Unpublished Newswire
Voter registration cards are expected to land in the mailboxes of Canadian voters by Friday, April 10.
It’s helpful to take your card when you go to vote. It
indicates
to the officials at your polling station that you are a registered voter. It also confirms your name and address, as well as the address of your polling...
April 11, 2025 - 07:00 | Stewart Lewis | National Post
Axing the Tax: The Rise and Fall of Canada’s Carbon Tax is a new book from Franco Terrazzano, federal director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation. Published by Sutherland House Books, it delivers a damning account of one of Canada’s most polarizing policies. In this excerpt, Terrazzano tackles the core promise behind the carbon tax: that it would reduce emissions.
The Trudeau government pushed the...
April 11, 2025 - 07:00 | Special to National Post | National Post
NANAIMO, B.C. — In a Vancouver Island city best known for a
three-tiered dessert bar
that bears its name, three progressive campaigns are similarly sandwiched together, with each vying to be the “anybody but Conservative” vote.
But unlike the ooey-gooey custard filling at the centre of a Nanaimo bar,...
April 11, 2025 - 07:00 | Rahim Mohamed | National Post
As a kid in London, Ont., Will Nediger spent long hours at his older brother’s hockey games – with his back turned to the rink and his nose buried in a book. Mr. Nediger’s father, Bill, a teacher, like his wife Dale, remembers losing Scrabble games to his middle child when Will was only 8. At the family cottage in North Bay, Will and his parents spent TV-and-internet-less summers playing word games. It wasn’t long before he was a budding quiz-bowl champion and Mom and Dad were asking him for help.“In Grade 3, one of Will’s teachers asked the class to make anagrams from a word phrase and...
April 11, 2025 - 07:00 | Ben Kaplan | The Globe and Mail
Over the course of a 101-minute-long podcast interview released in January, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre and his host, Jordan Peterson, lamented the erosion of “traditional values” and the loss of “masculinity” in Canada.
It’s possibly the most extensive interview Poilievre has given to date. And it’s revealing. Poilievre tells Peterson, a psychologist and right-wing commentator, that Canadians want to raise their kids with “good, traditional values.” And Peterson notes, with admiration, that it’s this element that makes Poilievre so popular among young men in particular.
“There...
April 11, 2025 - 06:31 | Olivia Bowden | Walrus
In a video posted by a popular TikTok account called @TorontoTide, which conducts man-on-the-street interviews around the city, a young man asks another what he thinks of the Toronto accent. The younger man leans onto the ledge behind him and says, in said accent, “Nothing wrong with it like, you know? Mans are moving like I talk like I’m from Baltimore.” He then laments, “Ahlie, they’re gonna say I’m copying the UK you know? Stupidddd.”
https://www.tiktok.com/@torontotide/video/7369251531792649477?_r=1&_t=ZM-8v2jvxdhmaM
The video, which has amassed over 3 million views, was mocked...
April 11, 2025 - 06:30 | Maia Wyman | Walrus
