{"id":3473,"date":"2026-04-13T21:59:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T21:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/3473\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T21:59:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T21:59:42","slug":"afternoon-front-page-carney-likely-to-win-majority-government-in-monday-byelections-why-canadas-defence-is-still-a-mess-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/3473\/","title":{"rendered":"Afternoon front page: Carney likely to win majority government in Monday byelections; why Canada\u2019s defence is still a mess; and more"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s Monday, April 13. Here are the top stories we\u2019re following today.<\/p>\n

Carney one seat away from majority as voters go to the polls in three federal byelections today<\/p>\n

The Liberals only need to win one of the three byelections to have a slim majority and are heavy favourites in the two Toronto ridings.<\/p>\n

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With government press releases claiming that Canada\u2019s defence budget meets NATO\u2019s two-per-cent-of-GDP target, Canadians might think we\u2019ve become serious about defence, but our allies and our enemies have reason to question that.<\/p>\n

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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre speaks to reporters on Westminster Bridge overlooking the Thames River in London, U.K., on his first international trip as Opposition leader, March 3, 2026.<\/p>\n

The U.K. Tories need help. And they\u2019re turning to Pierre Poilievre\u2019s Conservatives for advice<\/p>\n

Britain\u2019s Conservative Party, which is trailing Reform UK in the polls, hopes to avoid a long schism like the one between Canadian right-wing parties that led to the Reform party contributing heavily to the Progressive Conservatives\u2019 historic defeat in the 1993 federal election.<\/p>\n

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A Quebec judge alleges Crown prosecutors are seeking lighter sentences for non-citizens to avoid deportation from Canada.<\/p>\n

Judge accuses Montreal prosecutors of proposing \u2018candy\u2019 sentences for criminals at risk of deportation<\/p>\n

The judge accused the provincial prosecutor of creating an \u201cunnecessary\u201d two-tier sentencing system by \u201cregularly\u201d proposing absolute discharges or lenient sentences specifically for non-Canadians convicted of crimes because they risk deportation.<\/p>\n

Read the story<\/a><\/p>\n

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People attend a pro-Israel rally across from McGill University in Montreal, Oct. 7, 2024.<\/p>\n

Jesse Kline: Israel-haters have largely failed to persuade Canadians, according to new poll<\/p>\n

The vast majority of respondents (80 per cent) agree that the \u201cJewish people have a right to a homeland,\u201d and three-quarters believe \u201cIsrael has a right to defend itself,\u201d despite the Leger poll finding that, \u201cCanadians hold generally unfavourable views of Israel\u201d at the moment.<\/p>\n

Read the column<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Monday, April 13. Here are the top stories we\u2019re following today. Carney one seat away from majority…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[597,817,2168,111,2169],"class_list":{"0":"post-3473","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mark-carney","8":"tag-byelections","9":"tag-canadians","10":"tag-defence-budget","11":"tag-mark-carney","12":"tag-reform-uk"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}