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Apr 14 2025

Liberal dip. Poilievre endorsements. Touchy holograms

Mon April 14 2024
David Akin's Roundup
Poll believers. Production pause. Snowbird selloff.
Canada
Liberals lead dips for 1st time in Canada election as Tories gain: poll
The new Ipsos poll for Global News shows support for the Liberals has dropped to 42 per cent, the first time since the election began that the party has lost ground. [Global]
Carney defends knowledge of Quebec culture, Poilievre insists he's no 'mini-Trump' on Tout le monde en parle
Mark Carney and Pierre Poilievre faced the critical glare of the mega-popular Radio-Canada talk show Tout le monde en parle on Sunday in an attempt to woo Francophone viewers, with the Liberal leader being pressed on his cultural awareness of the province and his Conservative rival differentiating himself against perceptions in Quebec he is a "mini-Trump." [CBC]
Le PLC a dévoilé dimanche une nouvelle publicité mettant en vedette Léa Stréliski et son chef, Mark Carney, dans un restaurant. [JdeM]
Poilievre told a press conference in Ottawa on Sunday that if his party forms government, he'll ban what he calls "shadow lobbying." [Global]

A number of prominent business leaders formally threw their support behind Pierre Poilievre in the upcoming federal election on Saturday. [Global]

Early voting kicks off on campuses across the country on Sunday. The polling stations are open to all Canadians, not just students. [Global]
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From the provinces
Amid trade turmoil, Ontario government mulls sweeping overhaul of permits
Amid unprecedented trade turmoil, Ontario’s governing Progressive Conservatives are keen to cut red tape in the provincial economy with Premier Doug Ford and his finance minister signalling that permits, and their bureaucratic hurdles, have fallen squarely in their sights. [CBC]
Aurora
Elsewhere
“The biggest problem they have is they don’t have enough time in the day,” Trump said of his aides on Wednesday. “Everybody wants to come and make a deal.”
But substantial fuzziness remains about exactly what these deals could look like, in part because of uncertainty about the president’s objectives. Even some of Trump’s advisers privately acknowledge that they lack clarity about the goals, two of the people said. (🎁 link) Confusion. Chaos. Diplomats don't know  who to talk to.  [WaPo]
“In the occupied territories, 1,700,000 pieces of our cultural heritage were taken—from archaeological artifacts to museum collections that the Russian Federation has claimed for itself, in flagrant violation of international law,” Tochitsky said in an interview with state news agency Ukrinform. [New Voice of Ukraine]
Media

News articles produced by Artificial Intelligence do not have the same creative flair as stories written by human journalists, according to research into the stylistic differences between the storytellers. [Charles Darwin University]
Science and Tech
Scientists Invent Holograms You Can Touch
Using elastic bands, a team of researchers have created holograms that you can physically manipulated with your hands. [Futurism]
Students must put them in a locker or sealed pouch at the start of the day. [Endgadget]
The Calendar
  • 0900 ET: Montreal - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre makes an announcement and speaks to reporters.
  • 1000 ET: Toronto - NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh makes an announcement and speaks to reporters.
  • 1000 ET: Montreal - LPC Leader Mark Carney makes an announcement and speaks to reporters.
  • 1015 ET: Quebec City - BQ Leader Yves-François Blanchet makes an announcement and speaks to reporters.
  • 1100 ET: NPT -  Members of the Security and Intelligence Threats to Elections (SITE) Task Force will provide a technical briefing to media.
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