Is Pierre Poilievre's leadership actually crumbling — or are Canadians watching another mainstream media distraction while Mark Carney's government avoids scrutiny?

Tonight I'm joined by Rob Anders, former Member of Parliament, founding member of the Conservative Party of Canada and someone who has known Pierre Poilievre since he was just 14 years old.

With Conservative MPs crossing the floor, longtime party members walking away and questions surrounding Poilievre's leadership dominating the headlines, there are two very different stories being told.

One says the Conservative Party is fractured and Pierre Poilievre is the problem.

The other says Canada's mainstream media is obsessing over the opposition while giving Mark Carney and the Liberal government a free pass.

So which is it?

Rob Anders has been around the Canadian conservative movement for decades and knew Pierre long before most Canadians had ever heard his name. That gives him a perspective on Poilievre, the Conservative Party and the Canadian conservative movement that very few people can offer.

We get into what's happening inside the Conservative Party, what conservatism actually means in Canada today, whether Pierre still represents those values and how much difference really remains between Canada's major political parties.

We also examine the growing argument that Canada effectively has a Uniparty — where Conservatives may campaign against Liberal policies but too often participate in the same political system once they arrive in Ottawa.

And with Canadians increasingly frustrated by both the government and the opposition, the conversation ultimately goes somewhere much bigger than Pierre Poilievre:

Can Canadians still vote themselves out of the mess we're in?

This isn't about defending Pierre Poilievre or attacking him.

It's about figuring out what's actually happening inside Canada's Conservative Party, whether the criticism of its leader is justified, and whether Canadians are being distracted from the people currently running the country.

Let me know what you think in the comments.

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For nearly two weeks, over 1,000 international graduates — most of them from Punjab, India — have been protesting in Calgary, staging a hunger strike after their Post-Graduation Work Permit applications were rejected en masse.

Yesterday, CBSA officers showed up directly at the protest site, checking immigration documents and flagging 12 people as possibly inadmissible to Canada.

Danielle Smith backed the move, saying a student visa was always meant to be temporary. Civil rights advocates are calling it a dangerous precedent — the first time border enforcement has directly targeted an active protest site in recent Canadian history.

Tonight, independent journalist Jason Lavigne joins me to break it all down — what the actual rules say, how many international students are really in Canada, and why this is happening now.

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Danielle Smith released a video today addressing six questions Albertans have been asking about the Meta AI data centre. What she conveniently left out is where this story actually gets interesting.

She never mentioned the $70 billion Wonder Valley project — the largest AI data centre in the world, also being built in Alberta. She called the levy "no taxpayer backstop," but didn't mention it doesn't start collecting until December 2026, and companies can offset it entirely through existing tax credits. She touted a 6% drop in your transmission bill — which works out to about $1.80 a month. And she never once mentioned Mark Carney's AI For All program, the $200 billion federal strategy that explains exactly who these data centres are really being built for.

Tonight I break down her video question by question — what she said, what the numbers actually mean, and why Alberta becoming the centre of Canada's AI infrastructure might make separation a lot harder than anyone's admitting.

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