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Tristin Hopper

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FIRST READING: Canada where Trump’s 'hardball' strategy failed hardest, says analysis

FIRST READING: Canada where Trump’s 'hardball' strategy failed hardest, says analysis

Washington, not Ottawa, is now backing off the trade war as U.S. midterms approach

30.10.2026 20

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FIRST READING: Carney’s 'under control' immigration still blowing out the numbers

FIRST READING: Carney’s 'under control' immigration still blowing out the numbers

The government boasts about reductions are all pegged against the single most anomalous immigration surge in Canadian history

29.10.2026 20

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FIRST READING: Carney’s 'under control' immigration still blowing out the numbers

FIRST READING: Carney’s 'under control' immigration still blowing out the numbers

The government boasts about reductions are all pegged against the single most anomalous immigration surge in Canadian history

29.10.2026 20

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FIRST READING: Everyone hates the Indian Act. So why does it refuse to die?

FIRST READING: Everyone hates the Indian Act. So why does it refuse to die?

Progressives say it's racist, conservatives say it encourages government dependency

28.10.2026 30

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FIRST READING: Mark Carney's evil regime world tour

FIRST READING: Mark Carney's evil regime world tour

Carney keeps offering effusive praise to the world's worst countries

27.10.2026 40

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Roughly every day, a Canadian criminal is getting a reduced sentence because of their race

26.10.2026 40

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FIRST READING: Olivia Chow and David Eby seem to be spinning out in the same way

Both NDP-aligned incumbents entered elections they assumed would be easy, and are now turning to fear tactics

23.10.2026 20

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FIRST READING: The provincial revolt against immigration

Carney government looking to hike targets, even after they never really went down all that much

22.10.2026 20

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FIRST READING: The extremely Canadian pastime of holding an unsuccessful secession referendum

Nobody else really does this

21.10.2026 20

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FIRST READING: Why drug-addled cities keep voting for drugs

The areas hardest hit by street disorder are some of the most consistent supporters of the status quo

20.10.2026 30

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FIRST READING: The would-be premier from nowhere

Lorne Doerkson could be catapulted into the premier's chair despite never really asking for it

19.10.2026 30

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FIRST READING: The most uncontroversial Canadian abortion restriction imaginable (is probably too controversial)

B.C. campaign pledge would pull public funding from elective, third-trimester abortions

16.10.2026 250

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FIRST READING: Another 'elbows up' celebrity swears allegiance to the U.S.

America's elite coterie of 'proudly Canadian' celebrities who don't live, work or pay taxes in Canada

15.10.2026 30

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FIRST READING: The shockingly small number of men causing all the crime

BC just released a criminal with 274 convictions; one for every month since his 18th birthday

14.10.2026 100

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13.10.2026 30

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FIRST READING: Just as predicted, immigration cuts keep yielding lower rents

The Liberals started cutting immigration 24 months ago, and rents have been dropping ever since

09.10.2026 150

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FIRST READING: Mark Carney's favourite catchphrase

The phrase 'dangerous and divided world' has appeared in more than 100 communiques from the Prime Minister's Office

08.10.2026 150

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Tumbler Ridge killer decorated guns with transgender flag, chose ‘cute’ outfit for mass murder

Tristin Hopper: Jesse Van Rootsellar wanted to livestream murder of children, but worried it might reveal his ‘ugly’ voice

07.10.2026 40

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FIRST READING: Quebec could be in for the most anti-woke government in Canada

New premier has trashed multiculturalism, denounced 'wokisme' and promised Canada's strictest controls on immigration

07.10.2026 70

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FIRST READING: David Eby's pledge to make B.C. the highest taxed jurisdiction on earth

Proposed top marginal tax rate would be higher than anywhere except Denmark

06.10.2026 40

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Canada joins U.S. in giving Michael J. Fox its highest civilian decoration

Only two other Canadians have ever managed both; Frank Gehry and Lorne Michaels

05.10.2026 30

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If a judge is declaring a Charter right to bike lanes or drug trafficking, it's a good chance 'life, liberty and security of the person' was involved

05.10.2026 70

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FIRST READING: What SOGI actually tells teachers to do

Right from kindergarten, students are told that sex is something 'assigned at birth' and that the 'rigid gender binary' is false

02.10.2026 150

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FIRST READING: Immigration is higher than Ottawa has been telling us (and it's set to go back up)

Instead of going down by 102,000 in 2025, the Canadian population actually went up by 280,000

01.10.2026 80

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FIRST READING: B.C. NDP hints at lawsuits if Conservatives win the election they called

The B.C. Conservative constitution technically doesn't allow Lorne Doerkson to remain leader permanently

30.09.2026 850

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Ottawa is sending another $100 million to Palestinians without knowing where the money will be spent

While the money has helped fund terrorists and the creation of anti-Israel materials, the government has insisted it would be used only for education...

30.09.2026 150

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FIRST READING: Canadian youth just keep getting more Conservative under Carney

The Liberals' commanding lead is held together mostly with wildly outsized support from seniors

29.09.2026 150

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Mostly forgotten today, a 1973 pro-America rant by Canadian broadcaster Gordon Sinclair went viral in an age when that was much harder to do

28.09.2026 90

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Within 10 days, two pedophile child killers were given temporary passes to leave prison

Shane Ertmoed and Douglas Lambier both committed their crimes in the early 2000s. Both have been granted 60-day unescorted absences from prison by the...

26.09.2026 90

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FIRST READING: Mark Carney’s left-wing enemies

Groups that never really plagued Justin Trudeau are now coming for his successor

25.09.2026 70

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FIRST READING: 'Indigenous reconciliation' ranks at rock bottom of B.C. voter priorities

It did last election too, but that didn't stop it dominating the political agenda

24.09.2026 50

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FIRST READING: David Eby's snap election could blow up in his face

Canadian voters have a long track record of punishing opportunistic elections

23.09.2026 100

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FIRST READING: Yet another Canadian massacre prevented at the last minute by police

If Const. Jeff Smith hadn't returned fire against a synagogue attacker, 25 congregants would have been at his mercy

22.09.2026 40

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'Education is an instrumental tool for maintaining and furthering the ideology of white supremacy,' reads pledge provided to school staff

21.09.2026 70

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FIRST READING: B.C. stacking up sub-national debt faster than anywhere else in North America

In just four years, Premier David Eby has doubled the province's net debt

18.09.2026 50

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FIRST READING: Stunning byelection upset may portend Alberta conservative fracture

Both pro and anti-independence conservatives were upset with the UCP ... causing the NDP to win

17.09.2026 50

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FIRST READING: The eyewatering cost of the projects Canada is pitching to investors

Quoted price for Port of Churchill expansion could build the St. Lawrence Seaway 16 times

16.09.2026 50

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Woman convicted of disfiguring biting attack given reduced sentence because she's Haitian

Tristin Hopper: In a decision released this week, the Quebec Court of Appeal ruled that four years was too harsh, in part because it could possibly...

15.09.2026 30

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FIRST READING: As First Nations acquire new land, political control, Beijing appears to take notice

Chinese embassy holds summit in Vancouver seeking closer links with First Nations

15.09.2026 60

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Judge rules 'colonialism' caused First Nations man to become deadly drunk driver

Prison time would obstruct efforts by deadly drunk driver to 'regain his culture,' according to Ontario Justice Gethin Edward

14.09.2026 80

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Manslaughter is routinely being applied to homicides where an offender shot or stabbed their victim

14.09.2026 40

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Mark Carney’s support surge coming largely from former Conservatives, poll finds

Tristin Hopper: Roughly one million who voted Tory in 2025 would now vote for Carney – more than enough to flip dozens of Conservative ridings...

10.09.2026 50

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Diana Fox Carney says she realizes the personal 'opportunity' offered by her husband's position

'I am very aware that there are opportunities for me now that other people don’t have,' she told interviewers

10.09.2026 50

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Canada unveils more sign-based retaliation against the U.S.

Tristin Hopper: The new signs, with their ‘Never 51st State’ message, are one of several measures that David Eby’s government has taken to...

09.09.2026 30

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Canadians support hard line against U.S., but don't want to pay for it

Tristin Hopper: When asked if they would pay an extra $500 per year to hold the line in the current trade war, 56 per cent called this ‘unacceptable’

08.09.2026 30

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Canada was founded with the clear goal of not being the United States

Tristin Hopper: Canadians had no problem articulating why they personally didn’t want to live under the Stars and Stripes

06.09.2026 50

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Key government jobs, such as safety inspectors and intelligence analysts, being prioritized by race

Tristin Hopper: Report finds 42 per cent of federal job postings practice ‘explicit or potential prioritization based on group identity’

03.09.2026 50

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'Inclusive' hiring has damaged Canadian research output: report

According to the federal government's ‘equity targets,’ Canada Research Chairs must be 22% ‘racialized,’ 4.9% ‘Indigenous’ and 50.9%...

01.09.2026 30

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Human rights tribunal sides with TMU teaching assistant who decried 'desecration by the Jews'

Tristin Hopper: Ayman Elkasrawy’s claim that he had been fired due to Islamophobia was rejected, but the adjudicator ruled that some discrimination...

31.08.2026 30

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The one problem with Canada threatening to cut off U.S. electricity

Some months, Canada is more reliant on U.S. electricity than the other way around

27.08.2026 60

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