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The regulations for e-bikes lack balance

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The Editorial Board

In a national emergency, Canada does not have a moment to lose

Prime Minister Mark Carney and U.S. President Donald Trump wait for the FIFA World Cup draw to begin at the Kennedy Center, in Washington, on Dec....

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The Editorial Board

Canada should be prepared to give up the Online Streaming Act in U.S. trade talks

The Online Streaming Act was the result of lobbying by the TV, film and cable industries that wanted to 'level the playing field' by placing all...

yesterday 10

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Peter Menzies

Can Pierre Poilievre, all politics and no business, ever be prime minister?

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre speaks to reporters on Parliament Hill in October, 2025. Poilievre has positioned himself as a very small-...

yesterday 10

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John Turley-Ewart

Canada needs to be realistic about what it can get from China with its relations reset

Carney, right, and Xi make their way to their seats after shaking hands at the start of a meeting in Gyeongju on Oct. 31, 2025. Adrian Wyld/The...

yesterday 9

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Colin Robertson

We have to speak truth to power and condemn Trump’s Venezuela attack

Protesters in London, U.K., rally against U.S. intervention in Venezuela on Monday. Some governments are publicly declaring the U.S. attack illegal...

yesterday 9

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Michael Byers

We need to prepare for the possibility that the U.S. uses military coercion against Canada

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Thomas Homer-Dixon

The Conservative and Liberal responses to Venezuela reflect vastly different foreign-policy outlooks

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John Ibbitson

What’s a Canadian MP doing as an adviser for a foreign government?

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Robyn Urback

Don’t expect a big gush of Venezuelan oil onto world markets any time soon 

An oil tanker docked at El Palito port in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, in December. U.S. President Donald Trump's plan to make money off Venezuelan...

yesterday 3

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Chris Arsenault

Change – but not regime change – comes to Venezuela

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro talks to high-ranking military officers on his inauguration day for a third term, in Caracas, in January,...

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Doug Saunders

The Sunday Editorial: Venezuela’s fate is a warning for Canada

No one need shed a single tear for Nicolás Maduro, a ruthless dictator who extinguished Venezuela’s democracy and set its economy into a death...

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The Editorial Board

The enduring power of a good book

Books are an escape that open the world as they open the mind. Chris Young/The Canadian Press In a world where the internet teems with content and...

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The Editorial Board

Beware the rosy 2026 economic forecasts, for pride comes before a fall

Shoppers browse items for sale at Toronto's Eaton Centre on Boxing Day. Sammy Kogan/The Canadian Press John Rapley is a contributing columnist for...

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John Rapley

News To Me – Canada’s greatest export

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Gabrielle Drolet

Why I decided to finally get my driver’s licence

Marissa Stapley’s most recent novel is The Lightning Bottles. The adaption of her novel Lucky will stream on Apple TV in 2026. Into Giants by...

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Marissa Stapley

A Venezuelan oil reset is an economic risk Canada cannot ignore

The El Palito refinery in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, in December. Matias Delacroix/The Associated Press Shawn Barber is a retired foreign-service...

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Shawn Barber

A legislative calendar stuffed with holidays

Queen's Park, the Ontario provincial legislature, decorated for the holidays with lights, in Toronto, in November, 2025. Giordano Ciampini/The...

02.01.2026 1

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The Editorial Board

In 2026, we don’t need to choose between the environment and economic prosperity

Prioritizing projects like high-speed rail, offshore wind farms, clean steel and better public transit will keep us in our nation-building era...

02.01.2026 1

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Tim Gray

Alberta’s ‘neutrality’ law redraws professional accountability

Bill 13 shifts the balance away from prevention and toward after-the-fact responses, weakening the safeguards that make trust in professionals...

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Malinda S. Smith

Ontario has a math emergency

The latest provincial testing results show only half of Grade 6 students are meeting the required standard. Chris Young/The Canadian Press Nidhi...

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Nidhi Sachdeva

Mamdani’s victory in New York is a sign of a generational power shift

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on the subway on his way to City Hall on Friday. Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/The Associated Press Sharan Kaur is a...

02.01.2026 1

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Sharan Kaur

High-speed rail is hardly the highest priority for Canada

Martin Imbleau, president and CEO of Alto, takes part in an announcement about the next steps for high-speed rail in Gatineau, Que., in, December,...

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Matti Siemiatycki

Canada Drug Agency shouldn’t be determining cost-effectiveness of drugs

David Clement is the North American Affairs Manager with the Consumer Choice Center. Jeremy Bray, a 30-year-old Manitoban with Type 2 spinal...

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David Clement

The world needs to ensure leaders are not immune from criminal prosecution

Chile's former dictator Augusto Pinochet in Santiago, Chile, 1996, (left) and U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at a rally on Jan. 6, 2021...

02.01.2026 6

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Philippe Sands

An AI future demands liberal arts agility

Ian Sutherland is president and vice-chancellor of Mount Allison University. Lucas Orfanides is a student of politics, philosophy and economics at...

02.01.2026 3

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Ian Sutherland

Why does Canada have such high rates of forced psychiatric hospitalizations?

GETTY IMAGES Rob Wipond is a journalist and author of Your Consent Is Not Required: The Rise in Psychiatric Detentions, Forced Treatment, and...

02.01.2026 1

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Rob Wipond

Why I choose to raise my family in Attawapiskat

James Kataquapit and Monique Edwards of Attawapiskat First Nation ride their canoe down the Attawapiskat river on Oct. 25, 2025. Christopher...

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Adrian Sutherland

A transit blunder in the name of equity

Passengers prepare to board a streetcar on opening day for Line 6 at the Finch West station in northwest Toronto on Dec. 7, 2025. Colin N....

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Marcus Gee