What's hot in real world news?

A recent article about conditions before the 2019 Alberta election, and how the NDP was desperate to spin poor jobs numbers:

https://edmontonsun.com/opinion/colu...or-job-numbers

A relatively recent article about one slip by federal NDP leader Singh:

https://torontosun.com/opinion/colum...hite-supremacy

Nice! I guess that's one way to try and keep this place a conservative echo chamber.

By the way, what's your feeling on effectively banning Cuban chess players from coming to Canada?

KP: "Look over there!"

bwa ha ha ha.

See also Red-Baiting

A recent article from the CBC on how a Green Party breakthrough could redraw the electoral map:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/gre...ough-1.5128063

Here's the wiki re: the Israel-Palestine conflict; perhaps a hint of how contentious it is can be gathered from the disputed neutrality of parts of the article itself, alone:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel...inian_conflict

Some good news at last for the federal Liberals - employment was way up last month (although a huge chunk of the jobs were from PC party Doug Ford's Ontario), if the number put out by StatCan is to be believed; in spite of all the other bad news for the Libs, Justin Trudeau faces such weak opponents, in terms of charisma alone, that he may still get at least a minority government from this year's federal election, I'd hazard to guess, unless scandal(s) really, really do him in by the last minute:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/eco...pril-1.5130682

Here's the wiki re: the (ever-changing) political positions of the current POTUS, Donald Trump, including some from over the course of his long life:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politi...f_Donald_Trump

A relatively recent article in the Toronto Sun re: Opinion: Ford right to issue carbon tax recession warning (BC mentioned within said article):

https://torontosun.com/opinion/colum...ession-warning

Here's the wiki re: what Wikipedia calls the US-China trade war; note that in the past the POTUS Donald Trump, or members of his administration, have denied that there is actually a trade war going on:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%...ates_trade_war

Here's a link to an article by Rex Murphy: Beware the Green new Trojan Horse of the progressive social justice warriors (re: so-called manmade global climate change scare):

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/mur...stice-warriors