… And bending down beside the glowing bars, Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled And paced upon the mountains overhead And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.
**Both, but domestic policies are the decisive factor.**
Canada entered a technical recession (Q4 2025 + Q1 2026 GDP contraction per StatCan). No other G7 country did, despite shared global pressures like US tariffs and Middle East shocks.
Other G7 nations absorbed similar trade hits and maintained growth. Canada's weakness traces to years of weak business investment, carbon taxes, regulatory burdens, and per-capita stagnation that left the economy uniquely fragile. Global conditions exposed the vulnerabilities; domestic choices created them.
Classic 1980s debate moment.
A woman in hijab passionately challenges Rabbi Meir Kahane: “How can you have no compassion for the Arab people?” invoking Hitler and Palestinian suffering.
Kahane’s calm, piercing response cuts through:
“You had an opportunity for your own state in 1948. The UN proposed partition plan which would have created a Palestine and an Israel. You went to war. You killed 6,000 of our people. ’56, another war. ’67, another war. ’73, another war. I don’t trust you. I don’t believe you. When I’m attacked and I win and you lose, and you’re the one that started it, learn one thing… you take the consequences of your actions.”
Raw, unfiltered truth about repeated rejection of peace and the cost of starting wars.
No slogans. Just history.
Powerful then. Powerful now.
The leader of the Lib Dems, and the leader and deputy leader of the Green party, think some women have penises. In itself, it seems like a relatively unimportant matter. But it is symptomatic of a contempt for science and evidence-based truth. Could you vote for a flat-Earther?