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Liberal Bruce Fanjoy topples Pierre Poilievre in Carleton

Conservative leader projected to lose his longtime Ottawa riding

CBC News · Posted: Apr 29, 2025 5:48 AM ADT | Last Updated: 1 hour ago

Canadian ex-PM Jean Chrétien ,91, seeks to help Liberals match his 1993 landslide victory by employing his famous Shawinigan Handshake to the Orange Menace.

Jean introduces Donald to the Shawinigan Handshake

 “I was enraged when Trump treated our Prime Minister like a nobody.We are united against threats of annexation by President Donald Trump. I have witnessed many challenges in my lifetime, and we have always overcome them. This time will be no different, as Canadians will choose the most reliable political institution in the Western world: the Liberal Party of Canada.”

“Trump has helped us so much for Canadian unity that I will propose him for the Order of Canada,” he said at a recent event in Quebec City, referring to the country’s highest honour. “But they told me that in Canada, you can’t give the Order of Canada to someone who has a criminal record.”

Court Painter & painting “Jean introduces Donald to the Shawinigan Handshake”

Shawinigan Handshake is the epithet given to a chokehold executed on February 15, 1996, by Jean Chrétien, then-Prime Minister of Canada, on anti-poverty protester Bill Clennett. The phrase comes from Chrétien’s birthplace of, Shawinigan,Quebec as he often styled himself the “little guy from Shawinigan”.

Court Painter in orbuculum studio as election day approaches

POLL DOUBTERS: Court Painter seen with his Press Attache AHM in the orbuculum studio.

Court Painter, ever the unyielding visionary in the milieu of political prognostications and punditry, stands proudly as a fervent doubter of polls and their rolling forecasts. His illustrious career as a painterly seer and oracle of the political realm finds its sustenance not in mundane data nor head counting, but in the time tested intuitions of the orbuclum—that resplendent glowing sphere of shimmering foresight, known to the common tongue as the crystal ball. Within its argent depths he beholds political destinies yet to be written, penetrating through the mists and swirls of prophecy, defying the prolific pundits and puerile prognosticators.

Court Painter’s record of prophecy is a well kept secret however his sale of crystal orbs is doing a brisk election time business.

Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has released the fully costed platform with more than $31 billion in deficits this year.

The measures include a 15 per cent income tax cut for Canadians making an annual salary of $57,000 a year. 

The new promises would result in a deficit of $31.4 billion in 2025-2026; $31.5 billion in 2026-2027; $23.6 billion in 2027-2028; and $14.2 billion in 2028-2029. 

Poilievre claimed that his plan will cut the “Liberal deficit by 70 per cent” by cutting back on “bureaucracy, consultants, foreign aid to dictators and terrorists.” He says he will slash money for special interests and unleash “half a trillion dollars of extra economic growth by unlocking the power of resources in home building.”

Court Painter seen tuning a stringed instrument

Former Bank Governor seen poised to contribute his two cents worth.

A former Bank Governor says the numbers in Conservative Pierre Poilievre’s costed plan “are a joke.”

The former Bank Governor also slammed the platform as having “phantom numbers” and “phantom growth that comes from the sky.”

“We aren’t in a joke. We are in the worst crisis in our lives,”the former Bank Governor said , noting that Poilievre does not have a plan to challenge U.S. President Donald Trump.

Court Painter stares intently into the crystal ball.

Recent reports revealed that Pierre Poilievre, Leader of the Conservative Opposition Party, was coached for his Closing Statement in the English-language debate by emotional influencer Jordan Peterson. The Poilievre team brought in a weeping Peterson to help soften Poilievre’s image and television persona, a move that was, by some accounts, successful.

‘Indeed, Poilievre showed his softer side. When noting some of the conversations he’d had with Canadians on the campaign trail about the everyday struggles they were enduring, his voice cracked with emotion. “I want you to know, out there, I haven’t forgotten about you,” he said.‘ The Winnipeg Sun/April 19/25

Coach Peterson led off reminding Poilievre that politics unlike baseball encouraged crying . The Coach was reportedly somewhat disappointed that Poilievre, although getting to the vulnerable voice cracking emotional stage, failed to turn on the full waterworks he had hoped for and expected from his client.

That’s all we know at this time!

At a time when the moral panic over smartphones is reaching a fever pitch, appliance manufacturers are rushing to add communication tools and screens to every item under the sun, blurring the line between what constitutes as “screen time.”

Taylor Lorenz User Mag 

TAYLOR LORENZ APR 16

Court Painter called upon his Press Attache AHM and studio resident consumer critic Chatterley Glitter Pantaloon Thwart (ChatGPT) to address in rhyming couplets the product rollout that examines ‘everyone scream for more screens.‘

Hark, good people of Consumerland,
Let news of screens go hand in hand.
From digital vaults a plan unfurled—
To juice up screams upon the world.

With “Screens Everywhere, Screams Everywhere!”
They push distraction through the air.
A vision grim, both wide and deep,
Where data leaks and kids never sleep.

The fridge now boasts a glowing face,
Nine inches wide, it claims its place.
To store thy food? Nay, that’s passé—
It streams and pings the livelong day.

The oven, once a humble tool,
Now joins the glowing, buzzing school.
A screen it bears—a foolish flair—
To broil thy roast with vacant stare.

The vacuum sings of texts and calls,
Its LCD a siren’s thrall.
The Bespoke Jet, with flashing screen,
Will tell thee when thy phone doth ring.

And lo! The washer joins the fray,
A phone it is, you brag to say!
Thy dryer too doth speak and beep,
Disturbing even laundry’s sleep.

No corner safe, no room immune—
The laundry room hath found its tune.
A 7-inch AI Home does glare,
Bestowing brands with digital flair.

At CES, the screen parade
Marched through each booth with bright charade.
From coffee pots to motor cars,
They twinkle like monetized stars.

GE, not one to be outdone,
Their AI fridge a chatting one.
It speaks of meals, it leaves a note—
A digital friend with a frigid coat.

Beyond the home, more screens awake,
Devices buzz for profit’s sake.
If Mom should take thy phone away,
Fear not—the vape is here to play.

These vapors now with screens so sly,
Let texting fill the smoky sky.
They flash and chime with tweet and game—
A digital pipe with power to shame.

Each gadget born with profit aim,
Now seeks distraction’s attention flame.
The CES, that grand bazaar,
Reveal the screen’s rising star.

A million screens in every place,
Invade thy time, thy soul, thy space.
And thus unfolds the dire campaign—
Of privacy lost and silent pain.

So let us choke and softly scream,
As screens devour each human dream.
For what was once the hearth and home,
Now scrolls within the digital dome.

Gary U.S. Bonds that is!

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Gary U.S. Bonds (born Gary Levone Anderson; June 6, 1939)is an American rhythm and blues and rock and roll singer, known for his hits “New Orleans” and “Quarter to Three“.His first three singles and first album, Dance ‘Til Quarter to Three, were released under the U.S. Bonds name, but people assumed it was the name of a group. To avoid confusion, subsequent releases, including his second album Twist Up Calypso, were made under the name Gary (U.S.) Bonds. The parentheses were discarded in the 1970s.

On other U.S. bond news

United States President Donald Trump’s tariffs roil global financial markets .

Trump’s trade salvoes have sent stock markets on a rollercoaster ride and it is the turmoil in the bond markets – the fall of bonds in tandem with stocks – that has prompted the most concern among economists.

For bonds specifically, China is the second-largest foreign holder of US government debt, so one potential escalation could see China strategically unloading some of those positions.

Bonds are a type of investment that involves the buyer lending money to a government or corporation for a specified period.

Bonds issued by the US Treasury are especially favoured by investors as a safe haven asset since they have the backing of the world’s most powerful government and top economy.

Edited Source:Al Jazeera April 15/25

Trump claims he’s ‘solved’ his bond market problem, but he really hasn’t

Asked about the bond market, the president said, “I am very good at that stuff.” It’d be great if that were true, but it’s not.

Less than a day after his trade tariffs were fully implemented, Donald Trump dramatically altered his policy, announcing a 90-day “pause” for much of his agenda.The actual explanation was far scarier.NBC News reported that there was deep concern — “bordering on panic” — among top White House officials about the bond markets, which was the real reason for Trump’s reversal.

Edited Source: MSNBC :April 14, 2025,

Court Painter is recommending this TVO interview as worth the view.

Anand Giridharadas joins the program ‘Has the Left Failed in Trump’s America’. He’s the author of “The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy” and “Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World.”

Court Painter tasked the studio resident scribe Chatterley Grandiouse Penelope Tinkerer (Chat GPT) to connect the Trump imposed tariffs and their impact on the global trade order,through the lens of the global village concept:

Chieftain & Drowning America

Tariffs in the Global Village: How Trump’s Trade War Proved the World Is More Interconnected Than Ever

In 1970, Saturday Review noted a shift that would come to define the modern age: “There are no boundaries in a global village. All problems will become so intimate as to be one’s own.” Inspired by media theorist Marshall McLuhan’s concept of the global village, the phrase reflected a growing awareness that technology was shrinking the world—turning distant events into local concerns and foreign crises into personal ones. This interconnectedness also reveals its vulnerabilities, as seen in President Trump’s current unilateral trade actions: an unrestrained, autocratic chieftain—unimpeded by the constitutional structure of his republic—can transform a chieftain in a global village into a rogue actor, instantly upending the established world trade order.

The tariffs, far from being a domestic trade balance lever, became a global disruptor in the hands of an irrational chieftain.

America & Black Hole

This isn’t just about economics. It is a test of the very idea the Saturday Review warned about: that in a global village, no decision is isolated. Boundaries on a map may still exist, but the systems that connect countries — through agreed upon values, finance, technology, and trade — do not recognize physical borders in the same way and remain instantly vulnerable to the irrational whims of an out of control entitled Orange Menace Chieftain unrestrained by democratic norms.

America at Event Horizon

Marshall McLuhan & Quote

Court Painter & Marshall McLuhan quote

Seems Court Painter became enamoured with the latest stock market and Great Dominion election race tracking and ventured to render two works based only on the data tracker lines. Can you believe it!?

Court Painter egged on by his Press Attache AHM …suggests by extracting selected data from the original context of the lines, he was making an art statement by merely

taking the lines for a walk.

Popularly known for the phrase ‘taking a line for a walk’, artist and Bauhaus teacher Paul Klee describes the first category of line within his Pedagogical Sketchbook of 1925 as:

An active line on a walk, moving freely, without goal. A walk for a walk’s sake. The mobility agent is a point, shifting its position forward.