Joe Oliver: Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me four times? Seriously?

In Mark Carney’s first month as Liberal leader and prime minister, a picture has emerged of who he is: a technocratic version of Justin Trudeau, without the charisma, great hair or ability to communicate comfortably in French, but with many of his banished predecessor’s other personality characteristics and policy propensities.

Like Trudeau, Carney is a left-leaning, climate-obsessed globalist — a Laurentian elitist who sees big government as the solution to most problems, whether real, imagined or self-imposed. He appears ambitious and narcissistic, is often casual with the truth, is compromised by conflicts of interest and seems beholden to the “basic Chinese dictatorship.” He is advised by Trudeau’s coterie of political operatives , led by Gerald Butts, and presides over a reshuffled Trudeau cabinet. The fourth Liberal term he seeks would, with one or two exceptions, pursue the same dysfunctional policies that inflicted a lost decade on our long-suffering yet credulous electorate. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me four times? Seriously?

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Wait, We Outsourced the ‘Crown Jewel’ of Global Warming Research to Crackpot Climate Consultants?

We touched upon this briefly in March: liberals were going haywire that Russell Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget, would take a hatchet to the “crown jewel” of the climate change cult. The National Climate Assessment is a U.S. Global Change Research Program project. It’s a multi-billion-dollar operation sanctioned by Congress, but it only has two employees. They don’t do the study, so what’s the deal?

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Braid: Conservatives see rebound as Trump goes quiet about Canada

Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives aren’t done yet. The campaign may finally be turning in their direction, despite polls showing Liberal leads.

Poilievre has drawn 16,000 people to a rally outside Edmonton, 5,000 in Surrey, B.C., 6,500 in Oshawa and 3,000 in Kingston, both in Ontario.

These are enormous numbers for Canadian political rallies. The Conservatives aren’t making them up.

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KLEIN: Canada’s media is failing you and protecting the Liberals

There was a time when journalists were watchdogs. They held governments to account. They followed the facts, not the noise. That time feels long gone.

Instead of grilling those in power with substance, far too many media outlets in this country now act like junior high debaters, tossing out childish, irrelevant questions designed to trap or embarrass people they don’t like, while giving others a free ride.

h/t XC

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Eurabia: if AI is more real than journalism

If you ask Wikipedia, the great lying and manipulated encyclopedia, how many Muslims there are in France, it will answer “from 3 to 5.7 million,” but the PM says there are 9 million….

I have never understood not only why Chat gpt and other kinds of AI should be used, but why anyone should read anything if there is a suspicion that there is an algorithm behind it.

Then I saw a provocative video made with AI in which they imagine the country in which, if nothing changes, European children and grandchildren will live. And it was more realistic than any newspaper article.

Paris, 2050. Thirty seconds.

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To Team Trump, Tariffs Are a National Security Issue

And now, Wall Street titans begin to acknowledge that tariffs may have a role beyond the stock market.

WASHINGTON — “Don’t be a PANICAN,” President Donald Trump cautioned on social media. Critics have questioned the universal tariffs he unleashed last week, and Americans have had to steel themselves before checking the balance of their 401(k)s.

The Trump tariffs came fast and larger than expected. The markets responded.

Now Republicans and Wall Street big shots find themselves defending an economic approach that was anathema to them not long ago. But the world has changed.

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Jamie Sarkonak: Canada’s cities are riddled with crime. Carney has no plan

His entire take on justice can be reduced to rare emotional engagements. Poilievre, on the other hand, is offering solutions

Last week, an Edmonton man was given a four-year prison term (with only six months left) for beating another man to death in a jealous rage. The Liberal-appointed judge gave him such a lowball sentence because the offender was Indigenous, had a rough personal history, and because “a restrained view of sentencing in this case serves the goal of rehabilitation in Canadian society.”

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Is Europe Still Fighting Lost Energy Wars?

The news came down like a thunderbolt. In a spectacular decision, the Morton County courthouse in Mandan, North Dakota, ordered the environmentalist organizations that comprise Greenpeace to pay $665 million in damages to Energy Transfer, the company behind the Dakota Access Pipeline. The figure appears a monumental slap in the face to Greenpeace, which was sued by Energy Transfer for “defamation, trespass, nuisance, civil conspiracy and other acts,” following demonstrations against the pipeline project in 2016 and 2017.

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Active shooter drills in Toronto? Why this synagogue says it’s adopting heightened security measures

There is a row of metal bollards at the synagogue’s entrance, guarded by security.

Inside, Temple Sinai’s team of spiritual leaders and staff have recently started doing active shooter drills.

“It’s not to make us feel safe,” said Rabbi Michael Dolgin during a recent interview in his office at the synagogue, where he’s served since the early 1990s.

“It’s to keep us safe, because we are not.”

H/T MP & Sweetpea

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Three charged in vandalism of Satanic Temple holiday display at N.H. State House

Three men are facing charges in connection with vandalizing the Satanic Temple’s holiday display at the New Hampshire State House in December 2024, according to police.

Concord, New Hampshire, residents John Camden, 41, and Joshua Cummings, 33, and Weare, New Hampshire, resident David Petriel, 33, have been charged with criminal mischief in connection with defacing the display, Concord police said in a press release. Camden and Petriel are facing one count, and Cummings is facing two.

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Married Iraqi Uber driver who assaulted Ontario passenger wanted lighter sentence to stay in Canada

An Ontario judge has sentenced an Iraqi Uber driver to ten months in jail for sexually assaulting his passenger who was just looking for a ride home from a party.

The Ontario Court of Justice heard a woman engaged Sevan Halabi’s services as an Uber driver on Oct. 9, 2022. Halabi, who is a permanent resident of Canada, was angling for a lighter sentence to avoid deportation.

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