Chris Selley: If not Bonnie Crombie, then who do Ontario Liberals consider electable?

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Chris Selley: Tennis Canada's shameful cowardice of Israel-boycotters is no moral example to follow

As ever in this country, simply ejecting protesters for unlawfully disrupting an event seems to have been considered an absolute last resort —...

12.09.2025 5

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Chris Selley: Fentanyl’s prevalence in the market is tanking. Politicians claim credit

One thing you will quickly notice looking at opioid-overdose statistics is that they don’t conspicuously discriminate according to politics or policy

10.09.2025 3

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Chris Selley: Getting tough on violent offenders is no crime

07.09.2025 10

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Chris Selley: Who's against Canadian jobs for Canadian kids instead of for foreign workers?

'No more temporary foreign workers at Tim Hortons' is a no-brainer policy for Poilievre, especially if the Liberals push back

05.09.2025 10

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Chris Selley: The Order of Canada provides far more division than unity

03.09.2025 3

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Chris Selley: What did we get for 100,000 new federal civil servants?

Mark Carney is proposing major job cuts — but from an all-time high

02.08.2025 8

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Chris Selley: Canadians discover (again) the sometimes deadly calculations of medicare

Universal health care refers to every person, not every single remedy for every single disease that’s out there — no matter how expensive

31.07.2025 10

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Chris Selley: There are easy solutions to the 'longest ballot' problem, so let's end it now

Thanks to Elections Canada, what would have been Canada's longest-ever ballot has become its shortest-ever

30.07.2025 4

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Chris Selley: Banning MAGA singer Sean Feucht, Canada slips further into Trump-ian incoherence

Sean Fuecht is a much bigger name in Canada today than had governments just let his concerts happen

25.07.2025 10

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Chris Selley: And now, the same old, dismal arguments for lowering the voting age

On what possible principle would we allow 16-year-olds to vote but not run for office?

23.07.2025 10

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Chris Selley: Seven years for mischief, one day for terrorism — someone make it make sense

When a system known for outrageous leniency goes medieval, people have a right to be baffled

23.07.2025 5

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Chris Selley: Canadian protectionism is on the march

In a previous role, Ontario Premier Doug Ford hated sole-sourced contracts. Now he's all for them

19.07.2025 4

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Chris Selley: Canada's refugee system — and the world's — is overdue for an overhaul

The original goal of the system was to provide safety — not necessarily First World prosperity

18.07.2025 10

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Chris Selley: Let your kids outside, for God's sake, even if it's a bit smoky

No, children shouldn't be kept inside in mid-July because of some wildfire smoke. Obviously

15.07.2025 10

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Chris Selley: Toronto dares the Carney government to punish it for ignoring housing demands

The feds either stand firm, or they look weak, unserious and ridiculous

13.07.2025 50

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Chris Selley: We'll thank Travis Dhanraj for 'pulling back the curtain' on CBC News

'I'll share everything. I'll tell you what is really happening inside the walls of your CBC', Travis Dhanraj wrote

09.07.2025 30

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Chris Selley: We aren't slaves to AI, unless we want to be

Immediate disbarment seems appropriate for any lawyer caught faking precedent — AI-generated or otherwise

06.07.2025 10

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Chris Selley: Angst over flying the Canadian flag was pure media invention

One poll found opponents of the Freedom Convoy were actually more proud to fly the maple leaf than supporters

03.07.2025 20

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Chris Selley: Let the kids sweat a little. Schools have bigger problems than A/C

28.06.2025 10

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Chris Selley: Carney's bizarre fixation with calling us 'European' makes no sense

Not being American doesn't make us Parisian

26.06.2025 10

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Chris Selley: Is the Liberals' 'Canada Strong Pass' a one-off gimmick, or something more substantial?

20.06.2025 10

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Chris Selley: No jail time for accessory to a killing? Is anyone OK with this?

Criminal justice is usually complicated, and reactionism is often unhelpful, but neither is always true: This 'sentence' is an abomination

18.06.2025 10

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Chris Selley: Why would B.C. pay more for ferries just to spite Donald Trump?

16.06.2025 10

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Chris Selley: Our supreme court's chief justice is a busted flush. What will we do about it?

A grotesque bronze bust of himself just showed up at the Supreme Court one day, and he wasn't interested where it came from?

14.06.2025 5

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Chris Selley: Job one for Canada in this scary new world is to stop being stupid

ArriveCan is precisely the sort of minor disaster we can't put up with anymore

11.06.2025 6

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Chris Selley: Earth to Liberals — First Nations are not an anti-development monolith

Anti-development voices get far more traction than pro-development voices. We all suffer for it

08.06.2025 10

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Chris Selley: Liberals wrap much-needed refugee reform in a terrible privacy-invading package

We should be debating these issues entirely separately ... but that's not how Ottawa works

05.06.2025 10

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Chris Selley: Governments won't save your kids from internet smut

How does a website automatically, 'responsibly' prove someone’s age down the end of an internet connection, without actually verifying their ID?...

04.06.2025 20

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Chris Selley: Alberta NDP's divorce from the federal party trainwreck is better for everyone

02.06.2025 10

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Chris Selley: Is Sir John A. Macdonald being set up for a fall?

We won't stop the statue-botherers without proper enforcement and prosecution

30.05.2025 10

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Chris Selley: The King's visit was like a family reunion

28.05.2025 6

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Chris Selley: No municipal bylaw will calm the anti-Israel rabble

The nastiest protesters are willing to be arrested. Why would they fear a ticket?

24.05.2025 4

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Chris Selley: Central Canadians are practically goading Alberta to consider separation

'Perhaps it's time Alberta does go it alone and says goodbye to Canada,' a recent Toronto Star headline proposed

22.05.2025 4

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Chris Selley: If Toronto is really a hockey town, it shouldn't need the Leafs

'No one can defend the status quo,' James Mirtle wrote for The Athletic Sunday night. I’ve been watching people defend the status quo ever since

20.05.2025 10

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Chris Selley: It's official. Some Canadians' votes are more equal than others

16.05.2025 4

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Chris Selley: We have learned nothing from COVID-19

Vaccination rates are actually dropping, and influenza deaths are soaring

14.05.2025 10

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Chris Selley: Please, spare us from another impotent, image-obsessed cabinet, Mr. Carney

The PM is blessed with some experienced new options that don’t carry Trudeau’s baggage with them

10.05.2025 4

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Chris Selley: A perfectly typical tunnel is just too much for Toronto's puny imagination

09.05.2025 9

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Chris Selley: The King is coming, and Quebec is already flipping out

07.05.2025 4

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Chris Selley: Our blundering Elections Canada only looks good compared to the U.S. system

'Any time an elector misses their opportunity to vote, it is something we take seriously', says Elections Canada. Not seriously enough!

03.05.2025 5

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Chris Selley: Poilievre has a strong case to stay Conservative leader, but it's not ironclad

What if Mark Carney doesn't end up as terrible a prime minister as many Conservatives expect he will be?

01.05.2025 10

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Chris Selley: Pierre Poilievre lost the election to Donald Trump

29.04.2025 10

Chris Selley

Chris Selley: CBC's Vote Compass will only get you lost in the wilderness, again

25.04.2025 10

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Chris Selley: Mark Carney has quickly become the ultimate establishment Liberal

In a matter of minutes, the Liberal leader lionized Pope Francis and then falsely accused Pierre Poilievre of wanting to ban abortion

22.04.2025 5

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Chris Selley: Carney's Liberal platform is almost alarmingly Trudeau-esque

Mark Carney seems to embody change much better on stage than on paper

22.04.2025 10

Chris Selley

Chris Selley: Canadian complacency returns to the election debate, from Blanchet of all people

Trump will be gone by the time we build any new pipelines, he says. Maybe we should just relax

18.04.2025 10

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Chris Selley: The spectre of Trudeau overshadows Carney's French debate

17.04.2025 10

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Chris Selley: Abolish the Leaders' Debates Commission, salt the earth

17.04.2025 6

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Chris Selley: Poilievre has a great case for the notwithstanding clause. He'll need to make it

Rightly or wrongly, a lot of Canadians — including conservatives — are skittish about the notwithstanding clause

15.04.2025 4

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Chris Selley: Job one for Canada in this scary new world is to stop being stupid

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Chris Selley: Earth to Liberals — First Nations are not an anti-development monolith

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Chris Selley: Liberals wrap much-needed refugee reform in a terrible privacy-invading package

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Chris Selley: Governments won't save your kids from internet smut

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Chris Selley: Alberta NDP's divorce from the federal party trainwreck is better for everyone

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Chris Selley: No municipal bylaw will calm the anti-Israel rabble

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Chris Selley: Central Canadians are practically goading Alberta to consider separation

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Chris Selley: If Toronto is really a hockey town, it shouldn't need the Leafs

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Chris Selley: It's official. Some Canadians' votes are more equal than others

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