decision to invite a man convicted of attempted murder to some official events.

In the first weeks of March, Abacus Data pegged the Liberal lead over the Conservatives at just three points. Léger put the two parties in a tie. Twice, Ipsos/Global News put the Conservatives ahead — its latest survey put the gap at seven points — and the Angus Reid Institute has awarded Andrew Scheer's party a 10-point edge.

But throughout this period, Nanos never put the Conservatives in front. The pollster's four-week rolling surveys of 1,000 Canadians (every week another 250 respondents are added to the sample as the 250 respondents polled four weeks earlier are dropped) have given the Liberals a lead in every week's release since the 2015 federal election. The closest the margin hasThe US president is accustomed to addressing diehard supporters, so the derision of his fellow leaders came as a surprise

Donald Trump is unlikely to forgive the laughter of the UN

Donald Trump is accustomed to addressing diehard supporters at rallies. His press conferences are rare and tightly controlled. So the open derision of his fellow leaders at the UN general assembly clearly came as a surprise.

He insisted he was “OK” with the mirthful reaction to his claims of historic achievements, but he was clearly not OK. Trump is said never to forgive or forget those who laugh at him, so this second outing at the UN podium is unlikely to end well for his administration’s already ambivalent relations with the global body.

Trump made an entrance – nearly half an