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Andrew Coyne

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Quebec’s proposed constitution may be ludicrous – but it might still pose a real threat

yesterday 10

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If birth tourism is such a big scam, why do so few immigrants take advantage?

wednesday 10

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The tech oligarchy poses a unique threat to democracy

10.10.2025 10

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Danielle Smith’s pipeline ransom note to Mark Carney is using Canada as her hostage

08.10.2025 10

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A country does not have to hit the debt wall to be taking on too much fiscal risk

03.10.2025 10

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Photo radar does not belong in a free society

26.09.2025 20

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It’s not about the notwithstanding clause – it’s about the Charter

25.09.2025 8

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If the notwithstanding clause is the nuclear option, Ottawa should respond proportionately

19.09.2025 20

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The death of Charlie Kirk did not make him a moderate

17.09.2025 20

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Parliament may be back, but it won’t be politics as usual

12.09.2025 10

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How did the Temporary Foreign Worker program come to be the scapegoat for all our ills?

10.09.2025 5

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The three fiscal taboos Canada can no longer afford

05.09.2025 50

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Poilievre’s anything goes approach to self-defence is even more extreme than U.S. law

03.09.2025 10

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Donald Trump is on the brink of becoming a dictator. Can he be stopped?

29.08.2025 60

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In Canada, householders must use ‘reasonable force’ against an intruder. That’s perfectly reasonable

27.08.2025 10

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The Ukraine emergency is far from over – because Donald Trump is the emergency

22.08.2025 10

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How did Air Canada lose hearts and minds? Two words: ‘unpaid work’

20.08.2025 6

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To recognize aboriginal title is not to abolish property rights, but to uphold them

15.08.2025 30

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A government can’t kill people for no reason? When will this judicial madness end?!

13.08.2025 20

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Continuing the Israeli military campaign in Gaza can no longer be justified, morally or strategically

08.08.2025 10

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The final obstacle to Trump’s dictatorship may be the people he needs to borrow from

06.08.2025 20

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If Bell doesn’t like competing with Telus on its own broadband network, it really won’t like the alternatives

01.08.2025 20

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The right’s new cause, crime without punishment, and its new martyrs, the Ottawa hostage-takers

30.07.2025 10

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Lower the voting age? There are better arguments for raising it

25.07.2025 10

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What makes supply management so uniquely vile? Let me count the ways

23.07.2025 20

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A shrinking population is hardly what this country needs right now

18.07.2025 20

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Hard line? Soft line? There may be no way of dealing with Trump that works

16.07.2025 20

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New leader, or new system? The Conservatives ponder life under two-party politics

11.07.2025 10

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The Liberals launch another expenditure review: This time, we mean it

09.07.2025 10

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Cut housing prices? It will be all we can do just to slow their increase

04.07.2025 20

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Bomb Iran’s nuclear sites? You can’t separate the mission from who’s in charge of it

27.06.2025 9

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Can we find the extra $50-billion we promised NATO we’d spend on defence out of cuts in other spending? Yes we can.

26.06.2025 60

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No more half measures: to get out of our growth rut, Canada needs radical tax reform

20.06.2025 20

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The G7 is dead – time to move on to the G6

18.06.2025 20

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The Prime Minister hits the ground running, unconcerned by deficits, principle or the rights of Parliament

13.06.2025 20

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Twenty years late, Canada hits the old NATO target, just in time to fall short of the new one

11.06.2025 6

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It’s time to rein in Canada’s runaway Crown corporations

06.06.2025 20

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The premiers as nation-builders? Colour me skeptical

04.06.2025 10

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Overstaffed, overpaid and underperforming, the CPP investment fund is in need of a sharp course correction

30.05.2025 40

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This was the moment Charles became King of Canada, and Canada his kingdom

28.05.2025 10

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If Canada Post won’t deliver the mail – or can’t without losing billions – let someone else do it

23.05.2025 20

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The only thing worse than not having a budget is having one

21.05.2025 10

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Crisis or Reform: The Choice Facing Canada’s New Parliament

We’ve had a lovely run these past 150-odd years, but our luck may not hold much longer The post Crisis or Reform: The Choice Facing Canada’s New...

19.05.2025 10

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Carney’s cabinet: a familiar mix of quotas, duplication and pork-barrel politics

16.05.2025 10

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We wasted 60 years indulging secessionist fantasies in Quebec. Must we make the same mistake in Alberta?

14.05.2025 10

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Canada has the form of democracy, but not the substance

10.05.2025 20

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Canada is not as divided as some claim – or as its electoral system makes it appear

02.05.2025 10

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A tale of two elections: Trump vs change made for an uncertain mandate

29.04.2025 10

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There are some interesting ideas in the party platforms. It’s a pity no one will read them

25.04.2025 10

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The Conservatives’ dilemma: their policies aren’t different enough from the Liberals’ to make up for the leadership gap

24.04.2025 20

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