🟢 Juno Jump Start: Stockwell Day warns Conservatives against turning on Poilievre
Former cabinet minister and opposition leader Stockwell Day urges conservatives to stick with Poilievre, noting that every Conservative leader is attacked similarly by legacy media.
Stockwell Day compares media attacks on Poilievre to his own leadership experience
Former cabinet minister Stockwell Day says the media attacks facing Pierre Poilievre remind him of his own time as opposition leader. Day told Juno News that CBC staff once admitted they had “no idea how they slash and trash” him on the “cutting room floor.”
Day said the same pattern has followed Conservative leaders including Stephen Harper, Andrew Scheer and Erin O’Toole, arguing the mainstream media attacks conservatives with greater “venom.”
Day urged Conservatives to stick with Poilievre, warning that replacing him would only lead to a new leader facing the “exact same process.” Keep Reading
Carney’s sovereign wealth fund already failed in Britain
Mark Carney was involved in the creation of Britain’s National Wealth Fund while serving as Bank of England governor. The fund has since recorded losses of $162 million and $288 million in its first two years.
The Montreal Economic Institute says Canada’s proposed fund bears a strong resemblance to the British model, which it argues is not a conventional sovereign wealth fund but rather an industrial policy fund.
With Ottawa considering borrowing $25 billion for the project, economist Bryan Cheang says Canadians should “think twice” after seeing the British fund’s results. Keep Reading
U.S. warns Canada against retaliating over tariffs
U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said the U.S. won’t “tolerate” Canadian retaliation as trade negotiations continue, saying Washington is focused on protecting domestic supply chains.
His warning comes ahead of an additional 50 per cent tariff on hundreds of Canadian goods set to take effect August 19.
Greer said recent talks with Canadian Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc have been “constructive,” but stressed the U.S. will prioritize Trump’s trade policy. Keep Reading
O’Leary loses bid to block First Nation’s Alberta data centre water challenge
An Alberta judge has rejected an attempt by investor Kevin O’Leary’s company to stop a Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation legal challenge over a water licence connected to a planned $70-billion artificial intelligence data centre in northwest Alberta. Keep Reading
Ford government wins appeal in bike lane battle
The Ontario Court of Appeal ruled unanimously in favour of the Ford government’s call to overturn a previous court decision ruling that removing bike lanes in downtown Toronto would create an unconstitutional risk to cyclist safety. Keep Reading
Montreal quietly implementing AI surveillance network akin to Flock cameras
A network of high-powered cameras is discreetly being installed across Montreal, equipped with AI technology to track people and vehicles as they move throughout the city. Keep Reading
New think tank releases study challenging Canadian Museum’s “Nakba” exhibit
As the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg’s “Nakba exhibit” has come under fire for posing a one-sided perspective of the history around the displacement of 700,000 arabs from Israel following the Arab war against the establishment of Israel in 1947, a think tank is pushing back with a detailed debunking of the museum and activists’ narrative. Keep Reading
OP-ED: NATO espionage arrest exposes glaring holes in Canadian security
“The arrest of a Canadian intern accused of spying inside NATO’s senior military headquarters in Belgium reaches beyond one person or one failed security check. It shows how hostile states can combine espionage, criminal networks, technology and trusted access to weaken an alliance without firing a shot.” Keep Reading
OP-ED: The water that comes out of the tap
“U.S. Students for Life president Kristan Hawkins gave the findings a provocative description: ‘some of us are drinking other people’s abortions.’” Keep Reading
OP-ED: Why conflict over possession of the West Bank requires total victory
“Taken together, these incompatible positions show how deeply conflicting religious claims, historical interpretations, and national aspirations leave little room for compromise.” Keep Reading
OP-ED: Canada’s antisemitism crisis will not end until Canadians stop looking away
“Canada will not reverse the growth of antisemitism until its institutions apply their principles consistently and its citizens demonstrate that anti-Jewish hatred, regardless of the political language used to disguise it, will not be socially accepted.” Keep Reading
Maybe Stockwell, but PP has been very badly managed and people are tuning him out. He needs to grow a pair, and get off the fence. We know that the fence belongs to the devil. I feel the CPC has been corrupted and that PP will never get to 24 Sussex.