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1 week ago | 
stcatharinesstandard.ca | Richard Warnica
Prologue: “And monarchs to behold the swelling scene”Having a king in 2025 is a bit like having tacky wallpaper in a second bathroom. It’s garish and a little embarrassing. But it’s not like you’re going to pay to have it changed — not now, when the roof needs patching and the dishwasher is on the fritz. A king, in other words, is an irritant but not a priority. You can ignore it most of the time. Except for those moments when you can’t.
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1 month ago | 
thespec.com | Richard Warnica
Perhaps the single greatest advantage Prime Minister Mark Carney has over his predecessor is that he never seems to care about looking cool. If Justin Trudeau had danced at his own election party, it would have been a whole thing. He might have had a costume, or choreography. He definitely would have posed. When Carney danced, long after midnight after winning the first real election of his life, he looked like what he was: an unabashed Boomer dork just having a blast.
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1 month ago | 
thespec.com | Richard Warnica
OTTAWA — Let the record show that Pierre Poilievre spent the dying weeks of an election campaign he should have won the same way he has spent most of his 20-year political career: pretending to be mad about something that was never real. Poilievre suffered a narrow but still remarkable political defeat Monday night. Ahead by 25 points in January, he finished the campaign behind Mark Carney’s Liberals in both the seat count and the popular vote.
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1 month ago | 
thespec.com | Richard Warnica
We are not treated well, as you know, by Canada. Canada is subsidized to the tune of about $200 billion a year, plus other things. They don’t essentially have a military. They have a very small military. They rely on our military. It’s all fine, but they’ve got to pay for that. It’s very unfair. I have so many great friends. One of them is the Great One, Wayne Gretzky.
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1 month ago | 
stcatharinesstandard.ca | Richard Warnica
If Pierre Poilievre was a hockey player instead of a politician, he’d be a pest — the kind of guy you hate to play against but love to have on your team. He’d be Sean Avery or Brad Marchand: making life miserable for the other team’s best player while driving opposing fans up the wall. He would, in other words, be exactly what he is on the campaign trail: loved and loathed, irritating and inspiring, as polarizing as cilantro or blue cheese.
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1 month ago | 
thespec.com | Richard Warnica
It was Monday morning and Jagmeet Singh, once the most electric prospect in Canadian politics, was standing on a balcony in downtown Toronto trying to be heard over the roaring whoosh of a gardener’s leaf blower across the road. “You’re trailing far behind the Liberals and the Conservatives in the polls,” a reporter asked the NDP leader. WAAAHHH, went the blower. “You acknowledge that there are challenges you’re facing.” WAAAHHH. “What are those challenges?”Singh looked down at the podium.
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2 months ago | 
thespec.com | Richard Warnica
1. The NoviceIt can be easy to forget, following the news, that Mark Carney, the leader of the Liberal party and the odds-on favourite to win the 2025 federal election, has never done this before. He has never won a local council race. He didn’t serve on his school board. He isn’t a sitting MP. Carney’s resume outside of politics is unimpeachable; he may be the most and least experienced prime minister in Canadian history.
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2 months ago | 
wellandtribune.ca | Richard Warnica
1. The NoviceIt can be easy to forget, following the news, that Mark Carney, the leader of the Liberal party and the odds-on favourite to win the 2025 federal election, has never done this before. He has never won a local council race. He didn’t serve on his school board. He isn’t a sitting MP. Carney’s resume outside of politics is unimpeachable; he may be the most and least experienced prime minister in Canadian history.
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2 months ago | 
wellandtribune.ca | Richard Warnica
For years before Donald Trump wormed his way back into the U.S. presidency, forcing the entire world, including, and perhaps especially, Canada, to refocus on his mush-brained threats, a single issue dominated Canadian politics: Housing. By the beginning of last year, just about everyone of any political stripe in this country agreed the housing market was out of control. There was too much demand and not enough supply. Low-income earners couldn’t find affordable rentals.
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2 months ago | 
wellandtribune.ca | Richard Warnica
Update: Paul Chiang announced at 11:55 p.m. eastern Monday that he was recusing himself as the candidate because he did not want to be a distraction on the campaign trail. For years before Donald Trump wormed his way back into the U.S. presidency, forcing the entire world, including, and perhaps especially, Canada, to refocus on his mush-brained threats, a single issue dominated Canadian politics: Housing.
