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About that foreign-agents registry thing...

The Chinatown gate on March 9, 2023 in Montreal. Quebec RCMP said they were investigating two alleged secret police stations operated by Chinese...

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The Liberals’ capital-gains tax hike punishes prosperity

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland deliveres the federal budget in the House of Commons in Ottawa on April 16. Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press In her...

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The Liberals promise billions for clean power. Don’t undermine it with politics

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland takes part in a TV interview after tabling the budget on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on April 16. Justin Tang/The...

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The B.C. NDP is playing with fiscal fire

The first alarm bells over British Columbia’s finances started tinkling last spring, when NDP Premier David Eby rushed to spend billions of dollars...

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Reconciliation: Close the education gap – now

Amid the vast gaps between levels of education achieved by Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in Canada, there is a glimmer of hope – an...

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Reconciliation: How to build up an Indigenous economy

Investigations from both media and government into the ArriveCan app have laid bare much rot at the heart of the federal government’s procurement....

19.04.2024 10

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On Haida Gwaii, an island of change for Indigenous land talks

The Gwaii Haanas legacy totem pole is seen after being raised in Windy Bay, B.C., on Lyell Island in Haida Gwaii in 2013. DARRYL DYCK/The Canadian...

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The Liberals move from borrow and spend, to tax and spend

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland and cabinet ministers speak before tabling of the federal budget on Parliament Hill...

17.04.2024 10

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Wab Kinew looks beyond the carbon tax

Wab Kinew, the NDP premier of Manitoba, stands opposed to the carbon tax alongside this country’s conservatives. But Mr. Kinew’s position is more...

16.04.2024 8

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In Manitoba, the NDP crosses to the middle

Manitoba’s new Premier has suspended the province’s fuel tax, questions the wisdom of the federal fuel charge, is aiming for a budget surplus...

15.04.2024 9

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Substitutions and deletions, please: The absolutes of the culture wars are divisive and exhausting

The use of paper straws is one of a number of weighty, deeply felt issues dragged into contemporary culture wars. Paul Chiasson/The Canadian Press ...

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B.C.’s political blind spot on public safety

Needles on the ground in Oppenheimer park in Vancouver's downtown eastside on March 17, 2020. JONATHAN HAYWARD/The Canadian Press British...

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The first goal of drug overdoses policy: Keep people alive

An injection kit inside the Fraser Health supervised consumption site is pictured in Surrey, B.C. on June 6, 2017. JONATHAN HAYWARD/The Canadian Press...

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Pay CEOs for performance, not failure

Last year was a tough one for Canadian Tire. An unseasonably warm winter led to fewer sales of outdoor gear and a softening economy meant consumers...

10.04.2024 4

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The Liberals are sleepwalking through an increasingly dangerous world

The official name of Ottawa’s defence policy review is Our North, Strong and Free, but the title really should be While Canada Sleepwalks. The...

09.04.2024 9

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Let the foreign-interference inquiry do its job, Prime Minister

There is no need, it seems, for the fuss and bother of the public inquiry into foreign interference in the 2019 and 2021 elections. Prime Minister...

08.04.2024 10

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Ontario needs a fiscal conservative party. Doug Ford’s PCs aren’t it

To say Doug Ford spends like Kathleen Wynne is unfair to the former Liberal premier. Mr. Ford, notionally a Progressive Conservative premier,...

06.04.2024 7

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The build-more ethos for housing is (finally) gaining political ground

A crane stands between condo buildings in Toronto's Liberty Village neighbourhood on July 13, 2022. CARLOS OSORIO/Reuters Throughout the 2010s, as...

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A critical push to speed up mine approvals

Canada’s quest for critical minerals has led to an astonishing promise: The federal government says it can slash the time it takes a proposed mine...

04.04.2024 9

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Doug Ford and Bonnie Crombie both opposed new housing. One changed their mind

Before Ontario Liberal Leader Bonnie Crombie was in favour of more housing, she was against it. In early 2022, a landmark housing report was presented...

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The defence of civility rests on all of us

If civility is a public good, it is a public good that is in increasingly short supply. Protesters incensed at the casualties from Israel’s...

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When you play with FIFA matches, expect to get burned

Has anyone else noticed that whenever the Fédération Internationale de Football Association – a.k.a. FIFA – comes to town, controversy and...

01.04.2024 4

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The carbon tax is a tool, not a goal

The federal carbon tax is going up on Monday across most of the country – adding 3.3 cents to a levy that will now be 17.6 cents on a litre of...

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Don’t dispense with drug competition

A person walks in front of a Loblaws grocery store pharmacy in Ottawa, on April 26, 2021. Justin Tang/The Canadian Press Earlier this year, Manulife...

29.03.2024 10

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Immigration is more than a numbers game

Canada's Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Marc Miller takes part in a press conference in Ottawa on Jan. 29. Blair Gable/Reuters If...

28.03.2024 9

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The Liberals’ dithering on defence is indefensible

It was 720 days ago that Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland stood in the House of Commons to intone about the threat posed by Russia’s illegal...

27.03.2024 10

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British Columbia’s troubling diversion on opioids

Auditor General Michael Pickup presents his report about the province's toxic drug crisis and the implementation of harm reduction programs during an...

26.03.2024 9

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Ottawa is not the parent of the provinces

Much of the legacy of Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government is at risk, for the simple reason that the Prime Minister made the mistake of assuming the...

25.03.2024 7

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How to put a ceiling on housing prices

There’s a widely held belief that real estate prices will, inevitably, only rise higher and higher. There are, however, long periods when that maxim...

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Canada’s dangerous slide into antisemitism

Supporters of Israel look on as a pro-Palestine rally takes place across a road in Calgary, on Nov. 19. Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press Antisemitic...

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Canada’s other (and worse) housing crisis

A report released on March 19 by Canada’s Auditor-General found there is a shortage of 55,320 houses on First Nations reserves, but since 2018 the...

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The federal budget has been too late for too long

Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland rises during question period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on March 19. Sean...

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Political hot air has scorched the carbon tax

Canada’s federal carbon tax has reached a critical turning point. Its continued existence beyond the next election seems unlikely, and a scheduled...

19.03.2024 10

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Canada has plenty of good housing ideas. They need to be turned into action

A few weeks ago, an Australian housing advocate put an app online that compared the population density of cities around the world. It should come as...

18.03.2024 7

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Denial and delay is not a defence policy

If the Canadian Army got into a shooting war, it would largely be out of ammunition after three days. There is a dire lack of modern planes, ships and...

16.03.2024 10

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Ottawa shouldn’t dither on the dangers of TikTok

Suddenly, the clock is ticking on TikTok. On Thursday, the Liberal government let it be known that it secretly ordered a national-security review of...

15.03.2024 9

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EVs shift into a higher gear

The transformation of the transportation industry reached a new milestone last year. Zero-emission vehicles for the first time hit a double-digit...

14.03.2024 6

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Pornography, Parliament and parents

It’s hard to quibble with the goal behind Bill S-210: keeping pornography, often violent and misogynistic, out of the sight of minors. But good...

13.03.2024 8

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The battle for American democracy starts now

President Joe Biden speaks at a campaign event in Atlanta, Ga. on on March 9. Megan Varner/Getty Images With the Super Tuesday primaries in the...

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The gradual-sudden shift in competition law

In Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, there is an incisive observation on the nature of change. One character, asked how he stumbled into...

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A deficit of choice for the Liberals as budget day approaches

There were no soothing pastels in the fiscal picture that the Parliamentary Budget Officer sketched this week, just dark tones. Compared with the...

09.03.2024 10

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The lesson from Ottawa’s latest subsidy fiascos

A for sale is sign is displayed in front of a house in Toronto's Riverdale area on Sept. 29, 2021. Evan Buhler/The Canadian Press As the old saying...

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Handcuffing pension funds is not the answer to Canada’s economic woes

Forcing pension funds to invest in Canadian equities is an idea that seems merely terrible at first glance but, when you really dig into the details,...

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How to take the politics out of judicial appointments

Ontario Premier Doug Ford's defence of a partisan lens on judicial appointments was justifiably lambasted. Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press Critics...

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Danielle Smith’s attack on clean power is an attack on free enterprise

Solar panels stand at the Michichi Solar project near Drumheller, Alta., on July 11, 2023. Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press Alberta is endowed with...

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The Liberals table a fatally flawed online harms bill

Arif Virani, Minister of Justice, and Attorney General of Canada, speaks during a press conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa regarding the new...

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Brian Mulroney, the last great prime minister

There have been 23 prime ministers since Confederation, but only a handful of those have a claim to greatness, to a legacy that outlasts headlines and...

01.03.2024 10

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The Prosperity Problem: Tear down the provinces’ trade walls

Seven years ago, when the provinces, territories and Ottawa signed the Canadian Free Trade Agreement, the British magazine The Economist wasn’t...

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The Prosperity Problem: Canada needs to think inside the patent box

Former BlackBerry co-CEO Jim Balsillie is among those who have argued for major changes in Canada’s approach to IP. Cole Burston/The Canadian Press ...

29.02.2024 8

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The Prosperity Problem: Ottawa needs to cut (the right kind of) corporate taxes

Bay Street in Canada's financial district in Toronto. Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press One of the most basic principles of tax policy is cutting...

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