Justin Trudeau led the federal Liberals out of the political wilderness. Now they run the risk of returning there.
Things were bleak for the Liberal Party of Canada in 2013. Despite having governed for a significant part of the 20th century, it was reeling from successive defeats at the hands of the Conservatives while at the same time trying to hold off an insurgent New Democrat Party led by Jack Layton and then Tom Mulcair.
This is the race Democrats feared. Less than a month before the US election, Donald Trump is regaining the slight edge he held before Democrats convened in Chicago to nominate Kamala Harris. According to the RealClearPolitics polling average in battleground states, Trump trailed Harris from late August until late September. Now, though, he’s back on top at 48.4 to 48.1. His lead may be fractional — and Harris is up two points in the popular vote — but the numbers have Kellyanne Conway feeling good.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s gun ban and buyback policy is running out of steam.
And it hasn’t even left the station.
The buyback is broken. Law-abiding firearms owners don’t want to lose their guns. It doesn’t go far enough for gun control advocates. And taxpayers don’t want to pick up the massive bill.
No, I am not going to make a “Red Wave” argument. I got caught up in the excitement in 2022 and got burned. It happens, but it shouldn’t happen to ME!
Kamala Harris CAN win, but you don’t have to be able to read the entrails of chickens or the scatterings of tea leaves to see that the campaign is panicking, and rightly so.
After nine years in office, the Canadian prime minister’s approval rate has plummeted and voters are calling for his resignation
In Verdun, a working-class but gentrifying neighbourhood of Montreal, Stéphane Altimas was celebrating. Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party had held the seat in the French-speaking province almost uninterrupted since the Second World War, but the separatist Bloc Québécois claimed a surprise victory last month.
“It pained me to vote against my party, but it sends Trudeau a message — we’re done with you and we’re done with the Liberals, unless something changes,” Altimas, 43, a maths teacher who voted for the Bloc, said. “Bon débarras,” he added — good riddance.
You just have to do two reps for arms and then one thousand squats to increase your glute size. pic.twitter.com/uXocqoCBRg
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) October 11, 2024
Pierre Poilievre’s popularity has taken a significant hit in the weeks since Parliament returned from the summer break, according to the latest Abacus Data polling.
The five percentage-point increase in negative impressions of the Conservative leader leaves him open to serious questions about whether his aggressive, take-no-prisoners style — on constant display in the Commons lately — is really working for him.
Hope springs eternal for Justin’s aging fangirls at the Star.
Have you seen the new Kamala doll? She can change her accent with the push of a button!
My favorite is the very end of the commercial when she talks to Zelensky. pic.twitter.com/VbNMFCgkR5
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) October 12, 2024
I enjoyed one of my loveliest drives ever in late March 2012. My sainted parents had invited me to join one of their many post-retirement trips. So, I flew into Asheville, North Carolina, rented a car, and departed for their time-share condominium on Lake Lure, about an hour away.
I expected that area to be rich in bluegrass music. So, I clicked on the radio, only to find a particularly hideous rap tune oozing from the speakers. Repulsed, I swiftly turned one station to the left.
The engines rev, the guitars thrum and a gruff narrator lays out why the vehicle occupying the driveway is more than just a machine. “A truck is a tool,” he says, “but a Ram – a Ram is life.”
So begins an advert for the Ram 1500, a pickup truck slightly bigger than the Panzer I tanks of Nazi Germany and almost as heavy. It is growing in popularity in Europe, with the number of Rams arriving on the continent up 20% in 2023 from the year before, according to registration data from the European Environment Agency. Road safety and environmental campaigners in the UK and Europe are aghast as the latest, most extreme cases of North American car bloat – giant pickup trucks – are increasingly crossing the Atlantic.
This is what Hell looks like to Guardianistas
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will face mounting pressure from his caucus this week to step down from the leadership of the Liberal party.
A group of backbench MPs, primarily from Atlantic Canada and southwestern Ontario, are in discussions to formally release an ask for the prime minister to consider the future of the Liberal party in making a decision about whether to stay at the helm of it.
Last Friday, anti-vaping activists took to Parliament Hill and called for the resignation of Minister of Addiction Ya’ara Saks. They said they’ve been waiting 14 months for the minister to “strengthen controls” on vaping and she has not delivered. Their main grievance is that vaping products are flavoured, and they repeated their call for all vape flavours to be banned.
Another form of Astro-turfing, policy masquerading as grassroot public opinion.
Texas man held in Las Vegas in deadly 2020 Nevada-Arizona shooting rampage pleads guilty
Angry with his tattoo parlour?
We slipped past the anniversary of a massacre this week. A year ago, a throng of crazed, heavily armed young men crossed the border from Gaza on a mission to kill Jews.
They raped and murdered at will, posting videos of their carnage on social media. They returned to Gaza as heroes, having murdered 1,200 Jews. They dragged with them 251 hostages, including women, children and the elderly.
It was, for those who hate Jews, a glorious day.
MSNBC must be scared because on Thursday’s edition of All In With Chris Hayes, gone were the gleeful proclamations about a “vibe election,” and in their place was the traditional coping mechanism that says the reason why a Democrat isn’t popular is because of racism and sexism.
