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Quebec Election Year Starts with Brutal Verdict on François Legault

Should he prepare for a walk in the snow? The post Quebec Election Year Starts with Brutal Verdict on François Legault first appeared on The Walrus.

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Philippe J. Fournier

Inside the Stunning Collapse of the Quebec Liberal Party

And it’s happening just as the province heads into a potentially historic election The post Inside the Stunning Collapse of the Quebec Liberal...

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Caitlin Walsh Miller

It’s Going to Be a Wild Year in Quebec Politics. We’re on It

We’re launching a Quebec bureau and a special poll with 338Canada and Pallas Data The post It’s Going to Be a Wild Year in Quebec Politics....

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Carmine Starnino

What Trump Did to Venezuela Should Terrify Ottawa

Canada’s tepid response to Maduro’s seizure exposes just how vulnerable the country is to American power The post What Trump Did to Venezuela...

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Wendy Kaur

Carney’s “Buy Canadian” Policy Doesn’t Require Companies to Be Canadian

I n recent years, Canada has conducted major Arctic exercises to reinforce its sovereignty over the North. Those operations tend to reveal the same...

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Erin O’Toole

Trump Is Serious about Greenland. What Does Carney Do?

C ore national leaders of the “Coalition of the Willing,” an assemblage of mostly NATO states (minus the US and Russian hangers-on like Hungary and...

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Wesley Wark

“I Know I’m Not Going to Win”: Why People Set Out on Impossible Quests

S he knew she wasn’t going to win. In fact, she often introduced herself this way: I’m Liz White, I’m running for office, and I know I’m not...

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Mark Medley

Weekly Quiz: Financial Literacy, Freeform Housing, and Falling Back to the Office

How closely have you been reading our online stories this week? Take The Walrus Weekly Quiz to find out—released every Saturday The post Weekly...

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Ketsia Beboua

Chrystia Freeland’s Very Strange Goodbye

T o say that Chrystia Freeland’s resignation on Wednesday—effective Friday, January 9—wasn’t as well timed and executed as her December 2024...

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Wendy Kaur

The Secret to Making Friends at University? Ask Introverts

I n my first year of high school, all of my friends lived in my phone. It was the first full school year affected by COVID-19, which meant we were...

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Abigail Mcghie