And just like that, Canada’s long-awaited, much-analyzed federal election has come and gone. The still-somewhat-smoky scene this morning reveals a much different political landscape, with Mark Carney’s Liberals holding onto a minority (we think) government, the Conservatives growing their support and gaining key seats (though losing one particularly important one), and the NDP nearly wiped off the electoral map and losing official party status altogether.
Elon Musk launched a war against US federal employees working from home but is no longer based at the White House complex and mainly stays in touch by phone, President Trump’s chief of staff revealed.
Musk pledged to “significantly” cut back his work with the Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) after a 71 per cent drop in profits at Tesla as opponents shunned his electric vehicle company.
Sorry @Keir_Starmer
I think you may have reached the FO period of FAFO. https://t.co/iflCgL2YED pic.twitter.com/CsND8r8b10
— Laurence Fox (@LozzaFox) April 30, 2025
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives were instructed not to help the provincial party during its recent election campaign, as he explained the source of tension between the two parties that dogged the federal race.
Fractures between the federal Tories and Mr. Ford’s Progressive Conservatives spilled out into public view during the federal campaign, with Mr. Ford and one of his top advisers criticizing the Conservative party’s electoral strategy. In turn, re-elected Conservative MP Jamil Javani – a one-time adviser to Mr. Ford – lashed out at the Premier on election night, accusing him of sabotaging the campaign and of being a “hype man” for the federal Liberals. Mr. Jivani on Wednesday posted a doctored photo on social-media platform X of Mr. Ford dressed as wrestler, ripping off an Ontario PC shirt to reveal a Liberal one underneath.
Ukraine and the United States planned to sign a long-awaited minerals deal Wednesday — before yet another last-minute obstacle threatened to scupper the plan.
As Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko traveled to Washington on Wednesday to ink the agreement, the American side demanded Kyiv sign not only the main economic pact, but also two technical side-deals, a senior official familiar with the matter told POLITICO after being granted anonymity to discuss the sensitive topic.
Some of Beijing’s top critics in Parliament were re-elected this week, but a Conservative candidate said by authorities to be targeted by a Chinese regime operation lost his bid to sit in the House of Commons.
There is no evidence so far that Joe Tay fell short because of the Chinese regime’s efforts, but in the lead-up to the vote, election security officials had warned he was the victim of a transnational repression operation.
Whatever might be said in the coming days about the results of Canada’s 45th federal election one thing is clear; Canadian’s voted for change. Unfortunately, that change is how Western Canada will come to see itself within confederation.
Let me begin by acknowledging that there is no doubt that Mark Carney and the Liberal Party of Canada won last night’s election. We have a very safe and secure electoral system with paper ballots, scrutineers, and multiple levels of review in the event of any discrepancies.
Several years ago, a U.S. citizen friend who was originally from Argentina, told me she had a tough time explaining her career choice of police officer in the U.S. to her family back home. That’s because police in her country are considered corrupt human rights violators as bad as or worse than common street thugs.
By now, it is pretty clear that the 25-point lead Pierre Poilievre enjoyed in the polls a mere four months ago had very little to do with him. He looked like a shoo-in to be the Prime Minister of Canada because he faced an extremely unpopular opponent and was catering to a very disgruntled electorate who were focused on their personal grievances. But remove the opponent, have voter’s concerns shift from past angers to future uncertainties and his massive electoral edge disappeared.
In fact, even when he was leading, it was evident that Canadians were not particularly enamoured with Poilievre the person — his favourability ratings never exceeded his negatives.
There is no question that Britain’s prisons are becoming more violent. Figures published last week show assaults on staff and prisoners at record levels. The Muslim charity Maslaha has claimed that force used by prison staff to quell the rising tide is fuelled by “Islamophobia” and is a result of the racialised policing of the landings across eight of the nine prisons it surveyed. Is this an accurate or fair representation of the problem?
Tony Blair is running scared of a populist backlash that he himself stoked.
Not for the first time, Tony Blair is making life difficult for his party by saying something vaguely commonsensical. Ahead of the General Election last year, Blair felt moved to announce that only men have penises, forcing Labour leader Keir Starmer to meekly agree. Now, ahead of the local elections tomorrow, Blair has – in effect – declared many of the Labour government’s climate-change policies to be ‘irrational’. That noise you hear in the distance is Ed Miliband smashing up his ukelele.
On Monday night, President Donald Trump single-handedly saved Canada’s Liberal Party from the electoral disaster predicted by pollsters for over a year. With 99% of polls reporting, the Liberals secured 168 seats in the federal election—just shy of the 172 needed for a majority government, but a stunning comeback for a party that, earlier this year, was expected to be nearly wiped out by Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives. It is the first time a Canadian government has earned a fourth mandate since William Lyon Mackenzie’s four consecutive terms from 1921 to 1935.
Tucker Carlson has claimed Michelle Obama hates her husband Barack, and that people like her, who aren’t happily married, are to blame for society’s collapse.
The former Fox News anchor made the blistering comments on The Megyn Kelly Show as he discussed the Obama’s much-talked about 30-year marriage.
Carlson said former First Lady Michelle ‘really dislikes her husband and it’s super obvious.’
Tucker Carlson nails it: a strong, healthy marriage is the foundation of a good life.
It's everything the Obama's aren't.
He calls out Michelles open hostility toward Barack. Watch: pic.twitter.com/GYl4LmvXFf
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) April 30, 2025
After a snap election, weeks of breathless campaigning and a surprisingly close race, Mark Carney has been elected prime minister of Canada. It’s a win for Liberals, who were rightly nervous that former prime minister Justin Trudeau’s poor performance and late-stage missteps might cost them this election. But Carney’s win isn’t as comforting as it should be, especially when we look at all the events leading up to it.
It’s no secret that over the last decade, Canada’s image as a welcoming, pacifist, melting pot has completely unravelled, revealing a rightwing underbelly that has seen the rise of the “manosphere” and a deepening of its influences on young people, as well as a sharp increase in anti-immigrant sentiment and hate crimes. When it came down to this election, it was Trudeau’s forced resignation and people’s ability to credibly accuse the Liberal party of spending a decade basically twiddling their thumbs while the cost of living soared, that pushed Canadians to the right and helped the Conservative party coast to a near win.
You can only find stuff like this at the Guardian.
There are the scapegoats we expected following Monday’s disappointing result for Canada’s future generations — that appear destined to strain the ties that bind its very confederation — and then there are the ones many never saw coming.
The ‘boomer vote,’ as was feared, overwhelmingly prioritized Trump, tossing “making housing more affordable,” “growing the economy,” and “making Canada a better place to live” down the ballot.
