Canada
Who are the leading candidates to replace Trudeau as Liberal leader?
Liberal MPs held a closed door caucus meeting on Parliament Hill Wednesday. It was their since Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced he will step down and, as a result, the chief topic of the meeting was leadership race -- its rules and potential contestants. One potential contestant took himself out of the race today: The finance minister and New Brunswick MP, Dominic Leblanc, announced he will not seek the leadership though he hopes to run in the next general election. Global National's chief political correspondent David Akin was outside that caucus meeting and more on those who might be in the race to succeed Justin Trudeau as the country's next prime minister.
Is Trudeau’s resignation enough to keep Liberals in power? Poll suggests not
A majority of Canadians support Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s decision to step down, yet his announcement has not changed the Liberal party’s fortunes, new polling suggests.
The Provinces
Fortress Am-Can: Doug Ford's plan for a Canada-US North American super-alliance
From U.S. president-elect Donald Trump's threat to slap tariffs on Canadian imports to his idea of Canada becoming the 51st American state, the two countries' relationship is increasingly uncertain. In addition, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s intention to resign and a looming spring federal election means it could be a while before Canada’s top politicians have a unified strategy to deal with Trump. Eric Sorensen explains what Ontario Premier Doug Ford is offering instead to keep Trump happy.
Vehicle carrying Ontario Premier Doug Ford involved in crash
The premier's office said Ford was travelling in his vehicle along Highway 401 when it became involved in a collision. Neither he nor anyone else in his vehicle was injured.
Calls continue for independent review of Churchill Falls MOU
Premier Andrew Furey says government is considering how to do that without releasing commercially sensitive information
Elsewhere
Trump’s ‘economic force’ threat against Canada sparks concern, disbelief
“Why do Americans buy so many Canadian products in the hundreds of billions of dollars? Because the product is good, or the price is good, or some combination of the two.”
Mexican president sarcastically trolls Trump over renaming Gulf of Mexico
While world leaders scramble to figure out how far Trump plans to take his broad expansionist agenda, Claudia Sheinbaum is clapping back.
Poland to hold presidential election on May 18, says parliament speaker who will run in it
The election will decide whether the pro-European Union Cabinet of Prime Minister Donald Tusk will gain an ally in the presidential palace at a challenging time for Poland and for Europe, with a full-scale war in neighbouring Ukraine.
In Austria’s Kickl, the EU has its next Orbán
Vienna could be about to get its first far-right leader since World War II. Europe’s mainstream sees trouble brewing.
Media
Threads and Instagram will recommend political content after all
Meta is continuing to overhaul its moderation and content rules. Instagram head Adam Mosseri posted today that Instagram and Threads will start including political content in recommendations. It's a reversal from the policy the two platforms adopted last year, which made political content something users had to choose if they wanted to see. Now, Mosseri said that there will be three levels of political content that Instagram and Threads users can pick to see: less, standard (which will be the default) and more.
Is Canada Ready for Life Without the CBC? Pierre Poilievre Thinks So
Saving one of Canada’s most controversial institutions won’t be easy.
Science and tech
It’s remarkably easy to inject new medical misinformation into LLMs
A new study by researchers at New York University examines how much medical information can be included in a large language model (LLM) training set before it spits out inaccurate answers. While the study doesn't identify a lower bound, it does show that by the time misinformation accounts for 0.001 percent of the training data, the resulting LLM is compromised.
