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Conservatives choose rage-bait over real debate on hate speech

The party's criticisms of an agreement between the Liberals and Bloc Québécois on Bill C-9 could have been legitimate and substantive. Instead,...

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Supriya Dwivedi

Mark Carney’s Liberals are building a new Canadian voter coalition

Carney’s recalibration of the Liberal Party is a wholesale reorientation of federal priorities toward growth, competitiveness and national ambition.

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Andrew Perez

Canada needs its own transition commission

Canada needs its own transition commission

When it comes to managing an oil and gas economy, nobody does it better — or smarter — than Norway. Rather than squandering their oil and gas...

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Max Fawcett

The vanishing accountability act

Is your province or country miles away from hitting its climate targets? Sick of getting grief from independent auditors and annoying kids...

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Chris Hatch

Alberta teen helps young people to influence decision-makers

Alberta teen helps young people to influence decision-makers

These in-their-own-words pieces are told to Patricia Lane and co-edited with input from the interviewee for the purpose of brevity. Mihir Rao is...

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Patricia Lane

Something Amazing

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Jimmy Thomson

When Ottawa won't talk climate, we dig deeper

Getting our hands on the right documents takes time, teamwork and resources — and your support makes this work possible.

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Natasha Bulowski

Can I call you obstinate?

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Chris Hatch

What I learned spending a month chasing Poilievre

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Arno Kopecky

Who is minding the water data centres will use?

Who is minding the water data centres will use?

Mark Carney has a plan to turn Canada into the “world’s leading energy superpower,” which includes a national energy corridor and electricity...

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Maude Barlow

Danielle Smith keeps stepping on her own rakes

Alberta's premier got booed by her own supporters for trying to do a deal with Ottawa. Who knew that constantly whipping people up into a frenzied...

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Max Fawcett

Canada's climate champions are down but not out

Canada's climate champions are down but not out

On my East Vancouver street where neighbours fought the city to save an eight-block stretch of  mature elm trees , city crews chopped one down last...

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Adrienne Tanner

The real reason home insurance is breaking: we’re billing the wrong people

The real reason home insurance is breaking: we’re billing the wrong people

Financial analysts spend a lot of time searching for the next big shock. Commentators warn about the AI investment bubble, real estate woes, or...

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Taylor Kiera

If we don't expose them, who will?

It started with a hunch. I had been monitoring a couple of Ontario town council meetings and the same messaging kept popping up. Warnings about "...

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Rory White