BROWN: If you like Ford’s Ontario, you’ll love Carney’s Canada

This is it. Canada’s federal election is Monday, and it’s vitally important that Canadians are made aware of the threat that they’re up against at the ballot box: a Carney-Ford alliance that’s not just a betrayal of both Conservative and classical Liberal values, but a potential death knell for Canada’s recovery.

This may well be our last shot to stop the decline, so let’s not mince words.

h/t Auntie Polly

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Honorary Doctorates for Hamas’s Favorite “Fig Leaves”? Universities Have Officially Lost the Plot

Oh, academia, you never cease to amaze. Just when you think the ivory tower couldn’t sink any lower into the swamp of performative virtue, along comes Mount Saint Vincent University (MSVU) in Halifax, gleefully tossing honorary doctorates at Judy and Larry Haiven like confetti at a woke wedding. Why, you ask? For their “pro-Palestine work” through Independent Jewish Voices Canada (IJV), a group that’s less about Jewish voices and more about providing a flimsy fig leaf for some of the most unsavory characters in the anti-Israel circus. Buckle up, folks—this one’s a masterclass in how to make your university look pathetic while exposing a deeper rot in education.

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Why Smart Canadians Are Fleeing for the U.S.

It started with Justin Trudeau’s father, Pierre, who destroyed accountability in Ottawa.

Then-Prime Minister Justin Trudeau responded to President Trump’s suggestion that the threat of tariffs might prompt Canada to spend more on defense and border protection with a dire prediction: “Canada cannot then survive as a nation state.” Mr. Trump then quipped that Canada might be better off as the 51st state. It was Mr. Trudeau’s flippant, pathetic comment that made a mockery out of Canada, not Mr. Trump’s response to it.

Canada is the second-largest country in the world by land mass, endowed with vast natural wealth. With a smaller population of 40 million compared with its southern neighbor’s roughly 340 million people, Canada contributed handily to the Allies’ victory in World War II. And Mr. Trudeau thought a tariff renegotiation could be the end of his country?

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Blackboard Jungle 2025: What’s Driving the Epidemic of School Violence in Canada?

Things have changed at schools I guess. Looks like they’re passing a shiv.

“No place for a reasoned discussion: When newly-minted high school teacher “Cassie” tried to lead her English and Art class in a discussion about race and oppression, a black student in her classroom called her a “gook” and then attacked her with a large pair of art scissors, leaving her with several “big, dark” bruises and a severe case of PTSD.”

It’s a mystery to me.

h/t Patti Jo

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Canada’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad decade. The numbers prove it

If Canada had stuck to 2015 trends, we’d all be $4,200 richer per year, and thousands killed by crime, drugs and health shortages would still be alive

Throughout the 2025 campaign, the Conservatives have frequently referred to what they call the “Lost Liberal Decade,” a reference to the fact that Canada has lagged dramatically on virtually every available indicator since the Liberals first came to power in 2015.

In sum, the economy is worse, crime is worse, public services are worse, affordability is worse — and there’s a whole galaxy of niche indicators, such as firearms incidents, refugee backlogs, even life expectancy, that are worse than they’ve ever been.

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Canada’s doomsday scenario is already here, no need to wait until 2040

As Canadian doomsday scenarios go, it’s a bit of a letdown. But you’d never know it by the headlines.

First prize goes to the American news site Politico: Apocalypse Now. Runners-up: The Toronto Sun’s “Government report predicts 2040 dystopia: Collapsed economy, hunting for food,” Alberta’s Todayville went with Breaking: The Federal Brief That Should Sink Carney, and the Better Dwelling webzine chose Canada To Become A Dystopian Nightmare, Households Will Flee: Gov Report.

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China says it wants Carney to be it’s lapdog to push back against American ‘bullying’

China says it wants to partner with Canada to push back against American ‘bullying’

OTTAWA — China’s ambassador says Beijing is offering to form a partnership with Canada to push back against American “bullying,” suggesting the two countries could rally other nations to stop Washington from undermining global rules.

“We want to avoid the situation where humanity is brought back to a world of the law of the jungle again,” Chinese Ambassador Wang Di told The Canadian Press in a wide-ranging interview.

“China is Canada’s opportunity, not Canada’s threat,” he said through the embassy’s interpreter.

Wang — whose office requested the interview with The Canadian Press — said that China and Canada appear to be the only countries taking “concrete and real countermeasures against the unjustified U.S. tariffs” imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump.

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Canada’s Mark Carney Shares the Same Goal as China — Ending American Dominance

Canadians may be hell bent against becoming America’s 51st state, but if the April 28 elections confirm globalist central banker Mark Carney as prime minister it could go China’s way.

In the divisive election campaign following Carney’s appointment to lead the ruling Liberal Party, the high-flying ex-governor of the Bank of Canada with strong Chinese business connections is whipping up anti-American sentiment supported by European socialists, which has hallmarks of a CCP strategy.

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Michael Higgins: We are heading for a nightmare — even the government thinks so

Canada is on a dark path with a future that is bleaker and more depressing than most dystopian movies or novels, at least according to one report.

To make matters worse, this stark, despairing existence is predicted by our very own Canadian government.

And unless we change our ways, we have only 15 years before this miserable life is upon us.

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Alberta Called. I Shouldn’t Have Answered.

The “Alberta Is Calling” ads first caught my eye in the fall of 2022. They were splashed across Toronto’s transit system, and I was jammed into a crowded subway car on my way home from work. The Alberta government rolled out its $2.6-million campaign to lure big-city folk, fed up with high costs and congestion, to come out west for the promise of a better life.

The promise was alluring: move to a place where you can buy a house, take home a bigger paycheque and spend less time commuting. As a single person renting an overpriced shoebox condo in downtown Toronto, it was a compelling argument.

I don’t see how anyone in their right mind could “miss” Toronto.

h/t AL

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Canada election sees record high early voting, figures show

A record 7.3 million people have cast their ballots over four days of advanced voting in Canada’s election, official figures showed on Tuesday, in a possible sign of elevated interest in the 28 April poll.

Elections Canada said its estimated tally for voting from Friday through Monday marked a 25% increase over the 5.8m advanced ballots cast in the 2021 vote.

Canada, a country with a population of 41 million, has 28.9 million eligible voters, Elections Canada said in November.

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On thin ice: the brutal cold of Canada’s Arctic was once a defence, but a warming climate has changed that

In early February, during the depths of winter, Twin Otter aircraft belonging to the Canadian military flew over the vast expanse of the western Arctic looking for sea ice. Below, sheets of white extended beyond the horizon.

But the pilots, who were searching for a suitable site to land a 34-tonne (76,000lb) Hercules transport plane a month later, needed ice that was 1.5-metres (5ft) thick.

They could not find any. The teams scoured 10 other possible spots, stretching as far west in the Arctic as Herschel Island, five miles off the coast of Canada’s Yukon territory.

In the end, no site proved suitable for a sea-ice landing area. The north, it seemed, was too warm.

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OK, Boomers: Canada’s Surprising Electoral Generation Gap

Canadians go to the polls to elect a new prime minister next week. The center-right Conservative Party’s Pierre Poilievre is facing off against the Liberal incumbent, Mark Carney. For those who haven’t been following the situation in Canada, Carney is the Kamala Harris of the Great White North; he’s only in office because former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau resigned.

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