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Prime Minister Mark Carney spoke with U.S. President Donald Trump for the first time this morning.

Carney’s office says the leaders agreed to begin “comprehensive negotiations” to be led by Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc and U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.

In the meantime, Carney will get back on the campaign trail, his office says.

Carney has a news conference scheduled for 3:30 p.m. ET, after he meets with provincial and territorial leaders.

In a social media post, Trump said the two “agree on many things.”

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is still in B.C., where he pitched life sentences for fentanyl traffickers and gunrunners.-

Prof. Jason Stanley made decision after policy changes at Columbia University

A Yale University professor is leaving the U.S. and taking a position at the University of Toronto (U of T) due to what he says is a "far-right regime" under President Donald Trump.

"The United States is in the process of an autocratic takeover and it's directed by a regime that I don't think will want to leave power," said Jason Stanley, a professor of philosophy.

"Its not just Donald Trump. It's the machine behind Donald Trump."

Stanley, whose books include How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them, said he was considering joining U of T's Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy for over a year. But he decided to move after Columbia University made sweeping changes to its policies last week under pressure from the U.S. government.

Xatśūll First Nation asked B.C. to order an environmental assessment of the Gibraltar mine’s expansion plans. The provincial government declined

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Philosophy professor Jason Stanley announced this week that he will leave Yale, while history professors Timothy Snyder and Marci Shore, who are married, decided to leave around the November elections. The three professors will work at Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy.

Now signals of cuts across departments seem, if anything, inevitable. There are overt promises to trim back the public service to pay for income tax cuts as frontrunners Mark Carney and Pierre Poilievre vie for voters' trust at a time of economic insecurity.

Nate Prier, the president of CAPE, argues that now is not the time for cuts, particularly for IRCC, pointing to geopolitical instability and the hardline immigration policies of U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration. He questions whether Canada is ready to handle an influx of claimants after IRCC workers survive the wave of cuts to their teams and salaries.

“When America starts vomiting up its refugees, like it is right now, when they drive more wars to create more refugees, when we need to delink from the American economy, and we’re going to need skilled workers from around the world to help build the next chapter for Canada, that is a terrible time to start gutting the federal public sector, and especially people that you’ve already trained,” Prier said.

A 78-year-old woman in Quebec's Eastern Townships was found in "unlivable" conditions and sleeping on the floor after her ex-partner allegedly controlled her life for 27 years, according to police.

At the end of February, Memphrémagog police found the woman in her home, which belonged to her and her ex-partner in Sainte-Catherine-de-Hatley municipality.

Police initially entered to assist Quebec's society for the protection of animals in the removal of 13 cats, which were described as sick and dehydrated.

Although the woman's ex had not lived in the home for 27 years, police say he exercised financial and psychological control over the victim — isolating her from the outside world.

"The investigation revealed that the suspect took control of pretty much all aspects of her life and wouldn't provide her with the tools she needs to have a decent life," said Pépin.

Prime Minister Mark Carney spoke with U.S. President Donald Trump for the first time this morning.

Carney’s office says the leaders agreed to begin “comprehensive negotiations” to be led by Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc and U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.

In the meantime, Carney will get back on the campaign trail, his office says.

Carney has a news conference scheduled for 3:30 p.m. ET, after he meets with provincial and territorial leaders.

In a social media post, Trump said the two “agree on many things.”

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is still in B.C., where he pitched life sentences for fentanyl traffickers and gunrunners.-

The whole article is worth reading but I'd like to highlight a few paragraphs in particular:

For over two years, the Tory leader has travelled across the country, galvanizing voters around three devastating words: Canada is broken. In one video streamed on his Facebook page, Poilievre lined up with voters outside a passport office in Ottawa, making a show of solidarity to the people stuck waiting six hours just to drop off an application. In another, he stands near a homeless encampment in British Columbia, detailing the human suffering he’s witnessed.

For those of us old enough to remember Poilievre as the most vicious of Stephen Harper’s boys-in-short-pants, it was jarring to see him dominate the political discourse with such ease.

Because no matter how many million of dollars the Liberals spent on some version of “Yes, we’re bad but have you seen how fucking crazy this guy is?”, they had no answer to his message. The Canada we were promised — the one where you’ll get ahead if you just play by the rules and work hard — no longer exists.

Roughly half of Canadians report living from paycheque to paycheque, with that number jumping to 57 per cent for those aged 35 to 54, according to a Léger study published in October. Meanwhile, a generation of homebuyers has been priced out of the market and those who can afford a mortgage are being crushed under a mountain of debt.

Canada’s household debt to disposable income ratio is 180 per cent. That’s the highest of any G7 country. For every dollar Canadians earn, on average, they owe $1.80 in the form of mortgage payments, car loans and credit card fees. In the United States, by contrast, that ratio is 100 per cent.

Over 2 million Canadians turn to a food bank every month just to keep from going hungry. That’s a 90 per cent increase from 2019 numbers.

As rental prices across the country have nearly doubled in the past decade, homeless encampments are now a fixture of life in every major Canadian city. In some pilot programs, provincial governments have outsourced the lodging of homeless people to private condo developers.

Universal public healthcare, the crown jewel of this federation, is coming under attack in provinces across the country. Half of our healthcare system is funded by Ottawa, and the federal government has done little to discourage the provinces’ slide towards privatization.

I don’t think Poilievre will fix any of this but he sees it. And because he sees it, he can turn it into anger, political donations and to a victory on April 28.

This may be an unpopular opinion but we should consider moving the Canada / US border 250km north along the Detroit river. Moving the border north 250km would reduce the amount of cross border trips for the automotive industry negating a lot of the tariff issues. And I don't think the geniuses ruling the US would realize that moving the border north along this stretch would result in Canada gaining over 9000km² of land.

The reason this may be unpopular is because Canada would inherit the Detroit Red Wings.