When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
Trailing by the numbers, Pierre Poilievre is not changing his tune.
This column has gone straight to the man. Some have written him off. You would think it would be too early in the game to write an obituary.
An insurgent politician, spoiling to cause an upset and topple the establishment, removed from the ballot paper following corruption charges. No, I’m not talking about Erdogan’s Turkey, or some other faraway autocracy, but nominally democratic France, where a court has just upended the next presidential election.
Our future lies on the Red Planet
In his speech to Congress last month, President Donald Trump promised to “lead humanity into space and plant the American flag on the planet Mars and even far beyond”. His claim is not serious, as Trump is far too busy wrecking the global liberal order to achieve such a splendid feat. And even if he weren’t, there’s no way we can reach Mars in the next four years. Nevertheless, it is possible that the new administration, under the eye of SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, will make human travel to Mars the main goal of NASA.
The Emperor and Darth Vader may be wrong about a lot of things, but they are not wrong about this. NASA needs a purpose, one that’s worthy of the costs and risks of human spaceflight. That goal can only be sending humans to Mars. This is so because Mars is where the science is, Mars is where the challenge is, and Mars is where the future is.
Canada should be an economic powerhouse. With the second-largest land mass in the world, a small but educated population, and an abundance of natural resources, there’s no excuse for widespread hardship in this country.
However, here we are.
Food banks can’t keep up. Housing costs are out of reach. The middle class is being hollowed out. Small businesses are barely surviving, and young Canadians are giving up on ever owning a home or getting ahead.
A knifeman who was tackled by a hero British tourist in Amsterdam acted with terrorist intent and likely would have stabbed more victims, Dutch public prosecutors have said.
Thursday’s knife rampage sparked panic in the the Dutch capital after a 30-year-old from Donetsk, in eastern Ukraine, carried out a seemingly random knifing attack around the streets of Dam Square.
The attacker will remain in custody for at least two more weeks, suspected of ‘five counts of attempted murder or manslaughter with a terrorist intent’, prosecutors said in a statement.
No mention of the flavour of the knifeman’s “terrorist intent”.
Suddenly it is all too clear. There is very little that binds together the different sections of what used to be called the Western world. The ascendancy of the 2025 Trump Presidency has crystallised the trend towards the fragmentation of global westernism. America looks inward and an all too ignored Europe knows that its fragility and weakness stands exposed.
The current conflict between Europe and America is not reducible to contrasting approaches towards Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Nor is this simply a conflict over tariffs and trade. Yes, we see the forceful assertion of American national interest but the dynamic set in play is not merely the latest version of the usual competitive positioning between different powers.
‘Though Carney is smooth and superficially sophisticated, he’s cut from the same fanatical net-zero cloth as Trudeau.’
Donald Trump’s continuing rhetoric about making Canada the 51st State is certainly annoying, but one can’t deny that his apparent underlying message — that Canada is performing far below its potential and needs to get serious or its very existence may be threatened — carries a serious point.
A majority of Canadians support cancelling a $19-billion contract to buy American warplanes and instead opting for European alternatives, according to a new poll, as relations between Canada and the United States continue to sour.
A survey by Nanos Research conducted for The Globe and Mail found 62 per cent of Canadians survey support, or somewhat support, scrapping a federal government deal to buy 88 F-35 Lightning planes from U.S. defence contractor Lockheed Martin. It also found 18 per cent oppose, and 3 per cent somewhat oppose, such a measure. Another 17 per cent were undecided.
Donald Trump says tariffs are coming. That message from the US president has been consistent.
But what tariffs and when? Import taxes have come so thick and fast since he took office that it can be hard to keep track.
Trump has already raised duties on Chinese imports, steel, aluminium and some goods from Canada and Mexico. Higher levies on cars are due to go into effect this week.
We’re now waiting for Trump to unveil the details of his plan for a wider set of tariffs, which his team has spent the last few weeks developing.
The White House is calling it “Liberation Day”. So what might we learn on Wednesday?
Karoline Leavitt ahead of Liberation Day tomorrow:
“The president’s historic action tomorrow will improve American competitiveness in every area of industry, reduce our massive trade deficits, and ultimately protect our economic & national security.”
pic.twitter.com/8stvMzCZVT— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) April 1, 2025
‘In the long run, we’re all dead’: Trump allies struggle with trade uncertainty
President Donald Trump is fêting his new tariffs with a Rose Garden “Liberation Day” festival.
Wall Street traders, lawmakers, industry leaders, foreign officials and even some members of the president’s team see only dread.
Trump, at a Wednesday afternoon “Make America Wealthy Again” ceremony, will formally announce a series of new, so-called reciprocal tariffs on U.S.’s global trading partners that he says will restore fairness, free the country from a dependence on foreign goods and stimulate the economy.
Douglas Todd: Healthy attempts to reduce foreign money’s distortion of the housing market shouldn’t be demonized as xenophobic, new study says.
Nationalism is fashionable again in Canada now that the federal election is underway and the tariff wars of U.S. President Donald Trump pose a threat to our economic well-being.
But there was a time, very recently, when behaving nationalistically about Canadian housing was condemned as dangerous and defenders of those left out of the housing market were dismissed as xenophobic and reactionary.
Is the “conventionally attractive woman” in the room with us? pic.twitter.com/WDm5p2BPuo
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) April 1, 2025
Last week, the Liberal line of defence of Mark Carney’s high-finance Brookfield background came out through the media: Pierre Poilievre is just as bad.
It’s a light years-long stretch, the logic being this: Carney, former chair of Brookfield Asset Management (BAM) and vice-chair of Brookfield Corporation (BN), stands to benefit from Brookfield’s success — but so does Poilievre, because he keeps some of his investments in an exchange-traded fund named Vanguard FTSE Canada Index ETF (VCE), which is invested in many Canadian companies, a small fraction of which includes BN and BAM.
What do you think this person does for a living? pic.twitter.com/dnAZn8QR9q
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) April 1, 2025
Since we no longer share the same ideals of freedom and democracy, we should no long shoulder their burdens.
Monday morning’s edition of the RealClear Politics news aggregator contained a very interesting manifestation of their usual juxtaposition of left vs. right thought pieces. It looked like this…
The articles themselves were no less notable in their approach to the dissipating relationship between a MAGA Revivalist America and a globalist declining Europe.
I’m devastated, but I’m also angry.
I’m angry because this is an attack on press freedom.
If opportunities can be stripped from journalists simply because enough people repeat the same bad-faith narrative, how can anyone withstand the career impact of doing work that matters? https://t.co/4eCko3Y4aA pic.twitter.com/gyu6ULiz79
— Rachel Gilmore (@atRachelGilmore) April 1, 2025
CTV cancels Rachel Gilmore’s ‘fact-checking’ segment amid backlash
