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Trump’s threats expose the traitors in our midst

Trump’s threats expose the traitors in our midst

For many Conservatives in Canada, Trudeau’s belief in a “post-national” future was all the excuse they ever needed to betray their own country.

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Trump’s threats expose the traitors in our midst

Trump’s threats expose the traitors in our midst

Among Canadians, nobody is more enthusiastic about abandoning their country to the United States than Conservative Albertans: a recent poll from...

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National Observer

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The oil and gas sector will miss Justin Trudeau. No, really

The oil and gas sector will miss Justin Trudeau. No, really

At last, the long national nightmare for Canada’s oil and gas industry is over. It loves to pretend it’s been labouring under the yoke of green...

08.01.2025 10

National Observer

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How Justin Trudeau lost Canada

How Justin Trudeau lost Canada

If the road to hell is paved with good intentions, Justin Trudeau has laid down more than his share of blacktop during his nine-plus years in...

07.01.2025 8

National Observer

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Geothermal energy is one of those rare win-win solutions

Geothermal energy is one of those rare win-win solutions

It’s hard to be a climate optimist these days. With Trumpism ascendant in the United States, Pierre Poilievre well on his way to axing the carbon...

06.01.2025 10

National Observer

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Life after Justin Trudeau for the Liberal Party of Canada

When Justin Trudeau took over as the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada in 2013, his job was to rescue it from political oblivion. Two years...

24.12.2024 3

National Observer

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Pierre Poilievre is setting himself up to fail

“The greatest happiness,” Genghis Khan famously said, “is to scatter your enemy, to drive him before you, to see his cities reduced to ashes,...

18.12.2024 6

National Observer

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Canada's post-nationalism is worth fighting for

Blame Canada. That appears to be the logic at work over at Postmedia, where its pundits have clearly picked their side in the battle between Donald...

16.12.2024 4

National Observer

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Your role in keeping climate truth alive in Canada

Climate policy in Canada just got a lot more complicated. With the election of Donald Trump as President and Republicans winning control of both...

12.12.2024 4

National Observer

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Pierre Poilievre’s problem with the truth

For a guy who likes to  invoke George Orwell, Pierre Poilievre doesn’t seem to have paid very close attention to what he actually wrote. His...

04.12.2024 5

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A Northern Gateway revival is the wrong idea at the wrong time

Canada’s oil and gas industry might be struggling to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, but it remains as enthusiastic as ever about recycling....

03.12.2024 3

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The truth is coming out on the carbon tax

Jonathan Swift may not have thought much about things like climate change or carbon emissions, but the 17th century Irish satirist definitely could...

27.11.2024 20

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The Trudeau Liberals are officially out of ideas

Justin Trudeau’s Liberals haven’t technically lost the next election yet. But in the broader battle of ideas, it sure looks like they’ve...

26.11.2024 3

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Trump's pick for energy secretary is the final boss of climate skepticism

It would be easy to overlook Chris Wright. The fracking company CEO, tapped this week by the Trump administration as its nominee for energy...

20.11.2024 3

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Saving the CBC is really about saving Canada

Donald Trump’s return to the White House will transform any number of issues here in Canada, from trade and energy to immigration and our...

19.11.2024 3

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Alberta oil is about to get Trumped

This was not the election result that most Canadians hoped for. According to a Leger  poll taken in late October , 64 per cent of Canadians wanted...

15.11.2024 10

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No, Pierre Poilievre isn’t Donald Trump. But he sure acts like him sometimes

For most Canadians, Remembrance Day is a moment to reflect on the sacrifices of the past and how they helped underwrite much of the freedom and...

13.11.2024 6

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What Trump's extremely online victory means for progressive politics in Canada

As Democrats continue to sift through the ashes of Tuesday’s election, they’ve begun the process of trying to understand what happened to them...

08.11.2024 5

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There’s no win for Canada in this US election

As I write this, America is in the process of deciding who will be its next president. By the time you read it, the answer may already be clear....

06.11.2024 4

National Observer

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The oil and gas emissions cap might be Trudeau's last chance

Like most governments that are long in the tooth and low in the polls, there aren’t many issues left that look like winners for Justin...

05.11.2024 4

National Observer

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The Liberals can win back young voters with this one simple trick

Live by the youth vote, die by the youth vote. That’s been the story of Justin Trudeau’s nine years in power, which began with his party...

01.11.2024 30

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If Trump wins, climate loses

America may no longer be the world’s undisputed superpower, but its elections are still the most important moment on the global democratic...

30.10.2024 10

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B.C. election truthers are a bad sign for democracy

With just a week to go until the United States election and the polls somehow deadlocked between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, Canadians are left...

29.10.2024 3

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Doug Ford's dumb crusade against bike lanes will make Ontario slower

Ontario is a province filled with knowledge-economy workers, post-secondary institutions and other centres of intellectual capital and excellence....

25.10.2024 4

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Canada’s immigration crisis has only just begun

Canada officially has an immigration problem. No, it’s not the one we’ve been hearing about for months now, which the federal government has...

23.10.2024 8

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John Rustad just taught progressives an important lesson

Brent Chapman, the BC Conservative candidate for the riding of Surrey South, once wrote that Palestinians were “inbred walking, talking,...

22.10.2024 3

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Alberta's emissions cap math doesn't add up

Who are you going to trust: the Government of Alberta or your lying eyes? That was essentially the message coming from Premier Danielle Smith and...

17.10.2024 4

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Pierre Poilievre's silence on India keeps getting louder

Sometimes, it’s what you don’t say about something that tells the real story. That seems to be the case with Conservative Party of Canada...

16.10.2024 8

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Climate alarmism won’t save the CBC

Could more urgent climate coverage save the CBC from a Pierre Poilievre government? That’s the theory that was floated by five of the...

15.10.2024 4

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Climate-concerned Conservatives need to stop kidding themselves

Can Conservative thinkers convince Pierre Poilievre to take climate change seriously? That’s the question that centre-right website The Hub ,...

11.10.2024 7

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For Canadian conservatives, the Red Scare is back

Chip Wilson might be a billionaire, but he can’t buy himself a clue when it comes to politics. It’s not for a lack of trying: the Lululemon...

09.10.2024 10

National Observer

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With business leaders like these, who needs enemies?

If you ran an oil and gas company into the ground while also  helping dump hundreds of millions of dollars in environmental liabilities onto the...

07.10.2024 3

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Danielle Smith’s supporters can’t handle the truth

Live by the conspiracy theory, die by the conspiracy theory. That seems to be Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s guiding principle right now, as...

02.10.2024 1

National Observer

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Mark Carney is a litmus test

You can’t really blame Mark Carney for not taking the plunge into partisan politics just yet. The former Governor of the Bank of Canada’s...

01.10.2024 1

National Observer

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John Rustad wants to dump gasoline on BC's housing fire

John Rustad was in the midst of a political comeback for the ages, one that saw him kicked out of his old party, take over as leader of a new one...

25.09.2024 1

National Observer

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In Alberta, the pay-the-polluter principle reigns supreme

Danielle Smith’s nearly two years as Alberta’s premier have been a chaotic whirlwind of conspiracy theories, gaslighting, and pandering to the...

23.09.2024 1

National Observer

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The rent is still too damn high

There are plenty of reasons why Liberals keep losing byelections in their urban strongholds, from Justin Trudeau’s continued presence as leader...

18.09.2024 4

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When it comes to the carbon tax, the truth never stood a chance

This is apparently how the carbon tax ends in Canada: not with a bang but a surrender. Last week, B.C. Premier David Eby acknowledged his...

17.09.2024 1

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Jagmeet Singh and Pierre Poilievre are dancing to the same tune

When Jagmeet Singh was selected by NDP members to replace Thomas Mulcair in 2017, it looked like they had found their answer to Justin Trudeau. As...

13.09.2024 1

National Observer

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Jagmeet Singh and Pierre Poilievre are dancing to the same tune

When Jagmeet Singh was selected by NDP members to replace Thomas Mulcair in 2017, it looked like they had found their answer to Justin Trudeau. As...

12.09.2024 1

National Observer

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Russia’s useful idiots are out in force here at home

For as long as it’s been in conflict with America and its democratic allies, Russia has tried to defeat them from within. It used any number of...

11.09.2024 2

National Observer

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It's time, Justin

When Pierre Trudeau decided it was time to leave back in 1984, he took a walk in the snow. At the rate things are going for Justin Trudeau, that’s...

10.09.2024 1

National Observer

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Danielle Smith's war on Alberta has only just begun

Just a few thousand votes in a handful of suburban Calgary ridings decided the last Alberta election. With the Alberta NDP now led by former...

09.09.2024 3

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Jagmeet Singh just played himself

He finally did it. After months of speculation about the fate of the confidence and supply agreement that bound his party to the federal Liberal...

05.09.2024 1

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