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Jesse Kline: Carney's fiscal update denies reality, gravity to save the whales

Jesse Kline: Carney's fiscal update denies reality, gravity to save the whales

The spring economic statement might as well have been lifted from a 'Star Trek' script

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Jesse Kline

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There have been several occasions when the jobs minister has repeated with absolute confidence supposed facts that were subsequently found to be less...

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John Ivison On Covid-19

Tasha Kheiriddin: Carney's new fund is for corporate welfare, not sovereign wealth

Tasha Kheiriddin: Carney's new fund is for corporate welfare, not sovereign wealth

The Liberal love affair with bureaucracy continues

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Tasha Kheiriddin

Michael Higgins: Canada's most dangerous professor

Michael Higgins: Canada's most dangerous professor

Frances Widdowson challenged the Kamloops graves story. She ended up in handcuffs

yesterday 8

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Michael Higgins

FIRST READING: As Carney government approves first pipeline, First Nations threaten to destroy another

FIRST READING: As Carney government approves first pipeline, First Nations threaten to destroy another

Proposed oil pipeline made a big deal of Indigenous ownership. A consortium of West Coast First Nations doesn't care

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Tristin Hopper

Mia Hughes: Finnish data shows gender treatments increase psychiatric needs. Canada lags behind

Mia Hughes: Finnish data shows gender treatments increase psychiatric needs. Canada lags behind

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Mia Hughes

Michael Taube: Canada Post’s $1.6B loss proves it’s time to privatize

Michael Taube: Canada Post’s $1.6B loss proves it’s time to privatize

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Michael Taube

Jesse Kline: Carney's 'sovereign wealth fund' an admission of Liberal failures

Jesse Kline: Carney's 'sovereign wealth fund' an admission of Liberal failures

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Jesse Kline

Lisa Sygutek: The CBC is a predator of local news

Lisa Sygutek: The CBC is a predator of local news

CBC uses public funding to compete against — and poach from — the very local outlets it says it wants to champion

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Lisa Sygutek

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If the goal is to fast-track major projects, the Canada Strong Fund probably shouldn't be presented as a safe-as-houses investment opportunity

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John Ivison On Covid-19

Matthew Taub: Toronto has lost confidence in its police leadership

Matthew Taub: Toronto has lost confidence in its police leadership

Hank Idsinga’s bombshell claims of antisemitism and leadership failure in Toronto Police demand action

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Matthew Taub

Liberals are ‘hijacking’ the Charter, says Canada’s last living framer of the Constitution: Full Comment podcast

Liberals are ‘hijacking’ the Charter, says Canada’s last living framer of the Constitution: Full Comment podcast

Brian Peckford, who helped write the Constitution Act, 1982, defends the notwithstanding clause

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Amy Hamm: Woke academics claim J.K. Rowling guilty of being Voldemort

Amy Hamm: Woke academics claim J.K. Rowling guilty of being Voldemort

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Amy Hamm

J.D. Tuccille: U.S. getting richer while Britain, Europe and Canada are falling behind

J.D. Tuccille: U.S. getting richer while Britain, Europe and Canada are falling behind

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J.d. Tuccille

Geoff Russ: Reconciliation politics driving B.C. Conservative race without apology

Geoff Russ: Reconciliation politics driving B.C. Conservative race without apology

Most of those running to be the next leader are speaking to issues that are central to their base — and the province

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Geoff Russ

Letters: A salute to Calgary Flames goalie Dustin Wolf's 'class act'

Letters: A salute to Calgary Flames goalie Dustin Wolf's 'class act'

Readers comment on a heartwarming hockey moment, floor-crossing MPs, B.C. land claims, Chinese EVs and more in the letters to the editor

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Letters

Opinion: Canada can’t diversify trade without investing in stronger global partnerships

Opinion: Canada can’t diversify trade without investing in stronger global partnerships

Canada needs to think more broadly about how we enable Canadian companies to succeed internationally

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Nicolas Moyer

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Conrad Black

Barbara Kay: Trans activist files human rights complaints against media for failing to deny reality

Barbara Kay: Trans activist files human rights complaints against media for failing to deny reality

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Barbara Kay

NP View: It's time for a new kind of Governor General

NP View: It's time for a new kind of Governor General

Military leaders know what it is to serve the Crown, not politics

25.04.2026 10

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National Post View

Carson Jerema: Erin O'Toole's plan for permanent Liberal government

Carson Jerema: Erin O'Toole's plan for permanent Liberal government

It would be a mistake for Conservatives to listen to their former leader and moderate themselves

24.04.2026 10

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Carson Jerema

Raymond J. de Souza: A royal tribute to our lovely late Queen

Celebrating the centennial of the birth of Queen Elizabeth II

24.04.2026 10

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Father Raymond J. De Souza

Avi Benlolo: Israel at 78 — winning is a mindset

Avi Benlolo: Israel at 78 — winning is a mindset

The Jewish state has taken nationhood from the ordinary to extraordinary

24.04.2026 10

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Avi Benlolo

FIRST READING: Senate report on Jew hatred makes zero mention of Islamic extremism

FIRST READING: Senate report on Jew hatred makes zero mention of Islamic extremism

Report concludes that 'young Canadians' radicalized by 'social media' are responsible for most of the unprecedented upsurge in threats on Jews

24.04.2026 10

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Tristin Hopper

John Carpay: Orwellian Nova Scotia woods ban struck down on Charter's anniversary

John Carpay: Orwellian Nova Scotia woods ban struck down on Charter's anniversary

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John Carpay

Derek Finkle: Health Canada ignored police, parents and provinces to renew injection sites

Derek Finkle: Health Canada ignored police, parents and provinces to renew injection sites

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Derek Finkle

Jamie Sarkonak: Canada keeps asking non-citizen criminals to stop. They obviously don't

Jamie Sarkonak: Canada keeps asking non-citizen criminals to stop. They obviously don't

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Jamie Sarkonak

Opinion: Aboriginal title cases should take into account the taxpayer money paid to First Nations

Opinion: Aboriginal title cases should take into account the taxpayer money paid to First Nations

The $1.3 billion paid to the Cowichan Tribes over the last quarter century should be considered compensation for any lost lands

24.04.2026 10

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Mark Milke And Ven Venkatachalam

Don Braid: Albertans likely to vote on pro-Canada question could get the nod in fall referendum

Don Braid: Albertans likely to vote on pro-Canada question could get the nod in fall referendum

This has become a complicated mess with rule changes, new laws and a general impression that the UCP coddles the separatists

23.04.2026 10

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Don Braid

Scott Stinson: Drake's Toronto ice ‘sculpture’ a grim, confusing lesson in viral publicity

Scott Stinson: Drake's Toronto ice ‘sculpture’ a grim, confusing lesson in viral publicity

No longer do people rush downtown because Drake might be doing something cool like holding an impromptu concert. Now they rush there because he made...

23.04.2026 7

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Scott Stinson

Donna Kennedy-Glans: The B.C. law that can stop Carney's nation-building projects

Donna Kennedy-Glans: The B.C. law that can stop Carney's nation-building projects

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Donna Kennedy-Glans

Chris Selley: Let the Liberals' new 'AI supercomputer' run Canada. It couldn't do worse

Chris Selley: Let the Liberals' new 'AI supercomputer' run Canada. It couldn't do worse

It could only do better running the country than the humans are now, surely

23.04.2026 3

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Chris selley

Amy Hamm: If Canada doesn’t improve, I don’t expect my children to stay

Amy Hamm: If Canada doesn’t improve, I don’t expect my children to stay

Liberal policies have wrecked the economy

23.04.2026 20

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Amy Hamm

Adam Zivo: So much for 'life saving' gender affirming care

Adam Zivo: So much for 'life saving' gender affirming care

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Adam Zivo

Randall Denley: Ford needs to push for more U.S. trade against Carney's talk of less

Randall Denley: Ford needs to push for more U.S. trade against Carney's talk of less

Instead of a complex deal, why not suggest free movement of goods and services across the Canada-U.S. border without tariffs of any sort?

23.04.2026 20

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Randall Denley

FIRST READING: Canada pledges $200 million to 'space port' that is just a concrete pad in Nova Scotia

FIRST READING: Canada pledges $200 million to 'space port' that is just a concrete pad in Nova Scotia

Site consisting of a gravel road, two sea cans and a concrete pad to be rented at $50,000 per day for 10 years

23.04.2026 10

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Tristin Hopper

Scott Stinson: Why surveillance pricing is the hot new political villain

Scott Stinson: Why surveillance pricing is the hot new political villain

‘Big Tech using AI to drive up your grocery prices’ is a sentence practically engineered to set off alarm bells

23.04.2026 10

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Scott Stinson

Vivian Bercovici: Iran's desparate blockade will ultimately fail

Vivian Bercovici: Iran's desparate blockade will ultimately fail

Iran’s shattered navy and air force, and delayed IRGC salaries, expose the desperation behind its failing Hormuz blockade

23.04.2026 10

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Vivian Bercovici

Jamie Sarkonak: I read 'The Camp of the Saints.' Here's why it's relevant

Jamie Sarkonak: I read 'The Camp of the Saints.' Here's why it's relevant

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Jamie Sarkonak

Joel Kotkin: Canadians must stop romanticizing a failing Europe

Joel Kotkin: Canadians must stop romanticizing a failing Europe

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23.04.2026 20

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Joel Kotkin

Michael Higgins: Carney continues to blame Trump for problems the Liberals created

Michael Higgins: Carney continues to blame Trump for problems the Liberals created

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Michael Higgins

Opinion: Anti-Zionist activists are hijacking Canadian unions

Opinion: Anti-Zionist activists are hijacking Canadian unions

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23.04.2026 10

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Ori Freiman And Lauren Frenkel

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Jim Balsillie said Canada was ‘hijacked’ last time around and is likely to be further disadvantaged in the pending negotiations

23.04.2026 10

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John Ivison On Covid-19

Chris Selley: Provinces don't need the notwithstanding clause to stomp on our Charter rights

Chris Selley: Provinces don't need the notwithstanding clause to stomp on our Charter rights

Governments at least have to consider Canadians' basic rights when making policy, says the Nova Scotia Supreme Court

22.04.2026 2

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Chris selley

Terry Glavin: Trump's rule-breaking belligerence lowers the bar everywhere

Terry Glavin: Trump's rule-breaking belligerence lowers the bar everywhere

If you act like an unprincipled rule breaker with no scruples about betraying friends, other heads of state will start acting the same way

22.04.2026 10

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Terry Glavin

Mohamed Fahmy: How the war forced Gulf states to dismantle Iran's terrorist cells

Mohamed Fahmy: How the war forced Gulf states to dismantle Iran's terrorist cells

Security services around the world are on heightened alert for threats from the Islamic Republic's proxies

22.04.2026 6

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Mohamed Fahmy

Carney's 'democratic sin'

Carney's 'democratic sin'

Former MP Damien Kurek explains what's wrong with the Liberals's plan for committees

22.04.2026 10

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Rob Breakenridge

FIRST READING: University founded to memorialize dead white men now rejecting white men for jobs

FIRST READING: University founded to memorialize dead white men now rejecting white men for jobs

Five active job postings by Memorial University explicitly bar applications from heterosexual white men

22.04.2026 30

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Tristin Hopper

John Robson: Carney, the answer is simple — deregulate everything

John Robson: Carney, the answer is simple — deregulate everything

In Liberal Canada, no decision is best left to private citizens

22.04.2026 10

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John Robson

Joe Varner: Canada needs to pay attention to China's military purges before betting on Beijing

Joe Varner: Canada needs to pay attention to China's military purges before betting on Beijing

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Joe Varner