OTTAWA — Liberal Leader Mark Carney has been accused of taking other people’s ideas as his own in the federal election campaign.
It isn’t new.
The National Post obtained a copy of Carney’s 1995 thesis for his doctorate in economics from Oxford University titled “The Dynamic Advantage of Competition.” It shows 10 instances of apparent plagiarism, according to the judgment of three university academics who reviewed the material.
Earthquake sum up 3pm (Mynamar/Thailand)
– 7.7 quake hit near Mandalay/Myanmar
– Hundreds of homes collapsed (various Myanmar cities)
– Strong shocks in Thailand + multiple building collapse in Bangkok
– USGS predicts thousands of people dead(Bangkok clips from social media:) pic.twitter.com/kJodTn6BIg
— Florian Witulski (@vaitor) March 28, 2025
THOUSANDS are feared dead after huge earthquake hits Thailand and Myanmar, destroying buildings and sparking fears major DAMS could collapse and lead to catastrophic flooding
h/t Mauser
A babysitter found a man hiding under a child’s bed in Kansas after the child complained about a “monster” being there.
While trying to show the child there was nothing under the bed, the female victim “came face-to-face” with a male suspect, Barton County Sheriff’s Office said. An altercation ensued with the babysitter and one child was knocked over.
h/t DS
The battle lines have been drawn and based on the polls, policy, and the eye test, each side’s foot soldiers have been made clear.
For the Conservatives, who have opened with high energy, a message of “hope and change,” the power of happy-warrior positivity, and the highlighting of very real threats to Canada’s recovery and the reclamation of the Canadian Dream, their packed halls and overflow rooms are made up of a younger support base than ever before.
Germany has said it “will not give in” and that Europe must “respond firmly” as US President Donald Trump targets imported cars and car parts with a 25% tax in his latest tariffs.
Other major world economies have vowed to retaliate, with France’s president branding the move “a waste of time” and “incoherent”, Canada calling it a “direct attack”, and China accusing Washington of violating international trade rules.
Carmaker stocks from Japan to Germany dipped. In the US, General Motors dropped 7%, while Ford fell more than 2%.
FBI Director Kash Patel warned the U.S. needs to be ‘more vigilant’ about what is coming in across the Canadian border as adversaries have ‘adapted.’
The top law enforcement officer made the claim while testifying before lawmakers in the House Intelligence Committee about global threats on Wednesday.
‘Known and suspected terrorists are flowing in through our northern border more than they are our southern border,’ Patel warned.
He attributed it to the ‘successes we’ve had at closing our southern border.’
Any notion that the second Trump administration would prove less turbulent than the first has surely been laid to rest by the accidental leaking of secret military plans to a journalist on the messaging app Signal. But Trump’s political opponents aren’t in too great a state themselves. Fresh off the Democratic Party’s presidential election defeat last November, their popularity has plummeted – a recent CNN poll has placed the Democrats’ favourability rating at just 29 per cent, a record low since their polling began in 1992.
Mark Carney’s campaign is something out of a time machine. Thin on actual substance, he’s opted to emanate vibes instead, with cultural references to 1950s hockey, 1960s music and 1980s CBC programming, and imitations of nationalism by cheering on the stereotype of Canadian niceness. It’s quaint — but impossible to relate to.
I used to like 5 Neat Guys too!
Move fast and break things” was Mark Zuckerberg’s motto in launching Facebook 20 years ago. It seemed the antithesis of management-school custom and practice. But it worked, to be imitated after a fashion by Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and other digital tycoons with similar success. Donald Trump is now seeing if it works in government.
The smart money in Washington was that after the fiasco of Trump’s first term, his second would see a more emollient president, one careful of his reputation. He would reach out, consult, become a peacemaker, in his desperation to become a Nobel president like Barack Obama.
How wrong that has proved. Trump is doing what few leaders dare do. He is being a cultural revolutionary, a Mao Zedong, a grandiloquent system smasher. He wants to reorder Washington’s role in the US and the US’s role in the world. He knows that he may have just two years before “the system” – the electoral cycle, the judiciary and state governments – blocks his path. If he truly wants revolution he must break things, and fast.
As punishing Chinese and American tariffs threaten Canada’s exports, Sask. farmers expressed anger and frustration over what they called U.S. President Donald Trump’s “stupidity.”
But for all the vitriol they have toward the U.S. leader, they also showed disdain for former prime minister Justin Trudeau and his successor, Mark Carney.
“Everything is for the east,” said Carl Jensen, who farms in Invermay, Sask., about 250 kilometres east of Saskatoon, during Canada’s Farm Show last week.
Dear constituents,
I am delighted to announce today that upon careful reflection of national and regional polling, I have decided to throw my hat in the race and run for re-election. This was a tough choice. I know that I said back when the word “Liberal” was radioactive that I would not be running in the next election in order to spend more time with my family. But my party has now found its potassium iodide: its name is Mark Carney, and though he is also tightly constrained and only deployed in emergencies, he works! And so, after much soul-searching – mostly about which cabinet position I want – I have come to the conclusion that my family can wait. Please consider supporting my campaign as I embark on this selfless endeavour.
An earthquake of magnitude 7.7 has struck Myanmar, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said, causing hundreds of people to pour out of swaying buildings in Bangkok, the capital of neighbouring Thailand 1,400km away.
USGS said the quake on Friday was shallow, at a depth of just 10km (six miles) with the epicentre near the central city of Mandalay, about 50km (30 miles) east of the city of Monywa.
43+ Workers Dead or Trapped In Bangkok Earthquake High Rise Collapse. 7 escaped, 1 confirmed dead. (Thai TV News)
Massive Damage in Northwest Thailand
8.2 magnitude earthquake epicenter near Mae Hong Sorn, Thailand on Myanmar border.
Highway Bridge collapse in Chiang… https://t.co/ljxwCUSbsp pic.twitter.com/41dgg1nWya
— DonaldBest.CA * DO NOT COMPLY (@DonaldBestCA) March 28, 2025
The Times was given rare access to observe the training of the Virginia Kekoas, a citizen militia that wants to ‘protect its community from the far-left’
It is late afternoon deep in the woods of rural Virginia, and Rustpit is getting annoyed. The former Marine is trying to school his fellow militiamen in cover and concealment on a shooting course built among the trees.
It has been a long day of firearms training and the men are distracted, poking at defective weapons and debating what meat to throw on the fire for dinner later.
To keep them on their toes, Rustpit, a 46-year-old business owner, has set up a tripwire. He watches as it is detonated by his lanky comrade-in-arms Sheepdog, distracting some members who are trying to blow up a container of explosive powder nearby.
Europe’s hypocrisy is on full display today.
As leaders meet in Paris to plan the continent’s defence, several European countries are sending wads of cash to the belligerent Kremlin in exchange for convenient oil and gas.
Think-tank Ember has found that the EU put €21.9 billion into Russian coffers in 2024, with gas imports up 18% on the previous year. EU support for Ukraine in 2024 was €18.7 billion.
Hungary and Slovakia, the usual suspects, bear heavy responsibility for the stark figures. But also unable to turn off the Russian gas tap is France – who today hosts 31 European leaders to develop plans to counter the Russian security threat.
A Yale professor who studies fascism is leaving the US to work at a Canadian university because of the current US political climate, which he worries is putting the US at risk of becoming a “fascist dictatorship”.
Jason Stanley, who wrote the 2018 book How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them, has accepted a position at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy.
Stanley told the Daily Nous, a philosophy profession website, that he made the decision “to raise my kids in a country that is not tilting towards a fascist dictatorship”.
Lucky Us.
