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As year ends, the Conservatives are polling better than at any point since the election

Tristin Hopper: But if Carney gets his majority via floor-crossers, it might not matter

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The House of Commons just capped off one of its least productive years

The House of Commons just capped off one of its least productive years

In 2025, Canada's 342 MPs, representing 41 million people and overseeing a $586 billion budget, sat for the fewest number of days since 1937 and...

24.12.2025 20

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FIRST READING: The shockingly simple fix to end constant anti-Israel protests

FIRST READING: The shockingly simple fix to end constant anti-Israel protests

No new laws, no new powers: It could all be curtailed with a low-level directive

23.12.2025 10

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Gender identity, climate change and anti-Israel causes all generously subsidized by federal money

22.12.2025 10

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FIRST READING: The Liberal scandal that may have just guaranteed a third Quebec referendum

FIRST READING: The Liberal scandal that may have just guaranteed a third Quebec referendum
19.12.2025 10

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FIRST READING: Decolonization activists get $300,000 to block pipelines with dogs

Vancouver Foundation gives six-figure grant to illegal pipeline encampment filled with dogs

18.12.2025 10

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FIRST READING: Poilievre says he would build pipeline against First Nations objections

FIRST READING: Poilievre says he would build pipeline against First Nations objections

Carney's pipeline plans have notably omitted what he'll do in case literally everyone doesn't agree

17.12.2025 10

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FIRST READING: These are not normal floor crossings

FIRST READING: These are not normal floor crossings

Floor-crossers usually provide some grievance or goal after defecting, or they'll at least have an established pattern of dissent

16.12.2025 10

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For a foreign national facing law enforcement scrutiny, claiming asylum instantly halts the investigation in its tracks

15.12.2025 8

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FIRST READING: And now Saskatchewan has a secession movement

FIRST READING: And now Saskatchewan has a secession movement
12.12.2025 8

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FIRST READING: The mother of all unintended consequences is hitting B.C. right now

FIRST READING: The mother of all unintended consequences is hitting B.C. right now

Adhering B.C.'s laws to a UN charter is doing the exact opposite of what they said it would

11.12.2025 10

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FIRST READING: Why Canada keeps giving unpronounceable names to things

FIRST READING: Why Canada keeps giving unpronounceable names to things

In just the last few years, places names in B.C. have been given the monikers of stal̕əw̓asəm, wək̓ʷan̓əs tə syaqʷəm and šxʷməθkʷəy̓əmasəm

10.12.2025 10

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FIRST READING: Federally funded study to probe how to provide 'culturally preferred food' to immigrants

FIRST READING: Federally funded study to probe how to provide 'culturally preferred food' to immigrants
09.12.2025 10

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Incoming Canadian identify minister Marc Miller has mentioned three he thinks should be open to criminal prosecution

08.12.2025 10

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FIRST READING: Carney plan to reduce civil service will cost $1.5 billion to cut payroll by just $82 million

FIRST READING: Carney plan to reduce civil service will cost $1.5 billion to cut payroll by just $82 million

The program offers up to five years of free early retirement in lieu of layoffs

06.12.2025 7

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FIRST READING: How an Albertan anti-separatist may have accidentally triggered a separation referendum

04.12.2025 10

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FIRST READING: How an Albertan anti-separatist may have accidentally triggered a separation referendum

'He did not think this through. It’s quite remarkable'

04.12.2025 10

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FIRST READING: Statistics Canada said it missed 38 per cent of non-citizens in last census

Enough non-citizens to fill the city of Halifax were likely missed

03.12.2025 10

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FIRST READING: Why a leading NDP candidate claimed that pipelines are a conduit to rape and murder

Activists have long claimed that building infrastructure in Canada inevitably comes with a tithe of victimized Indigenous women

02.12.2025 20

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01.12.2025 10

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Tristin Hopper: The Royal B.C. Museum was once beautiful. Wokeness drained it of all life

28.11.2025 10

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FIRST READING: Mark Carney's slow-motion purge of the Trudeau old guard

Four Trudeau loyalists might not only be out of cabinet, but out of the country

27.11.2025 10

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FIRST READING: B.C.'s public school teachers told to 'queer' outdoor education

Teachers told to instruct children as young as four that 'the universality of heterosexuality in nature' is a colonial myth

26.11.2025 10

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FIRST READING: The hundreds of millions Canada is still spending on 'gendered' foreign aid

Millions of dollars every month are sent abroad for “gender-just rice," “gender-responsive climate-smart agriculture” and “gender perspectives...

25.11.2025 10

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Porn no longer subject to Canadian content quotas, says CRTC

In other words, any program 'devoted to depicting explicit sexual activity' will no longer need to ensure a minimum quota of Canadians either in front...

24.11.2025 20

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Untreatied land in Quebec, New Brunswick, P.E.I. and Newfoundland could follow suit of Cowichan decision

24.11.2025 10

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FIRST READING: Migrants are being screened on the honour system, MPs told

Any foreigner claiming to be a refugee needs only to click a few boxes on an app before being admitted to Canada

21.11.2025 10

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FIRST READING: Quebec’s little-noticed plan to unilaterally declare independence

Proposed law declares that Canada doesn't exist as a country, and is just a "federal union" whose rules can be ignored at will

20.11.2025 20

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FIRST READING: The most conservative young people in the West

Canada is a conspicuous outlier as a place where young people are more conservative than old people

19.11.2025 10

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FIRST READING: B.C. human rights chief declares that it's colonialist to stigmatize drug use

Overdose crisis is 'rooted in colonial approaches that prioritize individualism over community, wealth over health and power over empathy'

18.11.2025 20

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It's not just GDP, unaffordability and unemployment; a number of basic social indicators in Canada are getting worse

17.11.2025 10

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FIRST READING: One tenth of Carney's budget cuts come from sending less marijuana money to veterans

Each year, the government pays for 30 tonnes of cannabis for veterans and ex-Mounties

14.11.2025 10

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FIRST READING: The push to have Canadians hear a 'slavery' acknowledgement at public events

In some corners of the country, land acknowledgements are already paired with 'African ancestry' acknowledgements

13.11.2025 10

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FIRST READING: After Toronto assault, calls for campus anti-Israel groups to be branded terrorist

Nov. 5 event in Toronto stormed by masked demonstrators screaming that attendees were murderers

11.11.2025 10

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First Nations have said they don't want to seize homes ... but they conceivably could

10.11.2025 8

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FIRST READING: Mark Carney's bizarre insistence on using British spellings instead of Canadian ones

The 2025 budget spells organize as 'organise,' catalyze as 'catalyse,' recognize as 'recognise'

07.11.2025 10

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FIRST READING: Budget offers mass amnesty for asylum-seekers

06.11.2025 10

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FIRST READING: The most egregious jargon of Carney's budget, from 'rightsizing' to 'fiscal firepower'

05.11.2025 6

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FIRST READING: Another NDP bill threatens to jail Canadians for speech

04.11.2025 10

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03.11.2025 10

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FIRST READING: Slashing immigration has already been good for the Canadian economy

TD report finds it's already created lower unemployment and cheaper homes

31.10.2025 6

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How Halloween became 'Christmas Two'

One of our cheaper holidays is now one of our most expensive

31.10.2025 9

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FIRST READING: How provinces learned to love the notwithstanding clause

It's now getting invoked an average of once every year

30.10.2025 10

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FIRST READING: A brief history of Carney’s unfulfilled trade promises

Twice, Carney has promised imminent U.S. trade deals, only for negotiations to fall apart

28.10.2025 10

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They're way more expensive, it's just that they aren't as conspicuous as they used to be

20.10.2025 7

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FIRST READING: Ottawa invites foreigners to share in Canada's 'public health care'

'Thinking about moving to Canada? Did you know Canada has public health care?'

17.10.2025 9

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FIRST READING: U.S. youth identifying as non binary is in freefall, says Canadian researcher

Collapse in numbers of young people identifying as 'queer' deemed a 'fading of a fashion or trend'

16.10.2025 10

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FIRST READING: How postal workers lost Canadians

Never before have postal workers had fewer defenders in Ottawa

15.10.2025 10

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Multiple times a week, a criminal gets a more lenient sentence in a Canadian court because of their race or immigration status

14.10.2025 10

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'All hail the benevolent orange bringer of peace': Inside the thoughts of Mark Carney

‘You want a U.S.-Canadian trade strategy? I can give it to you in one word: Hate‘

11.10.2025 10

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