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Chris Selley: The campaign against Jewish summer camps pulls the mask off the antisemites

The charge against them, essentially, is 'being Jewish in Canada'

24.02.2026 20

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Chris Selley: Nobody wants to work in Ottawa, Ottawa unions say

'Instead of embracing the 21st century model of work, the government is taking the public service back to the 1950s,' says one union leader

21.02.2026 20

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Chris Selley: More alarming numbers for Canada's high-speed rail fantasy

Toronto recently opened a light-rail line that cost $684 million per kilometre. At that rate, Toronto-to-Quebec City HSR would cost roughly $600...

19.02.2026 10

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Chris Selley: School shootings transcend Quebec's language politics, Mr. Blanchet

Bloc leader Yves-François Blanchet decided to wrestle Tumbler Ridge into a point about French vs. English

14.02.2026 10

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Chris Selley: We can't let politicians get away without an inquiry of the Eglinton Crosstown debacle

12.02.2026 10

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Chris Selley: Ontario admits Jews are unsafe in public schools, but fights them anyway

09.02.2026 10

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Chris Selley: So long to the Islamophobia and antisemitism czars

An advisory council on 'hatred and racism' that focuses on what 'unites us' rather than 'divides us'? That sounds like a neat trick

06.02.2026 10

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Chris Selley: Another undeserved win for Bill Blair

Blair’s record in public life is a museum of disappointment

03.02.2026 8

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Chris Selley: Ontario minister gobsmacked by admired British public school, but we won't imitate it here

What it might mean for Ontario schools is unclear. 'Nothing' is too plausible an answer

31.01.2026 10

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Chris Selley: America's ICE mayhem is a reminder of why police aggression is everyone's problem

The Trump administration is almost inviting Republicans to turn on them

29.01.2026 8

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Chris Selley: Indigenous crime victims get 'less justice' by government design

The goal, ironically, was to make the justice system fairer for accused Indigenous criminals

27.01.2026 10

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Chris Selley: Toronto worries its World Cup plans aren't wasteful enough yet

And would Denmark send its men’s soccer team to Atlanta on June 18 to play South Africa under threat of invasion?

23.01.2026 10

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Chris Selley: Carney's realpolitik brings a bracing end to Liberal preening and pretence

21.01.2026 10

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Chris Selley: Carney will regret embracing the gun buyback

If this is about public safety, why are the Liberals giving special treatment to Indigenous communities — who are disproportionately affected by...

20.01.2026 10

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Chris Selley: Good riddance to François Legault

Legault's most ardent supporters despise the federal Liberals. Why are the federal Liberals gushing about him?

18.01.2026 20

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Chris Selley: Trina Campbell's murderer should die behind bars — obviously

16.01.2026 10

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Chris Selley: Electoral reform rears its head again. This time, we should welcome it

Anyone who believes in anything halfway bold or outside the dead-centre should be talking about proportional representation

14.01.2026 20

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Chris Selley: Queen's Park flirts with maximum ‘Buy Canadian’ incoherence

Manitoba whisky? Pour it on the ground! German-Californian trains? Full steam ahead!

10.01.2026 20

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Chris Selley: British police allegedly lied to avoid protecting Jews from haters. Sound familiar?

West Midlands Police seem to have essentially blamed Jewish soccer fans for their own persecution

08.01.2026 10

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Chris Selley: Canada's impotence on Venezuela doesn't mean we're impotent everywhere

We have a compelling shared interest in preserving and improving upon the world order as it existed before Putin got greedy and Washington got Trumpy

07.01.2026 10

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Chris Selley: Here's why Canadian criminals seem to get off lightly. Prosecutors don't go 'knives out'

30.12.2025 20

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Chris Selley: Do women deserve to feel safe on our streets, or don't they?

Who knows what might have been in store for the kidnapping victims?

23.12.2025 9

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Chris Selley: Ron DeSantis dunks on Doug Ford

'We continue to break tourism records (and win Stanley Cups),' the Florida governor quipped

20.12.2025 10

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Chris Selley: The Crown is Canada. Tell the lawyers refusing to swear allegiance to it

19.12.2025 10

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Chris Selley: Doug Ford is in casino-building mode. Hang on to your wallets

Ford’s not just promising to facilitate tourism in Niagara Falls. That would be fine. Ideal, even. But no, he wants to be directly involved

17.12.2025 20

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Chris Selley: Toronto's latest transit triumph is $3.7B for a train slower than a bus

16.12.2025 10

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Chris Selley: Liberals' misleading 'femicide' bill is cynical even for them

11.12.2025 10

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Chris Selley: Liberals' misleading 'femicide' bill is cynical even for them

Bill C-16 establishes no new provision with respect to killing women specifically. It just pretends to

11.12.2025 10

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Chris Selley: When Jean Chrétien doesn't want to talk about himself, eyebrows should rise

Former immigration minister Sergio Marchi admits Chrétien pressured him to fast-track naturalizations in hopes the new citizens would vote No in the...

10.12.2025 10

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Chris Selley: The Liberal climate-change grift is finally over

Canada’s record on cutting emissions has never been the least bit impressive

09.12.2025 9

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Chris Selley: Marc Miller, renegade heritage minister

The 'Louisianisation' of Quebec narrative is garbage. Miller's only crime was to say so

04.12.2025 10

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Chris Selley: Upset about the state of Canada? Why not pretend it's better?

When you're as bad at solving problems as the Liberal federal government, pretending problems don't exist becomes a remarkably compelling option

03.12.2025 8

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Chris Selley: Even pro-choicers seem uneasy with late-term abortions

26.11.2025 10

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Chris Selley: Toronto's nightmare is apparently neighbourhood shops and cafés

Nearly everyone in this city says they like the idea of small neighbourhood retail. Many are lying

23.11.2025 10

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Chris Selley: The shocking number of criminal trials being called off due to delays

21.11.2025 10

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Chris Selley: Here's to the MP who's not afraid to denounce the Liberals' 'national school lunch' program

19.11.2025 10

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Chris Selley: The NDP leadership race looks more like a death march

17.11.2025 10

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Chris Selley: Who will stop our kids from getting dumber?

A new study from a top U.S. university finds 8.5 per cent of freshmen can't do middle school math

14.11.2025 10

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Chris Selley: Of course the poppy is political. That's not a bad thing

Arguably, poppy politics is more important than ever

12.11.2025 10

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Chris Selley: No one needs Canadian-made submarines

If foreign subs are fine, why not foreign frigates and destroyers?

02.11.2025 10

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Chris Selley: Ontario's ticket-scalping debate could not be dumber

No major political party in the province supports letting people sell luxury goods for what people are willing to pay

28.10.2025 8

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Chris Selley: Doug Ford gets under Trump's skin — but to what end?

A poll released Wednesday reports 88 per cent of registered Republican voters approve of Trump’s performance on the economy

25.10.2025 8

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Chris Selley: Elbows down, Canada second, buy local, not national — the nationalist fever dream is dead

On some files, Canadians in general seem more enamoured of collective action than their premiers

24.10.2025 9

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Chris Selley: Poilievre's lazy RCMP ad-lib was a luxury he can't afford

If opposing the government is Job One, auditioning for it is Job Two

22.10.2025 7

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Chris Selley: Poilievre's lazy RCMP ad-lib was a luxury he can't afford

If opposing the government is Job One, auditioning for it is Job Two

21.10.2025 10

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Chris Selley: In defence of those 'ugly,' 'small' government-designed house plans

19.10.2025 10

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Chris Selley: CBC's new strategic plan fails to find a reason it should exist

17.10.2025 10

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Chris Selley: What Canada can learn from two years of anti-Israel protests

Politicians need to take a very long, very hard look at how our police forces conduct their business

15.10.2025 10

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Chris Selley: Quebec declares de facto independence. Will Ottawa care?

A proposed new provincial constitution does things provinces can't do — except Quebec has already done them

10.10.2025 10

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Chris Selley: 'Birthright citizenship' is an outdated concept

Arguments against ending it are based almost entirely on lazy economics, hypotheticals, or (especially recently) knee-jerk anti-Americanism

10.10.2025 10

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