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'He really wants power': The Liberals are now fully The Carney Party

'He really wants power': The Liberals are now fully The Carney Party

Tasha Kheiriddin discusses the how the prime minister will use his majority

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Rob Breakenridge

FIRST READING: Alberta is setting the template on how to defy Ottawa

FIRST READING: Alberta is setting the template on how to defy Ottawa

Province has been pushing the limits of their power on issues generally considered the exclusive domain of the federal government

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Tristin Hopper

Michael Higgins: Liberal DND chief wonders, what even is ethics?

Michael Higgins: Liberal DND chief wonders, what even is ethics?

Senior bureaucrat who got someone she knew a job casts herself as a hero for ethics breach

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Michael Higgins

Preston Manning: It is time for some Liberals to cross the floor

Preston Manning: It is time for some Liberals to cross the floor

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Preston Manning

Colby Cosh: Alberta separatists admit their petition is symbolic

Colby Cosh: Alberta separatists admit their petition is symbolic

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Colby Cosh

Adam Zivo: Orbán's fall is a win for conservatism

Adam Zivo: Orbán's fall is a win for conservatism

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Adam Zivo

Opinion: High-speed rail project just an expensive fairy tale

Opinion: High-speed rail project just an expensive fairy tale

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Gage haubrich and noah jarvis

Jamie Sarkonak: Alberta's apolitical education bill is far from a 'far-right attack'

Jamie Sarkonak: Alberta's apolitical education bill is far from a 'far-right attack'

If anything, it doesn't go far enough

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Jamie Sarkonak

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At the moment, Carney and his Liberal party appear unsinkable, but there are still plenty of political icebergs bobbing about

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John Ivison On Covid-19

Chris Selley: Quebec's doomed new premier can at least save her party from chauvinism

Chris Selley: Quebec's doomed new premier can at least save her party from chauvinism

The tragedy of the party is that they replaced the federalism versus sovereignty feuding not with social peace, but with different kinds of feuding

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Chris selley

Tasha Kheiriddin: Why Liberal Terrebonne win could push more Conservative MPs to flee

Tasha Kheiriddin: Why Liberal Terrebonne win could push more Conservative MPs to flee

Tories worry that Carney has reshaped politics in Quebec

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Tasha Kheiriddin

Colby Cosh: Donald Trump, our self-styled lord and saviour

Colby Cosh: Donald Trump, our self-styled lord and saviour

I’m an atheist, and this AI slop isn’t even the kind of blasphemy I approve of

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Colby Cosh

FIRST READING: No Canadian P.M. has ever been more personally enmeshed with the U.S.

FIRST READING: No Canadian P.M. has ever been more personally enmeshed with the U.S.

Half of Carney's daughters live there, almost his entire stock portfolio is American, and he's the first PM to never attend a Canadian university

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Tristin Hopper

Matthew Lau: Systemic racism isn’t the reason for Indigenous income gaps

Matthew Lau: Systemic racism isn’t the reason for Indigenous income gaps

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Matthew Lau

Aedan O'Connor: I fled Toronto’s antisemitism for a life of Jewish pride in Miami

Aedan O'Connor: I fled Toronto’s antisemitism for a life of Jewish pride in Miami

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Aedan o'connor

Geoff Russ: Mark Carney commits to Trudeau's empty postnationalism

Geoff Russ: Mark Carney commits to Trudeau's empty postnationalism

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Geoff Russ

Michael Higgins: Beware an unchecked Mark Carney

Michael Higgins: Beware an unchecked Mark Carney

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Michael Higgins

Collin May: Canadian judges have become too political

Collin May: Canadian judges have become too political

Reforming the judicial selection process would help restore Canada's independent, non-partisan judiciary

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Collin May

Tasha Kheiriddin: Get ready for Mark Carney unencumbered

Tasha Kheiriddin: Get ready for Mark Carney unencumbered

Liberals formalize majority after byelections

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Tasha Kheiriddin

Scott Stinson: Ontario plans to keep school trustees, but make them powerless

Scott Stinson: Ontario plans to keep school trustees, but make them powerless

There have been so many cases of runaway spending that cutting up their credit cards was always going to be a popular option. Or at least not an...

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Scott Stinson

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The global trend has seemed so inexorable that the end of 16 years of “electoral autocracy" in Hungary still seems implausible

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John Ivison On Covid-19

Kelly McParland: Why would Liberals need values when they have power?

Kelly McParland: Why would Liberals need values when they have power?

Power is the one thing Liberals still hold to be inviolable. Everything else is open to change

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Kelly Mcparland

Mohamed Fahmy: Carney Liberals stand against human rights at United Nations

Mohamed Fahmy: Carney Liberals stand against human rights at United Nations

Supporting Iran's nomination to UN committee a betrayal of what Canada should stand for

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Mohamed Fahmy

Canada’s defence is still a mess despite Ottawa’s NATO-spending claims: Full Comment podcast

Canada’s defence is still a mess despite Ottawa’s NATO-spending claims: Full Comment podcast

Brian Lilley speaks with David Perry and Christian Leuprecht about Canada's defence budget

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Tens of thousands of Canadian businesses now require security guards where none was ever needed before

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Tristin Hopper

Jesse Kline: Israel-haters have largely failed to persuade Canadians, according to new poll

Jesse Kline: Israel-haters have largely failed to persuade Canadians, according to new poll

Support for the Jewish people's right to a homeland and Israel's right to defend itself remains strong

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Jesse Kline

Jack Jedwab: The nefarious attempt to rewrite the history of Jewish refugees after the Holocaust

Jack Jedwab: The nefarious attempt to rewrite the history of Jewish refugees after the Holocaust

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Jack Jedwab

The true story of how human rights tribunals descended into complete madness

The true story of how human rights tribunals descended into complete madness

Jamie Sarkonak: They've expanded to threaten the rights and freedoms Canadians hold dear

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Jamie Sarkonak

Dimitri Soudas: The secular state we’ve forgotten

Dimitri Soudas: The secular state we’ve forgotten

A secular state does not favour one religion over another, nor does it allow religion to colonize schools funded by the common purse

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Dimitri Soudas

Raymond J. de Souza: The Artemis mission is humbling for humanity

Raymond J. de Souza: The Artemis mission is humbling for humanity

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Father Raymond J. De Souza

Jerry Amernic: As the greatest generation fades away, so does Canada's historical literacy

Jerry Amernic: As the greatest generation fades away, so does Canada's historical literacy

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Jerry Amernic

Donna Kennedy-Glans: The real test for Alberta and Canada is not who shouts loudest, but whether we can all listen

Donna Kennedy-Glans: The real test for Alberta and Canada is not who shouts loudest, but whether we can all listen

A calm Easter doorstep encounter with an Alberta independence canvasser reveals why respectful listening — not volume or anger — may be the only...

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Donna Kennedy-Glans

Letters: With floor crossings, why do we even bother to vote?

Letters: With floor crossings, why do we even bother to vote?

Readers speak out about Tory MP Marilyn Gladu's defection to the Liberals, the proposed $9B Alto rail line, judging judges, and more

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Letters

Adam Zivo: Canada backs terrorist-state Iran reviewing UN programs to stop terrorism

Adam Zivo: Canada backs terrorist-state Iran reviewing UN programs to stop terrorism

The least Ottawa could is to stop treating the Islamic Republic as if it isn't a murderous regime

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Adam Zivo

Terry Newman: Tech exec pitches Liberal convention on $500k exit tax for educated Canadians

Terry Newman: Tech exec pitches Liberal convention on $500k exit tax for educated Canadians

Patrick Pichette, now living in London after building his career at Microsoft and Google on easy TN visas, calls for killing mobility pathway he used...

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Terry Newman

Varcoe: 'We have the resources in Canada' - Nova Scotia premier touts development during pivotal moment for global oil and gas

Varcoe: 'We have the resources in Canada' - Nova Scotia premier touts development during pivotal moment for global oil and gas

Tim Houston met with Danielle Smith and Energy Minister Brian Jean, along with oil and gas executives this week

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Chris Varcoe

Geoff Russ: How Canada is becoming a low-trust country

Geoff Russ: How Canada is becoming a low-trust country

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Geoff Russ

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Conrad Black

Amy Hamm: B.C. Conservatives need a leader who won't light the party on fire

Amy Hamm: B.C. Conservatives need a leader who won't light the party on fire

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Amy Hamm

NP View: Iran is about to become more bloodthirsty than ever

NP View: Iran is about to become more bloodthirsty than ever

Unless Trump finishes the job

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Chris Selley: Younger Quebecers embracing religion wasn't part of the secularism plan

Chris Selley: Younger Quebecers embracing religion wasn't part of the secularism plan

The obnoxious behaviour of anti-Israel protesters is no reason to target all believers

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Chris selley

Adam Zivo: The end of Viktor Orbán

Adam Zivo: The end of Viktor Orbán

Hungary's Sunday election poised to topple Putin’s Trojan horse in the EU

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Adam Zivo

'What are judges doing': How courts project racism where it doesn't exist

'What are judges doing': How courts project racism where it doesn't exist

Jamie Sarkonak explains why she won't stop scrutinizing the progressive judiciary

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Rob Breakenridge

Douglas Todd: Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein put UBC at centre of debate over academic activism

Douglas Todd: Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein put UBC at centre of debate over academic activism

Against opinion polls showing three in four Canadians believe political ideology should be kept out of universities, five years ago UBC hired...

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Douglas Todd

FIRST READING: Iranian-Canadian activist threatened with criminal charges for posts

FIRST READING: Iranian-Canadian activist threatened with criminal charges for posts

Goldie Ghamari told she faced possible jail time for encouraging Iranian mosques to be bombed

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Tristin Hopper

Scott Stinson: Doug Ford gets closer to the (Liberal) majority he covets

Scott Stinson: Doug Ford gets closer to the (Liberal) majority he covets

Ford would have been heartened by news that Carney had taken a step closer to majority status by adding Marilyn Gladu to his expanding Liberal tent

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Scott Stinson

Avi Benlolo: The two-week ceasefire with Iran is a dangerous capitulation

Avi Benlolo: The two-week ceasefire with Iran is a dangerous capitulation

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Avi Benlolo

Jamie Sarkonak: How Marilyn Gladu awkwardly fits into the Liberal party

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Jamie Sarkonak

Colby Cosh: Gladu's betrayal invites a revolt beyond the ballot box

Colby Cosh: Gladu's betrayal invites a revolt beyond the ballot box

Liberals and floor-crossers ignore the danger in attaining a majority government by shamelessly luring over MPs

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Colby Cosh

Randall Denley: Doug Ford lets smart policy get overshadowed by unforced errors

Randall Denley: Doug Ford lets smart policy get overshadowed by unforced errors

He does the right thing to boost Ontario’s stagnant housing industry and increasing new home affordability, but then gets distracted

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Randall Denley