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Chris Selley: Does PSPP realize how unpopular he is?

Chris Selley: Does PSPP realize how unpopular he is?

The Quebec premier shows signs of Mark Carney-style overconfidence, just with much less voter support

30.10.2026 10

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Chris Selley: What does Olivia Chow's 'progressive base' think it's defending?

Chris Selley: What does Olivia Chow's 'progressive base' think it's defending?

Brad Bradford was widely portrayed as the 'Ford-ian' candidate. Ford endorsed Chow

28.10.2026 10

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Chris Selley: Canada's law schools, law societies have incinerated their reputations

Chris Selley: Canada's law schools, law societies have incinerated their reputations

The people who let a 60-something convicted murderer into McGill Law cannot be trusted with systemic decisions

26.10.2026 20

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Chris Selley: Wab Kinew walks a fine line on residential school 'denialism'

His preference for education over legislation is unimpeachable, at least

17.10.2026 30

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Chris Selley: The unpleasant logic of live-streaming Nidal Hasan's execution

Executing people isn’t barbaric, but showing people being executed would be? How does that make sense?

16.10.2026 30

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Chris Selley: David Eby's day-care scandal reveals ugly truths

Ample research shows it is not the people who need cheap day care the most who get it most

13.10.2026 20

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Chris Selley: Olivia Chow's goose is begging to be roasted

How can a progressive Toronto mayor not ride public transit?

12.10.2026 30

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Chris Selley: The Liberals' plan for MAID sounds good — if they aren't bluffing

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08.10.2026 20

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Chris Selley: The PQ wins a reprieve from the humiliation of a losing referendum

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06.10.2026 20

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Chris Selley: If judges now can't even tell what a 'fact' is, we're really cooked

'Fact: There is a need for non-medicalized safer supply,' ruled Justice Catherine Murray, B.C. Supreme Court. Uh ... that's an opinion

03.10.2026 40

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Chris Selley: Handing a 'blank cheque' to Stelco wouldn't have been so unusual for Canada

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01.10.2026 30

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Chris Selley: If we'd prefer drug-free prisons to 'safe snorting,' we need a system rethink

Canadian politicians know the only expenditures on prisons that won’t blow up in their faces are building more jails

29.09.2026 10

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Chris Selley: Finally, a pandemic-era leader admits people deserve an inquiry after some 'insane' reactions

California governor describes some COVID-era restrictions as 'insane, in hindsight'

24.09.2026 20

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Chris Selley: Avi Lewis embraces collective guilt for Jews, but never for Muslims

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23.09.2026 20

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Chris Selley: Hating our airports is just what Canadians do. Demanding they improve isn't

We need details, obviously, about what 'privatization' would look like. But it's not a byword for disaster

20.09.2026 40

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Chris Selley: A European alliance deserves more seriousness than Carney's treated it with

Membership or not, there are things we can learn from Europe: healthcare and infrastructure spending top that list

17.09.2026 20

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Chris Selley: Carney's EU cuteness is an unwelcome return to Justin Trudeau's playbook

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15.09.2026 20

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Chris Selley: Revoking the Stanley Cup from the NHL is a trade-war bargaining chip worth trying

Donald Trump doesn't care about hockey. But the NHL should care far more about Canada

13.09.2026 40

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Chris Selley: Trump has killed Canada's anti-monarchy delusions

If there were any doubt, the new $20 bill — the King on one side, the Vimy Memorial on the other — put it to bed

10.09.2026 50

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Chris Selley: There are American eggs in our midst!

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09.09.2026 70

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Chris Selley: Quebec cannot afford this anti-anglo decadence

I’m not sure I’ve seen a Quebec leader quite so bluntly say he cares what language you speak on your own time

07.09.2026 50

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Chris Selley: We could have just ignored Trump's 'Lake America' trolling

This is not how a mature, confident, dignified country reacts to meaningless nonsense

02.09.2026 20

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Chris Selley: On Canada-U.S. trade negotiations, what are we even doing?

What if we had let consumers boycott American booze, like they have travel, instead of doing it by government decree?

21.08.2026 40

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Chris Selley: The Parti Québécois' referendum tilt-a-whirl

The party's pitch boils down to 'Quebec would be better off fighting Washington on its own ... but not now'

20.08.2026 30

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Chris Selley: Two court challenges. The least important, you've probably heard of

My advice: Don’t cheer on court rulings or laws just because you agree with their stated aims

19.08.2026 30

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Chris Selley: Ontario Line should be the beginning of the end of Canada's infrastructure-surcharge nightmare

Smart people know what we need to do differently. We just won't do it

16.08.2026 60

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Chris Selley: Yes, it matters where and how the prime minister vacations

Carney hasn’t spent all that much time here lately. Maybe he should use his private-jet privileges to refamiliarize himself

11.08.2026 30

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Chris Selley: The DEI meltdown at a British university shows why we need more skepticism

A professor claimed to have run 30 marathons in 35 days ... several on a broken leg

31.07.2026 40

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Chris Selley: Doug Ford shows how not to get something built

Other Toronto-region airports provide far more compelling alternatives to Pearson than the downtown than the Island

28.07.2026 40

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Chris Selley: Why so shy about running for Parliament, Avi Lewis?

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27.07.2026 70

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Chris Selley: OK, we’ve won on stigmatizing tobacco. Why not try it for hard drugs?

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23.07.2026 40

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Chris Selley: Marvel at the politicians' performative idiocy on Israel

The only thing less likely than the RCMP arresting Bibi is the NYPD doing it

21.07.2026 40

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Chris Selley: After the Trump boycotts, we'll still have lousy Canadian food

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16.07.2026 40

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Chris Selley: People are fleeing Toronto and the city doesn't seem to care

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14.07.2026 60

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Chris Selley: The hysterical nostalgia for Hockey Night in Canada is classic Canadian unthinkingness

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23.06.2026 50

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Chris Selley: We can learn things from the EU without joining it

Europeans often evince just as much of an idealized view of Canada as some Canadians do of the European Union

19.06.2026 40

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Chris Selley: The euthanasia committee did its job. Now it's Parliament's turn

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18.06.2026 60

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Chris Selley: May the 'nosh' resistance against Quebec's language cops spark a revolution

‘Bar is French or English, bilingual, and nosh, which is a Yiddish word, is not compliant,’ the OQLF informed Arthurs Nosh Bar

16.06.2026 60

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Chris Selley: The $90B high-speed rail money pit is collapsing in on itself

For once, the Parti Québécois raises a useful issue: opportunity costs

12.06.2026 50

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Chris Selley: Some tough lessons about real life for grads with cancelled proms

Officialdom let them down. They stepped up. Welcome to the real world!

09.06.2026 40

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Chris Selley: The U.K.'s Henry Nowak outrage happens in Canadian courts every day

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04.06.2026 40

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Chris Selley: At a synagogue, Carney tells the wrong people to abandon their ethnic rivalries

If everyone was leaving behind their wars and animosities in the old world, as Carney suggests, there wouldn’t be a problem

02.06.2026 40

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Chris Selley: The chilling airport bag-switching scandal suggests Canada still lacks adult supervision

The fix here was and is so easy: Screen airport workers the way we screen passengers.

28.05.2026 40

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Chris Selley: Bring on the doughnut wars—and let's hope they set an example

26.05.2026 40

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Chris Selley: 'Don't watch hockey,' says the NHL

Pro tip: You can be a fan of more than one team!

22.05.2026 50

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Chris Selley: Government-run grocery is about one thing — expanding the public sector

'This store … will serve as physical proof of our conviction that government can be a force for good' — New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani

20.05.2026 40

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Chris Selley: Parties had better clean up nomination races before the government decides to

If a party can't run a coherent nomination race, why would anyone vote for them?

15.05.2026 50

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Chris Selley: Another pathetic CBC attempt at humour

Ripping off Borat, 20 years later, is dismally on-brand

13.05.2026 40

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Chris Selley: We have solved the Long Ballots problem, and it didn't take a committee

Canadian decision-makers in other fields might want to study this shockingly simple and intuitive solution

12.05.2026 50

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Chris Selley: Quebec separatists are annoyed anyone would dare take their cosplay seriously

The Bank of Montreal isn’t even based in Montreal. It will either loan money or not

08.05.2026 50

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