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Tristin Hopper

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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

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

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

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

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

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

Tristin Hopper: The Royal B.C. Museum was once beautiful. Wokeness drained it of all life
28.11.2025 10

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Tristin Hopper

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

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

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

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

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

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

National Post

Tristin Hopper

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

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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FIRST READING: Canadians don't care about Palestine as much as Ottawa seems to think they do

10.10.2025 10

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FIRST READING: Here's all the Liberal memoirs that have bashed Trudeau (so far)

All the critiques are different: Some slam as an economic illiterate, while others say he's simply a deeply flawed person generally

09.10.2025 10

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FIRST READING: Poll shows Tories climbing back as Carney trust erodes

A new Postmedia-Leger poll tracked the Liberals at 44%, against 38% for the Conservatives

08.10.2025 10

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FIRST READING: B.C. premier admits that decriminalizing drugs was a mistake

As recently as last year, Eby was still dismissing critics who said decriminalization would only make everything worse

07.10.2025 10

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06.10.2025 10

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'Have you considered selling more oil?' The imagined thoughts of Danielle Smith’s proposed pipeline

‘Would you believe that no other land possessing this miracle liquid has entertained the possibility of leaving their oil where it lies?’

04.10.2025 10

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FIRST READING: B.C. report details how a few people are causing most of the crime

Kelowna says downtown is being devastated by only a handful of chronic offenders that are constantly sprung from jail

03.10.2025 7

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As many as 47,000 foreign students may now be in Canada illegally: IRCC

47,175 people who entered Canada as students are potentially ‘non-compliant,’ meaning they are not attending classes as required by the terms of...

03.10.2025 6

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FIRST READING: Why Canadian terror designations don't really do anything

Ottawa is designating record numbers of new terror groups, few of which will be affected whatsoever by the moniker

02.10.2025 10

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FIRST READING: Canadian bill would strip internet access from 'specified persons'

01.10.2025 10

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FIRST READING: Canadian AI research position open only to disabled women

Screening for university jobs by race and identity is now standard practice in Canada, and often federally mandated

30.09.2025 10

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29.09.2025 4

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'What cruel universe allowed me to live?' The imagined thoughts of home mail delivery

‘Questioning the very nature of my existence is a darkness I have never known. Until now’

27.09.2025 10

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FIRST READING: The terrorists praising Mark Carney

Despite Carney claiming his recognition of a Palestinian state isolates Hamas, the Gazan terrorist group was one of the first to praise it

23.09.2025 10

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