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Kelly McParland: NDP collapse contains further uncertainties

Kelly McParland: NDP collapse contains further uncertainties
01.04.2025 10

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Kelly McParland: Canadians seek details, Carney offers fog

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

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

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

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 4

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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 3

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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 3

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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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Kelly McParland: Blame politicians for Canada's chronic inability to build transit infrastructure

Our political leaders allow egos to get in the way of the transit projects they hold so dear You can save this article by registering for free...

01.10.2024 3

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Kelly McParland: A Liberal-Bloc deal to pad boomer incomes would be bad for federalism

Can Justin Trudeau stomach the smell of a deal with the separatists if that’s what it takes to get him through to next summer? You can save this...

25.09.2024 3

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Kelly McParland: The number of Trudeau true believers is a shrinking circle

It's likely only a few apostles remain. You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. As near as I can...

07.09.2024 3

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Kelly McParland: The amazing disappearing Liberal parties of Canada

The loss of provincial Liberal parties is a striking indication of how toxic Justin Trudeau's brand has become You can save this article by...

05.09.2024 2

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Kelly McParland: While the Liberals fixate on electric vehicles, people are buying hybrids

Perversely, Ottawa's 100% tariffs on EVs ensures the price of hybrids remains more attractive You can save this article by registering for free...

28.08.2024 2

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Kelly McParland: Trudeau Liberals have a Biden problem, but lack a Pelosi to press the case

Author of the article: You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. A month after kicking him down...

24.08.2024 2

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Kelly McParland: Trudeau Liberals have a Biden problem, but lack a Pelosi to press the case

Questioning the boss risks being denounced as disloyal You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. A...

23.08.2024 2

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Kelly McParland: Whatever the request, Liberals opt for secrecy

They have reputations to protect You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. If we’d learned nothing...

21.08.2024 3

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Kelly McParland: Voters should pay far more attention to the quality of U.S. running mates

No one ever ever knows what’s going to happen down the road, and it’s usually not what we expect You can save this article by registering for free...

08.08.2024 3

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Kelly McParland: Cat ladies, Jesus and Hulk Hogan take over the Republican campaign

Kamala Harris dismisses Donald Trump's name-calling as 'same old show' You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you...

02.08.2024 1

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Kelly McParland: Jasper wildfire disaster reflects failure of climate moralizing to produce results

Funding should go to fire breaks, flood prevention and water mains, instead of subsidies for EVs that no one wants You can save this article by...

29.07.2024 1

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Kelly McParland: With Biden out, Democrats get the chaos they deserve

But the president's departure gives the party an opportunity they didn't have before You can save this article by registering for free here. Or...

22.07.2024 1

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Kelly McParland: Why would Mark Carney want anything to do with Trudeau Liberals?

The government needs him far more than he needs them You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account....

19.07.2024 1

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