‘I’ll always be a Conservative,’ Ford says after defending campaign manager’s comments on Pierre Poilievre

Premier Doug Ford says he was “standing up for a friend” when he defended his long-time campaign strategist who recently made critical comments about federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre in a string of media interviews.

Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, Ford was asked about the backlash he has faced from some Conservative voters who are unhappy with the comments the premier made when defending his campaign manager Kory Teneycke.

“What I was doing is standing up for a friend, a campaign manager that brought three consecutive majority governments,” Ford said Wednesday.

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SNELL: Jet-set Carney would make flying more expensive for Canada’s growing peasant class

Could Liberal leader Mark Carney be more abhorrent?

The answer is yes, even considering Chinese election interference on behalf of the Liberals, his company receiving a $250-million Chinese loan, and new allegations of offshore tax avoidance in the billions.

Carney branded himself a political outsider from the start of his campaign. Is he also an outsider to decency — positioning himself as a special-class citizen above Canada’s growing peasant class?

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What is happening to NDP support?

Why some voters are sticking with Singh and the NDP and why others are voting Liberal despite being open to voting NDP.

Something significant has happened to the NDP vote in this federal election. A party that, for much of the past two years, consistently held between 18% and 20% support now finds itself with just 9% of the committed vote, according to our latest Abacus Data survey conducted from April 7 to 10, 2025. That’s a collapse—one of the most dramatic shifts we’ve seen in this campaign. The last time support for the NDP was this low was way back in the 1990s.

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Jabs and jokes as leaders fight each other for Francophones’ vote during first debate

MONTREAL — Federal party leaders alternated between jabs and jokes early as they sparred during the election campaign’s only French-language debate Wednesday.

The first of two federal campaign debates in Montreal began with moderator Patrice Roy exhorting the Montreal Canadiens to win a do-or-die game that forced organizers to change the event’s start time at the last minute.

But knives started flying fast between Liberal Leader Mark Carney , Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre , Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet and NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh as they debated how they could deal with U.S. President Donald Trump.

Carney busted on the Tranny issue

Nope no bought and paid for media to see here…

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Michael Higgins: Button scandal but the latest example of Carney’s failing moral compass

On two recent occasions, Liberal Leader Mark Carney had the opportunity to take a strong, ethical stand — to quite simply do the right thing — and twice he failed to do so.

Carney refused to fire Liberal candidate Paul Chiang, after he said a rival should be kidnapped and handed over to China; and now he has failed to dismiss staffers who maliciously distributed fake and misleading buttons at a Conservative conference.

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GUNTER: Mark Carney contradicts himself on the pipelines question

Remember last week when Liberal Leader Mark Carney promised a Calgary audience that his Liberal government would make Canada “the world’s leading energy superpower?”

First of all, I don’t know how many times we Albertans are going to have to hear some Liberal politician come to our province and promise to advance our energy industry before we immediately break into gales of laughter.

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Which Poilievre will show up for the French debate?

There are two big questions about who will show up for the first leaders’ debate this week: Which Pierre Poilievre will we see? And how forgiving will the audience be?

The Pierre Poilievre who appeared on the Radio-Canada talk show, Tout le monde en parle, was a creature that had rarely been spotted in front of TV cameras.

The Conservative Leader was smiling, self-effacing, foregoing attacks on his Liberal opponent and talking to people rather than at them. It was style rather than substance, but it left a warmer impression than his usual too-hot-for-TV, aggressive style.

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John Ivison: The swan song of NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh could find its audience yet

MONTREAL — There is an air of resignation, if not acceptance, about Jagmeet Singh these days.

He seems to know that his time in federal politics is coming to an end.

As he came down the steps of his campaign plane for the cameras, after landing in Montreal on Monday, he cut a dejected figure. I said to him that Justin Trudeau would have waved at the non-existent crowd. He laughed it off.

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Mark Carney undermines his ‘adult in the room’ aspirations by keeping button-making staffers

Liberal Leader Mark Carney made absolutely clear Monday morning: dirty tricks will not be tolerated in his campaign. Sorry, wait, that should be: they will not just be tolerated – they will also be minimized and excused.

The Liberal Party apparatus first signalled as much when, after a CBC News report that Liberal staffers planted phony buttons at a conservative event last week, it released a statement saying its staffers merely “got carried away.” Mr. Carney drove that point home when he announced that the guilty parties would be reassigned within his campaign. This is a slap on the wrist that, in practice, actually feels more like a hot oil massage and cuticle treatment.

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Green Party dropped from leaders’ debates for not running enough candidates

The Leaders’ Debates Commission, which is tasked with organizing the French and English debates, has removed the Green Party from federal leaders’ debates for failing to meet participation requirements.

“Deliberately reducing the number of candidates running for strategic reasons is inconsistent with the Commission’s interpretation of party viability, which criterion (iii) was designed to measure,” the Commission said in a statement Wednesday.


Nothin left but for Liz to open an Only Fans account.

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UNIPARTY agrees not to discuss immigration in English debate

This looks bad on all of them. h/t Mauser

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The Liberals are ensnared by dirty politics

The Liberals’ cynical brand of politics is nothing new—and Carney clearly doesn’t care about accountability

The Liberal Party has always done a good job creating a vague sense that they’re the proverbial “adults in the room,” more technocrats than politicians, above the fray, distinct from the Conservatives with their ideological fixations. To people who’ve seen the Liberal machine up close, this is laughable—just ask Jody Wilson-Raybould.

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BROWN: You don’t want people with ethics like this, running government

With less than two weeks until Election Day on April 28, a palpable sense of hope and momentum is sweeping back across Canada. After a decade of Liberal mismanagement, voters are ready to reclaim their Canadian dream.

At the National Citizens Coalition, we’re witnessing a groundswell of support for a shared vision that prioritizes prosperity, integrity, and a proud, self-respecting future — a vision starkly at odds with a faltering, embittered, gerontocratic Liberal campaign.

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