Matt Gagnon discusses the recent Canadian election, highlighting the Liberal Party’s projected win of 172 seats, just shy of the required 174. He contrasts this with the Conservatives’ 140 seats and criticizes Donald Trump for his actions that allegedly swayed the election in favor of the Liberals. Gagnon argues that Trump’s “51st state” rhetoric and trade war tactics antagonized Canadians, leading to a significant shift in public sentiment. He believes a Conservative victory was likely before Trump’s interference and criticizes the U.S. President’s approach as unnecessary and counterproductive.
Days of downpours have begun in Hawaii. The Southwest will soon bake with day after day of record 100-degree-plus (38 Celsius-plus) heat. Two storms will dump snow by the foot over northern Great Lakes states. And the dreaded polar vortex will again invade the Midwest and East with soul-crushing Arctic chill. This forecast of extremes comes as weather whiplash has already hit much of the East.
An inflation gauge closely monitored by the Federal Reserve moved higher in January in the latest sign that prices were persistently elevated even before the Iran war caused spikes in oil and gas costs.
A man with a rifle who crashed into a large Michigan synagogue in what federal officials are saying was an attack had lost four family members in an Israeli airstrike in his native Lebanon last week, an official said Friday.
House lawmakers were digging into Jeffrey Epstein's sprawling financial portfolio on Wednesday as a committee deposed his former accountant and tried to understand his connections to some of the world's wealthiest men.
