The response to my recent column on the Liberal government’s quiet interest in taxing your home equity was predictable — but revealing.
Instead of engaging with the facts, many online commentators resorted to the usual routine: Hashtags, name-calling, shouting “fake news” into the void, and hurling emojis like they’re making a serious argument.
Let that sink in.
As I write nearby, the decades-long problem of Mexico sending its raw sewage gushing into the Tijuana River and polluting the beaches of the U.S. has grown worse in the past few years with the huge population growth in Tijuana, Mexico. But now it’s affecting America’s national security interests, and s*** just got real.
Liberal Party Leader Mark Carney’s strategy depends on being different from former prime minister Justin Trudeau.
When it comes to budget plans, Carney is not only different from Trudeau, he’s much worse.
Carney plans to add $225 billion to the federal debt over the next four years, according to his recently released platform.
A row has broken out between scholars after an expert claimed to have discovered an extra penis on the Bayeux Tapestry.
Seven years ago, Prof George Garnett, an Oxford academic, claimed to have identified 93 depictions of male genitalia in the tapestry; five were on men, while 88 belonged to horses.
However, Dr Christopher Monk, a mediaeval scholar and expert on Anglo-Saxon nudity, has now claimed that he has found a another penis, pushing the figure up to 94.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre painted a gloomy picture of Canada in his closing pitch to voters on Thursday, saying life will get worse if they return a Liberal government in this election.
After sounding a more optimistic and hopeful tone earlier this week around the release of his party’s platform, Poilievre reverted to form at a news conference in Halifax. He said the country will face nothing but “despair” if Liberal Leader Mark Carney is the next prime minister — signalling he will go negative with his messaging in the final days to try and keep his opponent out of power.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said he will step back from his role with the Trump administration’s cost-cutting team known as Doge.
Those at the White House, including the president, have said it has long been the plan that Musk would soon step away, but the news came as the billionaire’s car business saw earnings plunge.
Musk’s announcement left many unanswered questions, including when he will actually leave the administration and what will happen to Doge, which stands for Department of Government Efficiency.
The biggest, though by no means the smartest or the most coherent, complaint against Conservatives is that they aren’t Liberals. This complaint comes, bizarrely, as often from other conservatives, as it does from the left. Or perhaps it isn’t so bizarre, as Conservatives who want their side to become more like the other side will always be given time by Canada’s monochromatic media, which seems to agree that the only good Conservative is a Liberal.
A senior Russian military commander was killed on Friday in a car explosion in a suburb of Moscow, investigators said.
The Investigative Committee of Russia, the country’s equivalent to the F.B.I., issued a statement identifying the officer as Lt. Gen. Yaroslav Moskalik, a senior figure in the Russian General Staff who was directly involved in planning operations. The investigators said that they had opened a criminal inquiry into the explosion, which took place in the town of Balashikha, east of Moscow.
BREAKING:
Looks like Ukraine’s military intelligence has eliminated one of Russia’s top-level war criminals.
Deputy Chief of the Main Operations Directorate of the Russian General Staff, Major General Yaroslav Moskalik, was killed in a car bomb explosion in Moscow this morning pic.twitter.com/mUPLv1UAP5
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) April 25, 2025
TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford is warning that Donald Trump’s recent remarks in the Oval Office are a reminder that the U.S. president really does have designs on Canada.
“It’s not just words. He wants to do it,” Ford told an audience of policy leaders in Toronto on Thursday afternoon. “He wants to destroy our auto sector. He wants to destroy our manufacturing sector. He wants to try to take over Canada.”
Sharks are not naturally inclined to bite humans. But even the most patient predator has its limits — especially when being poked, prodded and posed by an overenthusiastic tourist intent on capturing a selfie.
A growing number of shark “attacks” can be blamed on social media influencers encouraging tourists to try to “stroke” them, scientists have said.
In New York, Frank Sinatra says, they want to be a part of it. Chicago, he claims, has all that jazz. But it turns out Toronto is where people are going.
Toronto was the fastest-growing metropolitan area in Canada and the U.S. for the second consecutive year and saw an estimated population increase of nearly 269,000 people from July 2023 to July 2024, according to data from Statistics Canada and the U.S. Census Bureau.
… In 2021, 47 per cent of Toronto residents were born in Canada. According to the Census, there were 1,286,140 immigrants in Toronto, or 46.6 percent of the population. In Canada overall, immigrants made up 23.0 per cent of the population.
Thousands of faithful queued in Vatican City to pay their respects to Pope Francis on Friday, days after the pontiff passed away on Easter Monday at the age of 88.
It is the last day for the public to see the pope’s coffin ahead of his funeral the day after. Until 7 p.m. local time (1700 GMT) mourners can bid farewell to the late pontiff before his coffin is sealed.
OTTAWA — Liberal Leader Mark Carney is admitting that U.S. President Donald Trump reiterated his threat to annex Canada to the United States during their call on March 28 despite claiming publicly at the time that Trump “respected Canada’s sovereignty.”
Carney has already lied about the fact..
– That he’s against carbon taxes
– That he saved the Canadian and British economies
– That he “just got here” and hasn’t been the backbone of the Liberal economic platform for years...Now even CTV is questioning his honesty ♂️. pic.twitter.com/8CRSXPUqJb
— An Oil Exec (@CanadianOilExec) April 24, 2025
Brookfield ex-employee wrote the Poilievre hit-piece for the Globe and Mail.
This is unbelievably unethical. https://t.co/DDCQIMv8Yp pic.twitter.com/54Lvq2VTCu
— Dean Skoreyko (@bcbluecon) April 25, 2025
H/T Mauser
US federal prosecutors have filed a formal notice seeking the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, the man accused of shooting dead a healthcare boss in New York.
Prosecutors argue in the filing that the 26-year-old killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson “to amplify an ideological message” and spark resistance to the health insurance industry.
The move was made just hours ahead of his plea hearing on four federal charges later on Friday.
Long before he entered politics, Mark Carney was a full-throated supporter of social engineering via progressive policy. His platform, released Monday, has confirmed that his government will be no different in that regard than that of Justin Trudeau.
Carney’s plan shallowly pushes diversity both in form and in substance. Form-wise, his platform alleges itself to have been “reviewed through an equity lens using a GBA+ analysis,” meaning that for each commitment has been mulled over extensively by the privilege police.
