{"result":"update_story","description":"<p>Start your day off right with five things you need to know this morning.<\/p> <p dir=\"ltr\"><u><strong>Five things you need to know<\/strong><\/u><\/p> <h3 dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\"><strong>1. Carney&#39;s former firm registered funds at notorious address that Obama said was &#39;largest tax scam in the world&#39;<\/strong><\/h3> <p dir=\"ltr\">Brookfield Asset Management, the corporate giant headed by Mark Carney up until January, has registered more than a dozen funds at a Cayman Islands address that Barack Obama once said was either &ldquo;the largest building in the world or the largest tax scam in the world.&rdquo; The Cayman Islands, a British territory in the Caribbean, is a notorious tax-dodging jurisdiction since it charges no corporate &ndash; or income &ndash; taxes.<\/p> <p dir=\"ltr\"> <\/p> <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"> <p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">A fund led by Mark Carney is registered in a five-story Cayman Islands building that houses 18,000 companies.<br \/> <br \/> Even more concerning?<br \/> <br \/> He won&#39;t say this kind of tax avoidance is wrong.<br \/> <br \/> Only New Democrats will fight to make corporations like Brookfield pay their share. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/z5MB88BNx5\">pic.twitter.com\/z5MB88BNx5<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1515615292703-0\" class=\"dfp-ad dfp-in-content\" style=\"margin-bottom:15px;\">\n\t\t<script>\n\t\t\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display(\"div-gpt-ad-1515615292703-0\"); });\n\t\t<\/script>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t &mdash; Jagmeet Singh (@theJagmeetSingh) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theJagmeetSingh\/status\/1910675810073129349?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 11, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <hr \/> <h3 dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\"><strong>2. As US&#39;s trade war rages on, EU and China discuss dropping tariffs on EVs<\/strong><\/h3> <p dir=\"ltr\">China and the European Union have agreed to discuss setting minimum prices for Chinese electric vehicles, replacing the tariffs Brussels put in place last year. It comes amid a global trade war started by Donald Trump, with some analysts speculating that the president&#39;s belligerence could push the likes of the EU, China, Canada and India away from the US and closer to each other.<\/p> <p dir=\"ltr\"> <\/p> <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"> <p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">China and the European Union have exchanged views on strengthening their economic and trade cooperation in response to U.S. tariffs, the Chinese Commerce Ministry said on Thursday. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/G0cA4VrpRO\">https:\/\/t.co\/G0cA4VrpRO<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7z0jxzsXBN\">pic.twitter.com\/7z0jxzsXBN<\/a><\/p> &mdash; Reuters (@Reuters) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Reuters\/status\/1910296730991546680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 10, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <hr \/> <h3 dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\"><strong>3. Tories and Liberals telling fibs about their crowd sizes, academic claims<\/strong><\/h3> <p dir=\"ltr\">The CBC has asked an academic at a British university to help them count the crowd sizes at recent Conservative and Liberal rallies. Despite not having comprehensive evidence, the &quot;visiting professor of crowd science&quot; told the national broadcaster that it was &quot;not possible&quot; that the Tories attracted 15,000 people at their Edmonton rally, about which the party has done much boasting. The Liberals were also said to have been fibbing about their crowd sizes, with a rally in Richmond supposedly attracting only 800 people rather than the 2,000 claimed by the party.<\/p> <p dir=\"ltr\"> <\/p> <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"> <p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Liberals and Conservatives said their rallies drew thousands. We decided to count. Hand-counted images of rallies yield significantly smaller numbers <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/L6Bal8THKs\">https:\/\/t.co\/L6Bal8THKs<\/a><br \/> <br \/> Find out more at <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1zbPY5GAhV\">https:\/\/t.co\/1zbPY5GAhV<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4xpDiV2Vza\">pic.twitter.com\/4xpDiV2Vza<\/a><\/p> &mdash; National Newswatch (@natnewswatch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/natnewswatch\/status\/1910615819219763298?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 11, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <hr \/> <h3 dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\"><strong>4. Michelle Obama says she and Barack aren&#39;t divorcing, blames &#39;society&#39; for rumours<\/strong><\/h3> <p dir=\"ltr\">In more Barack Obama news, the former president&#39;s wife has said the couple&#39;s marriage is not, as rumoured, about to dissolve. Michelle Obama blamed &quot;society&quot; for questioning her absences from a number of high-profile events attended by Barack.<\/p> <p dir=\"ltr\"> <\/p> <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"> <p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Michelle Obama breaks silence on divorce rumours <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WfIlZUwaU6\">https:\/\/t.co\/WfIlZUwaU6<\/a><\/p> &mdash; BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCWorld\/status\/1910369189912584615?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 10, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <hr \/> <h3 dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\"><strong>5. Tories on track to lose due to &#39;campaign malpractice&#39; and Trump-style politics: Conservative strategist<\/strong><\/h3> <p dir=\"ltr\">Conservative strategist Kory Tenycke, who once worked with former prime minister Stephen Harper, has again expressed his fears that the Tories are on track to lose the election due to &quot;campaign malpractice.&quot; He said the party &quot;blew a 25-point lead,&quot; accused Pierre Poilievre of acting like Donald Trump and said the leader&#39;s recent interaction with a female journalist was &quot;gross.&quot;<\/p> <p dir=\"ltr\"> <\/p> <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"> <p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Ontario Premier Doug Ford&#39;s campaign manager Kory Teneycke is accusing his federal Conservative counterparts of &quot;campaign malpractice at the highest f&mdash;king level.&quot;<br \/> <br \/> He joined Power Play to elaborate: &quot;When I talk about campaign malpractice, blowing a lead that big, and your&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZqCvY8iqwk\">pic.twitter.com\/ZqCvY8iqwk<\/a><\/p> &mdash; CTV Power Play (@CTV_PowerPlay) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CTV_PowerPlay\/status\/1910450655732654336?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 10, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <h6>Thumbnail photo credit: X\/Pierre Poilievre<\/h6>","title":"5 things you need to know this morning: April 11, 2025"}