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Carney says if he wins election, Canada will develop clean energy and conventional energy

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/c ... r-AA1CC1Ew

The attempt to pander to fossil fuel supporters is both pointless and dumb.

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What the Polls in Canada Are Really Saying
by Catherine Kim
April 14, 2025

Introduction:

(Politico) Conservatives in Canada could be forgiven for celebrating earlier this year. Their nemesis Justin Trudeau announced that he was resigning as prime minister, and polls showed they would romp to victory over the Liberals whenever the election was called.

Except one longtime Canadian pollster soon began to see a different story.

Beginning in January, Frank Graves started to notice a sudden and unexpected downward trend for Conservatives. At the time, Graves was ridiculed online for his observations, especially because of his reputation as a Liberal supporter strongly opposed to Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre.

But as Donald Trump talked more and more about tariffs and annexing Canada, Graves — and the rest of the country — watched as the Conservative Party’s 25-point lead evaporated. Now, Graves predicts a comfortable win for Mark Carney and his fellow Liberals.

“This is unprecedented,” Graves said in an interview with POLITICO Magazine. “I have never seen a transformation of our voter landscape in Canada of that nature.”

Read more here, including interview with Frank Graves: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine ... 00286002

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Paper Ballots, Hand Counting, No Machines: Canadians Go to the Polls

Canada’s federal election is on April 28. Here’s how it works.

Source: nytimes

Canadians will vote on April 28 in an election that will determine which party will lead its government: the Liberal Party, which is currently in power under Prime Minister Mark Carney, or the Conservatives, led by Pierre Poilievre, who hope to return to power after nearly a decade in the opposition.

Here’s what to expect on voting day and after the results are known.

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I wish we could have normal elections as the northerners do. I remember watching the Canadian debates one year and thinking that it was almost like viewing a different government on a separate planet. No, Canada is not simply a colder version of America and never could be. I wish the country of Canada well, and hope it remains a well-functioning sovereign nation. ̶ ̶I̶ ̶m̶i̶g̶h̶t̶ ̶w̶e̶l̶l̶ ̶b̶e̶ ̶c̶a̶l̶l̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶M̶a̶r̶k̶ ̶C̶a̶r̶n̶e̶y̶ ̶m̶y̶ ̶P̶r̶i̶m̶e̶ ̶M̶i̶n̶i̶s̶t̶e̶r̶ ̶s̶o̶o̶n̶ ̶a̶s̶ ̶w̶e̶l̶l̶.̶

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Carney confirms Trump spoke to him last month about making Canada a U.S. state

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/other/ca ... r-AA1Dy975

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Canadians bombarded with rightwing content on Musk’s X ahead of election

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Apr 25 2025

As Canadians prepare to go to the polls on Monday, they are being bombarded with misleading rightwing content on US social media platforms that has fuelled concerns about their potentially damaging role in the general election.

A Financial Times analysis of more than 350,000 posts on X related to the election, gathered since the snap poll was announced in March, revealed a network of co-ordinated accounts pushing content to boost Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre and tarnish his counterpart, the Liberal’s Mark Carney.

Foreign electoral interference has been a concern in Canada after a government-appointed commission in January reported China, India and Russia had tried to influence the country’s elections.

In the current campaign, researchers say an increasing volume of misinformation is coming from the US, including from rightwing podcasters and influencers as well as bots on American social media platforms that have reduced content controls.

“The US has always been a major information exporter to Canada,” said Aengus Bridgman, director of the Media Ecosystem Observatory at McGill University in Montreal. But in recent years there have been “mass amounts of disinformation coming from the influencer sphere in the US”, he added.

https://www.ft.com/content/743c1dec-0c5 ... 0ce156c235

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Carney Wins Canada Election for Mandate to Deal with Trump
by Thomas Seal, Brian Platt, Randy Thanthong-Knight and Mathieu Dion
April 29, 2025

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(Bloomberg) -- Canada’s Liberal Party won a fourth straight election, as voters chose former central banker Mark Carney to manage the country’s response to US President Donald Trump’s trade war.

The margin of victory was narrow. Liberal candidates were leading or elected in 168 seats, ahead of the Conservative Party’s 144 seats, as of 12:07 p.m. Ottawa time on Tuesday.

The Liberals earned more than 43% of the national vote but may fall short of the 172 seats needed for a majority in the House of Commons, meaning Carney’s government would be forced to work with other parties to pass budgets and other legislation. The New Democratic Party, which helped support the minority government of Justin Trudeau, appears to be in a position to do so again, despite winning just seven seats.

Addressing supporters in Ottawa in the early hours Tuesday, Carney was ebullient, following the success of his remarkable swoop from the private sector straight to the apex of Canadian politics in about three and a half months.

But his speech also reflected the tricky reality that the novice politician may need to strike deals and compromise with rivals to deliver on the ambitious program he’s promised to Canadians.

Read more here: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/ ... bArticle

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Newly Elected Prime Minister Indicates Canada's "Old Relationship" with the U.S. is Over
by April Rubin
April 29, 2025

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(Axios) Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is establishing new boundaries for his country with the U.S., declaring that the previous relationship between the two nations — where each worked to integrate with the other — is over.

Why it matters: Carney's words reflect the priorities of many Canadians who saw the election as not only a referendum on their country, but its relations with the U.S. and President Trump.

• Trump has repeatedly said he wants Canada to become the 51st state, while increasing tariffs on certain goods from the nation, prompting concern and boycotts from the U.S.'s northern neighbor.

What they're saying: "The system of open global trade anchored by the United States, a system that Canada has relied on since the second World War, a system that, while not perfect, has helped deliver prosperity to our country for decades, is over," Carney said in a victory speech Monday night.

• "These are tragedies, but it's also our new reality. We are over the shock of the American betrayal, but we should never forget the lessons. We have to look out for ourselves and, above all, we have to take care of each other."

Read more here: https://www.axios.com/2025/04/29/trump ... ionship

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Donald Trump pitched statehood to the man who was just elected by campaigning on rejecting statehood.

https://newrepublic.com/post/194917/don ... er-country

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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney declared in the White House Tuesday that Canada would not submit to U.S. ownership. Donald Trump, however, wouldn’t back down. “As you know from real estate, there are some places that are never for sale,” Carney said. “Having met with the owners of Canada over the course of the campaign, it’s not for sale. It won’t be for sale ever.”

“Never say never,” Trump said, telling reporters that only time would tell while seated inches away from the Canadian leader. “I had many things that people said were not doable but ended up being doable.” Carney won Canada’s top leadership post in April in large part due to his staunch position against Trump’s growing threats to annex the country.

In the months leading up to the election, Canada’s Liberal Party was believed to be on its deathbed. But that all changed with Trump’s tariff talk, which radically ramped up anti-American sentiment amongst Canadian voters, alongside Trump’s bizarre and public ambitions to occupy Canada.

Trump has actively aggressed U.S. relations with Canada since his first term. Recent rhetoric about annexing Canada to become the U.S.’s “51st state” has not played well with the Canadian people or its leaders, causing some residents of the country to candidly dub Trump an “asshole.”

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Republicans in Congress Suddenly Care What Canadians Think
May 14, 2025

Introduction:

(Daily Kos) Canadians have had enough of Donald Trump’s America, and they’re showing it by selling their U.S. property, vacationing elsewhere, and severely punishing their own country’s homegrown conservatives. For some bizarre reason, Trump decided to pick a fight with our closest ally—and the consequences are real.

I’ve written often about Trump’s amazing ability to hurt his own supporters with scalpel-like precision, and this kerfuffle with the Canucks is no different. Look at the county-level map of the 2024 presidential election results:

Just note how most of the counties along the northern border are red. Very red, in fact. But thanks to Trump’s buffoonery, places like Port Huron, Michigan, are now struggling with a loss of patronage from their Canadian neighbors across the border.

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His name is Donald J. Trump—and the very communities he is now hurting happily put him back in power. And it’s the same story in small towns all across that vast border, whether in Michigan, Montana, North Dakota, Maine, or elsewhere.

Now, Republican lawmakers—desperate to appease their hurting American constituents—are rushing to fix things with a Band-Aid that doesn’t even acknowledge the wound.

Read more here: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/ ... ialshare

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King says 'strong and free' Canada is a force for good in historic throne speech

Charles says he's heartened to see revival of 'national pride, unity and hope' in Canada



cbc.ca

King Charles delivered a historic speech from the throne Tuesday and he used that platform to praise Canada as a force for good that will remain "strong and free" as its relationships with longtime partners are "changing."

Charles, who delivered the speech while seated next to Queen Camilla in the Senate, the royal chamber, laid out the new Liberal government's agenda for the parliamentary session ahead but also subtly addressed the issue that's on the minds of many Canadians in the portion of the speech that he himself crafted: U.S. President Donald Trump, his tariffs and the 51st state taunts.

"When my dear late mother addressed your predecessors seven decades ago, she said that in that age, and against the backdrop of international affairs, no nation could live unto itself," Charles said, referencing Queen Elizabeth's 1957 throne speech to Parliament.

"It is a source of great pride that, in the following decades, Canada has continued to set an example to the world in her conduct and values, as a force for good," he said. "As the anthem reminds us: The True North is indeed strong and free!"

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Canada Ditches U.S. Defense for $1.25 Trillion EU Pact

30 May 2025

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says he hopes Canada can join the European Union’s major rearmament plan by July 1, aiming to rely less on U.S. weapons and defense supplies.

Speaking on CBC’s Power & Politics, Carney said his government is working quickly to join the EU-led “ReArm Europe” program, which plans to invest $1.25 trillion in defense over the next five years.

https://www.dagens.com/news/canada-ditc ... n-eu-pact/

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Canada and EU sign defence pact amid strained US relations and global instability

Source: The Guardian

Amid Trump’s disrespect of old allies, EU and Canada vow more support for Ukraine and joint work on climate crisis

Canada has signed a wide-ranging defence pact with the EU, as Donald Trump and global instability prompt traditional US allies to deepen their alliances.

Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney, on Monday joined European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, and head of the European Council, António Costa, in Brussels, where they signed a security and defence partnership, pledged more support for Ukraine, as well as joint work on issues from the climate crisis to artificial intelligence.

At a cordial press conference, Carney described Canada as “the most European of the non-European countries” that “looks first to the European Union to build a better world”.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/ ... -us-allies

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ok, when healthcare improvements?