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Chris Selley: Standing up for supply management is not standing up for Canadians

Chris Selley: Standing up for supply management is not standing up for Canadians
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Chris Selley: Poilievre's campaign message is still strong. He's right to stick with it

Chris Selley: Poilievre's campaign message is still strong. He's right to stick with it

You don't throw away a strategy that has you at 38 per cent in the polls

01.04.2025 10

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Chris Selley: Carney goes nuclear over plagiarism accusations that should've rolled off his back

Chris Selley: Carney goes nuclear over plagiarism accusations that should've rolled off his back

This election is about his CV, not his PhD thesis. He either did a good job at the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England or he didn't

29.03.2025 5

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Chris Selley: Done properly, Danielle Smith's brand of American outreach is the way forward

Chris Selley: Done properly, Danielle Smith's brand of American outreach is the way forward

If you want to influence Donald Trump, who else would you talk to but influencers?

27.03.2025 20

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Chris Selley: Carney celebrates his honeymoon with Quebecers by hiding from them

Chris Selley: Carney celebrates his honeymoon with Quebecers by hiding from them

The reasons for Carney skipping the debate are dishonourable, but that almost seems trite to say

26.03.2025 7

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Chris Selley: Donald Trump's library of failure

Chris Selley: Donald Trump's library of failure

The U.S. president's social vandalism shouldn't dissuade Canadians from bashing out our differences in an election

22.03.2025 8

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Chris Selley: B.C.’s draconian Trump-emergency bill repeats lessons we failed to learn from COVID

Chris Selley: B.C.’s draconian Trump-emergency bill repeats lessons we failed to learn from COVID

Canada handles full-blown crises rarely, badly and forgetfully

21.03.2025 10

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Chris Selley: Mark Carney’s showing his weaknesses. But so is Poilievre

Chris Selley: Mark Carney’s showing his weaknesses. But so is Poilievre

As uninspiring and entitled as Carney comes off, the Conservatives aren't likely to beat him with culture-war baiting

19.03.2025 10

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Chris Selley: Mark Carney's cabinet is more of the same, only weirder

Chris Selley: Mark Carney's cabinet is more of the same, only weirder
15.03.2025 10

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Chris Selley: Keep Canadians' pensions out of the Trump wars

Chris Selley: Keep Canadians' pensions out of the Trump wars

The perilous state of the electric-vehicle battery industry is a welcome cautionary example

14.03.2025 10

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Chris Selley: Two recent elections violated the Constitution, but don't expect consequences

Two Ontario elections have been held under apparently unconstitutional third-party fundraising rules. But don't worry, it's no big deal

12.03.2025 10

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Chris Selley: New Liberal Leader Mark Carney pitches national unity, just not with Conservatives

His Liberal instincts means he whispers 'sunny ways' in your ear as he jams the ice pick into your spine

10.03.2025 20

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Chris Selley: Mark Carney is the human snooze button change-averse Canadians yearn for

08.03.2025 10

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Chris Selley: We'll always love America. Just not right now

Americans like Canada, and they like Canadians. How do we best leverage that in four years?

07.03.2025 3

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Chris Selley: Wayne Gretzky and King Charles III — the new axis of treachery

05.03.2025 10

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Chris Selley: Ford's work as Captain Canada is far from done

03.03.2025 10

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Chris Selley: Ontario's Liberals and NDP failed miserably at the one job they had

Many Ontarians don't believe anyone can solve their biggest problems. They stuck with the devil they know

28.02.2025 10

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Chris Selley: Some candidates deserve to be cancelled

Jokes about sexual assault weren't funny 10 years ago ... or 20

26.02.2025 6

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Chris Selley: Fantasy election platforms are still essential documents

Shouldn't political parties know what they stand for long before the writ drops?

22.02.2025 9

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Chris Selley: Why do competent New Democrats put up with their Ontario provincial party?

In three Canadian provinces, the NDP have long known how to win friends and influence people

21.02.2025 7

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Chris Selley: Doug Ford asks Ontarians to imagine the horrors of someone else being in charge

18.02.2025 10

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Chris Selley: Ontario's law-and-order breakdown makes a rare, welcome election-campaign appearance

Capital punishment is beside the point in a provincial election. Criminal justice is certainly not

15.02.2025 8

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Chris Selley: Crombie comes out against deleting historic Toronto school names. Ford remains silent

Liberal leader Bonnie Crombie promises not to shy away from 'tough conversations' about Canadian history

14.02.2025 3

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Chris Selley: Mr. Ford goes to Washington to campaign for an election in Ontario

The Ontario premier is doing everything he should be doing — except he's doing it during an election campaign

12.02.2025 10

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Chris Selley: Fantasy tunnel and a war on tolls look bad on Ford's solid transportation record

Highway 407 might be the last non-gridlocked thoroughfare in the GTA. Doug Ford wants to make it free

09.02.2025 10

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Chris Selley: We'll believe Ontario is 'Team Canada' on interprovincial trade when we see it

06.02.2025 10

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Chris Selley: Ontario's adventures through Donald Trump's looking glass

The president doesn't understand the economy, so Ontarians won't get broadband internet and can't drink bourbon. it's a plan!

04.02.2025 10

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Chris Selley: Ontario's wasting a perfectly good election talking about Trump

01.02.2025 10

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Chris Selley: Dangers are lurking in Doug Ford's Ontario election experiment

29.01.2025 10

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Chris Selley: Canada is too united against Trump

Bloc Québécois leader aptly calls cutting off energy supplies to the U.S. a 'scorched earth' policy. But that describes tariff wars in general

23.01.2025 10

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Chris Selley: Liberals gave anti-Israel protesters everything, but they're still paying for it

What do they want Chrystia Freeland to do, personally join the intifada?

21.01.2025 10

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Chris Selley: Freeland and Carney (maybe) axe the tax

Is spending a few weeks as prime minister really worth ditching a policy they clearly support? Apparently so.

18.01.2025 10

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Chris Selley: Why did it take Trump to get us to take border security seriously?

16.01.2025 10

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Chris Selley: Mark Carney on The Daily Show — why?

That show from 2008? On cable television, which no one under 35 watches?

14.01.2025 10

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Chris Selley: Liberals' failed citizenship bill will soon be the Conservatives' problem

If the new government does nothing, we'll be back to unlimited hereditary citizenship — something nobody wants or is asking for

12.01.2025 10

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Chris Selley: Politicians baited by Trump's '51st state' trolling are ignoring credible threats

09.01.2025 9

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Chris Selley: Liberals seem suicidal for sticking with Trudeau's insane leadership rules

The notion of Liberals sticking with free memberships for anyone 14 or older, and non-permanent residents, just seems like yet more wilful self-...

08.01.2025 10

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Chris Selley: French is not dying in Quebec and the Official Languages Minister should be clear on that

To pretend that French is dying in Quebec is essentially table stakes for entering any Quebec-related political conversation nowadays You can save...

04.01.2025 7

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Chris Selley: Olivia Chow risks uniting Torontonians in disappointment

What sort of progressive mayor memory-holes an ombudsman's report alleging cruel and racist treatment of asylum-seekers? You can save this article...

21.12.2024 3

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Chris Selley: Justin Trudeau's political instincts were always atrocious. Some people are only noticing now

This is a man who sang Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody in the piano bar at the filthily luxurious Corinthia Hotel in London on the eve of the Queen’s...

20.12.2024 7

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Chris Selley: The great unanswered question about Mark Carney is 'Why'?

Appointing an unelected mandarin with a potential conflict of interest as finance minister seems risky, to say the least You can save this article...

16.12.2024 5

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Chris Selley: Harm reduction for opioids is over. Now let's seriously measure the result

Doug Ford wants addicts clean, sober and employed. It's an unimpeachable goal, and a much tougher job than he makes out You can save this article...

11.12.2024 10

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Chris Selley: We can't advertise our way to better Canada-U.S. relations

Harmonizing immigration rules would be unpopular in Canada, at least at first. But it's the most compelling practical option You can save this...

05.12.2024 4

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Chris Selley: Thankfully Australia's trying a children's social-media ban... before we do

Kids giving TikTok their passport details? Sure, why not? You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account....

30.11.2024 7

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Chris Selley: So much for the Three Amigos

Throwing Mexico under the free-trade bus makes sense. But Mexico may have more to offer Trump than Canada does You can save this article by...

29.11.2024 7

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Chris Selley: Toronto loses its cool — if it ever had any — over Taylor Swift

Celebrities asked about Toronto nowadays often mention the traffic. None of that for Swift: She got a gigantic police motorcade at taxpayer expense...

16.11.2024 20

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Chris Selley: The perils of 'defining' bigotry

indigenous groups, and now Palestinian groups, want their own specific treatment under the law. Where will that end? You can save this article by...

14.11.2024 3

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Chris Selley: Ottawa's pointless and confusing 'definition' of antisemitism

Why is the government adopting definitions of things that it doesn't intend to use in any official capacity? You can save this article by...

06.11.2024 10

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Chris Selley: The war over transitioning kids is still blazing in New Brunswick

Susan Holt's Liberals plan to roll back the Higgs government's amendments to Policy 713 — but that doesn't go far enough for some You can save this...

01.11.2024 6

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Chris Selley: Un-banning plastic straws is one rare thing governments can actually get right

If governments can’t make good policies, they can at least delete bad ones You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if...

17.10.2024 10

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