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Colby Cosh: Scotland got rid of its 'not proven' verdict. But what does that mean?

Colby Cosh: Scotland got rid of its 'not proven' verdict. But what does that mean?
20.09.2025 10

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Colby Cosh: The separatists of Quebec and Alberta float a curious alliance

Colby Cosh: The separatists of Quebec and Alberta float a curious alliance
17.09.2025 10

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Colby Cosh: Shame on Saskatchewan for letting the 'Queen of Canada' spew literal sewage

Colby Cosh: Shame on Saskatchewan for letting the 'Queen of Canada' spew literal sewage
13.09.2025 10

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Colby Cosh: A diary of Justin Trudeau's very important comms director

Colby Cosh: A diary of Justin Trudeau's very important comms director
10.09.2025 20

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Colby Cosh: Malcolm Gladwell awakens from the transgender fog

Colby Cosh: Malcolm Gladwell awakens from the transgender fog

The bestselling author regrets not pushing back against those who insisted that trans-identifying males belong in female sport

04.09.2025 10

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Colby Cosh: The pure genius of Bob Odenkirk

01.09.2025 10

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Colby Cosh: Judge dealing with Alberta's refreshed referendum law deserves our sympathy

23.08.2025 10

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Colby Cosh: Homeless people ridiculously exempt from Nova Scotia's forest ban

How can forest protection be so important that it justifies an extraordinary ministerial fiat — but not so important that it's enforced?

21.08.2025 10

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Colby Cosh: It's cute to think Parliament has any say over Criminal Code

Even if Liberals support Conservative bill to remove immigration status from sentencing, its hard to believe courts would allow it

15.08.2025 2

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Colby Cosh: The atomic bomb through Oppenheimer's eyes

10.08.2025 10

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Colby Cosh: Nova Scotia's paranoid ban on ... walking in the forest

If it's worthwhile to keep people out of forests to prevent fires, surely the province will crack down on urban tent encampments. Right?

08.08.2025 10

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Colby Cosh: Cyclists' rights — the latest product of judicial hubris

01.08.2025 10

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Colby Cosh: Betting against Trump's tariffs

One of Wall Street's most celebrated lenders has found a promising new line of business: making a market for the rights to hypothetical future tariff...

31.07.2025 10

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Colby Cosh: Betting against Trump's tariffs

One of Wall Street's most celebrated lenders has found a promising new line of business: making a market for the rights to hypothetical future tariff...

30.07.2025 10

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Colby Cosh: The tortured vulnerability of Ozzy Osbourne

26.07.2025 10

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Colby Cosh: The lifelike nature of artificial intelligence

Off-the-shelf AI can now produce impressive results from incomplete underlying models, approaching the complexity of biological life

19.07.2025 10

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Colby Cosh: Cause of Air India Flight 171 crash a mystery of extraordinary urgency

16.07.2025 10

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Colby Cosh: How evolution won the creationist culture war

11.07.2025 10

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Colby Cosh: Mark Carney's unstable environment

04.07.2025 10

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Colby Cosh: Carney's surrender to Trump was inevitable

Canada shows you really can hit yourself when you go elbows up

03.07.2025 20

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Colby Cosh: How Donald Trump nationalized U.S. Steel

28.06.2025 10

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Colby Cosh: The flaccid state of Alberta's separation movement

25.06.2025 10

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Colby Cosh: Taxing away the Stanley Cup

It’s easy to see how players are tempted by lower-tax jurisdictions

20.06.2025 10

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Colby Cosh: There's no point to gatekeeping MAiD if doctors never say 'no'

07.06.2025 10

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Colby Cosh: The underrated power of Poilievre

03.06.2025 20

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Colby Cosh: It turns out Trump's tariffs were illegal after all

Heroic libertarians, through the U.S. Court of International Trade, have saved Canada from 'Liberation Day' (at least for now)

30.05.2025 10

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Colby Cosh: Golden Dome means Trump can tell Carney to pay up or shut up

29.05.2025 10

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Colby Cosh: Charles III is the King of Canada. Deal with it, England

28.05.2025 10

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Colby Cosh: Japan has an excuse for supply management. Where's ours?

24.05.2025 8

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Colby Cosh: Dear Mark Carney, please cut the republican crap

He's the King's first minister, which means he has no business making Trumpian executive-order signing performances

17.05.2025 10

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Colby Cosh: Alberta's feeble separatist movement

The Maple Leaf flag is as popular in the province as anywhere

10.05.2025 10

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Colby Cosh: Trump abandons consumer abundance for a surprise austerity agenda

04.05.2025 10

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Colby Cosh: Craving stability, Canadians elected a perilously unstable government

Carney's left-flank opposition is mostly dead, but he will still have to bargain for legislation as the Tories sort themselves out

30.04.2025 10

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Colby Cosh: Mark Carney and the next lost decade

Liberals ready to take out yet another mortgage on Canada

25.04.2025 10

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Colby Cosh: The expensive business of buying the Hudson’s Bay Company charter

23.04.2025 10

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Colby Cosh: It's not 'cruel and unusual' to keep multi-murderers in jail for life

18.04.2025 9

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Colby Cosh: Trump-era stock market swings show just how far backwards we've gone

08.04.2025 10

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Colby Cosh: The misguided American foray into economic protectionism

Liberation Day isn't doing great things for the economy, but neither did Biden's protectionist trade measures

05.04.2025 10

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Colby Cosh: Carney's lost opportunity to stand by his capitalist, tax-sheltering ways

Capitalist Carney, who has had little time to brush up his act as a politician, is still occasionally visible through the Captain Canada garb

30.03.2025 10

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Colby Cosh: American bewildered Canada offended by tariffs

One of the novel features of the trade situation is, in fact, some disgust and disappointment with the American people

11.03.2025 10

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Colby Cosh: Yes, you should boo the American national anthem

Americans need to hear our displeasure directly, if only to be convinced that our governments are acting with our approval

08.03.2025 10

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Colby Cosh: Wayne Gretzky, Canada's forgotten patriot

04.03.2025 10

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Colby Cosh: Trump's aluminum tariffs are already a failure

U.S. aluminum premiums have doubled since the election, and they'll only get worse if tariffs hit March 12. Americans will be hardest hit

27.02.2025 7

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Colby Cosh: A CBC head tax — the next big Liberal idea that no one asked for

Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge would nearly double the broadcaster's federal funding under her proposed model

23.02.2025 10

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Colby Cosh: Is there even a case for the Liberal high-speed rail plan?

20.02.2025 3

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Colby Cosh: Trump's tariff threats will only strengthen Canadian independence

Free-trade talks collapsed in 1911, triggering widespread Canadian nationalism, when the Americans mused about absorbing us. History repeats

17.02.2025 10

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Colby Cosh: What makes Trump's aluminum tariffs especially crazy? We're the only game in town

Canada's aluminum producers will carry on as before and pass along the tax to U.S. customers

13.02.2025 10

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Colby Cosh: The trade war's other casualty — the U.S. Constitution

04.02.2025 10

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Colby Cosh: Will working from home help solve the fertility problem?

01.02.2025 9

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Colby Cosh: Freeland's capital-gains flip-flop

27.01.2025 10

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