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Jamie Sarkonak: Judges usurp government for drug addicts and cyclists

The Ontario legislature should be allowed to remove bike lanes and ban drug consumption sites near schools — but the courts won't let it

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Jamie Sarkonak: Alberta is right to challenge Ottawa's clean-electricity overstep

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Jamie Sarkonak: Mark Carney's election win already has economists worried

Jamie Sarkonak: Mark Carney's election win already has economists worried
03.05.2025 4

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Jamie Sarkonak: Alberta unites, once again, against the left

Jamie Sarkonak: Alberta unites, once again, against the left
01.05.2025 10

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Jamie Sarkonak: Trump's belligerence left Poilievre's campaign no room for error

Jamie Sarkonak: Trump's belligerence left Poilievre's campaign no room for error
29.04.2025 10

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Jamie Sarkonak: Carney's immigration plan a recipe for more overcrowding

Jamie Sarkonak: Carney's immigration plan a recipe for more overcrowding
28.04.2025 10

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Jamie Sarkonak: Just like Trudeau, Carney is planning to go full steam ahead on DEI

Jamie Sarkonak: Just like Trudeau, Carney is planning to go full steam ahead on DEI

Both his platform and his career past show strong support for the same kind of identity-based policies that have defined the Trudeau era

24.04.2025 9

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Jamie Sarkonak: Who won the debate? Poilievre, easy

Carney seemed to be on the drowsy hunt for his next administrative post

18.04.2025 10

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Jamie Sarkonak: Why Poilievre's three strikes plan for violent offenders has promise

Academics who criticize the proposal ignore the the favourable evidence

17.04.2025 10

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Jamie Sarkonak: The Greens don't belong in the debates

They get too much attention as is

15.04.2025 7

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Jamie Sarkonak: Tariffs are to Trump what DEI is to the left

It's a supposed solution to a massive economic injustice that doesn't clearly exist

10.04.2025 10

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Jamie Sarkonak: Canada's cities are riddled with crime. Carney has no plan

His entire take on justice can be reduced to rare emotional engagements. Poilievre, on the other hand, is offering solutions

08.04.2025 4

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Jamie Sarkonak: Alberta independence is a pipe dream

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Jamie Sarkonak: Plunging gas prices? More like fake Liberal charity

04.04.2025 10

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Jamie Sarkonak: Liberals offended by Poilievre’s compassion for ‘biological clock’ problem

02.04.2025 10

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Jamie Sarkonak: CBC, the Star smear Poilievre's savings account in defence of Carney

01.04.2025 10

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Jamie Sarkonak: Recovery from the lost decade means ditching the Impact Assessment Act

Onerous law requires companies conduct extensive socioeconomic studies, covering sexual health, social cohesion, job markets and diversity

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Jamie Sarkonak: Mark Carney's boomer campaign

He appeals to those who were adults in the 1990s

27.03.2025 10

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Jamie Sarkonak: Liberals pledge to make Canada a superpower after years of preventing it

22.03.2025 10

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Jamie Sarkonak: RIP to the Conservative media bus

In 2019, there were complaints that the Conservative media bus fee was too low. The crowd is tough to please

20.03.2025 10

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Jamie Sarkonak: Criticize transgender activists at your professional peril

18.03.2025 10

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Jamie Sarkonak: Rustad's free speech credentials crumble over unconfirmed graves

Conservatives struggle to challenge Indigenous issues, and the ouster MLA Dallas Brodie is just the latest example

17.03.2025 10

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Jamie Sarkonak: Doug Ford, Canada's hero on the front line

He's taken the lead on defending Canadian sovereignty

13.03.2025 10

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Jamie Sarkonak: Mark Carney has forever politicized the Bank of Canada

It doesn't matter that he is no longer in the role, the fact that he once held it is enough

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Jamie Sarkonak: Federal bureaucrat-activists strike again with 'Understanding Islamophobia' guide

09.03.2025 10

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Jamie Sarkonak: Canada squandered its chance to grow up after Russia invasion

05.03.2025 10

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Jamie Sarkonak: The Supreme Court's cowardly X exit

28.02.2025 10

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Jamie Sarkonak: P.E.I.'s Dennis King was the only premier with the guts to tackle immigration

26.02.2025 10

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Jamie Sarkonak: Trump's empire dismantling should please woke decolonialists

As it pulls back from the role as world hegemon, the American right is starting to sound a lot like the 'land back' left

22.02.2025 10

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Jamie Sarkonak: Carney's carbon credit plan would be the next Liberal boondoggle

Carbon offsets are hard to quantify and credit markets are notoriously open to fraud

21.02.2025 10

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Jamie Sarkonak: Poilievre's genuine patriotism is the answer to Trump's threats

Don't trust faux Liberal nationalism

16.02.2025 10

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Jamie Sarkonak: Chrystia Freeland's socialist disaster of an affordability plan

14.02.2025 10

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Jamie Sarkonak: Carney's carbon plan would punish Canada, just like Trump's tariffs

Workers are being squeezed between a tariff hawk and pair of economic cannibals

12.02.2025 8

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Jamie Sarkonak: Conservatives must prepare for a public service cull

09.02.2025 10

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Jamie Sarkonak: Taking down internal trade barriers won't be Canada's saving grace

07.02.2025 10

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Jamie Sarkonak: The foreign interference verdict is in — all Canadians are to blame

For months, various juicy allegations of wrongdoing have oozed out of the intelligence space. One by one, Hogue’s report snuffed them out

30.01.2025 10

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Jamie Sarkonak: The power of J.D. Vance

By standing his ground in a hostile CNN interview on Sunday, the vice-president demonstrated why he's the champion of young conservatives

28.01.2025 2

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Jamie Sarkonak: Feds’ racial politics have plunged Canadian fisheries into chaos

Identity-based redistribution programs have been a disaster for fishermen on both coasts

27.01.2025 10

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Jamie Sarkonak: Trump has set his sights high for America. If only our leaders did the same

A nation’s ambitions must extend beyond tax cuts, red tape reduction and honouring regular people, as important as these things are

21.01.2025 3

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Jamie Sarkonak: Mark Carney has no plan, but did you know he played hockey?

Does Canada spend too much or not enough? Don't ask him

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Jamie Sarkonak: It doesn't matter to Mark Carney if Canada survives

16.01.2025 10

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Jamie Sarkonak: The University of Alberta said it was ending DEI. That was a lie

Despite the 'access, community and belonging' rebrand, the school still uses diversity statements and supports identity-based hiring

09.01.2025 10

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Jamie Sarkonak: Good riddance to all the Liberal bills that Trudeau just culled

The purgatory prime minister has put Canada in a precarious position, but at least no more of his bad ideas can be churned out of Parliament You...

07.01.2025 10

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Jamie Sarkonak: Justin Trudeau resigns a failure

Many Canadians wanted his soft-on-crime promises, multicultural utopianism and energy stagnation. They just didn't like getting it You can save...

06.01.2025 5

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Jamie Sarkonak: Immigration needs to work for Canadians, not rule-breakers from abroad

Courts have delayed the removal of a want-to-be refugee family that already has Swedish citizenship — to the detriment of the whole system You can...

04.01.2025 4

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Ottawa-funded social justice research isn't science

Federal funding agencies encourage projects which tear down already tested laws of the known universe, replacing them with myths, writes Jamie...

30.12.2024 4

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Jamie Sarkonak: Police associations have had it with Trudeau — to the left's disdain

If some of Ontario’s police forces want to risk talking about politics, I won’t be bothered by it this time. Consider it tit for tat You can save...

29.12.2024 3

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Jamie Sarkonak: Good on Liberals for calling off HIV decriminalization review

The answer to rising infection rates is not a looser approach to the law You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you...

26.12.2024 3

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Jamie Sarkonak: Poilievre’s very normal take on males in female prisons

Trudeau's transgender prison policies an open net for the Conservatives You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you...

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Jamie Sarkonak: Chrystia Freeland is no martyr for women

The same goes for Jane Philpott and Jody Wilson-Raybould You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account....

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