GUNTER: Carney Liberals capitalize on older voters’ fear of change, disruption

With just two weeks to go before federal election day, this appears to have become a campaign between the past and the future. The Liberals represent the past. They appear likely to win because voters 55 and older will vote disproportionately for Mark Carney and his party.

This week’s debates may be a turning point if Carney flops and Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre can be more prime minister than smart-aleck.

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‘It’s disrespectful’: Smith pushes back at Carney comments

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said Prime Minister Mark Carney was being disrespectful last week with comments he made about her role in the trade war with the U.S.

Last weekend in Victoria, Carney joked about Canadian premiers appearing on Fox News, the conservative U.S. media outlet, saying it would be a “bad idea” to put Smith on the network to advocate for cross-border diplomacy.

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Poilievre accuses Liberals of mixed messaging as candidate calls Gaza war ‘genocide’

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is accusing the Liberals of mixed messaging over the war in Gaza as video emerged of one candidate calling the crisis a “genocide” just days after leader Mark Carney clarified his own remarks.

Poilievre’s comments were in response to a reporter’s question which referenced, in part, a video of Liberal candidate Adam van Koeverden speaking at a mosque.

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CHARLEBOIS: Counter-tariffs, not Trump, hurting Canada’s food economy

Canada’s food processing sector is becoming increasingly vulnerable – not merely due to global market volatility, but as a direct consequence of Ottawa’s policy decisions.

In choosing to retaliate against U.S. protectionism with formal counter-tariffs, Canada now finds itself aligned with China as one of only two countries to pursue such measures. While these actions may serve domestic political optics, they are inflicting measurable and lasting harm on Canada’s food manufacturing ecosystem.

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Canada’s New Prime Minister Is as Dishonest as the Old One

After enduring ten years of the far-left misrule of the vapid and eternally callow Justin Trudeau, Canada has a new prime minister, but not any new ideas or any change of direction at the top: the new boss, Mark Carney, is the same as the old boss, a shallow leftist ideologue without an original thought in his entire sorry cerebellum, which is filled instead with the usual talking points of the leftist establishment that still wields power in much of the Western world.

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Conrad Black: A Mark Carney win would be a disaster for Canada

Canada is perilously close to the greatest electoral disaster in its history. A Liberal victory would commit the country to the deliberate pursuit of comparative poverty to reduce Canada’s minimal contribution to the fear of a rise in the world’s temperature due to carbon use. This is insane and must not happen.

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Illegal crossings at US-Canada border drop — but enforcement shrinks: ‘Opportunity for terrorists’

Liberal Party Voters Every Last One.

US officials are pleading for help at the Canadian border, claiming the “most dangerous people are coming through” the largely unchecked crossing.

The number of illegal entries from the often-overlooked northern border have plummeted since President Trump’s election in November, but the gains have mostly stalled in recent months as Customs and Border Patrol has turned its full attention to Mexico.

“They had to shift manpower to the southwest border which opened up an even greater opportunity for terrorists to come through our northern border,” said Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA), who co-chairs the Northern Border Security Caucus.

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Liberal operatives planted ‘stop the steal’ buttons at conservative conference

Two Liberal Party staffers attended last week’s Canada Strong and Free Networking (CSFN) Conference where they planted buttons that used Trump-style language and highlighted division within the Conservative Party.

The conference, often referred to by its former name, the Manning Conference, is an opportunity for conservative-leaning Canadians to talk about policy proposals and network. It was held at the Westin Hotel in downtown Ottawa.

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Howard Levitt: Why I would not hire Mark Carney

If Carney was a Canadian CEO, his best defence would be that his deceptions were discovered before he was elected

If you were on the recruitment committee selecting the chief executive of a major corporation and a candidate was presented who, you learned, had an explosive temper, had plagiarized portions of his doctoral thesis (a doctorate that was necessary for the balance of his career), misrepresented his objectives, had been ineffective in his previous jobs and spent the last several years attacking your major revenue stream, how long would this candidacy last?

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Carney attacked for wanting ‘free ride,’ ‘hiding’ from public amid latest campaign break

Two federal party leaders took aim Saturday at Mark Carney, whom polls suggest is the front-runner in the April 28 election, for once again skipping the campaign trail.

Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet accused the Liberal leader of trying to capitalize on his early momentum by coasting through the opening three weeks of the campaign.

“I believe that Mr. Carney is trying to get a free ride,” he said at an announcement in Trois-Rivières, Que., alleging the Liberals are trying to “hide him as much as possible.”

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GOLDSTEIN: Reckless Liberal spending compromised our ability to fight tariff war

Liberal government misspending has left us ill-equipped to fight a tariff war with the U.S. – and one of the only alternatives the government has will be to increase taxes to do so.

But don’t take my word for it.

Those warnings came from Chrystia Freeland when she was finance minister and from parliamentary budget officer Yves Giroux.

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GELEYNSE: Canadians’ free speech rights are under attack, again

If Canadians wish to ensure the preservation of individual liberty and free speech, we must get back to first principles — and the medieval wisdom of St. Thomas Aquinas.

The Online Harms Act died when Parliament was prorogued late last year. It would have broadened the definition of hate crimes, empowered the state to impose house arrest to forestall possible future hate crimes, established a Digital Safety Commissioner to enforce social media regulations, and raised the maximum penalty for any offence found to be motivated by hate to life imprisonment.

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Liberal candidate accepted invitation from China to celebrate People’s Liberation Army event

A Liberal candidate running in a Greater Toronto Area riding, whose candidacy has come under scrutiny for ties to pro-Beijing groups, accepted an invitation from China to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the People’s Liberation Army victory over Japan in the Second World War.

Peter Yuen, who has also been linked to Toronto’s Chinese consulate, joined a group of about 70 Chinese Canadians for the Tiananmen Square celebration in September, 2015.

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