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How Canada’s Liberals Won | American Enterprise Institute– www.aei.org

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Last week, Canadians voted in yet another Liberal government—the fourth in a row since 2015. The Liberals have proven themselves to be the most politically successful left-leaning party in the Western world over the past decade. In an age of populist conservative nationalism, they defy all odds. How do they keep doing it?

Let’s begin with a look at the past few months in Canadian politics, illustrated by three useful images.

Late last year, former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s approval ratings dropped to around 20 percent. The Conservative Party opposition, led by Pierre Poilievre, made withering attacks on Trudeau’s Liberal government as incompetent, too far left, and out of touch. Canadian voters across the political spectrum viewed Trudeau as having badly mismanaged the economy. Polls predicted a 2025 Conservative Party landslide. The long-term trend appeared inexorable; the Liberals were doomed.

Prominent Liberal figures then did what ruthlessly effective political parties in the parliamentary tradition have always done—they stabbed their faltering leader in the back. On December 16th, Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland resigned from the government, denouncing Trudeau as incompetent on fiscal matters. Since Freeland was the heir apparent to the Liberal Party leadership, jokingly referred to as “Minister of Everything,” this sent shock waves through the party like nothing else. But as so often happens in the Westminster system, the hand that wields the knife sometimes fails to pick up the crown.

 

Canada election results live: Carney says trade deal with Trump will happen ‘on our terms’ as Liberals fall short of majority government– www.independent.co.uk

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South Korea’s former President Moon indicted for alleged bribery– www.euronews.com

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Former South Korean President Moon Jae-in was indicted Thursday on bribery charges, accused of accepting illegal favours through a no-show job arranged for his then-son-in-law during his term in office.

Prosecutors say Moon received bribes worth 217 million won (€133,239) from Thai Eastar Jet founder Lee Sang-jik, who allegedly provided wages, housing, and other financial support to Moon’s former son-in-law between 2018 and 2020.

Lee, a former campaign associate of Moon’s, was also indicted for bribery and breach of trust.

The son-in-law was reportedly hired at Lee’s Thailand-based airline company in a director-level role despite having no aviation experience and carried out only minor duties while claiming to be working remotely from South Korea.

Myanmar Junta Rejects Bangladeshi Call for Rohingya State – The Irrawaddy

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Myanmar’s regime has rejected a proposal by Bangladesh’s largest Islamist political party, Jamaat-e-Islami, for the creation of an independent Rohingya state in Rakhine State.

Jamaat made the proposal during a meeting with a Communist Party of China (CPC) delegation in Dhaka on Sunday. China has not responded.

The Jamaat delegation’s leader Nayeb-e-Ameer Syed Abdullah Mohammad Taher told reporters that around 1.2 million Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh were enduring “inhumane conditions” and humanitarian aid was not a solution.

Romanian Presidential Elections: MAGA-Inspired George Simion Wins BIG First Round With 41% of the Vote, Will Face Euro-Liberal Nicusor Dan in the Runoff on May 18 | The Gateway Pundit– www.thegatewaypundit.com

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Simion heads to the second round of the Romanian Presidential Election as the clear favorite.

The Globalists’ nightmare is fast becoming a reality, as MAGA-influenced, right-winger George Simion – who is against military support for Ukraine and skeptical about the EU – won a major victory in the first round of ‘redo’ of the presidential election in Romania.

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“George Simion came first with 40.96% of the vote, and will go into the runoff on 18 May as the clear favorite against the liberal mayor of Bucharest.

Nicusor Dan narrowly beat Crin Antonescu, candidate of the governing coalition, with just under 21% of the vote.”

Calin Georgescu and George Simion.

The presidential election in Romania was cancelled last December over unproven allegations of campaign fraud and Russian interference after Calin Georgescu had an unexpected landslide victory.

Puerto Rico Ditches Billion-Dollar Climate Lawsuit Following Trump’s Blue State Crackdown– dailycaller.com

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Puerto Rico withdrew its $1 billion climate lawsuit against the oil and gas industry on Friday following the Trump administration’s move to block two states from seeking legal damages for similar alleged environmental damages.

Filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, the territory’s government said in the notice that it “voluntarily dismisses this entire case,” with no further elaboration as to why. President Donald Trump has repeatedly condemned state-level climate policies that impact domestic energy production, and on April 30, his Department of Justice (DOJ) filed two separate lawsuits against Hawaii and Michigan after both states considered filing similar complaints against the oil and gas industry.

“This dismissal adds to the growing momentum among federal and state courts holding that states and municipalities cannot use state laws to sue over climate change,” Theodore J. Boutrous, Jr. of Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher LLP, counsel for Chevron Corporation wrote in a statement provided to the Daily Caller News Foundation. “These claims are precluded and preempted by federal law and must be dismissed under clear U.S. Supreme Court precedent.”

State of panic growing in Sudan’s wartime capital amid drone strikes | World News– news.sky.com

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Dark clouds of smoke have been rising over Sudan’s wartime capital Port Sudan for two consecutive days.

A state of panic is building in the administrative centre that is home to tens of thousands of people seeking safety during two years of war between Sudan’s army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

This is the second RSF attack to target critical infrastructure in Port Sudan over 24 hours and is suspected to be another drone strike in a series of hits on army-held territory across the country.

On Sunday morning, Port Sudan airport was damaged by suicide drones that targeted a weapons depot in the military airbase in the vicinity of the airport.

Flights were temporarily suspended to the only international airport left in the country.

China’s Expanding Navy Is A Threat To U.S. National Security– thefederalist.com

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On April 24, the Congressional Research Service (CRS) issued a report on China’s naval modernization, noting that, “China’s navy is, by far, the largest of any country in East Asia, and sometime between 2015 and 2020 it surpassed the U.S. Navy in numbers of battle force ships …” The CRS report then quotes the DOD, that China’s navy “is the largest navy in the world …”

As an Asian land power, why would China be rapidly expanding its navy?

A benign view of China’s naval buildup is that it is driven by its economic and security needs. As the world’s second-largest economy, it relies on maritime trade routes for energy and raw materials imports and exports of finished goods, making sea lane security paramount. Though, one might ask, security against what threat?

Of note, even though China has a base in Djibouti on the Red Sea, its navy has been wholly absent in keeping the vital waterway and path to the Suez Canal open in the face of piratical Houthi attacks on shipping. In fact, the U.S. government has credibly accused a Chinese satellite company of providing real-time intelligence to the Houthis to aid in their targeting of shipping, including the U.S. Navy. That China’s naval buildup and China’s increasing bellicosity align with paramount leader Xi Jinping’s vision of national rejuvenation linked to maritime command of the seas — far beyond Taiwan’s rocky shores.

Europe launches ‘super grant’ to attract US researchers hit by government cuts– www.washingtonexaminer.com

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The grant, which will be offered between 2025 and 2027, comes as the Trump administration has cut more than 380 domestic grant programs in the last month. Trump justified the cuts by saying they violated his executive order, which prohibited funding for diversity, equity, and inclusion directives.

French President Emmanuel Macron and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen discussed the grant at the “Choose Europe for Science” event in Paris.

“A few years ago, no one would have imagined that one of the biggest democracies in the world would cancel research programs under the pretext that the word diversity was in this program,” French President Emmanuel Macron said. “No one would have thought that one of the biggest democracies in the world would delete with a stroke the ability of one researcher or another to obtain visas,” Macron said, but here we are.”

Brazil Supreme Court reviews charges against key Bolsonaro allies in coup proceedings– abcnews.go.com

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SAO PAULO — A panel of Brazil’s Supreme Court justices started proceedings on Tuesday morning to determine whether federal officers, retired military officers and an aide of former President Jair Bolsonaro will also stand trial for allegedly attempting to stage a coup.

Last month, the panel unanimously accepted charges against Bolsonaro and seven close allies over an alleged attempt to stay in office after his 2022 election defeat to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and ordered him to stand trial.

When Prosecutor-General Paulo Gonet accused Bolsonaro and 33 others of attempting a coup, he divided them into five different groups, based on their roles and positions in the alleged plot.

Bolsonaro and his closest allies, including running mate Gen. Braga Netto, were placed in the “core group,” according to the charges. Now, the Supreme Court panel will review charges against the second group, which Gonet said held managerial roles.

Things Aren’t Looking Good For Canada’s Conservative Party– dailycaller.com

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Canada’s conservative darling has gone from leading the polls by double digits to barely scraping by in the run up to the April 28 election.

Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre, who has been described by media outlets as Canada’s version of President Donald Trump, held a nearly 25 point lead in CBC polling averages going into January 2025. However, with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s pending resignation and replacement with banker Mark Carney, the liberals are now leading in the polls with just a month left until Canadians cast their votes.

Trudeau’s approval rating was historically bad leading up to his resignation announcement in December 2024, with 74% of voters disapproving of his administration, according to the Angus Reid Institute.

VIDEO: ‘A battle between right and wrong’: Houthi spokesman on confronting the US and Israel– thegrayzone.com

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The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal interviews Muhammad Al-Bukhaiti, senior political officer and spokesman for Ansar Allah (the Houthi movement), on Yemen’s direct confrontation with a US military machine which is hellbent on destroying its ability to resist Israel.

In this third conversation between The Grayzone and Bukhaiti, the Ansar Allah spokesman explains why he believes his movement’s war with the US-Israeli axis is unlike any conflict that preceded it, and why he believes Yemen is engaged in a righteous battle despite the terrible toll its civilians have faced.

This interview was translated by Hekmat Aboukhater.