đŸ”” Canada Snap Election

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Citizen Frank
March 23, 2025

Good morning. It’s Sunday, March 23.

 

Prime Minister Mark Carney visited Gov. Gen. Mary Simon on March 23 and asked for the dissolution of Parliament, triggering a snap federal election for April 28.

Carney announced the election the day before Parliament was scheduled to be recalled after being prorogued on Jan. 6 by his predecessor Justin Trudeau.

If proceedings in the House of Commons had resumed, the minority Liberal government could have faced a non-confidence vote, which would also have led to an early election.

Bernie Sanders stepped onto a stage in downtown Denver, surrounded by tens of thousands of cheering supporters in what he described as the biggest rally he had ever addressed. The Vermont senator put his hand on the shoulder of the woman who had introduced him, a signal for her to stay on stage.

“She has become an inspiration to millions of young people,” Sanders said of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, recounting her biography from a girl who helped her mother clean houses and later became a bartender before emerging as political insurgent who ousted a powerful New York Democrat in a U.S. House primary.

The crowd began a chant of her well-known moniker: “AOC! AOC!”

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) rejected comparisons between himself and former President Joe Biden, saying he wouldn’t step down.

In a Sunday appearance on NBC News’s Meet the Press, Schumer, 74, spoke about his gripes with President Donald Trump and responded to criticism regarding why he allowed the Republican-authored continuing resolution to pass. The move has been derided by many Democrats as helping Trump and the Republican Party, leading some on the Left to suggest that his time to step down has come. Schumer made clear that he has no plans to do so.

“Look, I’m not stepping down,” he responded when asked if he would heed the calls of some Senate Democrats to do so. “The CR was certainly bad, you know, the continuing resolution, but a shutdown would be 15 or 20 times worse. Under a shutdown, the executive branch has sole power to determine what is, ‘essential,’ and they can determine without any court supervision.”

Comedian Bill Maher warned Democrats this week that they have not hit the floor yet with how low the party can sink as it experiences record-low support from the American public.

Maher delivered the remarks on Friday during his HBO show “Real Time” while talking about how people are fleeing Democrat-controlled states for Republican states.

“I just saw this really bad news for Democrats,” Maher said. “2030 reapportionment, there’s a group called the American Redistricting Project, and in five years we will be redistricting.”

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Saturday said the judge who ruled that the Pentagon must allow transgender troops should report to military bases since she is “now a top military planner.”

U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes in Washington, D.C., issued a preliminary injunction last week blocking the Pentagon from enforcing President Donald Trump’s executive order banning transgender people from serving in the military.

Trump’s Jan. 27 order said “expressing a false ‘gender identity’ divergent from an individual’s sex cannot satisfy the rigorous standards necessary for military service” and instructed the Department of Defense to update its medical standards for military service and pronoun policies.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has faced calls to respond after the Trump administration cut funding to seven Australian universities.

The administration’s move came after US agencies asked Australian researchers to justify why they should continue receiving American research grants.

The surveys they received asked several questions including whether the researchers had received funding from China, and if their university had recognised only two sexes – male and female.

After a 5-week hospital stay that triggered fears of a potential papal resignation, Pope Francis returned to the Vatican Sunday.

But now, two months of rest and recovery prescribed by his doctors begin — just weeks out from Easter Sunday and the holiest days of the Catholic Church’s year.

The 88-year-old pontiff was admitted to Rome’s Agostino Gemelli Hospital on Feb. 14 after experiencing bronchitis symptoms. Tests revealed “a complex clinical picture” that saw him diagnosed with a polymicrobial infection and later pneumonia in both lungs.

Researchers claim they’ve discovered the legendary Halls of Amenti in a “vast city” beneath Egypt’s Pyramids of Giza — a wild theory that has perplexed archeological experts who dismiss the claims as “fake news.”

Italian and Scottish scientists studying the pyramid of Khafre say the “groundbreaking study has redefined the boundaries of satellite data analysis and archeological exploration,” according to spokesperson Nicole Ciccolo.

Aptly named the Khafre Project, Corrado Malanga from Italy’s University of Pisa and Filippo Biondi of the University of Strathclyde in Scotland led the expedition to discover the Giza Plateau’s second-largest pyramid.

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