David Staples: Was Mark Carney’s jet fuel deal simply a political grift?

Mark Carney boasted his billion-dollar jet fuel deal was a “fantastic opportunity” for his business, the investment firm Brookfield. But Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre now calls that same deal an example of “crony capitalism. ”

Poilievre accuses his political opponent of being a “political grifter” using political influence to make himself and his investor friends rich while driving up costs for the poorest Canadians.

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Foreign interference tactics in Canada always changing, says target

The Chinese Communist Party is always changing the way it interferes in elections in Canada and other countries, says former Steveston-Richmond MP Kenny Chiu.

The Conservative party politician was the target of a smear campaign during the 2021 election, which took place when many Chinese-language media outlets in Canada labelled him “anti-Chinese” and a “race traitor.”

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Israel’s Netanyahu Asks Canada’s Carney to ‘Backtrack’ on Comment About Gaza

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reacted to comments made by Canadian Prime Minister and Liberal Leader Mark Carney during a political rally this week, when he commented on the situation in the Gaza Strip.

“Canada has always sided with civilization. So should Mr. Carney,” Netanyahu wrote in an April 10 post on the social media platform X. The Israeli prime minister’s comments appeared on a repost of an excerpt of the video taken during Carney’s rally in Calgary on April 8.

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Carney ‘did a terrible job’ as Bank of England governor, says former British PM

Lizz Truss, the shortest-serving prime minister in British history, said Mark Carney did “a terrible job” as the Bank of England’s governor and blamed him for “a lot of the problems” that led to her quick departure from 10 Downing Street in 2022, even though he’d resigned two years earlier.

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ChiCom Carney goes into hiding

He’s a proven liar.

h/t Auntie Polly

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Carney announces reinvigorated gun grab program he says will combat crime, protect communities

Liberal Leader Mark Carney announced his party’s new crime reduction strategy on Thursday, pledging to tackle gun violence and disrupt criminal gangs through tougher measures and increased law enforcement resources.

Central to his proposal is a reinvigorated gun grab program targeting assault-style firearms, along with a broader plan to keep drugs and illegal weapons off Canadian streets.

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John Ivison: Carney’s rosy energy promises meet the Liberals’ dismal record

I’m reading my six-year-old son Lewis Carroll’s classic Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, with all its delightful nonsense talk about shoes and ships and sealing wax, of cabbages and kings.

But, in the words of the Red Queen, life through the looking glass is “as sensible as a dictionary” when ranked against what is happening in the real world.

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Liberal promises just keep happening to intersect with Carney’s business interests

After Liberal Leader Mark Carney announced that Canada’s future lay in “prefabricated and modular housing,” online critics noted that his former company just happens to be a major player in the modular housing industry.

This week, Carney provided more details of his plan to start a new government agency, Build Canada Homes, tasked with constructing 500,000 homes every year. As Carney told reporters on Tuesday, most of those homes would be prefabricated.

“Prefabricated and modular housing will catalyze a productivity boom,” he said.

h/t DS

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Carney says he never heard of pro-Beijing group despite photos with its leaders

Liberal Leader Mark Carney says he had never heard of a pro-Beijing lobby group in the Toronto area despite photos on the Jiangsu Commerce Council of Canada’s website showing him with members of its leadership.

He was asked Thursday about Peter Yuen, the Liberal Party candidate for the Ontario riding of Markham-Unionville. Mr. Yuen was appointed to replace Paul Chiang, who stepped down after news broke that he had talked to reporters about how someone could take a Conservative candidate and human-rights advocate to the Chinese consulate to claim a bounty put on him by Hong Kong authorities.

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Why I’m standing up to Canada’s Liberals

Free speech isn’t a lost cause

At a time when reason is desperately needed, Maxime Bernier has become one of only a few voices of reasons in Canada. “We are not at risk. We are a sovereign country,” the leader of the People’s Party of Canada (PPC) told me a few weeks ago.

Seeing an opportunity in hysterical claims that the country is “under attack” from its neighbour, the Liberal Party has rebranded as Team Canada, rallying the country around a patriotism it treated with disdain just a couple of years prior. Rather than lead with prudence, Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre has echoed the anti-Trump rhetoric. The propaganda machine is in full swing.

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Canadian government sued for forcing women to share spaces with ‘transgender’ male prisoners

Twisted freak.

One of Canada’s top constitutional legal groups has launched a lawsuit on behalf of a women’s rights group against the Canadian federal government to try to stop the often dangerous practice of forcing female prisoners to share spaces with gender-confused males.

The lawsuit was filed by the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) on behalf of a nonpartisan group called Canadian Women’s Sex-Based Rights (CAWSBAR) in Canada’s Federal Court in Toronto, Ontario, on April 7, 2025.

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Terry Glavin: Carney may not know why China likes him, but it’s plain for all to see

“One can only correct inappropriate policies in a timely manner if one sticks to seeking truth from facts.”

That will be an uncontroversial proposition to anyone who draws distinctions between good-faith truth claims and instances of brazenly fabricated hogwash. It should be similarly uncontroversial by now to any reasonable person that U.S. president Donald Trump is either unwilling to draw such distinctions, or he’s congenitally incapable of doing so.

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GOLDSTEIN: Carney’s carbon tax plan is modern day snake oil

Get ready for buyer’s remorse on carbon taxes if Mark Carney and the Liberals win the April 28 election.

The reason is the uncritical media reporting of Carney’s so-called plan to kill the consumer carbon tax and replace it with a better system.

What he’s actually doing is a classic “bait and switch” manoeuvre — promising Canadians a less costly, more efficient carbon tax regime during the election, the unspoken part being that he will replace it with a more costly, less transparent system after April 28.

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