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- This is not a call for unchecked spending. It's a call to recognize health care for what it truly is: foundational economic infrastructure. If we are serious about building Canada’s future, health care can no longer sit in the background. It must be central to nation-building.
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- This is not a call for unchecked spending. It's a call to recognize health care for what it truly is: foundational economic infrastructure. If we are serious about building Canada’s future, health care can no longer sit in the background. It must be central to nation-building.
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- Once political leaders learn they can dictate health policy through culture wars, the intrusion rarely ends.
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- Once political leaders learn they can dictate health policy through culture wars, the intrusion rarely ends.
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- The Trump administration’s current Arctic policy is a high-stakes game of Russian roulette, risking the destruction of America’s regional alliances, and its own national security. From the ashes of that destruction, China will find an obvious path to revitalize its claim to prominence in the Arctic.
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- The Trump administration’s current Arctic policy is a high-stakes game of Russian roulette, risking the destruction of America’s regional alliances, and its own national security. From the ashes of that destruction, China will find an obvious path to revitalize its claim to prominence in the Arctic.
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- Rose LeMay
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- Every time a communication like this comes from our political right, it will be perceived as feeding the Donald Trump machine. It is taking a brick out of our own democracy.
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- Every time a communication like this comes from our political right, it will be perceived as feeding the Donald Trump machine. It is taking a brick out of our own democracy.
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- Call me a dreamer, but this winter solstice season I’m practising hope that 2026 is the year Canada recognizes its strength and credibility as
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- The Prime Minister’s Office is taking a decidedly corporate approach. Then it should make sure that the essential piece of corporate governance is included by being transparent with the board of directors. In this country, the board is made up of voters.
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- Tim Powers
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- Will global dynamics further influence our ecosystem? What will bond us now, or divide us? These are weighty questions we can’t escape in 2026.
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- Will global dynamics further influence our ecosystem? What will bond us now, or divide us? These are weighty questions we can’t escape in 2026.
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- OTTAWA—It was one year ago that federal politics changed dramatically. Then-deputy prime minister and finance minister Chrystia Freeland wrote her poison pen letter to
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- It will not go unnoticed among those who move money around and make investments that the prime minister is currently not encumbered by the political conventions and practices of his predecessor.
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- Scott Taylor
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- The good news for aviation buffs is the plan envisions a mixed fleet of distinctly different types of helicopters to support the Army.
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- The good news for aviation buffs is the plan envisions a mixed fleet of distinctly different types of helicopters to support the Army.
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- Sheila Copps
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- If you parse Marco Rubio’s statement from last weekend, anyone who is even a competitor of the U.S. in our hemisphere is a potential target of American foreign policy attention. No wonder Prime Minister Mark Carney has muted his comments on the Nicolás Maduro takedown. We could be next.
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- If you parse Marco Rubio’s statement from last weekend, anyone who is even a competitor of the U.S. in our hemisphere is a potential target of American foreign policy attention. No wonder Prime Minister Mark Carney has muted his comments on the Nicolás Maduro takedown. We could be next.
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- Susan Riley
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- In retrospect, Mark Carney’s low-key approach—coupled with his tireless attempts to broaden our trade network—may prove to be the wisest course. Not as emotionally satisfying, or morally invigorating as a well-deserved profanity. But smarter.
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- In retrospect, Mark Carney’s low-key approach—coupled with his tireless attempts to broaden our trade network—may prove to be the wisest course. Not as emotionally satisfying, or morally invigorating as a well-deserved profanity. But smarter.
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- Avi Lewis’ daring, refreshing campaign may come to nothing; end of discussion. Or maybe, if New Democrats are feeling frisky, beginning of discussion. The
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- The longer Prime Minister Mark Carney tries to play both sides of the street—and this game has been going on for decades—the farther behind we fall, environmentally and economically. He must know that.
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- David Crane
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- Canada is, by far, the U.S. auto industry’s largest export market and the cross-border value chains have worked well for all three countries. So CUSMA may continue. But how far are we prepared to go at the expense of other sectors and regions in Canada?
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- Canada is, by far, the U.S. auto industry’s largest export market and the cross-border value chains have worked well for all three countries. So CUSMA may continue. But how far are we prepared to go at the expense of other sectors and regions in Canada?
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- But much will depend on the Carney government’s ability to persuade Canadians that current difficulties, and the risk of stagnant incomes as living costs rise, are worthwhile—that there is light at the end of the tunnel. This, ultimately, will be a test of leadership and trust, as well as policy.
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- Gerry Nicholls
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- It makes sense for a front-runner to make a virtue of cordial campaigning and to shame opponents who decide to go on the attack. In other words, while pushing the 11th commandment might seem idealistic, it’s often self-serving.
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- It makes sense for a front-runner to make a virtue of cordial campaigning and to shame opponents who decide to go on the attack. In other words, while pushing the 11th commandment might seem idealistic, it’s often self-serving.
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- If the Carney Liberals sense there’s a threat emerging on their left-wing flank, they might themselves move to the left, which would give Pierre
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- By making this one pipeline deal, Mark Carney might be hoping to destroy the stereotype that Liberals are a bunch of progressive, tree-hugging greens who detest Western Canada. Simply put, he’s trying to rebrand Liberalism.
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- Michael Harris
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- U.S. President Donald Trump needs to disband ICE and hand over its obscene budget to local authorities. He needs to stop illegally sending the National Guard and ICE agents to police Americans. If he doesn’t, Renee Nicole Good won’t be the last chapter of America’s shame.
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- U.S. President Donald Trump needs to disband ICE and hand over its obscene budget to local authorities. He needs to stop illegally sending the National Guard and ICE agents to police Americans. If he doesn’t, Renee Nicole Good won’t be the last chapter of America’s shame.
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- For those who think it is over the top to even imagine that the U.S. might reduce Canada to a vassal state the way
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- There's another difference between our two nations that would never empower a Trump, or an operation as corrupt as Fox News. Unlike far too many of our neighbours to the south, when it comes to politics, Canadians prefer to be informed rather than entertained.
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- Gwynne Dyer
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- If even one soldier dies in Greenland due to American aggression, NATO nations would be forced to step in.
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- If even one soldier dies in Greenland due to American aggression, NATO nations would be forced to step in.
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- For Canada, the problem is that all the (false) American arguments to justify annexing Greenland apply equally to Canada. The strategy seems to be
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- Les Whittington
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- Affording a home now is not quite as problematic as it was during the COVID years, but affordability is still the worst it’s been in Canada in 25 years, according to RBC.
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- Affording a home now is not quite as problematic as it was during the COVID years, but affordability is still the worst it’s been in Canada in 25 years, according to RBC.
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- It’s obvious that Donald Trump has established a situation where he can operate with little—if any—of the normal constraints of a U.S. president.
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- For all the Liberals’ high points since they dodged what was shaping up as certain electoral defeat, the year ahead looms as an even more difficult minefield.
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- Erica Ifill
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- The Conservatives complaining about the PM going to China for a trade deal are the same people who are begging for a new pipeline out to the coast of B.C. to sell oil to China.
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- The Conservatives complaining about the PM going to China for a trade deal are the same people who are begging for a new pipeline out to the coast of B.C. to sell oil to China.
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- Knowing that Grok is a gender-based violence generator, why are institutional experts, organizations, and government officials still using X?
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- Prime Minister Mark Carney’s vision for Canada is to make it ‘the world’s leading energy superpower,’ but that just got bulldozed by the United States’ actions in Venezuela.
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- Bhagwant Sandhu
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- The question in foreign affairs is not if diplomatic risk exists, but how it is managed. As the government balances that reality, the Conservative response appears rooted to domestic constituencies rather than moored in a coherent vision of Canada’s place in a fragmented global economy.
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- The question in foreign affairs is not if diplomatic risk exists, but how it is managed. As the government balances that reality, the Conservative response appears rooted to domestic constituencies rather than moored in a coherent vision of Canada’s place in a fragmented global economy.
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- Canadian politicians were quick to weigh in on an illegal U.S. military action—but whose interests are they really serving?
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- The party is being battered in the polls and remains, at best, a long shot to regain official party status any time soon. It needs controversy, not controlled messaging.
