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Josh Lieblein

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Doorstep Postings: The predictable trajectory of Avi Lewis

Doorstep Postings: The predictable trajectory of Avi Lewis

As the guy who presided over the New Democratic Party’s decline to fourth party status and a single digit seat count, Jagmeet Singh is a complete...

06.04.2026 10

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Doorstep Postings: The limits of Canadian anti-Zionism

I don’t normally write about the anti-Zionist position or right-wing antisemitism because they are (for now) both mostly irrelevant in Canada. I do...

09.01.2026 20

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Doorstep Postings: Canada needs to win against Trump

We are a country where people achieve hit-tweet status by claiming that in their own minds, the Blue Jays won the World Series, and where the...

14.11.2025 20

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Doorstep Postings: what Hamas won

If you were scoring the last two years by any other metric than Let’s intimidate governments into doing our bidding and normalize violence against...

17.10.2025 60

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Doorstep Postings: the empaths of least resistance

Everyone understands that the more you yell at someone for lacking empathy or humanity, the less empathetic they are likely to become, right? What if...

05.09.2025 20

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Doorstep Postings: Is Palestine a state if the Liberals say so?

Throughout the remaining liberal democracies, the belief persists that all governments have to do is provide the right incentives and nudges to their...

02.08.2025 10

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Doorstep Postings: A columnist’s paradoxical Yves Engler endorsement

I’m going to do the Canadian political establishment and the Jewish community an enormous favour and torpedo Yves Engler’s bid for the leadership...

16.07.2025 10

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Doorstep Postings: Why Mamdani couldn’t happen in Canada

Nothing grinds my gears worse than some hot-taking Canadian pundit insisting that this week’s hip fresh new political chaos abroad can’t happen...

02.07.2025 9

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Doorstep Postings: Coping with Carney

Since we’re probably not looking at a change in government for the next decade, all I can really do with this column of mine is chart Mark...

12.06.2025 10

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Doorstep Postings: Pander-monium as Canada opens the 45th Parliament

Perhaps it was always this way, but it has certainly become impossible to ignore: shameless, naked pandering has taken over every aspect of life, to...

28.05.2025 10

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Doorstep Postings: A result to remind us that the dog never catches the car

This is the final 2025 federal election edition of Doorstep Postings, the political column written by Josh Lieblein for The CJN. We could have had...

01.05.2025 10

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Doorstep Postings: Government by gaslight already won this election

This is another weekly 2025 federal election edition of Doorstep Postings, the political column written by Josh Lieblein for The CJN. Politics...

26.04.2025 10

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Doorstep Postings: The role-playing is the point as the federal election gets leavened

This is another weekly 2025 federal election edition of Doorstep Postings, the political column written by Josh Lieblein for The CJN. Debate ready...

19.04.2025 9

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Doorstep Postings: Four questions for the Conservative campaign (no real answers, though)

This is another weekly 2025 federal election edition of Doorstep Postings, the political column written by Josh Lieblein for The CJN. (Stay tuned for...

11.04.2025 9

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Doorstep Postings: A disjoint from the point in a second election week

This is another weekly 2025 federal election edition of Doorstep Postings, the political column written by Josh Lieblein for The CJN. (Stay tuned for...

05.04.2025 10

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Doorstep Postings: Gimme a gimmick before this federal election succumbs to status quo

This is the second 2025 federal election edition of Doorstep Postings, the political column written by Josh Lieblein for The CJN. (Stay tuned for more...

29.03.2025 10

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Doorstep Postings: Preparing for the possibility of Maximum Carn-age at the polls

This is the first April 28, 2025, federal election edition of Doorstep Postings, the political column written by Josh Lieblein for The CJN. Donald...

24.03.2025 10

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Doorstep Postings: Doug Ford secures his place at the hollow centre of politics in Canada

This is the mercifully final 2025 Ontario provincial election edition of Doorstep Postings, the periodic political commentary column written by Josh...

12.03.2025 10

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Doorstep Postings: Will the next PM be good for the Jews? Don’t hold your breath for an answer from Mark Carney

This is a federal Liberal leadership race edition of Doorstep Postings, the periodic political commentary column written by Josh Lieblein for The CJN....

12.03.2025 10

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Doorstep Postings: Doug the Thug smugly plugs along as Donald Trump rumbles through the grumble

This is the second 2025 Ontario provincial election edition of Doorstep Postings, the periodic political commentary column written by Josh Lieblein...

19.02.2025 10

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Doorstep Postings: Will the next PM be good for the Jews? Don’t hold your breath for an answer from Mark Carney

This is a federal Liberal leadership race edition of Doorstep Postings, the periodic political commentary column written by Josh Lieblein for The CJN....

08.02.2025 10

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Doorstep Postings: The premier who got elected ‘For the People’ has morphed into ‘Dougie for You’

This is the 2025 Ontario provincial election preview edition of Doorstep Postings, the periodic political commentary column written by Josh Lieblein...

30.01.2025 30

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