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The War on Canadian Voters Is Online

Last week, Canada’s intelligence agencies flagged a disinformation campaign on WeChat aimed at Mark Carney, with posts reaching up to three million...

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Aaron Rodericks

The Rise of Conservative Youth

The promise of a secure future—with a good job, an affordable home and a sense of stability—once felt like a Canadian birthright. For many younger...

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Who Stands to Win in Poilievre’s Canada: Oil Magnates

It’s a good time to be in Canada’s oil and gas industry. For all Canadians’ professed concern about climate change, the O&G business managed record...

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David Moscrop

How Trump Turned Canadians Off Populism

In 2025, society is grappling with a handful of competing crises: the ripple effects of a global pandemic, record-high wealth concentration,...

11.04.2025 2

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Frank Graves

Who Stands to Win in Poilievre’s Canada: (Some) First Nations

Last summer, Pierre Poilievre delivered a speech to the Assembly of First Nations blasting what he called the Liberals’ “performative...

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Matthew Halliday

Who Stands to Win in Poilievre’s Canada: Crypto Evangelists

In 2022, when Pierre Poilievre was a Conservative leadership candidate, he said he’d make Canada the crypto capital of the world. According to him,...

11.04.2025 2

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Alexander Vronces

Who Stands to Win in Poilievre’s Canada: Social Media Giants

In the past few years, the mainstream news media’s advertising-based business model has imploded. At the same time, online dis- and misinformation...

11.04.2025 1

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Rachel Pulfer

Who Stands to Win in Poilievre’s Canada: Mining Companies

In 2021, the federal government established an official list of 34 critical minerals and metals—including nickel, cobalt, copper and lithium—that...

11.04.2025 1

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Philip Preville

Who Stands to Win in Poilievre’s Canada: The Military

Pierre Poilievre has been unsparing about what he sees as the Liberals’ failures on defence. He claims that the forces are short 16,000 troops, and...

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Philip Preville

Who Stands to Win in Poilievre’s Canada

The next federal election will be the most transformative in a decade, as Canadians stare down threats from abroad and pressures from within. For...

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Philip Preville

Alberta Called. I Shouldn’t Have Answered.

The “Alberta Is Calling” ads first caught my eye in the fall of 2022. They were splashed across Toronto’s transit system, and I was jammed into a...

11.04.2025 3

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Sheri Block

Americans Are Renouncing Their Citizenship. This Lawyer Makes It Happen.

Douglas Cowgill has spent the last decade helping Canadian-Americans renounce their U.S. citizenship. And in the new Trump era, as more Americans...

11.04.2025 10

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Courtney Shea

Who Stands to Win in Poilievre’s Canada: The Tech Industry

In 2017, the relatively new Liberal government asked Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke, and other tech leaders, to help develop recommendations about how...

11.04.2025 3

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Siri Agrell

Who Stands to Win in Poilievre’s Canada: Private Health Companies

Pierre Poilievre can’t shut up. He’s a proud and pugnacious loudmouth, promising to eliminate red tape restricting new housing, slash government...

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Emily Landau

Why Trump Needs Canadian Oil

In January, Donald Trump told the World Economic Forum that his country doesn’t need Canadian oil and gas. “We have more than anybody,” he...

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Don Gillmor