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What might a serious growth agenda look like? More labour, more capital, and more incentive to use both wisely

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland and cabinet ministers speak before the tabling of the federal budget at Parliament...

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The foreign interference inquiry features a parade of senior Liberals protesting too much

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appears as a witness at the Public Inquiry Into Foreign Interference in Federal Electoral Processes and Democratic...

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Federal budget 2024: A government with no priorities, no anchors, and when it comes to growth, no clue

“The Canadian economy,” boasts the Trudeau government’s latest budget, “is doing better than expected.” Who expected it to do how much worse...

17.04.2024 20

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Why should Indigenous people in Canada not be entitled to the same rights as other Canadians?

Queen Elizabeth II signs Canada's constitutional proclamation in Ottawa on April 17, 1982 as Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, seated at left, looks on....

05.04.2024 10

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Goodbye to budget secrecy, and good riddance

Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Minister of Emergency Preparedness Harjit S. Sajjan listen as Minister of Finance, Chrystia Freeland...

02.04.2024 10

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On foreign interference, Canada has been a sitting duck

Elections Canada Chief Electoral Officer Stephane Perrault enters the Public Inquiry Into Foreign Interference in Federal Electoral Processes and...

29.03.2024 8

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Provincial finances are a future crisis in the making. It’s time to start work on a solution

Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Andrew Furey listens as Finance Minister Siobhan Coady delivers the provincial budget in St. John's on March 21. The...

28.03.2024 5

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The productivity puzzle: How could we be doing so poorly? We did everything right!

A general view of production along the Honda CRV production line at the Honda manufacturing plant in Alliston, Ont., on Apr. 5, 2023. Cole Burston/The...

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On the carbon tax, the Opposition’s cynicism neatly coincides with the public’s

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks as Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre listens during Question Period in the House of Commons on...

20.03.2024 5

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Canada’s Online Harms Act is revealing itself to be staggeringly reckless

You have to understand: the Online Harms Act was supposed to be the “good” bill, the one part of the Trudeau government’s three-pronged effort...

15.03.2024 10

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Expectations, discovery and shame: the news model that Donald Trump cracked

Former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Rome, Ga., on March 9. NICOLE CRAINE/The New York Times News Service A portrait of Donald...

13.03.2024 9

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Will anyone ever be held to account for China’s infiltration of the Winnipeg microbiology lab? Don’t make me laugh

The National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg, on June 17, 2021. Shannon VanRaes/The Globe and Mail One begins to see what the Trudeau government...

08.03.2024 8

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When governments got things done: Mulroney, Chretien and a lost age of capacity

Former Prime Minister Jean Chretien applauds former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney during an official unveiling ceremony of Mulroney's official...

06.03.2024 10

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Canada is no longer one of the richest nations on Earth. Country after country is passing us by

The growth crisis deepens. The latest figures from Statistics Canada confirm that Canada suffered yet another decline in per capita GDP in the fourth...

01.03.2024 20

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One cheer for the new Online Harms Act

Canada's Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada Arif Virani speaks about the Online Harms Act during a press conference on Parliament Hill...

28.02.2024 6

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The government’s ‘national security’ claim for withholding documents from Parliament is exposed as a sham

Why did the government call an election in August, 2021, in the middle of a pandemic, just as Afghanistan was falling, and with more than two years...

23.02.2024 9

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Angry at businesses like Bell Media? Real competition – not anger – is the answer

BCE Inc. headquarters is seen in Montreal on Aug. 3, 2023. Christinne Muschi/The Canadian Press There are roughly 1.4 million businesses in Canada...

22.02.2024 9

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Guilbeault’s right: The feds should get out of the road-building business

Minister of Environment and Climate Change Steven Guilbeault speaks to reporters in the foyer of the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on...

16.02.2024 10

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On ArriveCan, the question is not just who did what, but why?

Auditor general Karen Hogan responds to a question during a news conference, in Ottawa on Feb. 12. Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press We generally rely...

14.02.2024 9

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First, Trump tried to overthrow American democracy. Now he is attempting to overthrow the rule of law

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at his Mar-a-Lago estate on Feb. 8, in Palm Beach, Fla. Rebecca Blackwell/The...

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Conservatives discover the Charter can work for them, too

No doubt there were a lot of heads nodding during Supreme Court Justice Malcolm Rowe’s recent speech to the Runnymede Society, a conservative legal...

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Canada’s huge bet on the EV battery industry demands a jolt of reality

Quebec Premier Francois Legault attends an announcement that Northvolt Batteries North America will build a new electric vehicle battery manufacturing...

02.02.2024 10

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The Federal Court’s Emergencies Act ruling isn’t what some Canadians think it is

When Justice Paul Rouleau found, after months of hearings before the Public Order Emergency Commission, that the federal government’s use of the...

31.01.2024 7

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Your vote is not worth the same as that of a voter in another riding or province. And it’s getting worse

People cast their ballots on voting day for the 2021 Canadian election in Montreal, on Sept. 20, 2021. ANDREJ IVANOV/AFP/Getty Images For all the...

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Liberals are reaching in tying Poilievre to Trump. But it’s worth hearing how he responds

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks with members of the media during a campaign stop in Londonderry, N.H., on Jan....

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We’re not in a population trap, we’re in an investment desert

People walk across St. George St. near the University of Toronto, on Nov. 23, 2022. Fred Lum/the Globe and Mail I see we are having one of our...

17.01.2024 10

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There’s an alternative to sky-high municipal property taxes. It’s a municipal sales tax

GETTY IMAGES We can’t say we weren’t warned. We can say, however, we weren’t fully warned. Campaigning for mayor of Toronto in last year’s...

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Surrendering to the provinces doesn’t bring peace to the federation. It only emboldens them

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau makes a housing announcement in Ajax, Ont. on Nov. 30, 2023. CARLOS OSORIO/Reuters The devil made them do it....

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Big Tech really is stealing our content, only it’s not who you think

ChatGPT and The New York Times logos are seen in this illustration taken December 27, 2023. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration DADO RUVIC/Reuters For...

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The Moe government’s open defiance of the law brings us closer to the brink

Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe speaks during a press conference in Regina, on Oct. 25. Heywood Yu/The Canadian Press There was a time when Scott Moe...

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Don’t kid yourself – the threat of a Trump dictatorship is real

Former U.S. President and 2024 Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump leaves after speaking during a campaign rally at the University of New...

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Do the Liberals even understand what a conflict of interest is? Does a fish know it’s wet?

Newly elected Speaker of the House of Commons Greg Fergus is escorted into the House of Commons by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Conservative...

15.12.2023 20

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Did China and India meddle in the Conservative leadership race?

A man is silhouetted walking past a Conservative Party logo before the opening of the Party's national convention in Halifax on Aug. 23, 2018. Darren...

13.12.2023 10

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As security threats mount, the holes in Canada’s defences can no longer be ignored

For most of our history Canada’s defence policy could be described as: oceans, cold and the Americans. On three sides, thousands of miles of blue...

08.12.2023 8

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With Google’s agreement to pay off the Canadian media, the shakedown in C-18 is made explicit

On CTV News Channel the other day, the big story was Google’s agreement to fork over $100-million annually to the Canadian news media, in exchange...

06.12.2023 5

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Canadian content quotas for pension funds: bad for pensioners, worse for Canada

Among the many bad ideas in the Fall Economic Statement – reciprocity in procurement, a digital services tax, increased subsidies to the news...

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Alberta’s sovereignty act looks increasingly like a sham

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith speaks on invoking her government’s sovereignty act over federal clean energy regulations, in Edmonton, on Nov. 27....

29.11.2023 5

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The Liberals’ new definition of restraint: overspending by less than they had previously

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau walk together before delivering the fall economic...

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We are not at war on several fronts, but one

Delegates look on as former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak (left) speaks with PBS correspondent Nick Schifrin at the 2023 Halifax International...

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Hold Israel to fighting within the rules, but blame Hamas for the war, and its casualties

Surely the Prime Minister was only stating the obvious. Surely he was just speaking the truth. When Justin Trudeau demanded, at a news conference on...

17.11.2023 6

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What should be – but won’t be – in Canada’s federal mini-budget

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland speaks during a news conference, in Ottawa on Nov. 7. Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press ...

15.11.2023 7

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If we’re not going to use carbon taxes to reduce our emissions, it may be better to do nothing

It would be hard to imagine a worse report card than the one the Environment Commissioner dropped on the government the other day, regarding its plan...

10.11.2023 10

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Biden and Trudeau are both facing calls to step aside. The consequences would be very different

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau talks with United States President Joe Biden during a family photo with G7 leaders in Hiroshima, Japan on May 20. Adrian...

08.11.2023 10

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The country is falling apart. Why is the federal government so hesitant to act?

A friend wrote to me in some despair a few weeks ago. “More than any time in my lifetime,” he wrote, “I feel like Canada doesn’t really...

03.11.2023 30

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The Liberals’ heating-oil gambit blows up in their face. The carbon tax may be collateral damage

31.10.2023 5

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The best way to break Pierre Poilievre’s media-baiting strategy: ask actual questions

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre rises during question period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, on Oct. 25. Sean...

27.10.2023 10

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On SNC-Lavalin, we may never know why we may not know what we may not know

Royal Canadian Mounted Police Commissioner Michael Duheme waits to appear at the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics in...

26.10.2023 10

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A universal national public drug plan? In this economy?

Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux waits to appear before appearing at the Senate Committee on National Finance, Oct. 25, 2022, in Ottawa. The...

20.10.2023 7

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Will the pen be mightier than AI?

With the sudden breakthroughs in artificial intelligence of the last year has come, for those of us in the writing trade, a sudden realization: the...

18.10.2023 40

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This is a moment for unity – and a test of our moral mettle. Will Canada pass?

People attend a rally in support of Israel in Toronto, on Oct. 9. Jessica Lee/The Canadian Press Of all the responses from world leaders to Hamas’s...

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