Pécresse peut souffler ! L’encombrant François Fillon a fini par démissionner de ses mandats aux conseils d’administration des géants russes de pétrochimie Sibur et Zarubezhneft, contrôlés par des oligarques proches de Poutine. Mais l’ex-chancelier social-démocrate Gerhard Schröder s’accroche, lui, à son siège chez Gazprom, en particulier au conseil des actionnaires du gazoduc Nord Stream 2. L’auteur de l’odieuse loi travail allemande, qui n’a jamais caché vouloir « gagner de l’argent » après la politique, embarrasse fortement l’actuel chancelier, Olaf Scholz, dont toute l’ascension politique s’est faite dans le sillage de Schröder…

A Financial Times analysis of more than 350,000 posts on X related to the election, gathered since the snap poll was announced in March, revealed a network of co-ordinated accounts pushing content to boost Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre and tarnish his counterpart, the Liberal’s Mark Carney.

Foreign electoral interference has been a concern in Canada after a government-appointed commission in January reported China, India and Russia had tried to influence the country’s elections.

In the current campaign, researchers say an increasing volume of misinformation is coming from the US, including from rightwing podcasters and influencers as well as bots on American social media platforms that have reduced content controls.

... While opinion polls show Carney’s Liberals ahead of Poilievre’s Conservatives, the vast majority of X posts — roughly 80 per cent — analysed by the FT are critical of Carney, while the majority of posts about Poilievre are favourable.

...Cyabra, a Tel Aviv-based company that tracks disinformation, also uncovered a widespread bot-driven campaign on various social media platforms against Carney, in which fake accounts portrayed him as an “unelected elitist” and spread doctored images.

Research by the Canadian Digital Media Research Network, an anti-disinformation platform, has found Facebook groups have been used to support for the idea of Canada becoming a US state — a threat US President Donald Trump has repeatedly made.

The network has also found the proportion of Canadians who say they are concerned about deceptive political influence originating from the US has increased dramatically. Its findings show voters are more concerned about covert political meddling from the US than from China, Russia or India.

[...]ZERO TARIFFS OR TAXES [...] America can no longer subsidize Canada[...]

Good luck to the Great people of Canada. Elect the man who has the strength and wisdom to cut your taxes in half, increase your military power, for free, to the highest level in the World, have your Car, Steel, Aluminum, Lumber, Energy, and all other businesses, QUADRUPLE in size, WITH ZERO TARIFFS OR TAXES, if Canada becomes the cherished 51st. State of the United States of America. No more artificially drawn line from many years ago. Look how beautiful this land mass would be. Free access with NO BORDER. ALL POSITIVES WITH NO NEGATIVES. IT WAS MEANT TO BE! America can no longer subsidize Canada with the Hundreds of Billions of Dollars a year that we have been spending in the past. It makes no sense unless Canada is a State!

Good luck to the Great people of Canada. Elect the man who has the strength and wisdom to cut your taxes in half, increase your military power, for free, to the highest level in the World, have your Car, Steel, Aluminum, Lumber, Energy, and all other businesses, QUADRUPLE in size, WITH ZERO TARIFFS OR TAXES, if Canada becomes the cherished 51st. State of the United States of America. No more artificially drawn line from many years ago. Look how beautiful this land mass would be. Free access with NO BORDER. ALL POSITIVES WITH NO NEGATIVES. IT WAS MEANT TO BE! America can no longer subsidize Canada with the Hundreds of Billions of Dollars a year that we have been spending in the past. It makes no sense unless Canada is a State!

L’Arenh (Accès régulé à l’électricité nucléaire historique), c’est ce système inventé de toutes pièces sous la présidence de Nicolas Sarkozy pour accélérer la libéralisation du secteur de l’énergie, sous l’impulsion de l’Union européenne. La seule véritable règle de ce système est de permettre aux acteurs alternatifs de revendre aux usagers – devenus des clients – l’électricité produite par EDF, plus chère que si lesdits usagers étaient restés chez EDF. Le tout, en leur faisant croire qu’ils allaient y gagner, et dans le seul but d’engranger des bénéfices.

Au cours de son audition, Nicolas Sarkozy a pris la défense du controversé mécanisme de l'Arenh, entré en vigueur le 1er juillet 2011, après l'adoption de la loi "portant nouvelle organisation du marché de l'électricité (Nome). "On ne peut pas garder un modèle avec EDF assis sur toutes les centrales nucléaires françaises qui ne vend pas son énergie aux autres (...) c'est pas l'Union soviétique ici", a commenté l'ancien chef de l'Etat, qui s'est dit "pour l'ouverture à la concurrence".

Pierre Poilievre, leader of Canada’s Conservative Party, seemed set to become Canada’s next prime minister at the start of 2025.
 
For more than a year, his party had a 20-point lead in opinion polls over then-Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party and momentum toward a landslide victory.
 
Then came President Trump.

L’Arenh (Accès régulé à l’électricité nucléaire historique), c’est ce système inventé de toutes pièces sous la présidence de Nicolas Sarkozy pour accélérer la libéralisation du secteur de l’énergie, sous l’impulsion de l’Union européenne. La seule véritable règle de ce système est de permettre aux acteurs alternatifs de revendre aux usagers – devenus des clients – l’électricité produite par EDF, plus chère que si lesdits usagers étaient restés chez EDF. Le tout, en leur faisant croire qu’ils allaient y gagner, et dans le seul but d’engranger des bénéfices.

Au cours de son audition, Nicolas Sarkozy a pris la défense du controversé mécanisme de l'Arenh, entré en vigueur le 1er juillet 2011, après l'adoption de la loi "portant nouvelle organisation du marché de l'électricité (Nome). "On ne peut pas garder un modèle avec EDF assis sur toutes les centrales nucléaires françaises qui ne vend pas son énergie aux autres (...) c'est pas l'Union soviétique ici", a commenté l'ancien chef de l'Etat, qui s'est dit "pour l'ouverture à la concurrence".

Good luck to the Great people of Canada. Elect the man who has the strength and wisdom to cut your taxes in half, increase your military power, for free, to the highest level in the World, have your Car, Steel, Aluminum, Lumber, Energy, and all other businesses, QUADRUPLE in size, WITH ZERO TARIFFS OR TAXES, if Canada becomes the cherished 51st. State of the United States of America. No more artificially drawn line from many years ago. Look how beautiful this land mass would be. Free access with NO BORDER. ALL POSITIVES WITH NO NEGATIVES. IT WAS MEANT TO BE! America can no longer subsidize Canada with the Hundreds of Billions of Dollars a year that we have been spending in the past. It makes no sense unless Canada is a State!