Prime Minister Mark Carney was elected after running a campaign heavily focused on saying U.S. President Donald Trump poses an existential threat to Canada, but it remains to be seen whether this messaging will continue now that the election has passed.
The Liberals tapped heavily into rising nationalist sentiment in Canada, caused by Trump’s talk of making the country the 51st U.S. state and by the imposition of three different sets of tariffs on its largest trading partner.
Late on Thursday night, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to cut taxpayer funds to PBS and NPR through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The text was posted on the Trump team’s “Rapid Response 47” account on X.
It said: “@POTUS just signed an executive order ENDING the taxpayer subsidization of NPR and PBS — which receive millions from taxpayers to spread radical, woke propaganda disguised as ‘news.’”
The victory-party din for Mark Carney and his Liberal Party had only just faded when Donald Trump chimed in with a less than ringing endorsement of the winners.
“It was the one that hated Trump, I think, the least that won,” the US president said on Wednesday of Carney, whose party had just retained power by winning a near outright majority of the seats in Canada’s general election.
The Canadian prime minister may accept being the lesser of two evils in Trump’s mind, however. The US president also said that he thinks the former Bank of England governor “couldn’t have been nicer” in the first post-election phone conversation.
The left’s latest manufactured martyr just got exposed as exactly what conservatives suspected he is all along. Newly released body cam footage shows Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the illegal immigrant whom Democrats have been desperately trying to paint as just an innocent “Maryland dad,” was stopped in 2022 under suspicion of human trafficking.
OTTAWA—Former NDP MP Charlie Angus says the party ran an “absolutely disastrous campaign” that “missed the moment” and focused too much on leader Jagmeet Singh, as more New Democrats leave the door open to leadership bids.
The scathing assessment — from a prominent New Democrat who placed second in the 2017 leadership race that catapulted Singh to the party’s top job — came as the NDP caucus was set to meet Thursday to discuss its next steps following the party’s worst-ever election result.
Q Preston garnered tens of thousands of dollars from Trump voters with a deceptive tweet. She does not regret her ‘ethical scam’
Two years into President Trump’s first term, Q Preston posted her grievances on Twitter. An African-American Trump supporter, she was tired of the notion that “black” and “Maga” did not belong in the same sentence.
On her Twitter account @chckpea, Preston shared a picture of herself in a Make America Great Again bucket hat and declared she would hide her views no longer.
OTTAWA — Seat-less Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre will try his luck in Alberta.
After losing on election night in his now-former Ottawa-area riding of Carleton, the Tory leader will get the chance to snag a seat in the House of Commons thanks to Battle River-Crowfoot MP Damien Kurek, who has agreed to step aside.
The Duke of Sussex has lost his appeal against the Government over his security.
Prince Harry argued that he was singled out for “unjustified and inferior treatment” when he was denied the right to automatic police protection in the UK.
He flew to London last month to attend a two-day hearing at the Court of Appeal, during which his barrister argued that the Home Office committee responsible for VIP security arrangements had failed to adhere to its own policies.
London more dangerous than LA?
OTTAWA — Devastated and concerned.
That’s how Canada’s licensed firearm owners are feeling after Monday’s Liberal victory, which dashed hopes of a new government reversing the Justin Trudeau-era gun grab and starting to focus its crime-reduction efforts on criminals rather than law-abiding citizens.
Germany’s Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party has been designated as right-wing extremist by the country’s federal office for the protection of the constitution.
“The ethnicity- and ancestry-based understanding of the people prevailing within the party is incompatible with the free democratic order,” the domestic intelligence agency said in a statement.
The AfD came second in federal elections in February, winning a record 152 seats in the 630-seat parliament with 20.8% of the vote.
Germany is fecked.
He confirmed he will meet U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House on Tuesday.
Carney won Canada. Saving the country from Trump won’t be so easy
Mark Carney has engineered one of the most unlikely victories in political history, saving Canada’s Liberal Party from near oblivion and going from the outskirts of politics to prime minister in a matter of months.
But the former Bank of England governor’s biggest challenge still lies ahead: protecting Canada’s economy from Donald Trump.
Mr Trump has repeatedly claimed Canada will become the “cherished 51st state” and levied heavy tariffs on the US’s northern neighbour. In his victory speech Carney said Trump “is trying to break us so America can own us. That will never happen.”
Rocker Neil Young can’t quit Elon Musk and has put the Department of Government Efficiency chief at the center of his latest politically charged tune, which praises China as a clean energy electric vehicle champion and castigates Tesla owners as “fascists.”
“Come on Ford, come on GM/ Come on Chrysler, let’s roll again,” Young begins, singing over the weekend at the charity concert in Los Angeles. “China’s way ahead, they’re making clean cars.”
New data shows rural Canadians face a higher and more severe rate of crime than those living in the city.
In 2023, the police-reported crime rate was 34 per cent higher in rural communities than in urban centres, according to a new report released Tuesday from Statistics Canada. That same year, the violent crime rate, which includes homicides, intimate partner violence and assaults, was 1.7 times higher in rural areas.
“It’s scary to say the least,” said Tim Brodt, chairperson of the Saskatchewan Rural Crime Watch Association.
Senior officers in West Yorkshire Police intervened to ensure that an ethnic minority candidate who failed her interview was given the job, according to leaked documents seen by The Telegraph.
The female officer was initially rejected but eventually given a post after her case was taken up by the force’s chief officer team, which includes Chief Constable John Robins.
To get around her failure, West Yorkshire Police then scrapped interviews for officers transferring to the force, the documents show.
The union representing auto workers at the General Motors plant in Oshawa, Ont. says the company is planning to reduce shifts, citing U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs.
Unifor, which represents about 3,000 employees at the Oshawa facility, said the shift reduction is “reckless” and that the move will “ripple through” the auto parts supplier network. It is not immediately clear how many jobs will be impacted.
GM said it will return to a two-shift operation “in light of forecast demand and the evolving trade environment.”
