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OPINION: Canada’s economic resilience starts with energy

OPINION: Canada’s economic resilience starts with energy

See more Toronto Sun on Google — save as a Preferred Source At a time of trade uncertainty, shifting global relationships and growing energy...

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Edmonton Sun

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GOLDSTEIN: Expect retaliation if we weaponize our energy exports to the U.S.

GOLDSTEIN: Expect retaliation if we weaponize our energy exports to the U.S.

Those calling for Prime Minister Mark Carney to tax or restrict energy exports to the U.S. as a weapon in the ongoing tariff war should explain the...

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Edmonton Sun

Lorrie Goldstein

KINSELLA: 9/11 wasn't a 'terrorist attack,' according to the CBC

KINSELLA: 9/11 wasn't a 'terrorist attack,' according to the CBC

See more Toronto Sun on Google — save as a Preferred Source KINSELLA: 9/11 wasn't a 'terrorist attack,' according to the CBC Back to...

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Edmonton Sun

Warren Kinsella

LILLEY: Trade talks collapsed in fine print, and both sides say the other is to blame

LILLEY: Trade talks collapsed in fine print, and both sides say the other is to blame

See more Toronto Sun on Google — save as a Preferred Source The Americans claim Canada made last-minute changes that killed the trade deal. Ottawa...

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Edmonton Sun

Brian Lilley

LILLEY: Ottawa's latest tariffs mean higher prices and more questions

LILLEY: Ottawa's latest tariffs mean higher prices and more questions

See more Toronto Sun on Google — save as a Preferred Source Thinking about buying a new fridge? Thanks to Ottawa’s latest tariffs, it may have...

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Brian Lilley

LILLEY: Trump and Ford trade insults as tariff war spirals

See more Toronto Sun on Google — save as a Preferred Source Loser, flunky and “king of bankruptcies” were some of the names thrown at each other...

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Edmonton Sun

Brian Lilley

AGAR: Hissy fits won't hurt Trump

AGAR: Hissy fits won't hurt Trump

See more Toronto Sun on Google — save as a Preferred Source  Let’s not react to unreasonable positions with unreasonable positions. AGAR: Hissy...

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Jerry Agar

TAIT: Renaud, Weeks to lead live online look at UCP's ADAP program

TAIT: Renaud, Weeks to lead live online look at UCP's ADAP program

This Thursday at 7 p.m. in a YouTube Live event, Marie Renaud, Zachary Weeks and lawyer Colton Stevenson will tackle the ADAP/AISH disaster head-on....

24.08.2026 30

Edmonton Sun

Cam Tait

LILLEY: Tariffs mean pain for Canadian workers, Carney owes answers

LILLEY: Tariffs mean pain for Canadian workers, Carney owes answers

See more Toronto Sun on Google — save as a Preferred Source Politicians are arguing, pointing fingers and laying blame, but regular Canadians are...

24.08.2026 10

Edmonton Sun

Brian Lilley

CHARLEBOIS: Ottawa’s tariff trap — don’t weaponize the grocery bill

CHARLEBOIS: Ottawa’s tariff trap — don’t weaponize the grocery bill

See more Toronto Sun on Google — save as a Preferred Source Canada’s trade negotiations with the United States have failed. Washington has...

24.08.2026 10

Edmonton Sun

Dr. Sylvain Charlebois

MCCAUGHEY: AOC is unfit to lead the U.S.

MCCAUGHEY: AOC is unfit to lead the U.S.

See more Toronto Sun on Google — save as a Preferred Source Betting markets show Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as the frontrunner to snag the 2028...

23.08.2026 10

Edmonton Sun

Betsy McCaughey

LILLEY: Carney's trade deal — all spin and few details

LILLEY: Carney's trade deal — all spin and few details

See more Toronto Sun on Google — save as a Preferred Source Prime Minister Mark Carney asked provincial premiers to put American booze back on their...

21.08.2026 9

Edmonton Sun

Brian Lilley

GOLDSTEIN: Resurrecting Keystone XL pipeline would be win for Canada

See more Toronto Sun on Google — save as a Preferred Source If the new U.S.-Canada trade deal — details to come — revives the Keystone XL...

20.08.2026 20

Edmonton Sun

Lorrie Goldstein

CHARLEBOIS: Canadians paid dairy farmers for competition consumers never got

CHARLEBOIS: Canadians paid dairy farmers for competition consumers never got

See more Toronto Sun on Google — save as a Preferred Source Canada and the United States are once again negotiating under the threat of tariffs....

20.08.2026 20

Edmonton Sun

Dr. Sylvain Charlebois

LILLEY: What did Carney give up to get tentative deal with Trump?

See more Toronto Sun on Google — save as a Preferred Source Canada dodged a tariff bullet at midnight — but Ottawa isn’t saying how it happened....

19.08.2026 10

Edmonton Sun

Brian Lilley

LILLEY: Booze, autos and a midnight deadline — inside Canada's tariff standoff

LILLEY: Booze, autos and a midnight deadline — inside Canada's tariff standoff

See more Toronto Sun on Google — save as a Preferred Source  Canada’s political class hunkered down on Tuesday, preparing for what would come...

19.08.2026 20

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Brian Lilley

OPINION: Provinces should not rely too much on federal dollars

OPINION: Provinces should not rely too much on federal dollars

See more Toronto Sun on Google — save as a Preferred Source  At a recent premiers’ meeting in Charlottetown, the premiers of Manitoba, New...

18.08.2026 7

Edmonton Sun

Grady Munro

KINSELLA: Threat of Quebec separation not gone forever

KINSELLA: Threat of Quebec separation not gone forever

See more Toronto Sun on Google — save as a Preferred Source For months, Canada has been facing three existential threats, all happening in the back...

18.08.2026 10

Edmonton Sun

Warren Kinsella

LILLEY: Canada’s trade folly? Courting China while clashing with America

LILLEY: Canada’s trade folly? Courting China while clashing with America

See more Toronto Sun on Google — save as a Preferred Source  “For us this is not a trade war,” Jamieson Greer said last week. LILLEY:...

18.08.2026 10

Edmonton Sun

Brian Lilley

TAIT: Kelly Hrudey content with life post-Hockey Night in Canada

TAIT: Kelly Hrudey content with life post-Hockey Night in Canada

Kelly Hrudey has spent more than 20 years staring into television cameras worth tens of thousands of dollars, breaking down hockey plays for viewers...

18.08.2026 20

Edmonton Sun

Cam Tait

CHARLEBOIS: Canada is still losing restaurants — not as fast as we predicted

CHARLEBOIS: Canada is still losing restaurants — not as fast as we predicted

See more Toronto Sun on Google — save as a Preferred Source Earlier this year, the Agri-Food Analytics Lab forecast that Canada could lose...

18.08.2026 10

Edmonton Sun

Dr. Sylvain Charlebois

KHAN: Stockwell Day is wrong about Muslim values not being compatible with Canadian values

KHAN: Stockwell Day is wrong about Muslim values not being compatible with Canadian values

See more Toronto Sun on Google — save as a Preferred Source  Former Canadian Alliance leader Stockwell Day recently sparked controversy by...

18.08.2026 9

Edmonton Sun

Omar Khan

GOLDSTEIN: Claims Canada's crime rate is down aren’t reporting the real story

Critics of the police and tougher bail and sentencing laws to combat violent crime have two approaches to the release of annual statistics on crime....

16.08.2026 20

Edmonton Sun

Lorrie Goldstein

McTEAGUE: Canada could supply oil and gas the world needs now

You don’t need me to tell you that oil prices – and the price of gasoline and other related products – are sky-high, largely thanks to the...

15.08.2026 10

Edmonton Sun

Dan McTeague

CHARLEBOIS: 10 myths Canadians need to stop believing about supply management

Suddenly, everyone – and their grandmother – seems to be an expert on supply management. That newfound interest is healthy. Canadians are finally...

15.08.2026 20

Edmonton Sun

Dr. Sylvain Charlebois

JAY GOLDBERG: Carney should end Trudeau’s war on plastics

See more Toronto Sun on Google — save as a Preferred Source Mark Carney has had no problem dispensing with bad Justin Trudeau-era policies in his...

14.08.2026 10

Edmonton Sun

Jay Goldberg

GOLDSTEIN: It’s absurd for Jewish Canadians to treat Liberals as allies

See more Toronto Sun on Google — save as a Preferred Source A measure of how seriously Prime Minister Mark Carney and the Liberals take the...

14.08.2026 20

Edmonton Sun

Lorrie Goldstein

FINLAYSON: Canada’s move away from fossil fuels remains greatly exaggerated

See more Toronto Sun on Google — save as a Preferred Source The ongoing conflict in the Middle East has disrupted global markets for crude oil and...

14.08.2026 20

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Jock Finlayson

CHARLEBOIS: Is Ottawa about to break its own supply management law?

See more Toronto Sun on Google — save as a Preferred Source  President Donald Trump’s latest tariff threat has pushed Canada back to the...

13.08.2026 20

Edmonton Sun

Dr. Sylvain Charlebois

LILLEY: WNBA must decide what it means to be a woman in a women’s league

The controversy around the WNBA and the role of biological males in women’s sport is a welcome one. Perhaps we will finally get the kind of clarity...

12.08.2026 30

Edmonton Sun

Brian Lilley

TERRAZZANO: Canadians won’t tolerate Carney hiking gas taxes

See more Toronto Sun on Google — save as a Preferred Source  Prime Minister Mark Carney needs to look at this poll and understand one simple...

11.08.2026 20

Edmonton Sun

Franco Terrazzano

GOLDSTEIN: Stop hoarding windfall federal fuel tax revenues and give consumers a break now

See more Toronto Sun on Google — save as a Preferred Source Prime Minister Mark Carney should extend the federal fuel tax holiday at least to the...

10.08.2026 10

Edmonton Sun

Lorrie Goldstein

AGAR: PM lacks honesty on many fronts

See more Toronto Sun on Google — save as a Preferred Source  It is not controversial to say the president of the United States can’t be trusted....

10.08.2026 10

Edmonton Sun

Jerry Agar

TAIT: David Foster's foundation continues work to help families

VICTORIA — Five-year-old Rene Foster took a small, deliberate breath, looked up to his mother Katherine for courage, and then made the conscious...

10.08.2026 10

Edmonton Sun

Cam Tait

JONAH GOLDBERG: Trump’s hubris rivals fallen heroes of Greek mythology

See more Toronto Sun on Google — save as a Preferred Source  In January, the New York Times asked President Donald Trump if there were any limits...

10.08.2026 10

Edmonton Sun

Jonah Goldberg

PARKER: Why are Muslim U.S. politicians uniformly Democrats?

See more Toronto Sun on Google — save as a Preferred Source  Muslim Americans are increasingly getting involved in American politics. Most...

10.08.2026 20

Edmonton Sun

Star Parker

JAY GOLDBERG: Ottawa bet against fossil fuels and lost

See more Toronto Sun on Google — save as a Preferred Source “There will come a day, far off but inevitable at some point, when traditional energy...

09.08.2026 20

Edmonton Sun

Jay Goldberg

GOLDSTEIN: Get real, Canada, the Democrats are not our friends

See more Toronto Sun on Google — save as a Preferred Source Those assuming that things will magically become better for Canada if, as expected, the...

06.08.2026 20

Edmonton Sun

Lorrie Goldstein

CHARLEBOIS: Why cheap Australian beef may be Canadian beef’s best friend

See more Toronto Sun on Google — save as a Preferred Source At first glance, the presence of inexpensive Australian beef in Canadian grocery stores...

06.08.2026 20

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Dr. Sylvain Charlebois

PARKER: AM radios still belong in every new vehicle

See more Toronto Sun on Google — save as a Preferred Source  It is rare for me to support anything that inserts more government into our lives....

05.08.2026 20

Edmonton Sun

Star Parker

TAIT: Albertans with disabilities betrayed by Smith government

04.08.2026 30

Edmonton Sun

Cam Tait

KINSELLA: Boy George earns wrath of forces of cultural fascism with Oct. 7 song

04.08.2026 30

Edmonton Sun

Warren Kinsella

LILLEY: What qualifies Jagmeet Singh to run Canada’s top tourism office?

02.08.2026 30

Edmonton Sun

Brian Lilley

TAIT: Remembering editor, friend and mentor George Ward

31.07.2026 20

Edmonton Sun

Cam Tait

JAY GOLDBERG: The nanny state marches on with a war on caffeine

31.07.2026 20

Edmonton Sun

Jay Goldberg

GOLDSTEIN: Freedom Convoy didn’t endanger democracy, Trudeau did

30.07.2026 20

Edmonton Sun

Lorrie Goldstein

LILLEY: Diaries seem to show Anthony Fauci more interested in fame than facts

30.07.2026 30

Edmonton Sun

Brian Lilley

CHARLEBOIS: Canada’s internal-trade charade

29.07.2026 30

Edmonton Sun

Dr. Sylvain Charlebois

Bell: Say what?! Tim Hortons celebrating Harry Potter is attacked as anti-trans

29.07.2026 30

Edmonton Sun

Rick Bell

JAY GOLDBERG: Supply management should go – and not just for the sake of trade talks

Millions of Canadians are finding it difficult to make ends meet. Far too many young Canadians think they’ll never live as good as their parents –...

27.07.2026 30

Edmonton Sun

Jay Goldberg