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Chris Selley

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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

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

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

07.05.2025 3

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

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

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

Chris Selley: Pierre Poilievre lost the election to Donald Trump
29.04.2025 10

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

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 3

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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

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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 5

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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 3

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Chris Selley: Mark Carney's trains in vain

The new guy is as delusional about Canadians' travel habits as the old guy, apparently

14.04.2025 10

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Chris Selley: Canada, of all places, should be able to get liberty and good government right

We can have strong institutions and world-class freedom at the same time

13.04.2025 10

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Chris Selley: Meet Danielle Smith, patriot

'We need to get serious about the hard work of nation-building if we want to compete and win in the next generation'

11.04.2025 3

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Chris Selley: Talking to Americans is good, actually. This week's annual conservative conference shows it

Meeting jaw to jaw is better than war,' Winston Churchill famously said

10.04.2025 10

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Chris Selley: The job of repairing national unity begins in Central Canada, not Alberta

09.04.2025 4

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Chris Selley: Robert Carney's story is the story of Canada Liberals don't talk about

05.04.2025 10

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

04.04.2025 4

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

15.03.2025 10

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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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