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Colby Cosh: Supreme Court to decide which comes first — Crown oath or Sikh faith

Colby Cosh: Supreme Court to decide which comes first — Crown oath or Sikh faith

Top court to contemplate when duties of religion can overtake duties of state loyalty

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Colby Cosh: Democrats' attempt to limit the presidential pardon power is futile

Colby Cosh: Democrats' attempt to limit the presidential pardon power is futile

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Colby Cosh: How come it takes a right-wing convoy for courts to uphold law and order?

Colby Cosh: How come it takes a right-wing convoy for courts to uphold law and order?

Having suddenly discovered a spine, the Ontario Court of Appeal came down hard on Pat King and convicted him for intimidation

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Colby Cosh: Did Carney meddle in CBC affairs to secure Eurovision?

Colby Cosh: Did Carney meddle in CBC affairs to secure Eurovision?

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Colby Cosh: When destroying your phone lands you in jail

Colby Cosh: When destroying your phone lands you in jail

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30.07.2026 30

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Colby Cosh: British Columbia's trash-recycling paradox

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28.07.2026 20

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Colby Cosh: Why Mark Carney felt comfortable spreading misinformation

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Colby Cosh: The real American odyssey of Ulysses Grant

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20.07.2026 30

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Colby Cosh: America told 'middle powers' to step it up and is now angry they did

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17.07.2026 20

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Colby Cosh: Ontario's welfare-for-illegal-migrants scheme could be dropped overnight

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15.07.2026 30

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Colby Cosh: The drug that was approved on fake data

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Colby Cosh: How long before Statistics Canada loses complete touch with the economy?

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27.06.2026 30

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Colby Cosh: If you think Alberta separation is a solution to all problems, just look at Brexit

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Colby Cosh: The chief justice of Canada isn't biased — he said so!

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11.06.2026 20

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Colby Cosh: Alberta separatists still love their Canadian passports

Even they admit that actually ceasing to be Canadian would come with a zillion hidden costs

05.06.2026 30

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Colby Cosh: The Easterners who admit Alberta separatists have a point

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Colby Cosh: Did Ozempic kill its Canadian patent?

Generic versions of the weight loss drug are about to hit the market

22.05.2026 30

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Colby Cosh: Alberta judge pours gas on separatist fire

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Colby Cosh: The double-necked guitar monstrosity from Quebec

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13.05.2026 40

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Colby Cosh: New answers about the doomed Franklin Expedition

A quartet of Canadian anthropologists published two papers this week that provide remarkable new detective insights into the fate of the 1845 Franklin...

10.05.2026 40

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Colby Cosh: Supreme Court upholds Liberals’ right to protect embarrassing secrets

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Colby Cosh: Paging Avi Lewis — Canada's communitarian grocer gets food inflation, too

The customer-owned Co-Op has been around for a century. It has rising costs that get passed on to consumers, just like everyone else

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Colby Cosh: Alberta separatists admit their petition is symbolic

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Colby Cosh: Donald Trump, our self-styled lord and saviour

I’m an atheist, and this AI slop isn’t even the kind of blasphemy I approve of

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Colby Cosh: Gladu's betrayal invites a revolt beyond the ballot box

Liberals and floor-crossers ignore the danger in attaining a majority government by shamelessly luring over MPs

10.04.2026 50

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Colby Cosh: How the Supreme Court guaranteed light sentences for impulsive teen killers

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Colby Cosh: Colorado's progressives probably wish they had a notwithstanding clause right about now

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Colby Cosh: Liberals put Canada in danger at Supreme Court

Ottawa wants every use of Section 33 to require court approval, a threat to the rule of law

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Colby Cosh: David Suzuki made his career crying wolf

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Colby Cosh: Is the Supreme Court preparing a judicial coup d’etat?

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Colby Cosh: The death of another British tradition — hereditary peers

The British have turned the House of Lords into the ... Canadian Senate

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Colby Cosh: Liberals join Supreme Court in sticking up for mass murderers

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Colby Cosh: Did the Globe and Mail just advocate for Alberta separatism?

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Colby Cosh: The Canadian pediatric medicine researchers who 'made it up'

When doctors publish fake medical news, they should expect to lose the public's trust

06.03.2026 80

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Colby Cosh: The judge who excused a sex offender for failing to register

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Colby Cosh: Why dry, ultra-cold winter winds are named after Alberta

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Colby Cosh: The new top trade negotiator comes with Emergencies Act baggage

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Colby Cosh: Despite CPC defections, a Liberal majority is still far from secure

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Colby Cosh: Why can Quebec ask for judicial reform, but not Alberta?

Ottawa consults with Quebec before it makes court appointments. It's not unconstitutional for Danielle Smith to ask for the same treatment

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Colby Cosh: Catherine O'Hara, Canada's world-class comedienne

She mastered the roles of dazzling beauty, village idiot — and famously, the careless but loving mom

03.02.2026 60

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Colby Cosh: Canada's horrifying example causes U.K. to think twice about euthanasia

The assisted suicide debate in England boils down to, 'Do we want to become Canada or not?'

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Colby Cosh: It's up to Trump to untangle his Border Patrol mess

Official reactions to the killing of Alex Pretti in Minnesota have been disgusting and disqualifying

28.01.2026 50

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Colby Cosh: Trump abandoned the Constitution ... but so has the American public

23.01.2026 60

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Colby Cosh: Don't worry, Carney hasn't abandoned the Davos ethos

22.01.2026 70

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Colby Cosh: On the Emergencies Act, Trudeau's gang simply didn't follow the law

21.01.2026 70

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Colby Cosh: Can the courts force a Catholic hospital to kill?

Lawsuit seeks to make B.C.'s Providence Health Care provide assisted suicide

17.01.2026 60

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Colby Cosh: The 'right to bike lanes' mocks the Charter

11.01.2026 70

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Colby Cosh: UCP MLAs threatened by the recall-petition weapon they created

As a consequence of what might be deemed strategic ineptitude, the government left itself open to a direct popular challenge

08.01.2026 60

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Colby Cosh: 24 Sussex is an insult to Canada? Come off it, bro

03.01.2026 70

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Colby Cosh: I survived a trip to the ER. Not everyone is so lucky

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