Why Are Young Men Shifting Right? A Trend I’ve Been Tracking for a While

On Wednesday, I appeared in a segment on CBC’s The National about a trend I’ve been tracking closely for the past year: the noticeable shift of young Canadian men toward conservative politics. The piece, titled “They’re young, male and swinging conservative,” dives into the changing political preferences among young men and explores what’s driving them.

During the interview, I shared recent Abacus Data polling showing how young men—especially those under 35—are increasingly skeptical of progressive politics and more open to the messages coming from Pierre Poilievre and the Conservative Party. Economic anxiety, frustration with housing affordability, and a feeling that progressive discourse doesn’t include or even welcomes them—these are recurring themes in our data.

Young people in general do not turn out to vote maybe this time will be different but I would not hold my breath.

There is no question that the Liberal party through mass immigration and pernicious economic policy have destroyed any hope for a generation of Canadians.

Mark Carney has worse in store.

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Latest Nanos projections put Liberals in minority territory, but many ridings too close to call

The latest seat projections from Nanos Research have put Mark Carney’s Liberals in minority government territory – down 17 ridings from the previous week.

According to the organization, the Liberals would have taken at least 156 seats if the election were held April 6, when the projections were prepared. That’s down from 173 seats in the last projections from March 30.

Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives, meanwhile, would have won at least 114 ridings, up eight from the previous projections.

People are waking up to the Carney fraud.

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Hundreds of workers laid off at Ingersoll, Ont. assembly plant as GM halts production

The General Motors CAMI Assembly Plant in Ingersoll, Ont., will shut down next month with plans to re-open in the fall at half capacity.

The company said in a statement Friday that production is coming to halt as a direct result of the market, and available inventory to build the BrightDrop electric delivery vehicles manufactured at the plant.

“CAMI is making operational and employment adjustments to balance inventory and align production schedules with current demand,” GM said in a statement.


A mix of electric vehicle viability and tariffs are responsible I suspect.

h/t DS

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Canada’s ‘Islamophobia’ guide falsely equates legitimate criticism with bigotry toward backwards death cult

The greatest victims of extremist interpretations of Islam are Muslims themselves. This uncomfortable truth undermines Canada’s approach to combating anti-Muslim bigotry, as outlined in “The Canadian Guide to Understanding and Combatting Islamophobia.”

The guide defines Islamophobia broadly as, “Racism, stereotypes, prejudice, fear or acts of hostility directed towards individual Muslims or followers of Islam in general.” This definition creates an intellectual sleight of hand, conflating prejudice against Muslims with criticism of certain doctrines or political movements operating under the banner of faith.

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Some Conservative supporters question whether the polls can be trusted

Outside a convention centre where Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre held a rally in Brampton, Ont., Wednesday evening, two of his supporters unfurled a long white banner that read: “Do you believe the polls?”

“If he’s not going to win, we’re going to lose Canada,” said one of the supporters named Sarah, who didn’t want to give her last name, and wore a sweater with the same message.

“Look at the crowd coming out for Poilievre! We cannot believe the polls are right.”

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Canadian travel to the U.S. has plummeted. One reason why: fear

When political science professor Arash Abizadeh heard last month about foreign travellers being detained at the U.S. border, he cancelled plans to speak at an upcoming academic conference in Durham, N.C.

He believes heightened scrutiny at the U.S. border makes travel to the country too uncertain.

“Why would we subject ourselves to this?” asked Abizadeh, who teaches at McGill University in Montreal.


Leave it to the CBC to gin up the fear by featuring a Muslim as victim.

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So Called Canadian citizen extradited to India for alleged role in deadly 2008 Mumbai attacks

A Pakistan-born Canadian citizen wanted for his alleged role in the deadly 2008 Mumbai siege has landed in New Delhi after his extradition from the United States.

Tahawwur Hussain Rana, 64, arrived at a military airbase outside the Indian capital under heavily armed guard late on Thursday, and will be held in detention to face trial.

India accuses Rana of being a member of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) group, designated by the United Nations as a terrorist organisation, and of helping to plot the attacks.

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A wedge has emerged on religious freedom. Pierre Poilievre is on the right side of it

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is making a strategic play for the all-important 905 region of Ontario by talking about … Quebec.

It’s subtle, and so far, it hasn’t resonated much beyond French-language media and ethnic media in Ontario. But a wedge is starting to emerge between Mr. Poilievre and Liberal Leader Mark Carney on laïcité: on Quebec’s Bill 21, and where the two parties stand on freedom of religious expression. And that might matter, if only as a matter of principle in some of the most diverse ridings in the country, where the Conservatives have to do well if they want a shot at forming government.

There is a strain of westerner who will defend to the death a Mohammedan’s right to slit your throat.

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Trump is right to take on the free-trade fundamentalists

It’s easy to dismiss Donald Trump’s haphazard tariff barrage as silly and self-defeating, especially after so many days of global market turmoil. But critics among liberal Democrats and Republican free traders still need to address the overriding goal behind the seeming madness. The key strategic objective of Trump’s approach is simple: restoring American industrial power. Opponents of the US president ignore this at their peril.

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Carney crawls to Trump

Canadian PM quickly pledges to negotiate ‘new economic and security relationship’ with US after Trump pauses tariffs on other nations

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney pledged Wednesday to negotiate a “new economic and security relationship” with the US – an announcement that comes on the same day President Trump paused tariffs for dozens of nations, but not Canada.

“The pause on reciprocal tariffs announced by President Trump is a welcome reprieve for the global economy,” Carney wrote on X, referring to the commander in chief’s 90-day pause on sweeping trade fees.

h/t PA Cat

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BARBER: Canada leading in what, exactly?

Let’s face it, Canada’s not going to win a trade war with the US. Time to make a deal with Trump.’

Various news outlets have reported that Prime Minister Carney was thumping his chest, claiming that Canada is willing to lead if the US is not. This raises two questions.

First, lead based on what?

Second, lead in what?

Of the G7, Canada is ranked dead last in economic standing ― a ranking it has long held.

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Married Iraqi Uber driver who assaulted Ontario passenger wanted lighter sentence to stay in Canada

An Ontario judge has sentenced an Iraqi Uber driver to ten months in jail for sexually assaulting his passenger who was just looking for a ride home from a party.

The Ontario Court of Justice heard a woman engaged Sevan Halabi’s services as an Uber driver on Oct. 9, 2022. Halabi, who is a permanent resident of Canada, was angling for a lighter sentence to avoid deportation.

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The Great Tariff Pause

Stock market goes STRATOSPHERIC as Trump makes shock tariff U-turn… but China still faces onslaught

President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he will delay tariffs for 90 days for countries that did not launch a reciprocal tariff against the US.

He also increased tariffs on Chinese imports to 125 percent, citing China’s ‘lack of respect for global markets.

Trump attributed his decision to pause the tariffs to the fact that ‘more than 75 countries’ have reached out to the White House to negotiate solutions to the trade issues he raised with the new duties.

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Of course China wants Carney for PM

The only thing surprising about Beijing’s dictators wanting Liberal leader Mark Carney to win the April 28 election is that anyone would be surprised by it.

As Conservative MP Michael Chong — an actual “target” of Chinese disinformation — put it in the wake of Canadian security and intelligence officials revealing China’s attempt to promote the prime minister’s campaign on Chinese-language social media: “(China) knows that for a decade the Liberals have turned a blind eye to Beijing’s interference in Canada’s democracy.

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