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Leader of the People’s Party of Canada, Maxime Bernier, has warned that the newly appointed head of the Canadian Armed Forces, Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) Lieut.-Gen. Jennie Carignan, is a “woke apparatchik” known for “promoting gender identity nonsense.” In a July 4 post on X, Bernier condemned Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s recent appointment of Carignan as the military’s CDS, pointing to her long-stranding record of pushing diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives and the LGBT agenda. “The new boss of the Canadian Armed Forces appointed by Trudeau yesterday is the woke apparatchik who brought DEI rules and diversity hiring...

The Conservatives will follow Andrew Scheer into the 2019 election, after the young Saskatchewan MP won an upset victory at the party’s leadership convention in Toronto Saturday night. Scheer, who turned 38 on May 20, edged out front-runner Maxime Bernier by less than two percentage points on the 13th and final ballot Saturday night, finishing with just under 50.95 per cent of the vote. The room at the Toronto Congress Centre erupted in a shocked cheer as party officials read out the final count, with confetti and blue and white balloons falling onto the crowd. “What a campaign this has...

PARIS AND TORONTO — Opposition MPs ramped up demands for answers on the Maxime Bernier affair Tuesday, calling for official investigations into possible security breaches and the alleged bugging of his former girlfriend's residence. But Prime Minister Stephen Harper rejected an expanded probe, telling reporters there is no evidence to suggest official secrets have been revealed, and he dismissed outright questions about electronic eavesdropping...

RAMALLAH, West Bank - Canadian Foreign Minister Maxime Bernier told his Palestinian hosts Sunday that he intends to tell Israel that "any new settlements were contrary to the peace process." But Mr. Bernier, who was to meet with Israelis in Jerusalem on Monday, declined to say whether Canada considered Jewish housing projects in parts of the Holy City - claimed by the Palestinians for their future capital - as settlements, as U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had indicated during an interview with an Israeli newspaper last week. On the separate matter of much smaller Jewish outposts in the West...

Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe blew a gasket yesterday during an interview with WNDB-AM Florida radio host Marc Bernier, saying he should "get off the radio" after Bernier challenged him about a NewsMax report on Sen. John Kerry's belated decision to release his Vietnam war records. "If this is the best you got, you ought to get off the radio," a testy McAuliffe barked at Bernier, saying he should "come up with something that makes some sense for your listeners." Much to the top Democrat's chagrin, however, the Florida talker refused let the issue go. The exchange went like...