Preston Manning’s idea of a “Canada West Constitutional Conference” would begin doing something about the prospect of another four years of Liberal, anti-Western rule.
The opening line of Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto (1848) reads: “A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism.” Well, these days, a spectre is haunting Western Canada, too, but it sure ain’t communism.
If Canadians elect Liberal Leader Mark Carney in the 2025 election, they will have chosen the path of “severe pain,” Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson said in a Tuesday interview with American podcaster Joe Rogan.
“People correct course either by waking up or by experiencing severe pain, and it looks to me like we’ve chosen the severe pain route,” said Peterson, forecasting that a Carney government would yield accelerated economic decline and an increase in social disorder.
If Canada had stuck to 2015 trends, we’d all be $4,200 richer per year, and thousands killed by crime, drugs and health shortages would still be alive
Throughout the 2025 campaign, the Conservatives have frequently referred to what they call the “Lost Liberal Decade,” a reference to the fact that Canada has lagged dramatically on virtually every available indicator since the Liberals first came to power in 2015.
In sum, the economy is worse, crime is worse, public services are worse, affordability is worse — and there’s a whole galaxy of niche indicators, such as firearms incidents, refugee backlogs, even life expectancy, that are worse than they’ve ever been.
A Different Way to Read the 2025 Federal Election
With four days left before Canadians cast their ballots in one of the most unpredictable and high-stakes elections in recent memory, we’ve been doing everything we can to understand what’s really going on beneath the surface.
This past weekend, while many pollsters asked their standard vote intention questions, we tried something a little different.
Instead of asking Canadians who they personally plan to vote for, we asked: “How do you think most of your neighbours are voting in this election?”
Worth a read and worth a watch.
Canada’s TOP pollster says the POLLS ARE WRONG (w/ @MurrayDavidJ) pic.twitter.com/7B0mNvAb6u
— Candice Malcolm (@CandiceMalcolm) April 24, 2025
Natural resources are an important economic theme in Canadian economic history, and their development is a key source of the nation’s wealth. Whether wheat and barley, timber and pulp, mineral products, or oil and gas, the export of these resources—the export of resource staples— has been instrumental in generating employment and value-added industries as well as helping drive the development of national transportation infrastructure.
Indeed, Canada is generally acknowledged to have what trade economists refer to as a comparative advantage in natural resource products.
In my neighbourhood where many Jewish Canadians live, there is still a Toronto police mobile field command unit operating in the parking lot of a prominent Jewish day school, set up in the wake of Hamas’ terrorist attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
No community is a monolith; each is as diverse as its members. With that caveat, here are some thoughts about why so many Canadian Jews are enamoured with the Conservative Party.
Pierre Poilievre is the one leader, as many Canadian Jews see it, who has spoken out unequivocally against antisemitism. He’s the one leader, they feel, who has their backs.
It’s very clear who Jews are supporting in this election; and it’s not the Liberals. pic.twitter.com/Ve4Kvq0BOs
— Mayor Jeremy Levi (@jerlevi) April 23, 2025
h/t Patti Jo
The queue to get into the cavernous union hall stretched around the block and the merchandise stand was doing a roaring trade as Canadian rock blared from the sound system.
If the comparison with a Donald Trump rally was not obvious enough as thousands of supporters filed into a Toronto suburb on Tuesday evening, it came when Pierre Poilievre took the stage.
He promised a “Canada First reinvestment tax cut,” a capital gains break dressed up with a nationalist title.
As Canadian doomsday scenarios go, it’s a bit of a letdown. But you’d never know it by the headlines.
First prize goes to the American news site Politico: Apocalypse Now. Runners-up: The Toronto Sun’s “Government report predicts 2040 dystopia: Collapsed economy, hunting for food,” Alberta’s Todayville went with Breaking: The Federal Brief That Should Sink Carney, and the Better Dwelling webzine chose Canada To Become A Dystopian Nightmare, Households Will Flee: Gov Report.
For dramatics, the Canadian election campaign was never going to compete with the American one.
How many campaigns do you see where one party’s nominee is the target of two assassination attempts, one of which sears his ear?
How many do you get when the other party’s nominee is in fact liquidated by his own tribe, the mutiny taking place after the poor fellow staggered through a debate trying to look like a vigorous 80-year-old while coming across as 110.
Liberal Leader Mark Carney is arguing that he can “tighten” industrial carbon taxes without increasing costs for consumers. That’s a tough sell. After all, a carbon tax on businesses is a carbon tax on Canadians that will make life more expensive for families struggling to make ends meet.
New polling conducted by Leger for the Canadian Taxpayers Federation shows that Canadians overwhelmingly understand that the costs of an industrial carbon tax, like the one championed by Carney, are passed on to consumers.
During his campaign for the Conservative leadership in 2022, Pierre Poilievre said he would never pivot.
“I am who I am,” he said.
To a great degree, that has held true — despite periodic suggestions from the commentariat that he should change course.
HAMILTON — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said Wednesday he would give police more power to dismantle tent cities, which he claims are making public spaces unsafe.
During a policy announcement in Hamilton, Ont., Poilievre said Liberal policies, including the funding of safer supply programs, are responsible for the increase in homeless encampments across Canada.
“For those trapped in these camps, our brothers, our sisters, our friends, our neighbours, they are left to suffer in the cold, to overdose, and sometimes to die alone,” he said. “Letting these tent cities spread is not compassion. It is chaos.”
Soaring housing costs, with many homes nearing $1 million, have sparked an exodus from cities like Vancouver, and Canadians want their next prime minister to do something about it.
Janet Robertson had few choices after being evicted from her apartment of two decades in Vancouver, Canada’s most expensive city.
Even listings in nearby suburbs were out of reach after years of paying 900 Canadian dollars, or $650, monthly for her studio apartment. She kept going until she could find something she could afford and ended up renting in a town about 60 miles east of Vancouver.
“I really didn’t have any other options but to come to Chilliwack,” Ms. Robertson said.
Just days after an elderly man went viral for flipping the bird while smiling at a Mark Carney rally in Ontario, a satirical X account has been created in his honour.
The “Brantford Boomer” channels the man’s energy into fake posts trolling struggling Canadians ahead of the election.
