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Some stories set the world on fire. And these ones are the most popular online stories from the past seven days, clicked on by Sun readers like you.
Here are our top stories:
Donald Trump brags that he cost Pierre Poilievre federal election
Donald Trump loves taking credit for most things, if not all things.
So it was hardly shocking when the U.S. President weighed in on Canada’s federal election and said the results were all thanks to him.
Mark Carney’s Liberals won, while NDP Jagmeet Singh resigned as the party leader and Pierre Poilievre lost the race for prime minister and his own riding, where he served as MP for 21 years.
“You know, until I came along, remember that the Conservative was leading by 25 points,” Trump boasted in an interview with The Atlantic published Monday.
“Then I was disliked by enough of the Canadians that I’ve thrown the election into a close call, right?” he told the publication ahead of the vote. “I don’t even know if it’s a close call.”
The Conservatives were cruising a few months ago and looked like a lock to gain power with a seemingly insurmountable lead over the Liberals in the polls.
Then came the wild card – Trump was elected president, Justin Trudeau stepped down and Carney took over as Liberal leader.
Trump’s “51st state” talk combined with imposing tariffs on Canada and other countries certainly drove many votes to the Liberals.
Carney capitalized on it all, and here we are.
‘Hostility’ between Mitch Marner, Leafs could see star winger leave Toronto, Bissonnette says
Paul Bissonnette consistently stirred the pot during his days as an NHL tough guy – and now the former player is doing the same as a commentator.
The retired enforcer caused a stir when he said that “a little hostility” between Maple Leafs star forward Mitch Marner and the organization could lead to the winger leaving Toronto this summer.
During an appearance on the Pat McAfee Show on Monday, Bissonnette – known by many as BizNasty – was sharing his thoughts on the Pittsburgh Penguins firing longtime coach Mike Sullivan and what the Pens can do this summer to improve next season.
Bissonnette pointed towards Marner, largely viewed as the NHL’s biggest pending free agent, and his connection to Kyle Dubas, the former Leafs GM who now runs the Penguins.
“One (upcoming top-tier free agent) that probably sticks out is Mitch Marner (who) hasn’t signed yet,” Bissonnette said. “He’s a Toronto Maple Leaf. Kyle Dubas loves Mitch Marner. He was with him in Toronto.”
”There’s a little hostility between the Maple Leafs and Marner, based on the fact that they tried to trade him at the deadline for Mikko Rantanen, who was available, and they were willing to part ways with Mitch Marner, even though he had a 100-point season,” he added.
Marner is coming off the first 100-point season of his nine-year career with the Leafs, registering 27 goals and 75 assists in 81 games.
The Markham native is expected to command one of the biggest contracts in the league, possibly worth $14 million per year.
Delta passengers forced to ‘hold the plane together’ after roof caves in
Talk about a ‘soary’ state of affairs.
Travellers on a recent Delta flight from Atlanta to Chicago were forced to deal with an unlikely scenario when the interior of the plane started to collapse.
“My homie was on a Delta flight and the ceiling collapsed,” content creator Lucas Michael Payne captioned a video on TikTok, which has been viewed more than 200,000 times.
The clip was shared on Instagram and shows someone panning around the aircraft capturing multiple hands of different passengers holding up ceiling panels that appear to be peeling away from the top of the cabin.
“The attendants finally duct taped it after he held it up for a while,” Payne explained in the caption.
“Delta offered 10,000 miles (about $100 dollars) after they had to go back to Atlanta, wait for hours and deplane and get on another plane to Chicago,” he continued.
One woman commented that she was on the flight and fumed that “Delta only gave me a $100 credit.”
A spokesperson for Delta Air Lines told the New York Post that the Boeing 717’s “panel was later affixed into place so customers did not have to manually hold it during flight,” adding there were “no injuries” and the “flight continued with about a two-hour delay on another aircraft.”
KINSELLA: Conservative Party should move on from Pierre Poilievre
It’s time for Pierre Poilievre to go, writes Warren Kinsella.
The Toronto Sun columnist recalled writing years ago that the Conservative politician was “one of the most despicable, loathsome politicians to ever grace the national stage” and was a “disgrace to Parliament.”
Kinsella eventually changed his tune, offering that the Conservative leader-to-be had matured, somewhat, and was starting to act like a leader should.
The folks in Poilievre’s Carleton riding evidently didn’t agree, sending the Tory leader packing in favour of his Liberal opponent, Bruce Fanjoy. (Conservative MP-elect Damien Kurek has since said he will resign to allow Poilievre to run in an upcoming byelection.)
The question, though, is should Poilievre remain on as leader?
After holding a 30-point lead over the Liberals just a few weeks ago, only to lose, Kinsella says the answer is no.
Conservative MP Jamil Jivani unloads on Doug Ford: ‘Couldn’t stay out of our business’
Newly re-elected Bowmanville-Oshawa North MP Jamil Jivani wasted no time at all taking shots at Ontario Premier Doug Ford on federal election night.
During an interview as part of CBC’s election coverage, Jivani accused Ford of sabotaging the federal Conservative campaign.
Jivani said that while he takes exception with how Ford is running Ontario, he stayed quiet during the recent provincial election.
“When it was our turn to run the election, (Ford) couldn’t stay out of our business – always getting his criticisms, all his opinions out, distracting our campaign, trying to make it about him, trying to position himself as some political genius that we need to be taking cues from, ” Jivani said.
“I see Doug Ford as a problem for Ontario and for Canada,” he said.
Ford’s campaign manager, Kory Teneycke, said that Ford would have performed better than federal Tory leader Pierre Poilievre, who lost his own seat.
“This guy’s a political genius because he beat (Ontario Liberal Leader) Bonnie Crombie and (former Liberal Leader) Steven Del Duca, and now we’ve got to sit around getting advice from him?” Jivani said of Ford.
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