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Before we start the election preview in Canada it will be worth noting we are not going to have the complete picture of Canada's vote on election night Monday. Elections Canada estimating more than one million mail-in ballots that will be added to the totals beginning Tuesday. Massive COVID spending by Canada's federal government has driven its national debt over the one trillion dollar mark the inflation monster looming in the shadows already being felt in vastly higher housing prices. Foreign investment being blamed for the housing cost "bubble" with politicians pledging ot do something about it in this year's...

Canadian pastor Tim Stephens arrested again by police in Calgary, Alberta. He's staying in jail rather than comply with bail conditions that demand he not hold church services.... Peoples Party of Canada leader Maxime Bernier was arrested in the province of Manitoba for participating in a protest opposing coronavirus controls... Eight of the "fully vaccinated" at dead in Maine after contracting COVID-19. Some 457 "breakthough" cases of COVID-19 involving the "fully vaccinated" reported in the state... The talking point of the major media tonight 600-thousand deaths attributed to COVID-19 in the US. "Mask Dispute" leads to fatal shooting in Georgia......

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday took aim at teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg, telling an energy forum he did not share the excitement about her United Nations speech last month. The 16-year-old Swede electrified the U.N. summit in New York when she denounced world leaders for failing to tackle climate change, unleashing the outrage felt by millions of her peers by demanding: “How dare you?” Putin, chairing a session at an energy forum in Moscow, said: “I may disappoint you but I don’t share the common excitement about the speech by Greta Thunberg. “No one has explained to Greta...

This is the modern day left in action — Hurling f-bombs at a senior woman with a walker on her way to a speech by a Jewish gay independent YouTuber. Far left antifa thugs harassed, blocked and screamed “Nazi scum!” at a senior woman with a walker outside of Dave Rubin’s event with Maxime Bernier in Hamilton, Ontario.This only surprises people who have not been paying attention the last three years.For the rest of us, it’s nothing new.And then the liberal media will call conservatives, populists, or gay-Jewish independents the violent ones.  Via The Post-Millennial:https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1178500448552210432 

The election campaign to date has been an exercise in idiocy and cowardice. It is obviously embarrassing for Justin Trudeau to have had to admit to attending an Aladdin-themed party in 2001 made up to look like Aladdin (although Aladdin was an Arab not an African, and blackening his hands was oddly laborious). But Maxime Bernier is right that Justin is not a racist, just a hypocrite. As Tucker Carlson, the Fox News commentator, said on Thursday night, the prime minister’s conduct is “sort of like finding out your super-sensitive brother-in-law, the one who tells you he’s a feminist, the...

Maxime Bernier’s exclusion illustrates how much Canadian voters, real ordinary people, don’t matter Yesterday the debate schedules leading up to the October 21 Canadian Federal Election were announced. In addition to when, the names of the moderators of the debates have also been released. And it’s not a pretty picture. (CBC, Aug. 20) The English language debate will take place on October 7. And there will be not one, not two, not three, not four, but FIVE moderators. These moderators are with CBC, CTV, Global, the Toronto Star and Huff Post. All left wing organizations. And most of them have...

A viable real conservative party would have the effect of forcing the CPC further to the right, giving up any notion it is nothing more than a Liberal-lite party. A couple of weeks ago, CPC MP Maxime Bernier held a press conference hours before the party’s 2018 convention was to begin in Halifax. Bernier not only announced he was quitting the party but he was going to start his own. While the Quebec MP was always a thorn in the side of the Conservative Party of Canada, the writing was on the wall in mid-August when he sent out a...

Scores of Canadian Conservatives will vote for Bernier’s new independent party Poor Canadian Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer doesn’t seem to get who the real enemy is. Scheer seems to think the enemy is the independent Rebel Media, rather than the left-leaning, Liberal loving, taxpayer-subsidized Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC television), and now independent former Conservative Maxime Bernier who launched his own party right during the Conservative Convention in Halifax on Thursday.

For reasons of media and opposition bias that are all too familiar, the words of Ms. Julie Couillard are being accorded Triple A rating for credibility while whatever Prime Minister Harper says is being downgraded to junk. Ms. Couillard (an alleged security expert) says her bed had been electronically bugged, so reporters begin a speculative romp to find the possible perpetrators of the bugging. None plausibly come to light, leaving the media with the task of cornering the Prime Minister on whether, maybe, the government was the perpetrator. "I didn't do it," Mr. Harper was essentially forced to say, if...