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Jamie Sarkonak: Trump’s belligerence left Poilievre’s campaign no room for error

The Conservatives couldn’t control the one big thing that went wrong for them in the campaign, but they could control the mounting pile of little things. With an election so close — the Liberals winning 167 seats, the Conservatives, 145, as of 3 a.m. ET Tuesday — those little things amounted to a fatal speed bump. Read More
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Full text: Read or watch Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s concession speech

Conservative Party of Canada Leader Pierre Poilievre spoke to a crowd of supporters after it was announced that the Liberals were projected to form government in the 2025 federal election. With his wife, Anaida Poilievre, by his side, the Conservative leader took the stage after midnight on election day. Translations from French have been italicized. Here's what he said. Read More
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Chris Selley: Pierre Poilievre lost the election to Donald Trump

OTTAWA — The air was sucked out of the bizarrely freezing-cold Canada Room at the Rogers Convention Centre in downtown Ottawa at 10:07 p.m. local time, when CTV News made its call for a Liberal government. A relatively rowdy crowd near the stage, surrounded by photographers and cameras, had been leading chants of “bring it home!” as positive Conservative results trickled in from Atlantic Canada. Things quickly ran out of steam once results started coming in from Quebec and Ontario. Read More
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Full text: Read the full speech of Jagmeet Singh resigning as NDP leader

A big thank you to Susanne. She’s been with us from the beginning. Huge thank you. Appreciate her so much, thank you, thank you. And all of you in this room, you guys poured your heart into this. Thank you so much for everything you’ve done. You’re amazing, love you all. And I know, I know election parties —night — parties across the country, people are gathered, I wanna thank them all for all their hard work. They’re amazing people, gathered together across the country. I wanna take a moment to congratulate Prime Minister Carney on his victory. He has an important job to do, to represent all Canadians and to protect our country, and its sovereignty, from the threats of Donald Trump. Tonight and every night, all of us here are on Team Canada. Read More
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Federal election live results and updates: Conservatives show surprising resilience in early Atlantic Canada returns

Millions of Canadians have cast their ballots in the federal election today. Polls have already closed in Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotiat and New Brunswick, and results are starting to flow in.Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and Liberal Leader Mark Carney are vying to be the next prime minister. There are 343 seats up for grabs and the winner will need at least 172 seats to form a majority government. Follow our live coverage, below, featuring National Post’s managing editor of comment, Carson Jerema, columnists Terry Newman, Jamie Sarkonak and Jesse Klein and the National Post digital team. Can't see the live blog? View it on nationalpost.com. Read More
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Adam Zivo: Vancouver car ramming suspect should have never been free in the first place

A joyful Filipino street festival ended in carnage Saturday night after a man driving an SUV rammed into a crowd, killing 11 people and injuring at least 20 more. The man arrested and charged with eight counts of murder has a history of mental illness. While many factors contributed to this avoidable tragedy, perhaps the greatest of them was Canada’s failure to embrace involuntary treatment and institutionalization.  Read More
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Brian Cox: Singh, Carney help perpetuate lie that Israel’s committing ‘genocide’

As the sprint of the shortest election period allowed under Canadian law nears the finish line, one aspect of the campaign that has stood out is the central role that international law has played in political messaging. The unsubstantiated claim that Israel is committing genocide while fighting against Hamas has surfaced several times. Read More
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Terry Newman: Carney’s East-West energy grid is a green fiction

The Liberals are selling a new green-energy fiction in their 2025 platform — an East-West electricity grid — that will, no doubt, require them to impose additional disproportionate economic and social costs for a limited decrease in Canada's contribution to global emissions. This is a problem, given Canada's "lost decade" of growth and the Liberals' failure to admit policy mistakes over the last ten years. Read More
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Barbara Kay: Crucial case challenges defamatory accusations of Islamophobia designed to intimidate and silence

Islamism — defined most benignly as “the belief that Islam should influence political systems”— is, according to Joe Adam George, the Macdonald-Laurier Institute’s National Security Analyst, the “biggest existential threat to Canada within its borders.” Yet, in the English-language leaders’ election debate, when Bloc Québécois leader François Blanchet dangled the word “Islamism” for discussion, nobody took the bait. Read More
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Pope Francis remembered by mighty and meek as pope of the people

VATICAN CITY — World leaders and Catholic faithful bade farewell to Pope Francis in a funeral Saturday that highlighted his concern for the “most peripheral of the peripheries” and reflected his wishes as pastor. Though presidents and princes attended the Mass in St. Peter’s Square, prisoners and migrants welcomed him at the basilica across town where he will be buried. Read More
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Raymond J. de Souza: Francis remained faithful to the truth during ‘pilgrimage’ to Canada

In their comments upon the death of Pope Francis, both Liberal Leader Mark Carney and Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre referred to the Holy Father’s visit to Canada in 2022 — the “penitential pilgrimage,” in his characterization, to offer an apology related to Indigenous residential schools. Read More
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Conrad Black: Pierre Poilievre is the obvious choice for Canada

We are finally at the watershed that everyone agrees is one of the most important elections in Canadian history. I realize that regular readers would already be familiar with my opinion of the merits of the contending parties and to some extent I'm putting old wine in a new bottle while, in a scandalous melange of metaphors, preaching to the choir. The Liberal campaign is a gigantic fraud. It pretends that since they have a new leader, though that leader is up to his eyeballs in the failed policies of the debunked Trudeau regime, it can simply slink out of its responsibility for the clangorous Gong Show of misgovernment of the last 10 years. It pretends that it has the ideally qualified candidate, when he has never been in active politics, has never actually run anything except a central bank, and in that capacity in Canada he tinkered with the interest rate while Finance Minister Jim Flaherty navigated Canada through the financial crisis of 2008-9, and he was a catastrophic failure as governor of the Bank of England. He was almost tarred and feathered as he left London’s Heathrow Airport. He represents now that he warned the British about the dangers of leaving Europe and that they now regret that decision. He tried to terrorize the country into remaining in the EU, which Britain had never voted for, (they voted for a common market, not a European government), and his projections of disaster have not occurred. The British left Europe and have shown no disposition to return and despite an unprecedented six successive incompetent governments in ten years, Britain has performed better economically than the EU. Read More
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