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- Nostalgia for 2015, 1993, and 1930, won’t win the next election. The party needs humility, and hard and patient work: person to person, policy by policy, riding by riding.
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- Nostalgia for 2015, 1993, and 1930, won’t win the next election. The party needs humility, and hard and patient work: person to person, policy by policy, riding by riding.
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- Every September, for the past several years, I have been getting together with women who played on my high school basketball team a half-century ago.
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- Every September, for the past several years, I have been getting together with women who played on my high school basketball team a half-century ago.
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- He will be remembered as a decent, humble, thoughtful person, and a role model for all Canadians.
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- He will be remembered as a decent, humble, thoughtful person, and a role model for all Canadians.
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- Rose LeMay
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- The premier in Quebec wants to outlaw prayer in public. It sounds like a Saturday Night Live sketch, but it isn’t.
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- The premier in Quebec wants to outlaw prayer in public. It sounds like a Saturday Night Live sketch, but it isn’t.
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- 'Maple MAGA' in Canada is a real thing, too. The movement that will break American democracy is also in our backyards.
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- The government’s goal of reducing spending across the board is too much like Air Canada cutting all of its flights overnight without due process. Budgeting is both about money and effectiveness. When the focus is only on the money, the link to the end user’s satisfaction is broken.
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- Tim Powers
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- Given his pedigree, Ken Dryden was arguably the smartest person in every room he ever entered, but he never behaved that way.
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- Given his pedigree, Ken Dryden was arguably the smartest person in every room he ever entered, but he never behaved that way.
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- Scott Taylor
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- If your military cupboard is hurting, you can’t throw a coat of fresh paint on a disabled tank and pretend all is good for the reviewing politician.
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- If your military cupboard is hurting, you can’t throw a coat of fresh paint on a disabled tank and pretend all is good for the reviewing politician.
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- Sheila Copps
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- Every September, for the past several years, I have been getting together with women who played on my high school basketball team a half-century ago.
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- Every September, for the past several years, I have been getting together with women who played on my high school basketball team a half-century ago.
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- Improving the lives of Canadians didn’t reward the NDP, but instead benefitted the Liberals. New Democrats have a lot of thinking ahead of them.
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- Experienced MP and current Speaker Francis Scarpaleggia will have to use all his wiles to ensure the fall session does not descend into chaos.
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- Susan Riley
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- Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is unlikely to offer any serious, fact-based critiques of the government’s shortcomings. He's a glib man, playing in the shallows, following a shop-worn script. Always has been, always will be.
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- Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is unlikely to offer any serious, fact-based critiques of the government’s shortcomings. He's a glib man, playing in the shallows, following a shop-worn script. Always has been, always will be.
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- David Crane
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- This is a moment of opportunity. Former Vancouver mayor Gregor Robertson should listen to former Toronto mayor David Crombie. Cities are where things actually get done. And solving the afforable housing crisis is surely something that must be done.
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- This is a moment of opportunity. Former Vancouver mayor Gregor Robertson should listen to former Toronto mayor David Crombie. Cities are where things actually get done. And solving the afforable housing crisis is surely something that must be done.
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- Despite the high-level drum-beating for Port of Churchill possibilities and especially for an LNG plant, an oil pipeline, or a hydrogen plant, none may
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- Canada’s capacity for technological progress and scaling the industries of the future will be critical for our future growth prospects and much-needed gains in productivity.
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- Gerry Nicholls
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- By putting his elbows down, Mark Carney could end up paying a political price.
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- To win the next election, the Conservative leader doesn’t have to be liked; he just needs to get people to agree with him.
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- The Ontario premier seems to lack any ideological connection to his political base. Although his approach to politics might come across as supremely cynical, it seems to be working.
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- Michael Harris
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- The rash of more recent shootings is partially explained by a deadly change in U.S. politics. There was a time when political opponents were just that: competitors seeking political power with different ideas of what to do with it. But that is no longer the case.
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- The rash of more recent shootings is partially explained by a deadly change in U.S. politics. There was a time when political opponents were just that: competitors seeking political power with different ideas of what to do with it. But that is no longer the case.
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- If Trumpism proves to be a once-in-a-century aberration, the reliable friendship between Canada and the United States could come back stronger than ever.
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- There is a hero shortage in America. A deadly silence combined with an aversion to the facts has enabled the worst of the U.S. president’s lies to proceed largely unopposed.
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- Gwynne Dyer
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- Israel bombing America's closest ally in the Gulf puts every Arab country on notice that nobody is safe.
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- Israel bombing America's closest ally in the Gulf puts every Arab country on notice that nobody is safe.
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- Les Whittington
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- There is no reason to think a Poilievre government wouldn’t find ways to seriously weaken the country's social programs.
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- There is no reason to think a Poilievre government wouldn’t find ways to seriously weaken the country's social programs.
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- The Aug. 15 meeting gave Russia the green light to continue its invasion without worrying too much about Washington intervening in a major way
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- The commitment to democracy and individual rights has been and continues to be badly eroded, in part because of U.S. regression under its current president.
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- Erica Ifill
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- All of this political theatre, and they didn’t even destroy the uranium they pretended to seek. What a waste of time, money, and military resources.
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- All of this political theatre, and they didn’t even destroy the uranium they pretended to seek. What a waste of time, money, and military resources.
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- Bhagwant Sandhu
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- With the Carney Liberals occupying the centre-right, the Conservatives face a hard question: evolve to lead a changing Canada or stay stuck in a political cul-de-sac of grievance and nostalgia.
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- With the Carney Liberals occupying the centre-right, the Conservatives face a hard question: evolve to lead a changing Canada or stay stuck in a political cul-de-sac of grievance and nostalgia.
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- Shifting deadlines may require discretion, but that’s no excuse to shield national decisions from democratic oversight and public scrutiny.
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- As the party prepares for its March 2026 convention, the question isn’t who will lead but what purpose the NDP will serve in Canadian politics.
