I’m going to say this louder for all the Liberals and progressives saying they are outraged by Pierre Poilievre calling out the truth that so many of us millennial women and younger have had a hard time balancing making a life, a career and having kids. That we wait to have a

"The truth is: families are struggling. And too many would-be families aren’t starting at all". Great stuff Melanie Paradis: readtheline.ca/p/melanie-para…

Latest from Melanie Paradis now live at The Line: "Like, my dudes, for all your stupid rhetoric about The Handmaid’s Tale, have you read the damn book? It starts with a fertility crisis and birth rate collapse. If you don’t want the red capes, maybe we should get out in front

Melanie Paradis The Line "We’ve bailed out airlines and banks and battery plants. We’ve written big cheques for big business. When are we going to write one for the people who are actually creating new Canadians? Can I gently suggest that one of our major parties should be thinking about that, and not

Mel hits it out of the park on this one 👇👇 Melanie Paradis: Poilievre was right to bring up my biological clock "The Liberals have a huge blindspot on an issue that is intensely important to millions of young Canadians ... we want more children." readtheline.ca/p/melanie-para…

🎧I had a great chat with Tara Henley about why young Canadians trying to start or grow their family need politicians to fight for them. It is so refreshing that Pierre Poilievre is doing that. Other leaders should too. They are neglecting a hugely important conversation.

NEW FROM ME: It was a debate that lacked any real defining moments, pundits tell me — except for Jagmeet Singh not letting anyone finish a damned sentence Thanks to Sharan Kaur and Melanie Paradis for your insight torontosun.com/news/national/…

For the The Telegraph, Harriet Barber on a proposal for major a shakeup in U.S. diplomacy, with huge cuts to operations in Africa and Canada. “The leaked order outlines drastic changes to the State Department…one of the biggest rounds of restructuring since its founding in 1789.”

“So-called ‘non-essential’ embassies and consulates in sub-Saharan Africa would also be closed … All Canada operations would also be moved to a new North American Affairs Office, which would fall under the remit of Marco Rubio, the secretary of state.” telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…

By J Mac in Yahoo Finance: Trump has cut how many Canadians would move to the U.S. for work by half. But some now want to move south even more. “Among those who say they had considered moving, 31% say their main motivation was higher compensation.” ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-us-…

This is best political ad going right now. I tip my hat to whoever wrote this. Beauty!

We need to think more about Canada as an inheritance. As a place many of our ancestors came to with little. For whom the slow march of generations has been about making us grateful, not about making us soft. 4/5

Under Doug Ford, we have more funding for police, more private service delivery in healthcare, and more tough-on-crime judges, while running the lowest cost (per capita) provincial budget in Canada. That’s conservative.

Premier Tim Houston is getting national attention for our government's progress on many files including breaking down trade barriers, cutting taxes, and building a stronger economy. 📈 Our PC government is Making it Happen.

As I have said on here before Travis Dhanraj was one of my first "major" followers. Back when I had maybe a few hundred of them. I didn't always agree with everything he said or the angle of his stories. But he is a great journalist & it is entirely accurate to say that

Travis Dhanraj’s lawyer, Kathryn Marshall, said Monday that the CBC didn’t want him booking “Conservative voices” on his show nationalpost.com/news/canada/cb…

VIA Rail is once again cutting service to Belleville with just a week’s notice leaving passengers scrambling. Smaller communities like ours rely heavily on this service, and this pilot program will hurt commuters in our riding. Eastern Ontario MPs are pushing back to ensure

The federal government has promised new legislation to finally fix its broken bail system. Today, we wrote to the federal government, laying out Ontario’s expectation for tough bail reform that keeps criminals behind bars and keeps our streets safe.