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.
It could take up to five years to develop a domestic supply chain to supplant China’s global monopoly in processing rare earths into materials needed to produce everything from iPhones to F-35 fighter jets.
While the United States has most of the 17 rare earth elements and 50 critical minerals underground, it has no industrial capacity to refine them into processed metals and magnets, according to Melissa “Mel” Sanderson, American Rare Earths board member and Critical Minerals Institute co-chair.
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.”
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— Auntie Polly (@auntie_polly) April 24, 2025
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Attorneys delivered opening statements on Wednesday in the New York retrial of Harvey Weinstein, with prosecutors accusing the disgraced film producer of using his immense power in Hollywood to sexually harass and abuse three women.
“The defendant wanted their bodies, and the more they resisted, the more forceful he got,” Assistant District Attorney Shannon Lucey told jurors on Wednesday.
In his third trial in five years, Weinstein is accused of sexually abusing a former television production assistant, an aspiring actress and a model.
China says it wants to partner with Canada to push back against American ‘bullying’
OTTAWA — China’s ambassador says Beijing is offering to form a partnership with Canada to push back against American “bullying,” suggesting the two countries could rally other nations to stop Washington from undermining global rules.
“We want to avoid the situation where humanity is brought back to a world of the law of the jungle again,” Chinese Ambassador Wang Di told The Canadian Press in a wide-ranging interview.
“China is Canada’s opportunity, not Canada’s threat,” he said through the embassy’s interpreter.
Wang — whose office requested the interview with The Canadian Press — said that China and Canada appear to be the only countries taking “concrete and real countermeasures against the unjustified U.S. tariffs” imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump.
Donald Trump has accused Volodymyr Zelenskyy of jeopardising what he claimed was an imminent peace deal to end the war in Ukraine, as he gave the clearest hint yet that the US would be willing to formally recognise Russia’s seizure of Crimea as part of any agreement.
The US president claimed a deal to end the war – largely negotiated between Washington and Moscow – was close, while the vice-president, JD Vance, said the agreement would include a proposal to freeze the conflict roughly along the current frontlines.
It was unclear how Ukraine and its European allies, who were meeting in London on Wednesday, would respond to a plan largely constructed in their absence. Zelenskyy countered by proposing a simple ceasefire without conditions on both sides, though this did not immediately gain any traction from the US.
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.
President Trump has signed an executive order creating a United Sovereign Wealth Fund and Strategic Cryptocurrency Reserve. Sovereign Wealth Funds have been created in countries with surplus revenue, such as the oil-exporting Gulf states. The federal government is projected to incur deficits and accumulate debt for the foreseeable future. President Trump states that the Sovereign Wealth Fund will not be financed with debt or increased taxes, so the question is how will the Fund be financed? There are several scenarios, all of which pose problems for the Federal Reserve.
Unprecedentedly high tariffs on imports from China are the latest escalation in a new cold war that may eventually turn hot, a war that we could lose. The new “adversary” is China, a fascist, racist, expansionist, deceitful, dishonest, and manipulative superpower that wants to impose on the whole world the authoritarian hellscape it’s imposed on its own population.
For the skeptics and the appeasers who don’t think China is a serious threat, or that human rights in China are no better or worse than they are here in America, it’s time to resurrect arguments from the last Cold War, arguments that worked then and ought to work now: America is a mess. A flawed, divided, fractious, chaotic melange of oligarchs and jingoists, crackers and crips, soft corporate censorship and bureaucratic gridlock, with bursting prisons and broken ghettos, with wealth inequality and simmering racial tension. We’re not perfect!
OTTAWA — A year-and-a-half before he became leader of the Liberal party, Mark Carney took on a daunting job. In August 2023, he was appointed chairman of a revamped board of directors at Bloomberg LP, a U.S. financial information and media company.
Carney is a grifter. End of story.
ANOTHER clip surfaces of Mark Carney bragging about how much money
is to be made by the private sector from Net-zero government policies
Hes a climate grifter who will pillage the treasury.
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“Lies, damned lies, and statistics.” It’s the phrase people reach for when the data makes their worldview wobble. But in a culture soaked in denial and distraction, statistics — the ugly, unvarnished kind — might be the closest thing we have to a truth serum. They strip away sentiment, they puncture euphemism, and they show us the world not as we wish it to be, but as it is.
And so is Canada.
Every year for two days in August, the picturesque medieval town of Shrewsbury, Shropshire holds a flower show. In fact, the 150-year-old Shrewsbury Flower Show is believed to be the largest and longest-running flower show not just in Britain, but also the world. It attracts over 25,000 visitors, who enjoy arts and crafts, military bands, show jumping, a firework display, demonstrations by celebrity chefs and, of course, meticulously designed flower and plant displays. To most people, this probably sounds like a wholesome family day out. But to the British state, Shrewsbury Flower Show poses a deadly security risk.
