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Chris Selley: The DEI meltdown at a British university shows why we need more skepticism

Chris Selley: The DEI meltdown at a British university shows why we need more skepticism

A professor claimed to have run 30 marathons in 35 days ... several on a broken leg

31.07.2026 10

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Chris Selley: Doug Ford shows how not to get something built

Other Toronto-region airports provide far more compelling alternatives to Pearson than the downtown than the Island

28.07.2026 10

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Chris Selley: Why so shy about running for Parliament, Avi Lewis?

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27.07.2026 30

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Chris Selley: OK, we’ve won on stigmatizing tobacco. Why not try it for hard drugs?

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23.07.2026 10

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Chris Selley: Marvel at the politicians' performative idiocy on Israel

The only thing less likely than the RCMP arresting Bibi is the NYPD doing it

21.07.2026 10

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Chris Selley: After the Trump boycotts, we'll still have lousy Canadian food

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16.07.2026 10

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Chris Selley: People are fleeing Toronto and the city doesn't seem to care

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14.07.2026 30

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Chris Selley: The hysterical nostalgia for Hockey Night in Canada is classic Canadian unthinkingness

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23.06.2026 20

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Chris Selley: We can learn things from the EU without joining it

Europeans often evince just as much of an idealized view of Canada as some Canadians do of the European Union

19.06.2026 20

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Chris Selley: The euthanasia committee did its job. Now it's Parliament's turn

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18.06.2026 30

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Chris Selley: May the 'nosh' resistance against Quebec's language cops spark a revolution

‘Bar is French or English, bilingual, and nosh, which is a Yiddish word, is not compliant,’ the OQLF informed Arthurs Nosh Bar

16.06.2026 20

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Chris Selley: The $90B high-speed rail money pit is collapsing in on itself

For once, the Parti Québécois raises a useful issue: opportunity costs

12.06.2026 20

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Chris Selley: Some tough lessons about real life for grads with cancelled proms

Officialdom let them down. They stepped up. Welcome to the real world!

09.06.2026 20

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Chris Selley: The U.K.'s Henry Nowak outrage happens in Canadian courts every day

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04.06.2026 20

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Chris Selley: At a synagogue, Carney tells the wrong people to abandon their ethnic rivalries

If everyone was leaving behind their wars and animosities in the old world, as Carney suggests, there wouldn’t be a problem

02.06.2026 10

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Chris Selley: The chilling airport bag-switching scandal suggests Canada still lacks adult supervision

The fix here was and is so easy: Screen airport workers the way we screen passengers.

28.05.2026 20

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Chris Selley: Bring on the doughnut wars—and let's hope they set an example

26.05.2026 20

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Chris Selley: 'Don't watch hockey,' says the NHL

Pro tip: You can be a fan of more than one team!

22.05.2026 20

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Chris Selley: Government-run grocery is about one thing — expanding the public sector

'This store … will serve as physical proof of our conviction that government can be a force for good' — New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani

20.05.2026 20

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Chris Selley: Parties had better clean up nomination races before the government decides to

If a party can't run a coherent nomination race, why would anyone vote for them?

15.05.2026 20

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Chris Selley: Another pathetic CBC attempt at humour

Ripping off Borat, 20 years later, is dismally on-brand

13.05.2026 20

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Chris Selley: We have solved the Long Ballots problem, and it didn't take a committee

Canadian decision-makers in other fields might want to study this shockingly simple and intuitive solution

12.05.2026 20

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Chris Selley: Quebec separatists are annoyed anyone would dare take their cosplay seriously

The Bank of Montreal isn’t even based in Montreal. It will either loan money or not

08.05.2026 20

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Chris Selley: Defending the mediocrity of Canadian airports is no righteous cause

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06.05.2026 20

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Chris Selley: How can the Liberals possibly be this awful at picking governors general?

Louise Arbour ticks none of the boxes they should have been trying to tick

05.05.2026 20

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Chris Selley: Canada's new, unearned decadence

The amount of pure fantasy that’s passing for politics in this country is extraordinary

03.05.2026 40

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Chris Selley: Canadian politicians should watch Keir Starmer's defence of British Jews

Flat platitudes like ‘there is no place for this in Canada,’ are demonstrably not getting the job done

01.05.2026 20

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Chris Selley: Sorry, parents, government won't save your kids from social media

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29.04.2026 30

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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 20

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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 20

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Chris Selley: This can't be happening at Rideau Hall

The next governor general, and his or her spouse (if any), should be committed to keeping quiet

20.04.2026 20

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Chris Selley: A cavalcade of bad news for Doug Ford

Kids aren't going to school. Prisoners are getting out by accident. Euthanasia oversight is weakening.

18.04.2026 40

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Chris Selley: There's no reason for courts to be setting Canadian immigration policy

It's Parliament's job to decide whether non-citizen criminals should be deported

16.04.2026 20

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Chris Selley: Quebec's doomed new premier can at least save her party from chauvinism

The tragedy of the party is that they replaced the federalism versus sovereignty feuding not with social peace, but with different kinds of feuding

14.04.2026 10

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Chris Selley: Younger Quebecers embracing religion wasn't part of the secularism plan

The obnoxious behaviour of anti-Israel protesters is no reason to target all believers

10.04.2026 20

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Chris Selley: Gladu’s defection is the new vanguard of cynicism

She stands for pretty much everything the Liberals have self-righteously run against for decades

08.04.2026 20

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Chris Selley: The Liberals' high-speed rail fantasy just gets greasier

What's the point of a finance minister who can’t participate in discussions about a $90-billion project?

07.04.2026 20

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Chris Selley: Canada's unwillingness to deport violent criminals is part of a much bigger problem

Deporting criminals to the European Union is an easy win, every time. We don't do it

02.04.2026 30

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Chris Selley: Carney benefited from not being Trudeau. Why is he channelling him?

As of Monday, both have now insulted Grassy Narrows protesters. This is political malpractice, at the very least

31.03.2026 20

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Chris Selley: Suddenly, Toronto police decide now that Jews shouldn't be harassed in their homes?

Is it really illegal to walk along a sidewalk waving a Palestinian flag? Should that be police business?

29.03.2026 50

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Chris Selley: It's insane to focus on the French of Air Canada's CEO

A plane smashed into a fire truck. Two people are dead, others in hospital. Let's talk about official bilingualism

25.03.2026 20

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Chris Selley: The notwithstanding clause is the bulwark against a Canadian 'Trump moment'

The legal arguments against Section 33 are desperately bad. The practical arguments are worse

24.03.2026 20

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Chris Selley: Canada got euthanasia wrong. That doesn't mean everyone else has to

Most countries, Scotland included, likely don't realize just how dysfunctional, unserious and lazy Canada is.

20.03.2026 30

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Chris Selley: California locks up killer motorists. We can too!

Fifteen years to life is the sort of profoundly life-altering sentence that might make even the most degenerate drunk drivers think twice

19.03.2026 30

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Chris Selley: Let's livestream the Canadian justice system — all of it

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Chris Selley: Why shouldn't Canadians get paid to donate blood or plasma?

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13.03.2026 20

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Chris Selley: First Nations chiefs make a much-needed case for Canada

The meeting at Buckingham Palace was a reminder this country wasn’t just born yesterday

12.03.2026 30

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Chris Selley: Charges are being dropped against Canadian anti-Israel thuggery at an astonishing rate

The vast majority of protest-related criminal charges are dropped, stayed or otherwise given up on

11.03.2026 20

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Chris Selley: Carney sows the seeds of his eventual defeat

The PM can survive controversy. He can't survive incoherence — at least, not forever

06.03.2026 30

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Chris Selley: Celebrating health-care mediocrity remains, unbelievably, the Canadian way

Canada remains, fundamentally, a country that pays a lot for middling health care outcomes

04.03.2026 20

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