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As I began work on my book, A PEOPLEHOOD | AMIUT YEHUDIT, in 2018, I thought I had a clear sense of what I was creating. I was exploring a double...
On one side, you have the lawyers and executives of every major tech company, every telecom company, every major internet provider all saying that the...
In the last five months, the government of Prime Minister Mark Carney has twice pitched the idea of privatizing Canada’s airports. While details...
On a topic that literally lends itself to satire — the continuing failure of successive federal governments to improve the lives of Canada’s...
The idea of getting government into the grocery store business seems to be gaining traction among left-wing politicians across North America. New York...
Did you go out for dinner on the long weekend? Have fun? Did you tip the staff properly? AGAR: A tip of the hat for compensating restaurant servers...
If there has been an observable trend in recent decades, it is surely that of excessive intervention and a growing willingness of governments to try...
For the first time in months, Canadians received a small piece of encouraging news at the grocery store. Food inflation eased in April to 3.5%, down...
I do not know the exact etiquette for this kind of milestone. I will never find the answer in a polite society handbook. But a question lingers over...
There is nothing as absurd as claims by former environment minister Steven Guilbeault and other green ideologues that Prime Minister Mark Carney has...
Conspiracy theories can be harmless or they can be the opposite. In the main, conspiracy theories are stories that try to create meaning in an often...
Only in Canada could the Smith government’s new plan — which would give patients waiting too long for health care vouchers to access care...
The Carney government is quietly moving forward on plans to privatize some of Canada’s biggest airports. Four, possibly five airports are said to be...
So far, four cabinet ministers have quit and 80 MPs — about 20% of his caucus — have called for him to resign, but British Prime Minister Keir...
For years, Dunkin’ Donuts’ collapse in Canada was viewed as one of the great business failures in the country’s foodservice sector. Once a...
For years, Canadians were told that catastrophic climate scenarios justified virtually any policy imposed in the name of emissions reductions. In...
On Nov. 4, 1993, my then-boss, Jean Chretien, was sworn in as prime minister of Canada. He posed for some pictures, met with his cabinet, and then he...
Can we talk about the crazy way that we let our political parties select their candidates and leaders? Over the weekend, the Ontario Liberal Party...
Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas wrote a concurring opinion, joined by Justice Neil Gorsuch, in the recent case that restricted the use...
Does it make sense to create a new sovereign wealth fund on borrowed dollars? That seems to be Prime Minister Mark Carney’s plan. Ahead of last...
Even at the height of anti-Asian hate during the COVID-19 pandemic, no one drove through Chinatown shooting at small businesses, community centres, or...
Termination after many years of service can be among the most painful events in a person’s life. Naturally, one would feel entitled to a large...
Why is Palestine Action allowed to operate in Canada? Why? It’s an important question. KINSELLA: Palestine Action designated a terror group in U.K....
The problem with appealing to our governments, and indeed to civil society, to combat the unprecedented rise of hatred against Canada’s Jewish...
If Prime Minister Mark Carney seriously wants to address Canada’s number one economic crisis – low productivity – he must scrap the anti-growth...
In 1921, Woodrow Wilson, the first of America’s four transformative progressive presidents, became the first president to remain in Washington and...
My wonderful mother didn’t want anything for Mother’s Day, especially flowers, which, under how keen green-thumb pedigree, wilted by Tuesday. Her...
With all due respect to cabinet ministers, you folks come and go. Limousines and expense accounts notwithstanding, most of you are forgettable. Sorry....
Once again, war in the Middle East is destabilizing global energy markets, increasing energy costs (including at the pumps) and threatening Canada’s...
A song’s power often lies in its deceptive simplicity. We find ourselves lured in by the lyrics, those rhythmic architects of the human experience,...
For years, the food industry assumed Canada’s protein future would be shaped by a dramatic shift toward veganism and strict plant-based eating. That...
A little more than a decade ago, Alberta had one of the most competitive tax environments in North America. Since then, policy changes on both sides...
For a position that is supposed to be non-partisan and represent all Canadians, Louise Arbour was exactly the wrong pick to become Canada’s next...
Mark Carney isn’t looking for a new trade deal with United States and it doesn’t appear he wants one. Instead of being in Washington or courting...
Canada’s restaurant industry is often treated as a symbol of resilience. Through inflation, lockdowns, labour shortages, and supply chain...
“Big Brother is watching you” is no longer a fictional admonition. Everywhere you go, your location is recorded by phone technology, licence plate...
The federal government is spending your hard-earned tax dollars to lobby itself. In what amounts to little more than a slush fund merry-go-round,...
Richard Wagner, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, is the epitome of Laurentian Elite arrogance. Despite having already called the...
The public inquiry into foreign interference replaced rumour with a record. Across six volumes, Commissioner Marie-Josee Hogue described a threat that...
Same old, same old: Target Trump At the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, President Donald Trump was the target of yet a third assassination...
Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew wants his province to be the first in the nation to ban the use of social media and artificial intelligence by teenagers....
For the past three years, sportswriters and broadcasters congregated in the Edmonton Oilers Hall of Fame Room in Rogers Place on May mornings for...
It’s alarming that Prime Minister Mark Carney, citing China as a “strategic partner,” has agreed to a secret deal on co-operating with Chinese...
As Canadians, we have a peculiar fiscal habit. We pride ourselves on thrift in the small things while tolerating – or even enabling – extravagance...
Charles Asher Small is a scholar of renown. His list of academic achievements are too many to list here. A short sampling: over his long career, Small...
According to a recent announcement by Canada Post, it lost $1.57 billion in 2025 — the “largest loss before tax” in the Crown corporation’s...
Given that those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it, the fact that Finance Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne reported a drop in last...
Despite claims that “Canada’s new government” is being run by prudent fiscal managers, Ottawa still has a spending problem. In many ways, the...
Canadians are no longer bracing for runaway food inflation, but that doesn’t mean they’ve recovered from it. The latest data from the latest...
Last Tuesday evening at a packed meeting, the municipal council of Prince Edward County missed an opportunity to do the right thing: Reinstall their...