TRURO, N.S. – Mark Carney may be a political novice but he is quickly learning the value of staged photo ops.
The new Liberal leader is clearly not in the same league as his predecessor Justin Trudeau when it comes to apparently spontaneous, meticulously planned shots, like the time the former prime minister jogged past teenagers on their way to a prom.
Early in the campaign, Carney was in danger of losing a digit when he tried his hand at woodworking at a trades school in Vaughan, Ont.
Bernie Sanders and AOC caught exiting private jet — what happened to concern for the climate, that's right, it's all a lie.pic.twitter.com/xRgFIHdUKT
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) April 22, 2025
h/t Mauser
The US Commerce Department has announced plans to impose tariffs of up to 3,521% on imports of solar panels from four South East Asian countries.
It comes after an investigation that began a year ago when several major solar equipment producers asked the administration of then-President Joe Biden to protect their US operations.
The proposed levies – targeting companies in Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam – are in response to allegations of subsidies from China and the dumping of unfairly cheap products in the US market.
If there is such a thing as the luck of the Irish, then Mark Carney, until recently an Irish passport holder, seems to have it in spades.
Canada’s ruling Liberal Party, which the former governor of the Bank of England and the Bank of Canada now leads, was riding to almost certain defeat in next week’s Canadian general election, sitting some 20 points down in the polls.
Then along came Donald Trump with his imbecilic threat to annex Canada alongside Greenland and Panama, and the Liberals’ fortunes turned on a sixpence.
Geezuz. @fancypants_s https://t.co/xeNEQNaInj
— Auntie Polly (@auntie_polly) April 22, 2025
h/t Auntie Polly
Humans have gathered to feast and enjoy a tipple together for thousands of years, but research suggests chimpanzees may also bond over a boozy treat.
Wild chimpanzees in west Africa have been observed sharing fruit containing alcohol – not in quantities to get roaring drunk but, possibly, enough for a fuzzy beer buzz feeling.
Domestic extremists pushing ‘corrosive’ narratives in Canada’s election: report
Canadian domestic extremists are using the federal election to amplify “corrosive” narratives around democracy, immigration and conspiracy theories, a new report suggests.
The Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) found Canadian extremists are capitalizing on the deteriorating relationship between Canada and U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration to draw people towards their movements.
Who is the Institute For Strategic Dialogue? –BBC Cites Pro-Censorship Group, Claims Growing Hate Speech on Twitter
Who funds the Institute for Strategic Dialogue?
Funding for the ISD has come from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Omidyar Network, the Gen Next Foundation, and the Open Society Foundation.
In 2004, Daniel Gonzalez went on a three-day killing spree. Could predictive AI have identified him as a threat before it was too late?
At age 24, Daniel Gonzalez was well-known to the authorities. He was an intelligent child, with an IQ of 125. But by his late teens, he had already racked up a long history of violence – from punching a bus driver over a disputed fare to threatening his carer with a knife.
Diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia aged 19, not helped by a fondness for LSD and Ketamine binges, he was soon spending time on the streets, in and out of mental hospitals, and in prison.
Three recent cases reveal that the Canadian justice system is packed with good ideas.
Of course, these are the sorts of “good ideas” Canadians have been plagued by over the last lawless decade. The last few days have unleashed myriad “good ideas” on the public.
President Putin’s Easter truce ended with explosions this morning as missiles hit a port city in the south of the country, signalling the start of a potentially crucial week for floundering peace talk efforts.
“With the end of the ceasefire, the armed forces of the Russian Federation continued to conduct the special military operation,” the Russian defence ministry said after Putin’s 30-hour truce expired at midnight.
Putin’s truce was widely seen by analysts as an attempt to convince President Trump that Moscow remains serious about a lasting peace, despite a wealth of evidence to the contrary.
TORONTO—Just a few days ago, someone pointed out to me that Justin Trudeau was prime minister within the last month (that’s not true now, but it was when I heard it).
That’s not possible, I thought. Wasn’t PMJT like a lifetime ago?
ZURICH (Reuters) -Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum, whose annual gathering of business and political leaders in the Swiss mountain resort of Davos became a symbol of globalisation, has resigned as chair of its trustees.
The Geneva-based WEF made the announcement on Monday after revealing earlier this month that the 87-year-old Schwab, who for decades has been the face of the Davos get-together, would be stepping down, without giving a firm timeline.
h/t DS
A survey taken earlier this month suggests that the Liberals are drawing significant support from the ideological centre, have eroded the NDP’s base and is even encroaching on traditionally Conservative territory — a trend that could shape the outcome of the 2025 federal election.
The poll conducted by Leger for the Association for Canadian Studies found that the Liberals had secured about two thirds of voters who identify as left or left-of-centre. The NDP had 20 per cent support from those on the left and only eight per cent from those who identify as left of centre. The Liberals were also leading the Conservatives by 10 percentage points among those who place themselves in the ideological centre.
In the barrage of pronouncements coming at Canadians from Liberal leader Mark Carney, two words have been conspicuously absent — net zero. This concept, meaning the achievement of a state in which there are no net greenhouse gases produced by human activity, has been Carney’s principal obsession for at least the last decade. It has been the driving force behind his work with the United Nations, the World Economic Forum, international financial bodies and investment companies. Yet we don’t hear a peep from him about net zero during this critical election period.
Of all the things we have to blame the COVID-19 lockdowns of 2020-21 for, perhaps the most unexpected is that some desperate people used them as a handy opportunity to begin having sex with trees. In 2020, a 45-year-old Canadian “somatic sex educator” named Sonja Semjonova was going out on her daily walk permitted to her by the Trudeau Taliban, when she came across (perhaps even literally) a giant oak tree by the side of a path in British Colombia. Perceiving “a connection” with the tree, Sonja began to “lie against it” loving the “feeling of being tiny and supported by something more solid” and “not being able to fall”.
