Guardian: China launches surprise military drills around Taiwan
Taiwan says it has detected nearly 20 vessels off its coast as Beijing orders large scale sea and air exercises and calls leaders in Taipei ‘parasites’.
The Times of London: Zelensky: Putin will die soon and the Ukraine war will end
President Putin is nearing the end of his life and the invasion of Ukraine will come to an end upon his demise, President Zelensky has said, warning that Moscow is readying its forces for an imminent offensive.
“He will die soon — that’s a fact — and it will all be over,” the Ukrainian leader, 47, told Eurovision News. “I’m younger than Putin, so put your bets on me. My prospects are better.”
Zelensky did not say why he believed that Putin, 72, was approaching death. There have been rumours for years that Putin is suffering from Parkinson’s disease or cancer. None has been confirmed, however.
Merely propaganda, or largely true?
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CTV: Conservatives drop second election candidate in one day
Stefan Marquis — who was running for the Conservatives in the Montreal riding of Laurier—Sainte-Marie, held by Liberal cabinet minister Steven Guilbeault since 2019 — wrote in a post on social media that he is no longer a candidate for the party.
I doubt that the Conservatives had any chance in this riding anyway, but I wonder what those Twitter posts were to actually offend the Conservatives brass! …
Recent social media posts by Marquis promote popular right-wing conspiracy theories, including that Bill Gates is trying to manipulate public health for profit through vaccines, and that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was “provoked” by the expansion of NATO.
He also criticized Canada’s equalization payment system, calling Quebec “a disgrace,” and adding “Plateau snobs, ecocrats and other shameless socialists should be put on galleys for impoverishing us into the pit.”
Maquis’ social media posts also include shared posts taking aim at Liberal Leader Mark Carney, including an “exposé” calling the former central banker the “grim reaper for the economic destruction of Canada,” and linking him to convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell.
And he’s a candidate in Quebec!
TorStar: Carney kills the ‘carbon tax’ and gas prices fall. Now what?
As of Tuesday, for the first time since 2008, there was no consumer “carbon tax” anywhere in Canada.
Mark Carney hopes you realized that.
“You may notice that you’ll soon be paying up to 18 cents less per litre than you did yesterday to fill up your tank,” the Liberal leader Tuesday, as the long-standing carbon price dropped to zero across the country.
“That’s immediate relief,” he said.
What a disaster this whole file was! The PMO didn’t have one day’s lookahead on the effect of doing a carve-out for home heating oil. And their communication to voters while it was in place was absolutely terrible. It’s sadly funny to hear people saying how much money they’re going to save with lower gasoline prices without realizing they were getting a direct transfer from the government as a carbon tax refund all this time.
“Political cowardice is spreading faster than COVID,” said Green co-leader Elizabeth May told the Star on Tuesday, adding her party supports carbon pricing as a “necessary but insufficient” part of serious climate action.
“I want to see real climate action coming out of some other party in this country,” she said. “So far, if you care about climate, you’ve got one option. You’ve got to vote Green.”
Governments have to deal with more than one serious issue simultaneously: which party besides the Greens is going to actually make an effort to reduce Canada’s embarrassingly high level of carbon emissions?
CBC: Conservatives drop B.C. candidate in New Westminster—Burnaby—Maillardville
The Conservatives have dropped Lourence Singh, the party’s candidate for the New Westminster–Burnaby–Maillardville riding in the upcoming federal election.
Singh is the third candidate the Tories dropped on Tuesday, following the ouster of Mark McKenzie in southwestern Ontario and Stefan Marquis in Montreal.
CBC: Susan Crawford prevails over Brad Schimel in closely watched Wisconsin Supreme Court election
Wisconsin voters elected Susan Crawford to the state Supreme Court on Tuesday, The Associated Press projected, maintaining the court’s 4-3 liberal majority in a setback for U.S. President Donald Trump and his billionaire ally Elon Musk, who had backed her conservative rival.
The election was widely seen as an early referendum on Trump’s presidency. The campaign easily became the most expensive judicial contest in U.S. history with more than $90 million US spent by the candidates, the state parties and outside groups, according to a tally from New York University’s Brennan Center.
CBC: Liberal candidate Paul Chiang withdraws from race after suggesting people claim China’s bounty on Conservative
Embattled Toronto-area Liberal candidate Paul Chiang is dropping out of the race just hours after the RCMP told CBC News it’s looking into whether he broke the law by suggesting people turn a Conservative candidate running in a nearby riding into the Chinese consulate to collect a bounty.
Last Updated: 01.Apr.2025 23:59 EDT
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