Chris Selley: No one needs Canadian-made submarines

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

02.11.2025 9

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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 2

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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 10

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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 2

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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 2

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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 8

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

17.10.2025 7

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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

Chris Selley

Chris Selley: 'Birthright citizenship' is an outdated concept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 3

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Chris Selley: Canada is well within its rights to ban Kneecap (but it shouldn't)

Denying entry to the anti-Israel rappers can only bolster the case for limits on free speech

07.10.2025 8

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Chris Selley: Speech bans are not the path to truth and reconciliation

05.10.2025 10

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Chris Selley: Education reform is change Ontario can believe in

School choice is seen as a third rail — but no one has tested the voltage in years

03.10.2025 10

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Chris Selley: If there's a 'bunch of yahoos' in Ontario politics, it's certainly not Project Ontario

The group is best thought of as conservatives alarmed by some of Ontario’s fundamentals and uninterested in being in power for its own sake

01.10.2025 10

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Chris Selley: Ostrich politics are a worrying sign of where our political heads are situated

28.09.2025 10

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Chris Selley: We're not going to get euthanasia right, but we could try harder to

The answer to an unsolvable ethical dilemma isn’t always ‘do your best and hope you were right’

26.09.2025 3

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Chris Selley: Carney missed a golden opportunity to ditch the Liberals' gun buy-back

The public safety minister thinks it's a mess. For once, at least, he's right

24.09.2025 3

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Chris Selley: A constitutional crisis? Sure, why not? We've got nothing else going on

The government's intervention on the notwithstanding clause is both ill-conceived and ill-timed

21.09.2025 10

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Chris Selley: On 'hate speech', Trump's attorney general sounds downright Canadian

The standard for hate speech is high in Canada and we should all appreciate the careful balance we've struck with it

18.09.2025 6

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

16.09.2025 9

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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 6

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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

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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?...

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