that they are trying to suppress the support of advertisers on Twitter.
The explanation for out-migration from the state is delusional
Even the New York Times has to admit unpleasant realities, like the departure of people from California and other deep blue states. But one thing the paper, and other similarly-minded reporters based here, will never admit: the connection between the California economy and regulation and the rising out-migrations.
Bombings, shootings and rioting are on the rise in Sweden. We need to talk about why.
Something is rotten in the state of Sweden. Grenade attacks have soared in recent years. Sweden is now the only country other than Mexico in which police record the number of grenade attacks. Explosions in general are on the rise. ‘Sweden’s 100 explosions this year: What’s going on?’, a bamboozled BBC asked in 2019. In 2020 there were more than 200 explosions and 360 shootings. The murder rate for 2020 was Sweden’s highest in 18 years: 124 people were killed and 39 per cent of the killings involved guns. Sweden is the only country in Europe in which fatal shootings have surged since the year 2000. Even the once Sweden-adoring Guardian has had to admit, with not a little perplexion, that Sweden has gone from having ‘one of the lowest rates of gun violence on the continent to one of the highest in less than a decade’.
Ukrainian fighters have found a new use for outdated grenades that is proving spectacularly effective at destroying Russian tanks and other armored vehicles.
This photo released by Aerorozvidka, an organization that develops Ukraine’s use of small drones in warfare, shows a Ukrainian-made octocopter drone with two bomblets mounted beneath it.
When our national sin no longer unites us, then there will be a time for choosing.
Like millions of other Americans, for many years I have waited and prayed for the end of Roe v. Wade. Roe’s America has been, for my entire lifetime and then some, what St. Pope John Paul II called, in his 1995 encyclical Evangelium vitae, the “culture of death.” This has been “actively fostered by powerful cultural, economic and political currents which encourage an idea of society excessively concerned with efficiency,” the pontiff wrote, which in turn makes it “possible to speak in a certain sense of a war of the powerful against the weak.” Not just a war. A genocide. This culture of death has sent more than 63 million of my countrymen to a pre-birth grave since Roe (and Doe) gobsmacked America in 1973, just four and a half years before I was born.
Pope Francis in an interview published on Tuesday slammed NATO over the Ukraine war.
Questioning the conflict’s causes, the pope spoke of an “anger” in the Kremlin which could have been “facilitated” by “the barking of NATO at Russia’s door”.
The remarks came as the pope reiterated that he requested a meeting with Russian president Vladimir Putin over Ukraine, while comparing the scale of the bloodshed in the country to the genocide in Rwanda.
OTTAWA – Canadians’ movements, including trips to the liquor store and pharmacy, were closely tracked via their mobile phones without their knowledge during the COVID-19 pandemic, a report sent to a parliamentary committee shows.
Outbreak intelligence analysts BlueDot prepared reports using anonymized data for the Public Health Agency of Canada to help it understand travel patterns during the pandemic.
… The report reveals the agency was able to view a detailed snapshot of people’s behaviour, including visits to the grocery store, gatherings with family and friends, time spent at home and trips to other towns and provinces.
It’s becoming difficult to think of the worst thing about the Trudeau government, they keep coming up with new reasons to hate them.
BOSTON (AP) — The Satanic Temple is requesting to fly a flag over Boston City Hall after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled this week that the city violated the free speech rights of a conservative activist seeking to fly a Christian flag outside the downtown building.
The Salem-based group tweeted a request filed Tuesday with the city property management department to raise a flag marking “Satanic Appreciation Week” from July 23-29.
Mayor Michelle Wu’s office declined to comment on the group’s request other than to say it’s reviewing the high court’s decision while also evaluating its flag-raising program.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal is urging Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland to visit Kyiv as soon as possible.
In an exclusive interview with CBC News Network’s Power & Politics on Wednesday, Shmyhal said he and other Ukrainian officials are still waiting for a visit from high-ranking members of the Canadian government.
“We are waiting [for them] so much,” he told host Vassy Kapelos. “We will be very glad. It will be a big honour for us to host your prime minister, your government members.”
“C-list” may be overstating their status.
LGBT activist explains on TikTok (app targeting youth) how young girls can hide chest binders from their parents. pic.twitter.com/aTZWXZXUYM
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 4, 2022
