OTTAWA — Seventy per cent of Canadians are in favour of dollar-for-dollar retaliatory tariffs on the United States, a new poll suggests.
Nearly half of respondents to the Leger poll — 45 per cent — said they were strongly in favour of such tariffs, while 25 per cent said they were somewhat in favour.
U.S. President Donald Trump has pledged to impose steep tariffs on imports from Canada and other countries.
A convicted Sri Lankan sex offender has been allowed to remain in Britain because he is gay and would be at risk of persecution if he was returned to his home country.
The convicted paedophile, jailed in 2012 for four years for molesting three young teenage boys, has been fighting a 12-year legal battle against Home Office efforts to deport him.
Successive judges up to the Court of Appeal have disagreed over the validity of his claim that his deportation would be a breach of his Article 3 rights under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).
Public Safety Minister David McGuinty says he has been given no assurances yet that Canada can avoid tariffs from U.S. President Donald Trump, despite the federal government’s latest measures to address border security and drug trafficking.
“I haven’t heard that personally, but that doesn’t mean we’re going to stop. We’re going to continue implementing,” McGuinty said in an interview with CTV’s Power Play on Thursday.
Earlier this month, Canada got reprieve for at least 30 days from Trump’s threat to impose a 25 per cent tariff on all Canadian imports — except energy products, which would be subject to a 10 per cent tariff — after making new commitments to secure the shared border. Those tariffs could come into effect as soon as March 4.
Volume and execution, baby! The secret ingredient is saturation.
Just four years ago, ex-President Trump limped away from the White House with an anemic 34% approval rating. He was deplatformed from every major social media site; the future of MAGA was in tatters.
OTTAWA — The Liberals want Canadians to pay more for their public broadcaster, saying the country’s “national security” depends on it.
Canadian Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge presented her plan for “The Future of CBC/Radio-Canada” on Thursday, an apparent response to Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s plan to “defund the CBC.”
NEW
The Trudeau government wants to nearly DOUBLE the CBC funding, from $1.3 billion to $2.4 billion
to "combat misinformation"
this is a FULL ADMISSION that the CBC is the Liberal lifeline and preferred propaganda tool…. paid for by YOU. pic.twitter.com/CdOc0vChGN
— Tablesalt (@Tablesalt13) February 21, 2025
No one needs “More CBC” h/t Mauser
It will become impossible to justify massive U.S. military spending to American taxpayers if that money is used to protect European nations that increasingly act like bad guys on basic rights issues like freedom of speech and democracy, Vice President Vance has reiterated.
Details sketchy, but new reports indicate a suspect has been arrested see photo above, no perp ID at this time though a police statement indicates he is not a German speaker. Victim a Spaniard, no weapon recovered. A pile of bloodstained clothes was found and confiscated by the police according to BILD.DE.
Stabbing attack at Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial.
One man seriously injured. Suspect detained.
Another day, another terrorist attack in Europe! pic.twitter.com/bNsFaiVeLs
— Dr. Maalouf (@realMaalouf) February 21, 2025
Breaking News from Germany
A knife attacker has gone on the rampage in Berlin injuring several people next to the Holocaust memorial and a second person was arrested earlier for attempting an attack on the Israeli embassy..
Now tell me JD Vance was wrong? pic.twitter.com/sywsRdHaFv— Make Britain Great Again (@UkandNireland) February 21, 2025
Update: Police Statement – Suspect does not speak German!
Official statement from the Berlin police:
The victim was a Spanish tourist. The only detail given on the identity of the suspect is they don’t speak German. Police state they have no indication of his nationality. pic.twitter.com/wZA0kZL1UQ
— Lane Kendall (@lanedeankendall) February 21, 2025
Guardian has no Perp ID but does point out that “Earlier on Friday, an 18-year-old ethnic Chechen was arrested on suspicion of planning an attack on the Israeli embassy in Berlin, Bild reported.”
Doug Ford’s plan for a tunnel under Highway 401 has gone from a surprise announcement to a full on re-election pledge.
And according to one expert’s cost estimate, it could be a near $100-billion idea, which would make it the single-most expensive Ontario election promise in the last 10 years, if not the province’s history.
A BBC documentary about Gaza has been pulled from its iPlayer service while the broadcaster deals with intensifying accusations that the film was biased because it failed to make clear the father of its child narrator was a Hamas deputy minister.
BBC sources indicated the intention was to make the documentary available to watch again once a “due diligence” exercise had taken place, but the decision reflects a frustration that the filmmakers did not inform the broadcaster of the situation before transmission.
The BBC said that while the documentary, Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone, featured “important stories we think should be told, those of the experiences of children in Gaza” there had been “continuing questions raised about the programme”.
As the race to name the next Liberal leader nears the finish line, speculation is swirling that the winner could be angling to seize on the party’s current momentum and call a snap election soon after.
But party data suggests two of the three major parties could use some more time to get campaign-ready, with the Liberals and NDP trailing the Conservatives when it comes to picking candidates, and more still left to lock-in than they have nominated so far.
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is hiring a diversity tsar with a “spiritual edge” even as Sir Keir Starmer faces pressure to increase military spending amid looming threats posed by Russia.
The role, advertised on the government website, states that the suitable candidate will be required to “constructively challenge and critique current practice” within diversity and inclusion and will be eligible for an annual salary of up to £38,790.
A vacancy for a “culture and inclusion lead” on a similar salary is also being advertised by the MoD, a role that includes organising “wellbeing events” and “wellbeing information sessions” for the department’s police force.
OTTAWA—NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is ramping up his attacks on Liberal leadership candidate Mark Carney, painting him as a corporate-friendly politician who will slash public services just like Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre.
In a campaign-style speech to labour organizers in Edmonton on Thursday, Singh argued Carney’s pledge this week to balance the federal operating budget and cap the growth of the public service would hurt Canadian workers and help the wealthy.
Whether it’s stealing Singh’s votes or a coalition one way or another Carney will be riding Singh.
I wonder why? pic.twitter.com/obAtoxC1Uk
— LogicalQueries (@JoshuaCalledMe) February 21, 2025
h/t Mauser
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky needs to return to the negotiating table and strike a deal on US access to Ukraine’s critical minerals, White House national security adviser Mike Waltz has said.
On Wednesday, Zelensky rejected US demands for a share of its rare earth minerals – a “deal” Trump said would reflect the amount of aid the US had provided to Ukraine during its war with Russia.
The comments, made at a White House briefing on Thursday, overshadowed a meeting in Kyiv between Zelensky and Keith Kellogg, the US chief envoy to Ukraine.
Forget about that crunchy apple he ate in an orchard once: Pierre Poilievre’s hyper-nationalist rebranding, unveiled at last weekend’s Canada First Rally in Ottawa, is pitch perfect. Or so Conservatives should hope.
The biggest uncertainty — and threat — for any potential prime minister who’s riding high in national polls is a lengthy wait for the writ to drop. Anything could go wrong during the interim.
