Any sense that this was once a university is gone.

In a statement issued Tuesday, White House spokesperson Anna Kelly said the Canadian election “does not affect President Trump’s plan to make Canada America’s cherished 51st state.”Carney spoke with Trump, and the two leaders “agreed on the importance of Canada and the United States working together — as independent, sovereign nations — for their mutual betterment,” Carney’s office said in a statement. The men “agreed to meet in person in the near future.”

hoped to make the election a referendum on, whose popularity declined toward the end of his decade in power as food and housing prices rose.and Carney, a two-time central banker,

In a concession speech before the race call on his own seat, Poilievre vowed to keep fighting for Canadians.“We are cognizant of the fact that we didn’t get over the finish line yet,” Poilievre said. “We know that change is needed, but change is hard to come by. It takes time. It takes work. And that’s why we have to learn the lessons of tonight.”

McGill University political science professor Daniel Béland said nothing prevents Poilievre from remaining the Conservative leader without a seat but, if he decides to stay, he would need to run in another district — perhaps by asking a Conservative member of Parliament from a safe Conservative district to resign.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and his wife Anaida at his campaign headquarters on election night, in Ottawa, Tuesday, April 29, 2025. (Christinne Muschi/The Canadian Press via AP)By then, conservatives had already

Francis, betrayed after he opened debate on allowing remarried Catholics to receive the sacraments if they didn’t get an annulment — a church ruling that their first marriage was invalid.“We don’t like this pope,” headlined Italy’s conservative daily Il Foglio a few months into the papacy, reflecting the unease of the small but vocal traditionalist Catholic movement.

Those same critics amplified their complaints after Francis approved church blessings for same-sex couples, and a controversial accord with China over nominating bishops.Its details were never released, but conservative critics bashed it as a sellout to communist China, while the Vatican defended it as the best deal it could get.