.@magattew introduces former Premier of New Brunswick @premierbhiggs at the Canada Strong And Free Network 2026. They discuss how Mr. Higgs exemplifies having the courage to tell the truth, which is one of the goals of CSFN.
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「人間やめて、どうするの⁉」
人間をやめて鳥になろうとするクリーン悪トリオ。
「キョカンチン」は何になったでしょうか？
ペンギン→いいね💟
アンデスコンドル→リポスト🔁
#逆転イッパツマン 第3話より
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A #BookReview of Wilderness Within: A Guided Lent Journal for Prayer and Meditation by @@SJOSEPHINE_CSFN and June Jameson from @AveMariaPress bookreviewsandmore.ca/2026/0… The supplemental weekly videos and other resources on the Ave Maria Site really do make this a self-guided retreat. You can work through it personally, as a family or in a small group. The illustrations are great for meditation. Sr. Josephine Garrett CSFN is very open and transparent, she uses examples from her life, life in her community and from her ministry. It is deeply moving. An amazing volume I can easily recommend. #Retreat #Lent
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Young Adults!
Don't miss this opportunity to pray, connect, and recreate with other Catholics in their 20's and 30's. To top it off, we are blessed to welcome Sr. Molly Bernadette Spiering, CSFN as our guest speaker.
Learn more, and register at: diocesehelena.org/youngadult…
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ここで去年のCSFN GAME2 後半戦始まる前のめちゃくちゃお気に入り写真をあげておこう
まだまだシーズン終わってほしくないっていうわがまま思考があるから今年もGAME3までやってくれ〜😂
#琉球ゴールデンキングス
#ゴーディー
#佐々宣夫
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Part of the problem with QC’s laïcité laws, as @JCJasmin3 mentioned on his panel at CSFN with @cvangeyn is that the lack of clarity puts decision making power in the hands of ignorant municipal bureaucrats, who, because of the general risk aversion and lack of knowledge of rights, will default to restricting freedoms. This procession is technically legal. The municipality just declared it not to be based on a poor reading of the law.
May 14
Montreal borough denies Portuguese procession permit over new Quebec prayer ban montrealgazette.com/news/mon…
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I said many times I would give her another chance after the Harman endorsement. And I did.
She blew it by not attending the Juno news debate. Then the gaslighting at the CSFN debate and the constant gaslighting by her campaign.
Kerry was always in my top 2 and Iain will remain in my top 2 as well.
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May 12
Are you telling me Chris Dacey couldn't make it to CSFN 2026 ? 😥
May 11
I remember when a Canadian journalist had to get a degree in university.
In conservative land being a high school drop-out & a convicted felon is all you need to be one. How times change.
It wasn't that long ago Tamara Lich is where conservatives went for medical advice.
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Were you at CSFN this past weekend? It is one of my favourite events of the year. I love meeting other people who care about individual responsibilities, limited government, and building a freer society. Check out my highlights from this year!
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Excellent words from Nigel Wright highlighted at CSFN Ottawa and in the Politico newsletter this morning:
"Despite everything I have said about being questioning and skeptical, try to do so while remaining open to people and intellectually open to ideas and arguments. It is simply not good to dismiss people and ideas without fair consideration. There is so much to learn, and you cannot miss out on the contest between ideas."
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My favourite photo from CSFN. A true freedom fighter and genuinely kind person. @LichTamara you are awesome!
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*** BC Conservative Leadership Dashboard Update - May 10th ***
Analyzed 1,175 comments from the CSFN April 24 debate and 816 comments from the May 9 Global News debate, both broken down by unique handle preference, narrative themes ranked by volume, and coordination flags.
Neither is a poll. Both are YouTube audience sentiment from two very different crowds: CSFN drew 23,500 views and 293 unique handles; Global News drew ~850 viewers and 93 handles.
I'm short credits to include everything, so no more updates until after the 15th. If you want to support, buymeacoffee link is in my bio. Link to the Dashboard is below in the first comment or pinned on my profile until June 1st.
We Keep Going
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1/2 I agree with this excellent Globe and Mail column by Shannon Proudfoot.
The column’s thesis is crystal clear and devastating: Canadians may be buying what Conservatives are selling on policy, but Poilievre’s relentlessly combative, blame-shifting, zero-self-reflection approach could be exactly why they’re still not ready to hand him the keys to 24 Sussex.
Spot-on, uncomfortable reading for anyone who wants the right to actually win.
“Pierre Poilievre encounters nothing but jerks, all day long”
theglobeandmail.com/politics…
Her piece is a masterclass in applying that old saying: “If you wake up in the morning and meet a jerk, you’ve met one jerk. If all you meet all day long are jerks, then perhaps you are the problem.”
She uses it as a lens to examine why Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre seems to run into hostility or indifference everywhere — even in friendly conservative rooms — and whether the common denominator might be him. Bullet-by-bullet breakdown of the full article:
• Proudfoot opens with the “jerk” adage (cleaned-up version) as a useful “interpersonal science experiment.”
She says if you’re constantly encountering jerks who “don’t get it,” it’s worth checking whether the common variable is you — sometimes you just need sleep or a snack, other times a deeper re-examination.
• She notes that Poilievre either has never heard this expression or has chosen not to contemplate it. This week he gave the keynote at the Canada Strong and Free Network (CSFN) conference in Ottawa — a major grassroots conservative event founded by Preston Manning (in whose old Calgary riding Poilievre grew up).
The conference also featured Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, former premiers Jason Kenney and Mike Harris, and ex-U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
• Poilievre’s speech was roughly 21 minutes long. He spent the first 17 minutes cataloguing “the carnage of a decade of Liberal rule” and the “malfeasance” of the current government.
He mentioned Justin Trudeau seven times.
Proudfoot jokes that someone should park him under Trudeau’s window with a boombox playing Sarah McLachlan’s I Will Remember You to help him move on.
• That brief post-election period where Poilievre talked about “learning lessons, adjustments and second chances” is now over. Instead, he doubled down on the argument that he “really won” the last election.
He highlighted the “record-smashing 8.3 million Canadians who voted for us” and listed all the “illusions” that are supposedly hiding the reality of continued Liberal governance (e.g., that Mark Carney would be more fiscally responsible, that the government is cracking down on crime, that housing and pipelines are actually getting built).
He blames it all on “the club of Liberal elites who dominate this town and every microphone in it.”
• Poilievre declared: “We have won every single debate on every single public-policy issue in the last decade — on inflation, carbon taxes, housing, drugs, crime, resource development, we’ve been proven right.”
He added that Conservatives have won so thoroughly that Liberals have stopped arguing and just started plagiarizing Conservative ideas.
• Proudfoot agrees that public opinion has shifted toward Conservative positions on those issues.
But she poses the key question: one lesson could be “you’ve been right the whole time… therefore zero adjustment is needed.”
The other, more useful lesson is to ask why so many Canadians now agree with the policies but still don’t want Poilievre to be the one implementing them.
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Black won Juno. CSFN was the Fulmer show. Fairly unassailable, in my opinion, having been in the room for both, and on stage right before the latter.
Results have varied since, with Elliott finding her groove and more of her natural comportment, Milobar upping his energy, and some strong, pugilistic moments from KLF.
May 10
Alright serious take on all the debates and campaigns
Over the 4 debates, I think Yuri did overall the best even if tonight was his worst night. He showed strong charisma and good lines. He also made an effort to differentiate himself on some policies (whether you like what he offers is another question). I thought he clearly won the CSFN debate for instance. I think he and his campaign made the right move many times over the last few months. It's a team that clearly knows what it takes to win a leadership race in BC. I'm not saying he's favorite, far from it, but it's a well executed campaign with a good candidate (even if I don't buy most of what he offers, I think Yuri is just good at changing and saying what he needs to, whether in politics or in the business world). Probably THE wild card of this race.
Elliott has been fine overall. Obviously she missed the Juno debate, which was a mistake. I think she lost the CSFN debate but did good at the last two debates. Like tonight she wasn't amazing but she was fine. She's the frontrunner too so you approach those debates differently when you are. She isn't super charismatic but she can hold her own while speaking. She likely needs to work on being more likeable. Even tonight, while being a sharp improvement over her perf at the CSFN debate, she still had a few moments where she came off condescending (and yes I do think we tend to judge women slightly differently when it comes to this - Look at me I'm woke). Beyond the debates, she is obviously running a good campaign. There is too much talent behind her for her campaign to suck. However she hasn't run an amazing campaign. As far as I'm concerned, she isn't my number one choice but I'll gladly vote for her if she is the leader during the next election. I do not understand people who think she's the worst or the best. She is good (very good on DRIPA). She isn't the next Mulroney but she also isn't a weakass BC Lib like Wilkinson.
Milobar did well at the ICBA 'debate' and was also pretty good tonight. Much better than during the CSFN debate. He has obviously decided that he wasn't gonna change himself fully and say what he needed to say in order to win this race. So I respect this. But yeah, he's not winning this thing and I'm fairly convinced he's currently last. He tried hard to go after Black tonight as he knows that his only chance is to win the "primary of the centrist" if he has any hope of going further with second ballots. I respect Peter more now than before the race started but I still do not want him as leader of this party.
KLF won tonight. And this is killing me to admit. Seriously, she was dead in the water 3 months ago and now she might well be the favorite. She has improved a lot and tonight showed it. She is running as the centrist option in this race, the 'true conservative without doing a deal with OneBC' if you prefer. I think it'll attract a LOT of people. Her main challenge will be to get her voters out, especially with the verification process. I suspect her and Fulmer have a lot of overlapping support.
Finally Black, who I'll still rank as number 1 on my ballot. If I'm being honest, I don't think Iain did particularly well in those debates. The Juno one was the best. I think his style is more suited for short speeches in front of a small audience or 1:1. As Milobar, I also feel he hasn't been willing enough to talk about cultural/social issues (but when he did he usually had a good position). He's clearly the strongest on the economy and I genuinely believe he's the most electable of the 5 in a general election. he'd likely win the centrist vote without putting OneBC at 15%.
Polls have shown that none of these 5 candidates have a 'rock star' status or massive impact on the polls. They all have similar favorability numbers and poll similarly (BC is a province where, outside of 2020, the Left and Right are always close anyway).
I think Elliott is still the favorite but KLF could represent a real challenge. Iain Black as well if he manages to get a lot of the voters of Milobar from the Interior. As for Yuri, well, he'll either surprise everyone and be top 2 after the first round or he'll fail miserably and finish last. I still expect all 5 candidates to be between 10 and 30%, although the crazily low verification numbers could create weird results.
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