OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his last day in office will depend on how long of a transition his successor needs.
Trudeau announced on Jan. 6 he would resign once the Liberal leadership race concludes, which will happen on Sunday.
I bet.
Not so fast, Marty. Justin may be sticking around for a few more days "particularly at this complicated time in the world" https://t.co/cHPNZ6K5fr pic.twitter.com/UGAP2uhQns
— cbcwatcher (@cbcwatcher) March 4, 2025
h/t Patti Jo
This person is cosplaying as Stephen Hawking with a sound board because of right wingers.
Look what we’ve done. pic.twitter.com/epd8NLUDv2
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) March 4, 2025
As the upcoming Canadian federal election looms large, two key issues—health care and affordability—are competing for attention amid the Trump tariffs controversy. While the tariffs are both urgent and significant, their dominance in the discourse has overshadowed other critical concerns, particularly the worsening affordability crisis. But for everyday Canadians, these fundamental underlying issues are not so easily ignored.
If you are an American who stands with Zelensky, prove it by shaving your head and dressing like him.
Basically, turn yourself into him because that is totally sane and normal. pic.twitter.com/aoZyWavxm2
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) March 4, 2025
Sir Keir Starmer and our European allies have issued a lot of brave words and fighting talk on protecting Ukraine and taking on Putin. “We are at a crossroads in history today,” Starmer said after the London summit, announcing a “coalition of the willing” to support Zelensky. “European unity is at an extremely high level not seen for a long time.” Is it, though?
The truth is that Europe last year paid far more money to Putin’s coffers in the form of oil and gas payments than it has given to the Ukrainians – and continues to do so. Europe today imports far more Russian liquefied natural gas, or LNG, from Russia than at the beginning of the war.
CNN's Jake Tapper admits that Europeans are funding both sides of the war in Ukraine.
"Europeans were actually buying more Russian oil and gas than they were helping Ukraine… So in some ways, the Europeans are funding both sides of the war."
Wow, if only someone had called… pic.twitter.com/IBBMgeGS6z
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) March 4, 2025
Declining fertility isn’t about career-focused women delaying motherhood—it’s about fewer young people getting married.
Despite family-friendly social and economic policies, birthrates are falling in many rich countries. A recent article in the Financial Times notes that past declines were driven by families having fewer children, but now people are skipping having children altogether. “Nobody really knows what’s going on,” writes FT. “It’s not primarily driven by economics or family policies. It’s something cultural, psychological.”
Canadians have been stirred to anger and even patriotism by President Donald Trump’s trolling, but it’s a recent tweet from Texas Governor Greg Abbott that should leave us shaken, because it’s actually accurate.
In response to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s retaliation plans, he wrote: “Careful Trudeau. The Texas economy is larger than Canada’s. And we’re not afraid to use it.”
Mississippi Look Out! Ontario Would Be Fifth-Poorest, Quebec Second-Poorest, U.S. State
“Nearly 3,000 people have been killed in Goma in recent days” reported Vivian van de Perre, Deputy Head of the UN mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), in central Africa. Goma is the capital and largest city of the DRC’s North Kivu Province.
In the final week of January, 17 South African National Defence Force (SANDF) soldiers in the Congo were killed, and many more wounded, in battle with the rebel group M23 (which is backed by Rwanda), when the M23 captured Goma from DRC government’s forces. It is believed that “M23 seeks to set up an administration to govern Goma as it has in other areas under its control in the eastern DRC.”
OTTAWA—He’s campaigning as an “outsider” far from the unpopular Justin Trudeau brand. He believes he’s the candidate with the economic savviness necessary for Canada to prosper.
And he’s in the race because he wants to overhaul the way Canadian politics work. No, it’s not Mark Carney.
His name is Frank Baylis.
An Iraqi man is the latest drug dealer to escape deportation from the UK after a judge ruled that he was too “westernised” to be returned to his home country.
The man, who was jailed for more than five years after a conviction for dealing cocaine, has lived in Britain for 24 years and has a British-born daughter.
Home Office officials attempted to have him deported but a specialist judge in the asylum tribunal ruled that returning the man to Iraq would violate his human rights as he would be “viewed with suspicion”.
‘What the Liberals have is a guy, and a guy people really don’t know very much about,’ Ipsos CEO Darrell Bricker tells John Ivison
NPR’s Public Editor is supposed to represent the audience. They proclaim, “The Public Editor stands as a source of independent accountability. Created by NPR’s board of directors, the Public Editor serves as a bridge between the newsroom and the audience.” But more often — especially now with the threat of defunding — there’s not independence or accountability. There’s just pro-NPR lobbying!
The trial for a Quebec man charged with killing three pedestrians with his truck will begin mid-May and is expected to last eight weeks.
The Crown prosecutor’s office says a judge confirmed today that Steeve Gagnon’s trial will begin May 15 in Rimouski, Que.
Gagnon faces 14 counts in the alleged attack in Amqui, Que., on March 13, 2023, including three counts of first-degree murder.
NEW YORK, March 4 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration and Ukraine plan to sign the much-debated minerals deal following a disastrous Oval Office meeting Friday in which Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy was dismissed from the building, four people familiar with the situation said on Tuesday.
President Donald Trump has told his advisers that he wants to announce the agreement in his address to Congress Tuesday evening, three of the sources said, cautioning that the deal had yet to be signed and the situation could change.
Canada’s military should fix white supremacy problem before it starts: analyst
An Alberta-based analyst asked by the military to study white supremacy in its ranks says if it doesn’t want the problem to take root, it should take action against a culture that gives it room to grow.
Political scientist Andy Knight says his research suggests current attitudes within the Armed Forces favour white, male and Christian cultures and put groups like women, people of colour, newcomers and the 2SLGBTQ+ community at a disadvantage.
… He said the research became all the more intriguing after it was revealed that some military members were involved in the 2022 “Freedom Convoy” protests against COVID-19 rules that shut down much of downtown Ottawa for weeks.
The horror! CAF is favouring “White” people over the government’s preferred perma-victims!
And the CAF wonders why its primary recruiting pool – white males – have given up on the armed forces as a viable career.
