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It’s hard to imagine a more dramatic political contrast than the one unfolding on opposite sides of the Canada-U.S. border. Mark Carney is fighting a trade war with Donald Trump, taking the occasional verbal punch from the American president and imposing retaliatory tariffs on U.S. products.
Pierre Poilievre’s biggest political challenge right now isn’t Prime Minister Mark Carney’s popularity. It’s the fact that he still seems to be campaigning against a political landscape that no longer exists. More than a year after the 2025 federal election, the Conservative leader is still relying on the same message, the same themes and the same attacks that defined his...
Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives have apparently decided that facts are an obstacle to their crime narrative. The latest crime statistics from Statistics Canada, released this week, show the overall crime severity index in Canada fell five per cent in 2025. The conventional crime rate fell two per cent. The violent crime severity index declined and the non-violent index was also down...
Prime Minister Mark Carney is facing a harsh fiscal reality. As the new Liberal leader tries to chart a course toward economic credibility, Ottawa’s budget numbers tell a story no amount of political spin can obscure. The federal deficit, now estimated at a staggering $92 billion by the C.D. Howe Institute, has ballooned to levels that can no longer be...
It should come as no surprise that the Conservative Party of Canada is struggling to overcome the sizeable lead the Liberals have held in public opinion polls over the past two weeks. Pierre Poilievre, the Conservatives’ sharp-tongued leader, seems incapable of pivoting away from the Trump-like tactics he’s been using for the past few years. That messaging worked well for...
The bad news just keeps coming for the Conservative Party of Canada and its now-nervous leader, Pierre Poilievre. Once considered a shoo-in to win the next federal election by a wide margin, Poilievre — whose similarities to U.S. President Donald Trump have suddenly become an albatross around his neck — is now scrambling to differentiate himself from the fascist, narcissistic...
It turns out the Bank of Canada is not “financially illiterate” after all — now that it has largely wrestled inflation to the ground, with relatively minimal economic pain. I wonder if federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, who accused the bank in 2022 of being financially illiterate, will apologize for his inaccurate and vitriolic comments. After all, the Conservative leader...