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While the Liberals have thrown the NDP a lifeline with Bill C-39 by antagonizing organized labour, they've put Poilievre’s party in a box

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Leader Avi Lewis has taken the NDP further left than many traditional supporters want, but on this, he's on solid ground for progressives

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For a prime minister looking for investment, reversing the ban and granting extended licences would unleash a flood of capital

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Strikes are a major concern for investors, with statistics showing Canada third highest in terms of work stoppages among rich countries

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It seems none of the outsiders Carney has brought in to run these organizations have any sense of how the public service works

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The AfD victory in Germany is no isolated case. Canada should dedicate resources to coming up with off-ramps and make a deal with the U.S.

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If Doug Guzman concludes busting up the old model was not feasible, it would be a major blow to the prime minister's grand design

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John Ivison: Hands off the lobster is smart politics

Ottawa backtracked on U.S. fish counter-tariffs this week after the Canadian seafood industry privately raised stink

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The pain will be felt on both sides of the border

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John Ivison: Churchill Falls deal will outlast any damage Trump inflicts

The deal guarantees predictable, stable energy for the next 50 years

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'It is a little disconcerting to hear the most senior people in government say they don’t know whether a deal is possible'

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The Prime Minister's grand bargain is just intentions for now. But it's harder for Alberta’s separatists to say he's trying to hobble their industry.

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It would have been unthinkable for the government to commit this easily to the largest procurement in Canadian history just two years ago

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The Liberal party and the B.C. real estate industry are so closely intertwined, it is hard to see where one stops and the other begins

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I take Carney risking an unpopular cause as his sincerely held belief in the importance of history, institutions and tradition

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On Thursday he signalled he might be looking to drop it, but doesn't want to admit it publicly

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The outgoing Cannabis Council of Canada president says the country’s licensed producers have lost confidence that the federal government wants to...

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A committee recommendation to permanently exclude mental illness as a sole qualifier for euthanasia is one the government should embrace

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The lesson is the welfare-vs-warfare debate is an irrelevancy and western societies need to be more resilient in an age of rising threats

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Other Canadian industries are in the administration's crosshairs, and the president has plenty of tariff ammunition still left to deploy

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A move away from market competition toward economic nationalism risks mismanagement, inefficiency and corruption

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John Ivison: Canada's pivot to Europe for trade gains traction as Trump loses momentum

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A ludicrous situation where sanctioned Canadian MPs who travel to China at the invitation of the People’s Congress risk being detained

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John Ivison: When mass murder meets politics

After school shootings like that in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., leaders often have nothing to offer than condolences, but people want more

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Early signs are that Ottawa is broadly in favour of the pursuit of justice, as long as it doesn’t hamper its trade policy

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The Canadian political class, from Harper to Carney, has been energized by the surge in Canadian pride we’ve seen in the last year

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Poilievre has been at sea on the issue, but at the party convention he signalled a shift in his own strategic posture

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What has been portrayed as 'constructive, pragmatic engagement' with Beijing has the potential to go sideways very quickly for Mark Carney

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All the signs point to Ottawa buying fewer than half the number of F-35s it said it would, and Carney's speech in Davos explains why

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Carney would help Canada and allay U.S. fears about becoming a drop-off port for cheap Chinese goods by cracking down on non-market dumping

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Preserving our autonomy will come at a cost to Canada that Carney suggested it is prepared to pay

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Expert says it wouldn’t surprise him if the Trump administration and U.S. government agencies were to boost and support Alberta’s separatists,...

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