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Kelly McParland: Epstein scandal is the essence of Trump

Kelly McParland: Epstein scandal is the essence of Trump

MAGA is a movement founded on conspiracy theories and it absolutely believes there’s a conspiracy going on

22.07.2025 10

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Kelly McParland: EV mandate another fanciful Trudeau plan Carney forced to reckon with

06.07.2025 30

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Kelly McParland: New York swoons over an American Justin Trudeau

Zohran Mamdani is a man with a brand, a New Yorker with a remarkably similar look, sound and feel to Canada’s former prime minister

02.07.2025 10

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Kelly McParland: Carney and Ford race to build as anti-development forces coalesce

The usual quagmire of regulatory, legal and activist impediments that have so successfully clogged up Canada’s ability to see through big ideas is...

24.06.2025 10

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Kelly McParland: Is the United States worth saving — and how?

14.06.2025 30

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Kelly McParland: Poilievre needs to earn an extension as leader

07.06.2025 10

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Kelly McParland: Scorning Trump's Golden Dome would be a mistake

28.05.2025 3

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Kelly McParland: CBC good, Canada Post bad. Explain the difference

23.05.2025 10

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Kelly McParland: Trump behaving like a self-serving monarch

17.05.2025 10

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Kelly McParland: Carney's change agenda should start with fixing up 24 Sussex Drive

12.05.2025 10

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Kelly McParland: Carney must prioritize quelling western discontent

02.05.2025 4

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Kelly McParland: Monday's election was a wake-up call for the Conservatives

30.04.2025 10

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Kelly McParland: Carney, Poilievre talk fiscal prudence, but offer the opposite

24.04.2025 10

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Kelly McParland: Debate proved Ottawa's leaders need to look inside themselves

Better government starts at the top, and Ottawa's power brokers need to look inside themselves as they consider how to bring it about

21.04.2025 10

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Kelly McParland: Carney thinks Canada is too weak to survive without the CBC

15.04.2025 10

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Kelly McParland: Mark Carney still can't explain how he's different from Trudeau

10.04.2025 10

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Kelly McParland: Carney and Poilievre struggle to distinguish themselves

On many issues, the two appear to be carbon copies of one another

07.04.2025 10

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Kelly McParland: NDP collapse contains further uncertainties

01.04.2025 10

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Kelly McParland: Canadians seek details, Carney offers fog

He dismisses questions about Brookfield investments, including ties to China

26.03.2025 10

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Kelly McParland: Danielle Smith's election help isn't helping

25.03.2025 10

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Kelly McParland: Sorry folks, but Poilievre's fate rests with Ontario

22.03.2025 10

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Kelly McParland: Trump's litany of failures is adding up

For all the attention focused on the daily outpouring of headlines from Washington, it’s noteworthy how little of substance has yet to be accomplished

19.03.2025 20

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Kelly McParland: Canada hopes for the best as it faces major crisis in era of political uncertainty

07.03.2025 10

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Kelly McParland: Trump's indifference to Ukraine leaves others to pick up the pieces

03.03.2025 10

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Kelly McParland: Singh pays the price for protecting Trudeau

02.03.2025 10

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Kelly McParland: Carney's economic master plan sounds unsettlingly familiar

25.02.2025 20

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Kelly McParland: The climate campaign discovers that electricity is expensive

It is the dirty secret of electric vehicles

19.02.2025 5

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Kelly McParland: Mark Carney's ever present Trudeau problem

To win over Canadians, he'll need to convince them to forget the last 9 years

12.02.2025 10

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Kelly McParland: Trump's half-baked Gaza resort plan doesn't take reality into account

Whose soldiers will protect the Trump International Gaza Resort? Who will live there? Who will pay for it? The president sure doesn't know

08.02.2025 10

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Kelly McParland: Florida man imposes tariffs on best customers

With tariffs, Donald Trump has done the impossible: he’s resurrected Justin Trudeau as an important figure

03.02.2025 10

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Kelly McParland: As Justin Trudeau plummets in popularity, Doug Ford effortlessly soars

Ford doesn't seem to think about optics all that much, but he's mastered the art of keeping public opinion onside anyway

30.01.2025 4

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Kelly McParland: Mark Carney's climate ship has sailed

The primary challenge of the next four years will be a search for security and certainty against the storm blowing out of Washington

28.01.2025 20

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Kelly McParland: Mark Carney's unlikely shot at wooing disillusioned voters

His experience is an asset, but he lacks charm — and more importantly, time

21.01.2025 10

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Kelly McParland: Meta changes a triumph for social media nitwits

14.01.2025 10

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Kelly McParland: Trudeau hands over a disgruntled country

He leaves in his wake a nation divided, unsettled, abnormally pessimistic and uncertain of its place in the world You can save this article by...

07.01.2025 4

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Kelly McParland: Trudeau skis while his party unites in calls for his resignation

Just who does the prime minister think he's still leading at this point? You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you...

03.01.2025 6

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Kelly McParland: Is Poilievre brave enough to take on Canada's airlines?

A Poilievre pledge to put muscle into passenger rights, assuring they're not forced to sit in vomit, would be a smart move You can save this...

28.12.2024 4

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Kelly McParland: Liberals keep debating, but there's really only one choice

Put their plan to the people, and let the people decide You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account....

23.12.2024 10

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Kelly McParland: Time for Jagmeet Singh to put Liberals out of their misery

Freeland’s rebuke is easily the most damning to strike a flailing prime minister You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in...

16.12.2024 4

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Kelly McParland: Bashar Assad's fall puts a treacherous territory in uncertain hands

Anyone who thinks they know where Syria goes from here is kidding themselves You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if...

10.12.2024 3

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Kelly McParland: Ontario Liberal Leader Bonnie Crombie is out of her depth, and it's showing

She’ll need to up her game if she hopes to make the next election a real contest You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in...

05.12.2024 5

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Kelly McParland: Singh hands Trudeau a chance to return the turkey

You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. Inadvertently or otherwise, New Democratic Party leader...

28.11.2024 10

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Kelly McParland: Of the long list of Liberal blunders, immigration takes the cake

Canadians no longer prideful and smug about ever-increasing immigration numbers You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in...

19.11.2024 4

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Kelly McParland: Trudeau Liberals stick to same path Democrats took to defeat

You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. Experience has taught Canadians our prime minister is...

12.11.2024 2

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Kelly McParland: Message to Democrats — cut the toxic wokeness

Americans prefer politicians who deal with practical, daily realities over the abstract, idealized notions of academics and activists You can save...

06.11.2024 10

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Kelly McParland: For Republicans, staying home would be better than voting for Trump

Refusing to participate would be a more honourable stand than siding with Donald Trump's hate and bile You can save this article by registering for...

01.11.2024 10

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Kelly McParland: Voters cast a ballot for change as Trudeau faces caucus revolt

Canadians are clearly agitated, and are ready to make incumbents pay at the ballot box You can save this article by registering for free here. Or...

26.10.2024 3

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Kelly McParland: Federal workers on the warpath over lack of desks for swollen public service

Coddled bureaucrats don't seem to know how good they have it You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an...

21.10.2024 3

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Kelly McParland: Canada's in a standoff between the prime minister and the people

Liberal efforts have only worsened their poll numbers: cabinet shuffles, new spending, apocalyptic denunciations of the Conservatives... You can...

13.10.2024 2

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Kelly McParland: Self-immolation is the biggest service Liberals could provide for the country

Bloc vote shows that an election is essential You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. There’s a...

03.10.2024 3

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