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Trump's tariffs aimed at all

Wednesday was Donald Trump’s proclaimed Liberation Day in the United States. It was the day his administration’s senses were liberated as they...

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Kirk LaPointe: Trump's shot off the bow more like a shot in the foot for trade

Kirk LaPointe: Trump's shot off the bow more like a shot in the foot for trade

Wednesday was Donald Trump’s proclaimed Liberation Day in the United States. It was the day his administration’s senses were liberated as they...

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Times Colonist

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Kirk LaPointe: Trump's shot off the bow more like a shot in the foot for trade

Wednesday was Donald Trump’s proclaimed Liberation Day in the United States. It was the day his administration’s senses were liberated as they...

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What's at stake in election

It is a personal, visceral fight neither Pierre Poilievre nor Mark Carney can afford to lose, and an election the country cannot afford to get wrong....

29.03.2025 2

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Kirk LaPointe: Canada at a crossroads as Carney, Poilievre clash

Kirk LaPointe: Canada at a crossroads as Carney, Poilievre clash

It will be a personal, visceral fight neither Pierre Poilievre nor Mark Carney can afford to lose, and an election the country cannot afford to get...

25.03.2025 2

Times Colonist

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Kirk LaPointe: Canada at a crossroads as Carney, Poilievre clash

It will be a personal, visceral fight neither Pierre Poilievre nor Mark Carney can afford to lose, and an election the country cannot afford to get...

25.03.2025 4

Vancouver Is Awesome

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Kirk LaPointe: Our democratic leaders are suddenly too eager to test our democratic limits

Anti-democracy is all of a sudden in style. Ain’t it grand? All around, far and near, we are witnessing the rise of Triple-A governments:...

22.03.2025 10

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Canada's new PM

There aren’t many among us today in Canada who can thank U.S. President Donald Trump for an improvement in their station in life but new Liberal...

12.03.2025 3

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Kirk LaPointe: Trump's shadow looms large over Carney's path forward

There aren’t terribly many among us today in Canada who can thank Donald Trump for an improvement in our station in life. Mark Carney is one.  His...

11.03.2025 6

Times Colonist

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Kirk LaPointe: Trump's shadow looms large over Carney's path forward

There aren’t terribly many among us today in Canada who can thank Donald Trump for an improvement in our station in life. Mark Carney is one.  His...

11.03.2025 10

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Kirk LaPointe: B.C. budget can't dodge economic beating as tariffs land heavy punches

Well, woe is us, eh? We went to war, of sorts, overnight. And with our best customer, no less, because its best customer, us, was being treated like a...

06.03.2025 5

Times Colonist

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Kirk LaPointe: B.C. budget can't dodge economic beating as tariffs land heavy punches

Well, woe is us, eh? We went to war, of sorts, overnight. And with our best customer, no less, because its best customer, us, was being treated like a...

06.03.2025 4

Vancouver Is Awesome

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Kirk LaPointe: Rustad's biggest test will be proving he's premier material

BC Conservative Leader John Rustad was supposed to bathe Saturday in the success that comes from reviving a party barely breathing two years ago to...

05.03.2025 3

Times Colonist

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Kirk LaPointe: Rustad's biggest test will be proving he's premier material

BC Conservative Leader John Rustad was supposed to bathe Saturday in the success that comes from reviving a party barely breathing two years ago to...

05.03.2025 3

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Kirk LaPointe: B.C. throne speech charts rough economic waters with a wary eye on Trump

Children were conceived and born since the British Columbia legislature last convened. Last time MLAs met, BC United was in opposition, the BC...

20.02.2025 6

Times Colonist

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Kirk LaPointe: B.C. throne speech charts rough economic waters with a wary eye on Trump

Children were conceived and born since the British Columbia legislature last convened. Last time MLAs met, BC United was in opposition, the BC...

20.02.2025 3

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Kirk LaPointe: Sorry, Poilievre—Carney's our next prime minister

Mark Carney is our next prime minister. I’ll take bets on it today. Any amount. I’m playing a trick, of course – all he has to do is win the...

15.02.2025 4

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Kirk LaPointe: B.C. risks losing billions with Columbia River Treaty left in limbo

Last July, in what many of us thought to be the nick of time, painstaking negotiations between Canada and the United States produced a modernized,...

07.02.2025 3

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Kirk LaPointe: Poilievre's potential polling panic isn't just noise

For a couple of weeks now I’ve wrestled with what to do about the unique data coming from Frank Graves, one of the country’s most prominent...

31.01.2025 8

Times Colonist

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Kirk LaPointe: Poilievre's potential polling panic isn't just noise

For a couple of weeks now I’ve wrestled with what to do about the unique data coming from Frank Graves, one of the country’s most prominent...

31.01.2025 8

Vancouver Is Awesome

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Kirk LaPointe: Metro Vancouver mayors must fix their side-hustle dilemma

What’s a politician worth? If you’ll stop laughing for a moment, let’s reframe the question. We’ve veered into an unhealthy debate on this...

24.01.2025 4

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Kirk LaPointe: Christy Clark's Liberal leadership bid faceplants on a fact check

Of the things about which I am confident, I can safely state that my weekend and yours was a lot better than Christy Clark’s. Now, as she awoke...

15.01.2025 6

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Kirk LaPointe: Christy Clark's Liberal leadership bid faceplants on a fact check

Of the things about which I am confident, I can safely state that my weekend and yours was a lot better than Christy Clark’s. Now, as she awoke...

15.01.2025 9

Times Colonist

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Kirk LaPointe: Winter's cold grasp claims another Trudeau's time in power

Four decades ago, his father took his famous walk in the snow to decide to leave the country’s highest office. In recent days, the son took to the...

07.01.2025 10

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Kirk LaPointe: Winter's cold grasp claims another Trudeau's time in power

Four decades ago, his father took his famous walk in the snow to decide to leave the country’s highest office. In recent days, the son took to the...

07.01.2025 3

Times Colonist

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Kirk LaPointe: Improving democracy should be a New Year's resolution for us all

Instead of resolving to fix some of ourselves at New Year’s, what if we resolve to fix some of our political institutions? Voter turnout, voter...

05.01.2025 4

Times Colonist

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Kirk LaPointe: Improving democracy should be a New Year's resolution for us all

Instead of resolving to fix some of ourselves at New Year’s, what if we resolve to fix some of our political institutions? Voter turnout, voter...

04.01.2025 3

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Kirk LaPointe: Freeland’s poison pen letter might be the final blow to Trudeau

The old saying is that a week is a long time in politics. Try a day. A finance minister quits hours, yes hours, before she was going to have to...

18.12.2024 10

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Kirk LaPointe: Freeland’s poison pen letter might be the final blow to Trudeau

The old saying is that a week is a long time in politics. Try a day. A finance minister quits hours, yes hours, before she was going to have to...

18.12.2024 4

Times Colonist

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Kirk LaPointe: BC Conservatives feast on themselves as voters starve for attention

Not long ago it was a government-in-waiting. Now it’s an opposition-in-weakening. It should surprise few that it has taken mere weeks for the rifts...

13.12.2024 5

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Kirk LaPointe: BC Conservatives feast on themselves as voters starve for attention

Not long ago it was a government-in-waiting. Now it’s an opposition-in-weakening. It should surprise few that it has taken mere weeks for the rifts...

13.12.2024 4

Times Colonist

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Kirk LaPointe: Surrey directors sound alarm over Metro Vancouver governance

Deep concerns raised by Surrey board directors about Metro Vancouver paint a troubling portrait of an organization that lacks expertise, fails to...

05.12.2024 20

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Kirk LaPointe: Alberta's 'get things done' edge leaves B.C. behind in investment race

Dow wanted to expand its Path2Zero zero-emission project from outside Fort Saskatchewan with a significant investment, but didn’t think the...

27.11.2024 3

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Kirk LaPointe: John Horgan made his mark mixing fiscal competence with social prescription

I’d be surprised if anyone could show me many pictures in which John Horgan wasn’t at least somehow modestly beaming. I’ve gone through the file...

13.11.2024 5

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Kirk LaPointe: John Horgan made his mark mixing fiscal competence with social prescription

I’d be surprised if anyone could show me many pictures in which John Horgan wasn’t at least somehow modestly beaming. I’ve gone through the file...

13.11.2024 4

Times Colonist

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Opinion: Trump 2.0 will be a test of Canada's resolve

There is no longer a Trump Tower in British Columbia. But there will be a Trump towering over us. Setting aside how it happened – how a fraudster...

06.11.2024 3

Times Colonist

Kirk Lapointe

Opinion: Trump 2.0 will be a test of Canada's resolve

There is no longer a Trump Tower in British Columbia. But there will be a Trump towering over us. Setting aside how it happened – how a fraudster...

06.11.2024 2

Vancouver Is Awesome

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Opinion: Time to tackle the scourge of online anonymity and political intimidation

On Halloween night when no one could see, a coward, and maybe more than one, sprayed graffiti on the garage doors of Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim’s...

04.11.2024 3

Times Colonist

Kirk Lapointe

Opinion: Time to tackle the scourge of online anonymity and political intimidation

On Halloween night when no one could see, a coward, and maybe more than one, sprayed graffiti on the garage doors of Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim’s...

04.11.2024 4

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Opinion: Rebuilding trust in journalism starts with busting misconceptions

This ought to be a great time for journalists, particularly political journalists. We have just finished a provincial election, an American one is...

31.10.2024 2

Times Colonist

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Opinion: Rebuilding trust in journalism starts with busting misconceptions

This ought to be a great time for journalists, particularly political journalists. We have just finished a provincial election, an American one is...

31.10.2024 6

Vancouver Is Awesome

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Opinion: Trudeau's deep denial leaves Liberals in limbo

At what point does Justin Trudeau just understand? Does disdainful public opinion not matter? Does his caucus rebellion not matter? Does he intend...

30.10.2024 3

Times Colonist

Kirk Lapointe

Opinion: Trudeau's deep denial leaves Liberals in limbo

At what point does Justin Trudeau just understand? Does disdainful public opinion not matter? Does his caucus rebellion not matter? Does he intend...

24.10.2024 4

Vancouver Is Awesome

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Opinion: Veteran leadership charts course to B.C. for first winter Invictus Games

It was at a party for a friend in London last year that someone mentioned to semi-retired sports media executive Scott Moore that he ought to throw...

21.10.2024 3

Times Colonist

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Opinion: Veteran leadership charts course to B.C. for first winter Invictus Games

It was at a party for a friend in London last year that someone mentioned to semi-retired sports media executive Scott Moore that he ought to throw...

17.10.2024 10

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Opinion: Allvin’s roster revamp, Tocchet’s toughness raise hopes for Canucks

When the Vancouver Canucks take to the ice Wednesday to open their 2024-25 season they will be, like all modern sports franchises, an exercise in...

09.10.2024 4

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Opinion: Canadian businesses are in debt distress with many facing delinquency

You’d wish it were different, but the scene isn’t pretty for Canadian businesses and their capacity to contend with their debts. New data reveal a...

05.10.2024 10

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Opinion: Trudeau's housing 'help' is more hurtful than helpful

When Justin Trudeau appeared this week on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, he conceded that the Canadian housing crisis was a “little sharper”...

27.09.2024 4

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Opinion: Canada poised to help steady Taiwan's diplomatic tightrope

Very few of us have the disposition and constitution of a diplomat. And not all diplomats are even created equally, with the innate grace to be...

12.09.2024 3

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Opinion: Trudeau’s leadership survives as Singh severs ties

Anyone who wagered that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau would step down before the next election can pay up today. NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is yours...

05.09.2024 4

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