The Liberal Party’s leadership announcement on Sunday night kicked off with a brief video chronicling “157 years of history” for the party. It travelled from grainy long-ago moments rendered in black and white to a sleeves-rolled-up Justin Trudeau reaching out to a surging crowd, which itself feels like a million political years ago.
Already, the Prime Minister belonged to the party’s history books, not to its present.
A round up of our MSM …
CBC – Mark Carney steps into an unprecedented moment
Star – Mark Carney vows to keep ‘Canada strong’ against Donald Trump after Liberal leadership victory
Global – Mark Carney is the new Liberal leader, replacing Justin Trudeau
CTV – Mark Carney to replace Justin Trudeau as the next prime minister of Canada
Globe – Mark Carney elected Liberal Leader in landslide victory
SUN – LILLEY: Carney’s Liberal coronation is just what Trudeau ordered
NatPo – Full text: Mark Carney’s Liberal leadership victory speech
A tour of downtown New Westminster with Coun. Daniel Fontaine is a chilling experience.
This city, with a population of 92,000, has the dubious distinction of being the second-densest city in Canada. It recently surpassed Montreal for the number of people per square kilometre and is now second only to Vancouver.
The state’s job isn’t to manage the public perception of any one religious group. At least, that’s what is generally believed in Canada. But on Monday, that’s what the government did with the publication of “The Canadian Guide to Understanding and Combatting Islamophobia.”
The 60-page report, the latest creation of Amira Elghawaby, the federal appointee tasked with promoting Islam in Canada under the guise of “combatting Islamophobia,” is not just a guide to understanding a particular type of discrimination.
“As long as you, Christians, raise the cross, we will not leave you. We will fight you.”
Jihadists in Syria are all pumped up after the massacres of the last two days
They openly call for genocide against Christians and Alawites.
This extremist openly justifies violence under… pic.twitter.com/hdKcPAaZh2— Hamas Atrocities (@HamasAtrocities) March 9, 2025
Daylight savings time will make Justin Trudeau’s last day as Liberal party leader an hour shorter; his desired tenure has been abbreviated by much more than that. Once upon a time it was sunny ways. A delayed sunset is a fitting end for a prime minister who lingered in the spotlight too long.
A group living in RVs on a tiny patch of land off Highway 1 in North Vancouver has neighbours concerned about road safety and sanitation.
Known as Bowser Island, the enclave was once home to pleasant, suburban houses — a beautiful fieldstone wall and spired gate testify to that — but the buildings were long ago torn down to their foundations and the sewer line decommissioned when the Upper Levels Highway was widened.
As Bowser’s name suggests, it’s very much like an island, surrounded by a moat of asphalt lanes.
The show kicks off at 4 pm so I provided some reading below.
WAPO – Canada will soon have a new prime minister. Here’s what you need to know.
BBC – How Trump’s threats have changed everything about Canada’s politics
NYTimes – Canada’s Liberals to Elect a New Party Leader and Prime Minister. What to Know.
CBC – Liberals choose their leader today, after campaign defined by chaos of Trump administration
Latest – 338 Federal Seat Projections CPC: 156 LPC: 143 BQ: 28 NDP: 14 GPC: 2
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— Blazingcatfur (@fancypants_s) March 9, 2025
Susan Delacourt: The handover will take a few days, but Justin Trudeau’s time as prime minister will essentially wrap up this weekend. I know we both have thoughts on his legacy, Matt, and I suspect we may disagree on some points. Let’s start with the big question: how will you remember his nearly decade in power?
Matt Gurney: It’ll be tough to keep it all straight. Trudeau should get a mix of praise and blame for things he actively had control over. He’ll have wins and losses when historians do the final tally. But, overall, I think what I’ll remember most is that the prime minister missed the boat on big, threatening global changes. I think that may be what defines him. Wrong man for a new era that arrived on his watch.
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‘Amped up over Trump:’ U.S. President top issue to influence federal election vote, survey says
A new Nanos Research survey released Sunday says U.S. President Donald Trump – and how to deal with him – is the top issue influencing how Canadians are voting in the next federal election.
The survey – done exclusively for CTV News – surveyed more than 1,000 Canadians, finding that 36 per cent of respondents said Trump is the most important issue to influence their vote. The economy followed closely in second, at 29 per cent.
“This speaks to a situation where Canadians are amped up over Trump and his threats to the Canadian economy,” Nanos Research Founder Nik Nanos said in a panel on CTV Question Period airing Sunday.
Remember – The same people who call us racist white privileged settlers occupying Turtle Island and spent the last 10 years denigrating Canada and Canadians have suddenly donned a Pre-Fab Patriotism, with the goal of retaining power for their Globalist pals.
Mark Carney will be selected as the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada on Sunday.
Oh, I know, there are three other candidates in the race, including former Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland. But Carney should win resoundingly.
Trudeau met with Paul King Jin in his first term as Prime Minister
Early in his time as Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau met with Paul King Jin, a British Columbia businessman who would go on to become a central figure in the province’s money-laundering inquiry.
The existence of the meeting was confirmed by three sources with knowledge of the encounter.
Mr. Trudeau met Mr. Jin, who was among about a dozen people, in a conference room at the Executive Inn Express Richmond, a now-closed hotel near the Vancouver airport, one of the sources said.
OTTAWA — As Canada bids farewell to one of its most polarizing prime ministers in a generation, the past decade will undoubtedly be defined by Justin Trudeau’s many scandals and missteps.
Mark Carney, heir to the Canadian throne, such as it is, is indeed wrestling with a difficult problem in his 2021 book Value(s) — or even a difficult set of problems. The title indicates as much (or, more accurately, the presumptuous subtitle): “Building a Better World for All.” We should first note in evaluating the quality of Carney’s thought (as we should, given his desire and likely opportunity to lead our fair land), that this is a very difficult set of nuts to crack: “building,” “better,” and “for all,” and that success in such a venture is tantamount to the actions of a veritable world redeemer or saviour. The question that then arises should then clearly be “is Mr. Carney up to such a task?” Our initial position with regard to that question should be one of extreme doubt and skepticism, given that very few, if any, have ever demonstrated such truly awe-inspiring ability.
SASKATOON, March 8 (Reuters) – Like a growing number of formerly incarcerated Indigenous people, Marvin Starblanket’s life is still governed by Correctional Service Canada rules.
They determine where he sleeps (a halfway house instead of at home with his partner and children), when he clocks in for the night (10 p.m.), whether he drinks alcohol (he is prohibited), and the job he pursues.
The rules did not stop Starblanket, who is 42, from getting a pair of gray-scale tattoos on the backs of his hands: “Good” on the right, in curly script set against bars of heavenly light; and “Evil,” against a smokily stylized skull, on the left.
Canada is teetering on the verge of plunging headlong into a state of political anomaly unique among large and sophisticated countries. We appear to be about to elevate to the de facto position of interim prime minister someone who would then be one of the last government leaders of serious countries still urging backbreaking public sacrifices to eliminate fossil fuel use and thus strangle into painful extinction our greatest industry (petroleum) and the key to the economic prosperity of Canadians over the next 50 years. Everybody in the world is opposed to the pollution of the world’s air and water, and to that extent, everyone in the world is a conservationist. But the advocates of the abolition of the oil and gas industry, even though natural gas is a relatively clean fuel (as is nuclear energy), are not seeking a realistic balance between the economic welfare of the population and the security of the environment. They take no account of the fact that the leading offenders of their perfectionist standards of avoidance of carbon use — China, India and Russia, in particular — consider all of these climate change warnings to be unmitigated rubbish and make virtually no concessions to them whatever.
