China, Russia and Iran will ‘very likely’ use AI to target Canada’s 2025 federal election, cyber agency warns

Canada’s cybersecurity protection agency is warning that China, Russia and Iran will “very likely” use artificial intelligence in an attempt to interfere with the 2025 federal election expected this spring.

The Communications Security Establishment released a report Thursday, the Cyber Threats to Canada’s Democratic Process: 2025 Update, that details the impact increasingly powerful and accessible artificial intelligence tools have had on efforts by foreign actors to spread disinformation, harass politicians and conduct espionage or interference.

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GOLDSTEIN: Why Carney and Trudeau should be cheering for a tariff-induced recession

According to their own bizarre logic, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Liberal leadership frontrunner Mark Carney should be overjoyed that U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff jihad against Canada may cause a massive recession here.

Wonder what brought this on …

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Pre-Fab Patriot Trudeau vows to not be ‘caretaker’ PM, turns on the water works like a D-list actor at one of his last events

Justin Trudeau said today – in what was one of, if not his final press conference as prime minister – that he won’t try to stay on in a caretaker capacity once his successor is named.

Appearing to get emotional at times when talking about his decade in power, Trudeau said he is looking forward “to a transition to my duly elected successor in the coming days or week.”

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Thanks Trudeau! Trump waives tariffs on Mexico, not Canada, for 1 month on most products

U.S. President Donald Trump said Thursday he will temporarily waive tariffs on products from Mexico that fall under the North American free trade agreement, two days after launching a continental trade war.

The announcement did not mention Canada, which is also facing sweeping tariffs, despite Trump’s commerce secretary saying earlier that both countries would “likely” see a reprieve. It came shortly after Trump levelled new attacks against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau following a heated exchange Wednesday.


Update: Trump pausing tariffs on some Canadian goods until April 2

h/t Shasta

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Bimbo Eruption: Joly briefed Carney on Trump tariffs but not other Liberal leadership candidates

Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly’s office confirms she has briefed Liberal leadership candidate Mark Carney on President Donald Trump’s tariffs days ahead of Sunday’s leadership vote this week.

… According to multiple Liberal sources with knowledge of what happened at Wednesday’s virtual national caucus meeting — including an MP who was there — Joly suggested that she has not yet briefed the other Liberal leadership candidates.

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Michael Higgins: Mark Carney and the truth don’t get along

For a Harvard and Oxford University graduate, Mark Carney has done some head-shakingly dumb things lately.

The lust for power may have scrambled his brain, or it could be that as he morphs into a Liberal politician he has adopted some of the worst tropes associated with those who seek elected office: a casual relationship with the truth, embellishing achievements and a reliance on non-existent facts.

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FINLAYSON: Next federal government should excise many Trudeau-era policies

The Justin Trudeau era is ending, after nine-and-a-half years as prime minister. His exit coincides with the onset of a trade crisis with the United States. Trudeau leaves behind a stagnant Canadian economy crippled by dwindling productivity, a long stretch of weak business investment, and waning global competitiveness. These are problems Trudeau chose to ignore throughout his tenure. His successors will not have that luxury.

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‘EXPLOITATIVE PRACTICES’: NDP MP sounds alarm on Carney, Brookfield

NDP MP Niki Ashton is raising questions about Liberal leadership candidate Mark Carney’s trickery and conflicts of interest, the first of her party to do so.

Leftists party members and media alike have widely favoured the un-elected Carney as the frontrunner of Sunday’s leadership contest — the winner of which will become Canada’s next prime minister.

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Lucy Gay: Trump tariffs forced Liberals to face the true cost of net zero virtue signalling

U.S. President Donald Trump’s 10 per cent tariff on Canadian energy should be a cause for celebration in Ottawa. After all, Trump is only finishing the job the Trudeau government started: systematically crippling the energy sector in pursuit of their net-zero dream.

It’s hard to imagine Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault or his Liberal predecessors, Catherine McKenna and Jonathan Wilkinson, shedding a tear over this development. These are the same people who have spent years declaring oil and gas the great evil of our time. Now, the tariffs are here to speed up the decline of an industry they have worked tirelessly to strangle with regulations.

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Transition process to replace Justin Trudeau is quietly underway

Far from the political spotlight and prying eyes, the process has already begun.

When the next Liberal leader is announced on March 9, it will mark the end of the leadership campaign triggered by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s decision to resign.

However, experts say the process to transition to the next prime minister begins well before that day. Before any new Liberal leader decides to plunge Canada into an early federal election, there are legal and technical steps they must first take.

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Because more Laurentian elite is just what this country needs!

Negative feelings about Pierre Poilievre pushing some voters toward Liberals, poll suggests

OTTAWA — Worsening feelings for Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre are helping push Canadian voters towards the federal Liberal party, a new poll suggests.

In an online survey published Wednesday, Pollara Strategic Insights found that 34 per cent of respondents were more open to voting for the governing Liberals by mid-February than at the end of last year.

A) It’s Blackie’s Star

B) It’s an online poll

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