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GUNTER: Conservative departures not fatal to Poilievre leadership

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Ottawa Sun

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Lorne Gunter: Smith needs to let Alberta's recall process proceed as UCP lawmakers intended

Lorne Gunter: Smith needs to let Alberta's recall process proceed as UCP lawmakers intended
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Edmonton Journal

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Lorne Gunter: UCP needs to live up to its promise on recalls, referendums and properly fund elections boss

Lorne Gunter: UCP needs to live up to its promise on recalls, referendums and properly fund elections boss
previous day 2

Edmonton Journal

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GUNTER: Cowichan Tribes land ruling shows activist judges rewriting Canadian law, threatening private property rights

GUNTER: Cowichan Tribes land ruling shows activist judges rewriting Canadian law, threatening private property rights
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Toronto Sun

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GUNTER: Cowichan Tribes land ruling shows activist judges rewriting Canadian law, threatening private property rights

thursday 10

Ottawa Sun

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GUNTER: Activist federal judges rewrite Canadian Charter, endanger property ownership

thursday 9

Toronto Sun

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GUNTER: Activist federal judges rewrite Canadian Charter, endanger property ownership

thursday 10

Ottawa Sun

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Lorne Gunter: Activist federal judges rewrite Canadian Charter, endanger property ownership Many readers will be aware of a recent spate of activist rulings from federal judges in Canada, like the July ruling by a Toronto judge that there exists a heretofore unknown Charter right to bike lanes. Justice Paul Schabas created this right out of thin air because he wanted to prevent Ontario’s Conservative government from ordering the removal of bike lanes from major streets.

Lorne Gunter: Activist federal judges rewrite Canadian Charter, endanger property ownership Many readers will be aware of a recent spate of activist rulings from federal judges in Canada, like the July ruling by a Toronto judge that there exists a heretofore unknown Charter right to bike lanes. Justice Paul Schabas created this right out of thin air because he wanted to prevent Ontario’s Conservative government from ordering the removal of bike lanes from major streets.
thursday 2

Edmonton Journal

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GUNTER: Carney's big-spending budget won't stop Canada's economic slide

GUNTER: Carney's big-spending budget won't stop Canada's economic slide
05.11.2025 10

Toronto Sun

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Lorne Gunter: Carney's big-spending budget won't stop Canada's economic slide The federal Liberals pushed two themes in advance of Tuesday’s budget introduced by Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne. First was that this would be an “austerity budget.” Second, it would include a “generational investment.”

Lorne Gunter: Carney's big-spending budget won't stop Canada's economic slide The federal Liberals pushed two themes in advance of Tuesday’s budget introduced by Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne. First was that this would be an “austerity budget.” Second, it would include a “generational investment.”
05.11.2025 4

Edmonton Journal

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Lorne Gunter: Hard to believe Edmonton infill arson fires are coincidence While arson is not the answer, ignoring the legitimate concerns of Edmontonians is not an answer, either.

Lorne Gunter: Hard to believe Edmonton infill arson fires are coincidence While arson is not the answer, ignoring the legitimate concerns of Edmontonians is not an answer, either.
05.11.2025 2

Edmonton Journal

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GUNTER: Carney's big-spending budget won't stop Canada's economic slide

05.11.2025 5

Ottawa Sun

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Lorne Gunter: Liberals likely to survive federal budget but honeymoon period won't last forever

Lorne Gunter: Liberals likely to survive federal budget but honeymoon period won't last forever
02.11.2025 2

Edmonton Journal

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GUNTER: Liberals likely to survive federal budget but honeymoon period won't last forever

GUNTER: Liberals likely to survive federal budget but honeymoon period won't last forever
01.11.2025 7

Toronto Sun

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GUNTER: Liberals likely to survive federal budget but honeymoon period won't last forever

01.11.2025 7

Ottawa Sun

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Lorne Gunter: General strike very unlikely, but UCP could survive one

Lorne Gunter: General strike very unlikely, but UCP could survive one
01.11.2025 2

Edmonton Journal

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Lorne Gunter: Classroom complexity likely crux of government-teacher impasse

Lorne Gunter: Classroom complexity likely crux of government-teacher impasse
31.10.2025 10

Edmonton Journal

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GUNTER: Ottawa's EV mandate just isn't possible in the time frame

GUNTER: Ottawa's EV mandate just isn't possible in the time frame
30.10.2025 3

Toronto Sun

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GUNTER: Ottawa's EV mandate just isn't possible in the time frame

29.10.2025 1

Ottawa Sun

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Lorne Gunter: Ottawa's EV mandate just isn't possible in the time frame

Lorne Gunter: Ottawa's EV mandate just isn't possible in the time frame
29.10.2025 2

Edmonton Journal

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Lorne Gunter: Cartmell right to call for audit of Edmonton Elections failure

Lorne Gunter: Cartmell right to call for audit of Edmonton Elections failure
25.10.2025 3

Edmonton Journal

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Lorne Gunter: Edmonton's non-lefty councillors have a chance to build a clear alternative for the future

Lorne Gunter: Edmonton's non-lefty councillors have a chance to build a clear alternative for the future
24.10.2025 3

Edmonton Journal

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Lorne Gunter: Working Families' preferred candidates offer current council's same bad policies, only worse I get a kick out of Working Families Edmonton, the lefty party in the municipal election that refuses to call itself a party.

Lorne Gunter: Working Families' preferred candidates offer current council's same bad policies, only worse I get a kick out of Working Families Edmonton, the lefty party in the municipal election that refuses to call itself a party.
23.10.2025 2

Edmonton Journal

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Lorne Gunter: Even with bad provincial rules, Edmonton makes voting a chore The confused method undoubtedly caused some people during the day and evening to throw up their hands in frustration and walk away from long lines without bothering to vote.

Lorne Gunter: Even with bad provincial rules, Edmonton makes voting a chore The confused method undoubtedly caused some people during the day and evening to throw up their hands in frustration and walk away from long lines without bothering to vote.
23.10.2025 1

Edmonton Journal

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Lorne Gunter: Lefty council majority dooms Edmonton to more spending, higher taxes

Lorne Gunter: Lefty council majority dooms Edmonton to more spending, higher taxes
23.10.2025 8

Edmonton Journal

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Lorne Gunter: B.C. land claim court decision muddies reconciliation waters

Lorne Gunter: B.C. land claim court decision muddies reconciliation waters
23.10.2025 2

Edmonton Journal

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GUNTER: B.C. land claim court ruling muddies reconciliation waters

GUNTER: B.C. land claim court ruling muddies reconciliation waters
23.10.2025 8

Toronto Sun

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GUNTER: B.C. land claim court ruling muddies reconciliation waters

22.10.2025 3

Ottawa Sun

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GUNTER: B.C. land claim court ruling muddies reconciliation waters

22.10.2025 8

Ottawa Sun

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Lorne Gunter: Even with bad provincial rules, Edmonton makes voting a chore The confused method undoubtedly caused some people during the day and evening to throw up their hands in frustration and walk away from long lines without bothering to vote.

Lorne Gunter: Even with bad provincial rules, Edmonton makes voting a chore The confused method undoubtedly caused some people during the day and evening to throw up their hands in frustration and walk away from long lines without bothering to vote.
22.10.2025 8

Edmonton Journal

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Lorne Gunter: Working Families' preferred candidates offer current council's same bad policies, only worse I get a kick out of Working Families Edmonton, the lefty party in the municipal election that refuses to call itself a party.

Lorne Gunter: Working Families' preferred candidates offer current council's same bad policies, only worse I get a kick out of Working Families Edmonton, the lefty party in the municipal election that refuses to call itself a party.
20.10.2025 5

Edmonton Journal

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Lorne Gunter: Stats, studies back Poilievre's call for tighter bail laws Whenever someone like Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre suggests tightening up bail laws in Canada, someone else — a criminologist, prisoners’ rights advocate, Liberal cabinet minister — is quick to point out that crime fell 3.6 per cent across the country in 2024.

05.10.2025 8

Edmonton Journal

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GUNTER: Stats, studies back Poilievre's call for tighter bail laws

04.10.2025 10

Toronto Sun

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GUNTER: Stats, studies back Poilievre's call for tighter bail laws

04.10.2025 10

Ottawa Sun

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Lorne Gunter: Who does Janz group want to take council back from? Themselves?

04.10.2025 3

Edmonton Journal

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Lorne Gunter: Feds' notwithstanding clause court application could harm the federation The federal government is attempting to neuter the Constitution’s notwithstanding clause.

02.10.2025 10

Edmonton Journal

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Lorne Gunter: UCP pipeline proposal doomed to be blocked by feds, B.C.

02.10.2025 10

Edmonton Journal

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GUNTER: Feds' notwithstanding clause court application could harm federation

01.10.2025 3

Toronto Sun

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GUNTER: Feds' notwithstanding clause court application could harm the federation

01.10.2025 7

Toronto Sun

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GUNTER: Feds' notwithstanding clause court application could harm the federation

01.10.2025 6

Ottawa Sun

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GUNTER: Feds' notwithstanding clause court application could harm federation

01.10.2025 10

Ottawa Sun

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Lorne Gunter: 'All current council must go': Protesters at north Edmonton rally get it right

01.10.2025 10

Edmonton Journal

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Lorne Gunter: Carney's frugality claims contradicted by bloated federal deficit projection The day after the House of Commons resumed sitting early this month, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre questioned Prime Minister Mark Carney on how large the federal deficit would be this year when the final figure is unveiled in November’s budget.

28.09.2025 10

Edmonton Journal

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GUNTER: Carney's frugality claims contradicted by bloated federal deficit projection

27.09.2025 3

Toronto Sun

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GUNTER: Carney's frugality claims contradicted by bloated federal deficit projection

27.09.2025 10

Ottawa Sun

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Lorne Gunter: Smith's pipeline efforts could force Carney government's hand

27.09.2025 10

Edmonton Journal

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Lorne Gunter: Liberal gun buyback a political ploy that won't impact crime

25.09.2025 3

Edmonton Journal

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Lorne Gunter: Carney's easiest target in federal spending cuts is bloated bonuses

25.09.2025 2

Edmonton Journal

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GUNTER: Carney's easiest target in federal spending cuts is bloated bonuses

24.09.2025 10

Toronto Sun

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GUNTER: Carney's easiest target in federal spending cuts is bloated bonuses

24.09.2025 9

Ottawa Sun

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