Pierre Poilievre, leader of Canada’s Conservative Party, seemed set to become Canada’s next prime minister at the start of 2025.
For more than a year, his party had a 20-point lead in opinion polls over then-Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party and momentum toward a landslide victory.
Then came President Trump.
Canadians go to the polls to elect a new prime minister next week. The center-right Conservative Party’s Pierre Poilievre is facing off against the Liberal incumbent, Mark Carney. For those who haven’t been following the situation in Canada, Carney is the Kamala Harris of the Great White North; he’s only in office because former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau resigned.
Caryma Sa’d has captured the definitive image of the Canadian federal election. Over the weekend, the independent journalist posted a photograph from an event in Brantford, Ontario for Mark Carney, the former Bank of England governor who has replaced Justin Trudeau as Liberal leader and prime minister. The pic shows an older gentleman appearing to give two middle fingers to the camera while similarly-aged Carney enthusiasts around him laugh. In isolation, just another snapshot from an ill-tempered election. In the context of this poll, a readymade icon of everything Carney’s critics say he stands for and everything his Conservative opponent Pierre Poilievre is against.
Elbows and/or fingers up. #cdnpoli #Brantford #Elxn45 #ProtestMania pic.twitter.com/jTKswfmgVp
— Caryma Sa’d – Lawyer + Political Satirist (@CarymaRules) April 19, 2025
No matter who wins the election, we’re promised a housing boom.
Mark Carney and the Liberals will build 500,000 modular homes per year, for a total of two million homes.
No to be outdone, Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives promise 2.3 million homes in five years.
At least 300 federal candidates, including 19 Liberals, have lent their names to an initiative bearing explicit links to one of Canada’s most radical anti-Israel groups.
As of press time, the website VotePalestine.ca lists more than 330 candidates who have expressed “full” endorsement of their “Palestine Platform.”
The platform calls on Canada to recognize Palestinian statehood without any caveat that Hamas be removed from power in Gaza.
Mark Carney is showing once again that he’s willing to tell bald-faced lies to get elected. On Monday, the Liberal leader even doubled down on one of his lies when confronted with the truth.
While making a health-care announcement in Charlottetown, P.E.I., Carney was confronted by a reporter after claiming that Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre would ban abortion in Canada.
OTTAWA – Pierre Poilievre is vowing to eliminate “woke ideology” from the public service, federal funding for university research and military culture.
But what does he mean by “woke,” exactly? The Conservative leader doesn’t seem keen to define the term.
When asked recently to explain what he considers “woke,” Poilievre gave a nearly two-minute answer that touched on most of his campaign talking points.
As the threat posed by US President Donald Trump tops Canada’s federal election agenda, the issue of the country’s contribution to global warming has been largely overshadowed.
The two main contenders are pushing plans for new energy infrastructure as the country seeks to pivot away from its reliance on the US.
Mark Carney’s Liberals are promising to make Canada a global superpower in both conventional and green energy. The Conservatives under Pierre Poilievre want to invigorate the oil and gas sector and scrap the industrial carbon tax.
Despite suggestions that votes cast in Western Canada don’t influence the result of general elections, an analysis of results from past elections challenges this notion.
The perception about the irrelevance of Western votes may have become popularized by the statement “Screw the west, we’ll take the rest” by Liberal political organizer Keith Davey in the 1980 federal election. It turned out to be a winning strategy for the Pierre Trudeau Liberals, who prevailed with a majority win against the Progressive Conservatives led by Alberta MP Joe Clark.
Not a president!
With the media focus on Trump and his usurping of power, making him so omnipotently powerful, Canadians could be forgiven for forgetting that we have a parliamentary system of government, so this is a reminder — we elect Members of Parliament, who elect one parliamentarian as our prime minister, who is the the leader of the party with the most seats.
OTTAWA — Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives will run $100 billion in deficits over four years thanks to a bevy of tax cuts and $34 billion in new spending, according to their costed platform released hours after millions of Canadians have already cast their vote.
Over four years, a Polievre government would incur a roughly $31 billion annual deficit in 2025-2026 and 2026-2027, $23 billion in 2027-2028 and nearly $15 billion in 2028-2029, according to the platform published Tuesday morning.
TRURO, N.S. – Mark Carney may be a political novice but he is quickly learning the value of staged photo ops.
The new Liberal leader is clearly not in the same league as his predecessor Justin Trudeau when it comes to apparently spontaneous, meticulously planned shots, like the time the former prime minister jogged past teenagers on their way to a prom.
Early in the campaign, Carney was in danger of losing a digit when he tried his hand at woodworking at a trades school in Vaughan, Ont.
If there is such a thing as the luck of the Irish, then Mark Carney, until recently an Irish passport holder, seems to have it in spades.
Canada’s ruling Liberal Party, which the former governor of the Bank of England and the Bank of Canada now leads, was riding to almost certain defeat in next week’s Canadian general election, sitting some 20 points down in the polls.
Then along came Donald Trump with his imbecilic threat to annex Canada alongside Greenland and Panama, and the Liberals’ fortunes turned on a sixpence.
TORONTO—Just a few days ago, someone pointed out to me that Justin Trudeau was prime minister within the last month (that’s not true now, but it was when I heard it).
That’s not possible, I thought. Wasn’t PMJT like a lifetime ago?
A survey taken earlier this month suggests that the Liberals are drawing significant support from the ideological centre, have eroded the NDP’s base and is even encroaching on traditionally Conservative territory — a trend that could shape the outcome of the 2025 federal election.
The poll conducted by Leger for the Association for Canadian Studies found that the Liberals had secured about two thirds of voters who identify as left or left-of-centre. The NDP had 20 per cent support from those on the left and only eight per cent from those who identify as left of centre. The Liberals were also leading the Conservatives by 10 percentage points among those who place themselves in the ideological centre.
