OTTAWA — Two-thirds of Canadians think Liberal leader Mark Carney should proactively reveal his business interests before election day, according to a new poll.
A new Postmedia-Leger poll suggests 67 per cent of Canadians feel Carney should “voluntarily reveal his business interests” before voters go to the ballot box April 28.
Every time Donald Trump has mentioned his plan to levy massive tariffs on imports into the US, there has been a widespread assumption that they will be delayed, watered down or rowed back.
Today, he will reveal in the White House Rose Garden not just how serious he is about “the most beautiful word in the dictionary”, but effectively call time on decades of economic globalisation.
And it is still possible that he will do this by launching the equivalent of a salvo of ballistic missiles into the global trading system, with a universal tariff on all imports into the USA.
Happy Liberation Day, America
If a country charges tariffs on American companies trying to do business in that country, and we don’t reciprocate, that’s not free trade, that’s called getting ripped off. pic.twitter.com/LVjhPLZBv3
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) April 2, 2025
Alberta would make a great 51st state. It has a population of 4.8 million and had a gross domestic product of $244.3 billion in 2024. (All numbers here are in U.S. dollars.) This would rank us 27th among the 50 states, just behind South Carolina at $246.3 billion. Over 90% of our economic output is from oil & gas extraction, refining, distribution, and servicing. Alberta has over 37 billion tons of mostly readily accessible coal reserves, the world’s third-largest proven oil reserves, and among the world’s top ten largest natural gas reserves.
Chinese firms invested billions of dollars on Mexican factories to make products for the American market, shipping goods tariff-free under a U.S. trade agreement now in peril
Su Xiuyong moved to Mexico from central China 20 months ago. He doesn’t speak Spanish or English, and finds that he hates the food, but the opportunity was too good to pass up.
Su’s employer, a Shenzhen-based construction company, helped set up Chinese factories south of the U.S.-Mexico border, part of a business boom triggered in 2018 by President Trump’s first round of tariffs on Chinese imports. Su said his firm, Jilian Engineering, can build a small factory in as little as seven months in Mexico.
Chinese companies have kept many goods flowing to the U.S. by manufacturing in Mexico, where products ship to the U.S. tariff-free under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement that Trump negotiated in his first term. Chinese firms have invested billions of dollars in hundreds of Mexican factories that make auto parts, electronics, home appliances, furniture, medical equipment and other products for the American market.
Immigrants and visible minorities have negative views of other groups in Canada at similar, and sometimes higher, rates as the general Canadian population, a new survey has found.
The poll by Leger for the Association for Canadian Studies challenges the conventional view that prejudice in Canada follows a simple “majority vs. minority” pattern, revealing that negative sentiment is more widespread and complex. The survey, which was conducted ahead of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on March 21, suggests that prejudice exists across multiple demographic groups and varies by factors such as age, language and immigration status.
But we were told only white people can be racist!
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President Vladimir Putin has called up 160,000 men aged 18-30, Russia’s highest number of conscripts since 2011, as the country moves to expand the size of its military.
The spring call-up for a year’s military service came several months after Putin said Russia should increase the overall size of its military to almost 2.39 million and its number of active servicemen to 1.5 million.
That is a rise of 180,000 over the coming three years.
Canada’s escalating rents and a shortage of housing have not only created challenges for young adults seeking their own homes; they are also reshaping the fundamental structure of family living arrangements, new research suggests.
The increased cost of apartments and homes in cities like Toronto and Vancouver in recent years has forced many young adults to live with family or roommates to manage costs, according to a study from the University of British Columbia.
Opponents of a proposed Muslim city in Texas flooded a public meeting Monday in hopes of stopping a controversial Islamic compound from getting necessary permits to begin construction.
For hours, the Collin County Commissioners Court heard dozens of speakers pleading with them to deny the East Plano Islamic Center or EPIC, permits needed to build a city for Muslims that’s meant to be ‘the epicenter of Islam in America’ by organizers.
EPIC, a sprawling house of worship located in Plano, Texas- just north of Dallas- has recently become a target for Gov. Greg Abbott who has accused the mosque of breaking the law, despite no arrests or charges being made public.
I realize plenty of Canadian politicians and pundits have been praising Ontario Premier Doug Ford. Ford threatened to cut off Ontario electricity headed to the U.S. upper Midwest and because of that was granted a face-to-face meeting in Washington, D.C., with Howard Lutnick, President Donald Trump’s commerce secretary and tariff guru.
It may sound like a bad April Fool’s joke, but unfortunately, it’s not.
On Tuesday, April 1st, the European Parliament’s plenary voted to remove the diplomatic immunity of four conservative MEPs at the request of national prosecutors. They include two Polish MEPs from PiS (ECR) who are being persecuted by the Tusk government, a Czech MEP from ANO (Patriots) who was already acquitted twice, and a member of the German AfD (ESN)—whose only crime was tweeting an image depicting former and current German leaders doing what appears to be the Nazi salute.
The MEP tweeted a copy of the original pic like the one above less the slogans. It’s a legit pic.
Musk was innocent I am not sure about Merkel’s intent.
Riding high in the polls, Liberal Leader Mark Carney’s campaign seems set to hit serious turbulence — turbulence that could send cutlery flying in what has so far been a smooth flight. When
Carney’s experienced crew prepared him for his first electoral voyage, “Quebec issues” appeared to rank low on the priority list, with his ability to handle Donald Trump the campaign’s main selling point. The brilliant and affable central banker turned businessman was being positioned as the leader who could stand firm against Trump’s bluster.
Border crossing numbers hit a new low in March, with federal agents encountering about 7,000 people entering the U.S. illegally last month, mainly through the San Diego and El Paso sectors.
Compared to March 2024, when 137,000 individuals crossed the southern border illegally, that’s a 94 percent decrease.
Homeland Security officials told the New York Post it’s easy to explain the decline: “the Trump effect.”
What’s good for the Canadian goose doesn’t hold for the American eagle. At least, not for former Brookfield chairman Mark Carney.
That’s because the Liberal candidate for prime minister, a vocal opponent of major new pipelines in Canada, is now facing scrutiny as Brookfield Asset Management — the investment giant he once chaired — closes in on a USD$9 billion deal to acquire Colonial Pipeline, the largest fuel transport system in the United States.
A new report released on Tuesday shows the FBI imposed a “gag” order in relation to the Hunter Biden laptop to conceal the truth about its authenticity from voters ahead of the 2020 election.
I’ve heard enough about the Crusades, that America was built on stolen land, or that Israel sits on occupied land. That’s life. Get over it. Might make right was the way of the world. But now, we’re seeing conquest through a different strategy, and the West is complicit in its own execution.
