Election 2025

Debate Round Up

Debate Round Up

The Star – Federal leaders’ debate recap: Carney faces attacks from Poilievre and others; post-event scrums cancelled last minute

CBC – 6 big moments and takeaways from the final leaders’ debate

CTV – Carney and Poilievre trade barbs about Trump in only English election debate

NP – Mark Carney takes shots from left, right and Bloc during English debate

BBC – Five takeaways from Canada party leaders’ big TV debate

NYTimes – 5 Takeaways From Canada’s Election Debate

Globe – Post-debate press scrum scrapped at last minute over lack of ‘proper environment’

The press scrum after Thursday night’s English-language leaders debate was scrapped only minutes before it was set to begin, after an argument in the media room led the debate commission to conclude it could not provide a “proper environment” for reporters to ask questions of the leaders.

This is likely the guy who started the fracas

Jamie Sarkonak: Who won the debate? Poilievre, easy

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2025

GOLDSTEIN: Canada’s air quality among best in the world, report finds

While often portrayed both domestically and internationally as an environmental laggard, Canada has some of the cleanest air in the world — better than any other member of the G7 nations — according to a new study by the Fraser Institute.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Election 2025

Liberal hypocrisy on full display with charge Poilievre’s importing U.S. ‘nonsense’

Let’s start with what isn’t true, what never happened and what’s upside down and backwards about which party in the federal election campaign has been most keen to introduce American manic disorders into Canadian politics.

Joining other leaders around the world in extending pro-forma congratulations to U.S. President Donald Trump on his narrow electoral victory last November, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is said to have said: “I congratulate President Trump on his victory and look forward to joining him in his war against woke, leftist ideology.” Except Poilievre never said that, despite what you might have read on social media. Poilievre is not an admirer of Trump, and Trump certainly isn’t fond of Poilievre.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Peak Virtue Signalling", "Peak Woke", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Conservative Party, Election 2025

SNELL: Angry American millionaire hippie endorses Mark Carney

Neil Young – still stickin it to man!

An angry American millionaire hippie named Neil Young has endorsed Liberal Leader Mark Carney for prime minister.

It’s no surprise. Young is known for beautiful artistry and appalling political judgment. He became an American citizen (now dual) in 2020 — presumably to validate his vociferous complaints about Donald Trump. Also, some of Young’s family are American. His career thrived in the United States.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Election 2025, WTF?

For Conservatives to take the election, these GTA ridings are must-wins

Any feasible path to victory in the federal election for Pierre Poilievre’s Conservative Party runs through the Greater Toronto Area, a region dominated by the Liberals since 2015.

There are 31 seats up for grabs in this election in the GTA, often nicknamed the 905 for its area code. These suburban cities stretching in an arc around Toronto from Burlington through Vaughan to Oshawa are home to more than 2.5 million eligible voters.

The Conservatives came into this campaign with just four MPs in this region, so making gains here is essential to their success at the national level.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inConservative Party, Election 2025

Terry Newman: Won’t somebody please think of the mass murderers?

On Monday, during a campaign stop in Montreal, Pierre Poilievre had the audacity to suggest that his government would use the notwithstanding clause to overturn a Supreme Court decision that ruled that consecutive parole ineligibility periods for multiple murderers was “cruel and unusual punishment” and violated the murderer’s human dignity. For most reasonable Canadians, this is a no-brainer. Liberal Leader Mark Carney, however, rushed to condemn the move as “dangerous,” while CBC’s Power and Politics host David Cochrane and his panel guest Rob Russo suggested it was a solution for a problem that doesn’t exist. But the problem of light murder sentencing does exist, and not just for mass murderers.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Justice", "Law and Order", Conservative Party, Election 2025

Doug Ford is acting like he wants Pierre Poilievre to lose

In Ontario, there are 43 seats held by the Liberals federally that, remarkably, are held by Doug Ford’s Conservatives provincially.

The Premier is coming off a third straight majority victory in the province’s February election. His party’s riding organizations are in place. Had he gotten out the pom-poms in support of federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, he could likely have helped him win some of those ridings.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2025

I lean centre-left. But as a gun owner, I feel my only choice is the Conservatives

Firearms have been a big part of my life, even though I didn’t grow up around them.

When I was 12, I got the chance to shoot a small-bore rifle for the first time in the Air Cadet program. Target shooting demands focus, discipline and consistency. That challenge had me hooked from the start.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Election 2025, Gun Control, Gun Rights

Right-wing media including Rebel News dominate post-debate news conferences says Carney’s CBC

Rebel News and other right-wing media outlets dominated the question-and-answer sessions with federal party leaders after Wednesday’s French-language leaders’ debate — though not all of them got answers to their questions.

Liberal Leader Mark Carney was the first leader to take 10 minutes of questions from the media after the debate, which took place at CBC/Radio-Canada in Montreal.

The news conference is overseen by the Leaders’ Debate Commission, an independent debate-planning body that sets out the criteria parties must meet for their leaders to participate in the event. The organization is also responsible for accrediting journalists who participate in the Q&A session after the debates.

“Rebel News and other right-wing media outlets” – That statement is a confession that the CBC is by default a “left-wing media outlet.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Government Owned News Media, Election 2025

Need to Know: Carney tried to distance himself from Trudeau during the French-language debate. It’s a hard case to make

By coincidence, Wednesday’s French-language debate was held on the same day as the three-month anniversary of Mark Carney’s leadership launch and his official foray into elected politics. His political recency is sometimes characterized as a weakness. But it’s clear from the debate that Carney and his campaign team view it as an essential strength.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Election 2025

GOLDSTEIN: Liberal spending on climate change has been a $200-billion disaster

Given that the federal Liberal government has earmarked more than $200 billion of taxpayers’ money to fight climate change, how effective has all that spending been?

The answer is that it has been a financial disaster for Canadians when one considers the primary purpose of the spending, which is to lower Canada’s annual output of industrial greenhouse gas emissions.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Election 2025

Debate round-up

Debate round-up

Not exactly a civil war but Carney did not carry the day simply by not doing a face plant as some in our media insist. He came across as stiff and devious frankly.

GLOBE – Leaders square off over trade tensions, affordability concerns in French leaders’ debate

STAR – Mark Carney and Pierre Poilievre fend off attacks from all sides during French debate

NP – Tasha Kheiriddin: Mark Carney gets a free ride as Poilievre dukes it out with Singh

SUN – LILLEY: Poised Poilievre pushes for economic independence at French debate

CTV – Carney defends record as party leaders spar over economy, immigration and crime

GLOBAL – Trump and U.S. trade war take spotlight in French leaders’ debate

CBC – 7 notable moments from the French leaders’ debate

I think the public realizes that succumbing to ginned up Trumpophobia and electing Carney is the worst choice possible. Who needs more Trudeau?

Liberals, Tories in virtual dead-heat in GTA: Leger poll

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2025

New poll shows Liberals riding ‘fear’ vote, Tories winning ‘hope,’ as gap narrows slightly

OTTAWA — The election is playing out as a story of hopeful Conservative voters versus fearful Liberal voters, according to a new Postmedia-Leger poll.

Three-quarters of Canadians who plan to vote Conservative said the emotion guiding them is “primarily a hope for a better future in Canada to live, work, and raise a family.”

By contrast, six in 10 Liberal voters said they were motivated primarily by “a fear of what the future holds for Canada,” with the unpredictable U.S. President Donald Trump threatening trade relations.

New – Abacus Data Poll: Liberal lead down to 2

Overall, the data suggest that the Liberal lead has narrowed to just two points nationally (40% Liberal vs. 38% Conservative), down from a six-point advantage two weeks ago.

I wonder if a “Shy” Poilievre vote is lurking within the electorate undetected by pollsters.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2025