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Canada’s Next Prime Minister Could Use Anti-Trump Sentiment To His Advantage In The Upcoming Election

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Mark Carney will soon replace Justin Trudeau as Canada’s prime minister following his landslide victory in the governing Liberal Party’s election.

Carney, a former governor of the Bank of England and the Bank of Canada with no political experience — and no seat in the House of Commons — will take over the leadership of both his party and his country at a time of profound uncertainty prompted by US President Donald Trump’s adversarial stance toward his neighbor as a general election looms.

Carney is expected to call snap elections shortly after being sworn into office, and voter surveys show his party within fighting distance of his main opposition: the Conservative Party, led by Pierre Poilievre.

The Conservatives had long been considered the favourites to win the next election, which needs to be held by October. Trump’s talk of annexing Canada and his tariffs against the country have reshaped the race, overshadowing issues such as inflation and immigration that appeared to originally dominate voters’ minds.

“Trump has said he’s the most important person in Canadian politics right now,” said Nick Taylor-Vaisey, Politico Ottawa bureau chief. “I think everybody in Canada would acknowledge that.”

Mark Carney, the newly elected leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, addresses supporters in a victory speech Sunday after the official announcement of the 2025 Liberal Leadership race results at Rogers Centre in Ottawa, Ontario.
Mark Carney, the newly elected leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, addresses supporters in a victory speech Sunday after the official announcement of the 2025 Liberal Leadership race results at Rogers Centre in Ottawa, Ontario.

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The latest polling average, updated by The Economist on Saturday, shows the Liberals trailing the Conservatives by 7 percentage points — a far slimmer margin compared to the 25-point difference between the two parties in late December, prior to Trudeau’s resignation announcement. Voters also appear to favor Carney over Poilievre, a recent poll found.

“Momentum is with [Carney] and his party,” The Economist said in a column on Monday. “Whether that will be enough to deliver victory — and to keep Mr Trump at bay— is yet to be seen.”

Carney, a former Goldman Sachs executive, sought to highlight his determination to protect his country from Trump in his first speech, pledging to maintain Canada’s tariffs on the US “until the Americans show us respect and and until they can join us in making credible and reliable commitments to free and fair trade.”

Last week, Trump imposed 25% tariffs on many Canadian goods before reversing course and postponing some of them while also threatening new tariffs on dairy and lumber.

“The Americans want our resources, our water, our land, our country,” Carney said. “Think about it: If they succeeded, they would destroy our way of life. In America, health care is a big business. In Canada, it is a right.”

“America is not Canada, and Canada never, ever will be part of America in any way, shape or form,” he continued.

Meanwhile, some voters appear to worry that Poilievre’s style is too similar to Trump’s — a perception that’s been amplified by ads run by the Liberals that show the Conservative Party leader echoing Trump’s rhetoric, including on “fake news.”

“At a time when Trump is toxic in Canada, that image is not helping Poilievre,” David McLaughlin, a former senior official in previous Conservative governments in Canada, told The Wall Street Journal.

Poilievre has recognized those concerns, speaking out forcefully against Trump, adjusting his party’s messaging and seeking to tie Carney to Trudeau, who has been widely unpopular despite the slight rebound in his approval rating in recent weeks.

Justin Trudeau, Canada's prime minister, speaks during a Liberal Party of Canada leadership announcement event Sunday in Ottawa, Ontario.
Justin Trudeau, Canada’s prime minister, speaks during a Liberal Party of Canada leadership announcement event Sunday in Ottawa, Ontario.

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Andrew Enns, the executive vice president of the Central Canada operations of Leger, a market research company, told Bloomberg that while the shift of the election’s focus on Trump poses a big challenge for Poilievre, Carney is still an unknown figure to most Canadians, meaning their perception of him could change as he assumes the top job.

“Carney’s had an impact, I’m not going to take that away from him, but the bigger change has been this whole Trump environment,” Enns said. “Tariffs have repositioned how Canadians are viewing the Canadian government now.”

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Putin Seems To Ignore Trump Threat And Causes One Of 2025’s Deadliest Days For Civilians In Ukraine

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Vladimir Putin appeared to ignore Donald Trump’s threat to impose sanctions on Russia on Friday and launched deadly attacks across Ukraine.

The US president told the Russian leader to stop “pounding” Ukraine or face serious sanctions last week, after weeks of not applying any pressure to Moscow.

However, the UN has since said Friday was one of the deadliest days for civilians this year after 21 people were killed in Ukraine.

A further 81 people were injured, 79 of whom were in territory controlled by Ukraine.

The UN also found casualty numbers in Ukraine overall for 2025 remain higher than they were in 2024.

The attacks unfolded even as Trump was telling reporters in the White House that Putin “holds all the cards” – and that Russia is “easier to deal with” than Ukraine on Friday.

It’s worth remembering that Russia invaded Ukraine in a land grab in 2022.

But, Trump said Kyiv has to “get on the ball and get the job done” when it comes to a peace agreement, adding: “I have to know that [Ukraine] want to settle – if they don’t want to settle, we’re out of there.

“They’re bombing the hell out of Ukraine… I’m finding it more difficult, frankly, to deal with Ukraine.”

And, despite the ongoing bombardments, Trump then said he thinks Putin wants peace, and “I think he’s doing what anyone else would do”.

He claimed: “I think both parties want to settle. I think we are going to get it settled.”

This also comes after Trump’s Ukraine envoy Keith Kellogg said Ukraine brought the US’s pause in intelligence sharing and military aid “on themselves.”

Speaking on Thursday, Kellogg said: “Very candidly, they brought it on themselves, the Ukrainians.

“I think the best way I can describe it is sort of like hitting a mule with a two-by-four across the nose. You got their attention, and it’s very significant, obviously, because of the support that we give.”

“We’re going to end this war, and this is one way to make sure you understand we’re serious about it.

“So is it hard, of course it is, but it’s not like they didn’t know this was coming. They got fair warning it was coming.”

Trump’s former national security adviser John Bolton told CNN on Friday that Putin is continuing his attacks on Ukraine because he knows the threat from Trump was “totally hollow”.

″[Trump] did it simply to show some kind of balance given the things he had said about Zelenskyy and Ukrainians,” Bolton said, alluding to the US president’s baseless attacks on the Ukrainian president.

Trump, as he aligns more closely with Moscow, has falsely called Volodymyr Zelenskyy a “dictator”, claimed he is ungrateful for the US’s support during the war and blamed Kyiv for starting the war.

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Minister Dismisses Latvian President’s Call For Europe To Bring Back Conscription

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A senior government minister dismissed the idea of bringing back conscription to the UK this morning.

Although is Europe looking to boost its security amid worries about the Ukraine crisis, Pat McFadden rejected the suggestion of introducing compulsory state service.

It comes after Latvia’s president Edgars Rinkevics told Sky News that his country has introduced conscription again, in case Vladimir Putin returns to seize more European land even after striking a peace deal in Ukraine.

He said: “If Russia is allowed to regroup, then the risks are rising.”

Rinkevics said that means Europe should therefore “increase its overall presence” to the east, especially as it is “quite weak” militarily right now.

He claimed other European nations should “absolutely” introduce the emergency measure.

However, speaking on Sky News’ Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips, cabinet office minister McFadden said: “We are not considering conscription, but of course we have announced a major increase in defence expenditure a couple of weeks ago.”

The government recently announced plans to boost defence spending from its current level of 2.3% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to 2.5% by 2027.

Labour also hopes to get it to 3% of GDP by the next parliament, if re-elected.

The move came after US president Donald Trump said Europe had to be more responsible for its own security and could no longer rely on the States to prop it up militarily.

McFadden continued: “We do have to recognise that the world has changed. The phrase ‘step up’ is used a lot. Europe does have to step up in terms of its own defence.

“President Trump isn’t actually the first president to say that, but he said it more loudly and with more force than his predecessors so, I think we have got to recognise that moment.”

He added that the shift seen in the global order in recent weeks means it is “important we don’t cling to old assumptions”.

The chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster added: “Other decisions may be needed in the future which respond to a new reality so we don’t find ourselves operating under the same assumptions as we used to in the past when the situation has changed.”

McFadden refused to offer any further details, saying a defence review published this spring would set out a “roadmap” about how the new cash injection would be spent.

But he noted: “One thing is for sure, you would not spend money today on the same things as you would 10 years ago.

“The experience of the three years of the war in Ukraine has shown just how fast the battlefield is changing in terms of cyber, drones, the use of intelligence.”

Conscription was introduced in Britain in 1916, during World War 1, and again in 1939, after declaring war against Germany.

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‘Recipe For Disaster’: Labour’s Plan To Cut Civil Service Slammed

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Labour’s new plan to cut civil service jobs was torn apart this morning as union chiefs said it was a “recipe for disaster”.

Whitehall departments have increased by over 15,000 since the end of 2023, but, according to the government, working people have not seen tangible improvements.

In a plan set to be announced in the coming days, Cabinet Office minister Pat McFadden is going to introduce “mutually agreed exits” so people who are underperforming are able to leave their jobs easily.

The highest paid civil servants will be dismissed if there’s no improvement within six months, and there will be a new pay-results system, while also increasing the use of digital systems.

But, the plan has been slated by unions and compared to “Trumpian” efforts to slim down the state in the US.

The general secretary of the Trades Union Congress Paul Nowak told Times Radio he is “disappointed” in this plan, and said cuts to the civil service are not what’s needed right now.

He said: “I think these are a set of proposals that look more about grabbing headlines rather than about a serious plan for reforming our public services.”

Nowak said to enact public sector reform, “you have to be serious about engaging the staff who are involved in delivering those services” otherwise it is a “recipe for disaster”.

He also took issue with the suggestion the civil service is not working effectively, saying: “It was a decade and a half of underinvestment in our public services. Now the number of civil services, civil servants has gone up.

“We have had Brexit in the last few years and we now do things in the UK, trade agreements for example that we didn’t do before.

“A whole range of things around veterinary standards for example that we didn’t have to do before.”

Prime minister Keir Starmer sparked backlash last year when he claimed “too many people in Whitehall are comfortable in tepid bath of managed decline,” and warned change was coming to the civil service.

Touching on the prime minister’s comment, Nowak said he did not agree “on the Trumpian language”.

He said: “I don’t think the language is always helpful when you try and paint those who are delivering public services often at the sharp end in difficult circumstances as somehow part of the problem.

“Now the civil service public service workforce is like any workforce there are some people who don’t pull their weight.

“To characterise the vast majority of people who are working hard day in day out as somehow the part of the problem and that’s what they do I think is unfair.”

Similarly, the general secretary of the FDA – the civil service union – Dave Penman told the same radio that the issue comes down to the constant changing of hands in government.

He said: “We’ve had six prime ministers, eight chancellors, 40 ministers in the Treasury departments, hundreds of different ministers because of the chaotic political leadership over the last 10 years.

“If you want to look at how you solve the problem with public services, look at the political chaos that we’ve had to deal with as well, not just simply headlines around sacking civil servants.

“We wouldn’t be in business if people weren’t sacked for poor performance in the civil service. ”

Penman said this new plan was all about “cheap headlines”.

“The idea that you can simply get more for less is rhetoric. It’s a headline that’s not reality. You have to demonstrate how you do that. Technology can play a role, AI can play a role, but how is it actually going to do that? That’s what ministers should be setting out rather than these cheap headlines,” he said.

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I’m A Flight Attendant – This Is The Safest Place To Park Your Car In The Airport

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Airport parking demand shifts hugely across the UK, Transport Network reports.

Fewer than 1% of travellers through Heathrow look for a parking spot, but 10% of those passing through Bristol Airport look out for one.

That’s partly because of local transport links, they explain. But no matter where you’ve parked your car while on holiday, you’ll want to know it’s safe.

In a YouTube Short, flight attendant Cierra Mistt shared that the most secure place to park your car may be in the spot you like least.

Where’s safest to park in an airport car park?

“If you want to make sure your vehicle is safe at the airport ― especially on those long trips ― park in either the top floor of the [multi-storey car park], or the very back of economy parking,” Mistt said.

Though those areas are far away from the airport and can seem “unguarded”, Cierra said she recommends them for good reason.

“This is actually the parking where all the employees of the airport, along with crew members that are going to be on trips, park,” she explained.

“Security is constantly monitoring that area to make sure that no one breaks into those cars, and the shuttles are over there more than any other place because they need to make sure that their employees get to work on time.”

Some airports have separate parking arrangements for their staff ― but you can usually look this up ahead of time.

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What if I don’t want to go that far?

Airports claim your car will still have lots of protection, like CCTV, number plate recognition, and patrols.

Otherwise, the Met Police suggest following some basic steps will prevent break-ins, at the airport and elsewhere.

These include locking your car, shutting your windows and sunroof, securing your number plates with tamper-resistant screws, and taking out or hiding valuable items inside the vehicle.

And don’t even leave hints of pricey electronic goods, like sat nav mounts, on show, they add.

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