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Mark Carney earned a majority! It’s a tiny little majority bolstered by floor crossers. Many people have gone around calling this an illegitimate majority, but is it? And what are the consequences of this majority? Will Canada collapse now? We’re gonna find out in the next few years, as Mark Carney and the Liberals seem determined to continue selling off Canada to private corporations and get new corporate overlords possible.
Here are the top headlines of the week
Recruitment in the Canadian Armed Forces reached a 30-year high last year, with 7,310 new members. According to Defence Minister David McGuinty, these recruits “want Canada to remain safe and sovereign.” The Canadian Armed Forces thus exceeded its recruitment target for 2025–2026—set at 6,957—by 5%. Among the new members, 1,275 are women, 1,400 are permanent residents, and 241 are Indigenous. These figures even surpass those from the early 2000s, during operations in Afghanistan.
Trump offered mixed messages Monday about the path ahead for the U.S. war against Iran, declaring that he was in no rush to end the conflict while also expressing confidence that further negotiations with Tehran will soon take place in Pakistan. With the 14-day ceasefire set to expire Wednesday, Iran still does not seem open to new peace talks. Iran still has control over the strait, despite US attempts to manipulate information around the war.
Wab Kinew, the premier of Manitoba, has hinted that Liquefied natural gas will be shipping out of the port of Churchill by 2030– or at least that’s what he believes Ottawa wants. He says Carney has presented an aggressive timeline of getting LNG outta the province.
Air Canada suspends flights to several locations due to the unavailability of fuel, and rising fuel prices starting on June 1st. They will no longer offer flights to New York until Oct 25th they say.
Doug Ford gets eaten alive by the media for the purchase of 28.9 Million dollar private jet ! He complained this morning that he’s more scrutinized than other leaders, and he can’t do anything. He quickly reversed the decision and set out to sell the jet he bought within a couple days. The criticism was levied that he did this while most ontarians can’t even afford rent.
Danielle Smith is gerrymandering the electoral map in Alberta— Later this year, the government will present the new electoral map that will define Alberta’s political playing field for the next decade. This is a common tactic in the USA, and is completely against the way that every other electoral system in the country does it. It has been called an attempt to steal the election— something that Danielle smith doesn’t really need to do, considering she’s 14 points ahead in the polls.
Quebecers are less favourable to Israel and the USA than the rest of the countries. Studies are indicating that this is due to the different media ecosystem that doesn’t favour US imperial thought as much as the English media system— this particularly comes into focus when looking at postmedia, and the hundreds of media companies they own across the country while being owned by a United States Hedge Fund.
Slafkovsky gets a hat trick in the opening game of the playoffs, winning the first game for the habs!
There is a 30% risk Canada enters a recession, the former governor of the bank of Canada says. Of course, for most people in Canada they’re already living through a recession considering the price of food at the grocery store and their monthly rent.
Eight children are killed in a mass shooting in Louisiana.
Large majority of women have a negative opinion of Pierre Poilievre. According to Angus Reid, 63 per cent of women have a negative opinion of him, and only 26 per cent say they’re positive about him. Poilievre has given some interesting comments about him, as he’s commented on their biological clocks before— but also only 33 per cent of Canadians in total like the man, almost exclusively conservative men building out that number.