The Canadian Arts Coalition is made up of member organizations and individuals representing thousands of cultural workers and artists from across Canada. The CAC asks all parties to commit to allocating a minimum of one percent of the annual federal budget to arts and culture, which is an increase of only 0.06% from current levels. This would include increases to the Canada Council for the Arts and the Department of Canadian Heritage. While the specifics of the funding ask are all available on the Coalition website, the ArtsVote campaign is grassroots: everyone is to be able to participate and make their voice heard no matter whether they work in the arts sector directly or are a supporter.
The UN reports that at least 14,500 children have been killed in Gaza– also probably a dramatic undercount. The real mortality figure is probably unknowable, not least because so many families have been killed at once, leaving no one to account for some babies or toddlers ever having existed.
Beyond the mass death, international agencies suggest that at least 110,000 people in Gaza have been injured, including at least 25,000 children. And Unicef estimates that between 3,000 and 4,000 children in Gaza have had one or more limbs amputated.
That small tract of earth is now home to more child amputees per inhabitant than anywhere else in the world.
Court Painter roused the resident studio scribe, Chatterley Geraldine Persnickety Twitterstorm (ChatGPT),and in-studio editor AHM to take up the headlines from National Newswatch Election News, March 25, 2025, and poetically render the day’s events in a flowery, Bardian, rhyming couplet style, as the news lay broken before our eyes or is it at our feet..?
Court Painter also introduces a few of the political thespians on the electorial stage.
Carney doth call for talks both true and grave, Lest trade wars drag us to a darkened cave. With tariffs poised, he seeks a measured course, Not theatre false nor rhetoric’s brute force.
He vows to strengthen arms by sea and land, With steel-clad ships and warriors at hand. Let submarines and icebreakers be made, And soldiers’ serve with richer coin be paid.
McKelvie now doth seek a loftier seat, From council halls to where the nations meet. With Ajax’ trust, she strides into the fray, To aid her banner in election’s play.
Carney strikes Poilievre with sharp disdain, For laxity in threats from foreign reign. “Thy folly leaves our land exposed!” he cries, As dark whisperings from India arise.
Fraser, who once did hint he’d bid adieu, Now seeks again the people’s trust anew. No parting bow, no exit from the stage, He takes his stand to turn another page.
The clash of wits in debates fierce arise, Yet Carney’s French absence stirs the people’s cries. With TVA’s lost duel, he doth offend, Whilst crowds and tongues shape fates that do depend.
Alberta’s name doth echo through the fight, With Smith’s bold tongue now casting greater light. As Trump’s spectre once again haunts centre stage, In Danielle’s western hands now the battle doth wage.
Some whisper low, “The Liberals hold the field, Unless to fate and folly they do yield.” Yet fickle winds may turn with sudden might, And what seems sure may vanish out of sight.
Poilievre doth promise homes at lesser cost, And lift the toll that Island folk must cross. Let GST on shelters meet its doom, So buyers’ hopes may once again find room.
Bernier calls for purse-strings to be tight, No aid abroad, mean coffers kept in sight. A smaller throne, a leaner rule he craves, No coin for kings beyond our northern waves.
The NDP, with housing as its plea, Would open lands to shape affordability. To raise the roofs where homeless hearts may dwell, And break the chains where costly burdens swell.
The hour is nigh, the banners are unfurled, Each advocate poses to shape a nation’s world.
Performer seen clutching his eventual fate.
President Trump with plan of the staging of Canada becoming the HUGE number 51.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is under fire for an interview she did March 8 with Breitbart in the U.S. over controversial remarks that appear to suggest she asked the Trump administration to lay off their tariff threats until after a Canadian federal election in the hopes of seeing Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives elected.
In the interview, with Breitbart Washington correspondent Matthew Boyle.
Excerpts:
“Before the tariff war, I would say yes. I mean, Pierre Poilievre is the name of the Conservative Party leader, and he was miles ahead of Justin Trudeau. But because of what we see as unjust and unfair tariffs, it’s actually caused an increase in the support for the liberals,” Smith responded. “And so that’s what I fear, is that the longer this dispute goes on, politicians posture, and it seems to be benefiting the Liberals right now. So I would hope that we could put things on pause is what I’ve told administration officials. Let’s just put things on pause so we can get through an election.”
She told Boyle that Poilievre, as prime minister, would open the door to a number of opportunities between Canada and the United States.
“Let’s have the best person at the table make the argument… and I think that’s Pierre Poilievre, and I do agree with you that… if we do have Pierre as our prime minister, then I think that there’s a number of things that we could do together,” Smith detailed. “Pierre believes in development. He believes in low-cost energy. He believes that we need to have low taxes, doesn’t believe in any of the woke stuff that we’ve seen taking over our politics for the last five years.
Award Winner Pierre ‘Brain Rotter‘ Poilievre
“So I would think that there’d be, there’s probably still always going to be areas that are skirmishes or disputes about particular industries when it comes to the border,
but I would say, on balance, the perspective that Pierre would bring would be very much in sync with, I think…the new direction in America,” she added. “And I think we’d have a really great relationship for the period of time they’re both in.”
Premier Danielle Smith said that in her first face-to-face meeting with the new prime minister Mark Carney, she gave him an earful on wildfires and oil sales and warned him that national unity hangs in the balance.
“I provided a specific list of demands the next prime minister, regardless of who that is, must address within the first six months of their term to avoid an unprecedented national unity crisis,” the Alberta premier stated after her morning meeting with Carney in the Alberta capital.
In mythological high spirits, Court Painter undertook a series of faces bearing a striking resemblance to Danielle Smith.
It’s hard to know what to say other than there’s a serious border skirmish going on between the Great Dominion and our southern neighbour the United States of Antagonism.
Court Painter is very appreciative of the subjects who came together so quickly in these troubled times to enact the tableaus for this latest Border Skirmish series.
The illustrious and ever-ambitious Court Painter Studio Enterprise, that grand bastion of artistic excellence and political portraiture, stands ever-vigilant in its quest to expand its esteemed clientele among the high and mighty! And lo! With the dawn of a new prime ministerial era in the Great Dominion, the studio found itself in a fevered state of prime sales fervor, eager to ensnare yet another figure of power within its gilded frames of immortalized grandeur.
Court Painter in studio settings
Thus, with all the pomp and ceremony befitting such a momentous occasion, the distinguished Prime Minister Carney was granted an exclusive, behind-the-velvet-curtain tour of the hallowed studio where artistic alchemy transpires! He beheld the sacred chambers where masterstrokes are conjured with divine inspiration, where pigments are swirled in an exquisite ballet of color, and where the maestro’s brush dances across the canvas with breathtaking virtuosity. The tour included a masterful self portrait demonstration of the delicate art of color mixing, the enrapturing spectacle of deft brushwork, and—most crucial of all—the sacred rituals of proper portrait-viewing etiquette, ensuring that each stroke is admired from the most flattering and reverential vantage point.
The culmination of the tour included Court Painter surprising the newly minted PM with a souvenir portrait that he could hang in his residence.
Court Painter in portrait painting mode
And thus, the Prime Minister, visibly moved and brimming with admiration, took his leave—but not before bestowing upon the Court Painter the ultimate token of intrigue and promise: his calling card. A silent whisper of future commissions and a burgeoning reputation lay within that simple yet potent gesture.
Court Painter seen with recent portrait of PM Carney with Nemesis
OTTAWA — Mark Carney was sworn in as Canada’s 24th prime minister in a ceremony at Rideau Hall on Friday morning, along with a leaner Liberal cabinet that he said is focused on “meeting the moment” and facing down the threat posed by U.S. President Donald Trump.
In his first press conference as prime minister, Carney said his government will concentrate on growing the economy, making life more affordable and making the country more secure.
“One of the top issues, of course, is the crisis with respect to the United States, and the opportunity with respect to trade diversification,” he said.
Prime Minister Carney must deal immediately with the south of the border deranged presidential menace .
Meanwhile shortly after PM Carney was appointed, President Donald J Trump was quoted as saying:
“If you look at a map, they drew an artificial line right through it, between Canada and the U.S., just a straight artificial line. Somebody did it a long time ago, many many decades ago, and it makes no sense.”
