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The Ontario Liberals need a new leader. Doug Ford would be perfect

yesterday 5

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Charlie Kirk is a sick nation’s sacrifice

11.09.2025 8

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The NDP remains an unserious party for a serious time

08.09.2025 4

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Alberta’s policy banning trans kids from female sports is ripe for scapegoating and abuse

05.09.2025 3

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Quebec shouldn’t ban street prayer. Municipalities should enforce existing laws

02.09.2025 2

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Why Taylor Swift’s engagement is a huge moment for millennials (and it’s not because they’re vapid)

29.08.2025 4

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Carney’s reciprocal tariff retreat might seem like a betrayal, but it makes sense

26.08.2025 6

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Memo to Mark Carney: Canada’s existential crisis is in health care

22.08.2025 4

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Pierre Poilievre can be an attack dog and a grown-up all at the same time

20.08.2025 5

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The use of dogs in medical research is a tragedy

15.08.2025 7

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Eight girls participated in the fatal swarming of a homeless man. None of them will serve additional jail time

08.08.2025 10

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Netanyahu will win the war in Gaza, but he’s lost it in London, Ottawa, and Washington

05.08.2025 9

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Gary Anandasangaree must resign as Public Safety Minister

31.07.2025 4

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Did we really have to make this D-list MAGA singer famous in Canada?

28.07.2025 4

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#MeToo changed our culture, but it couldn’t change our courts

25.07.2025 10

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The Supreme Court just made it much more difficult to sentence youth offenders as adults

23.07.2025 6

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Danielle Smith isn’t trying to be a MAGA leader. She’s trying to be the Wildrose one she once was

11.07.2025 10

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The police will be there immediately – in more than two hours

10.07.2025 5

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Mark Carney should add the gun buyback program to his kill list

04.07.2025 9

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The digital services tax was bad policy, but killing it now makes us look terribly weak

01.07.2025 10

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Considering accessory to manslaughter? Don’t worry, you’ll get to keep your gym membership

26.06.2025 10

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The right and left have converged in their moral confusion on Iran

25.06.2025 2

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In his new riding, Pierre Poilievre will be stuck between a rock and a separatist place

20.06.2025 10

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The March to Gaza strides face-first into the complicated reality of the Middle East

18.06.2025 20

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Mark Carney’s early moves are making the Conservatives look like waterboys

13.06.2025 60

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Donald Trump campaigned on eroding democracy. Now, he’s just fulfilling his promises

11.06.2025 9

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Is the U.S. still a ‘safe’ country for refugees?

06.06.2025 3

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Mark Carney is making himself the moonshot Prime Minister – for better or for worse

04.06.2025 4

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A proud country cannot keep its first prime minister in a box

29.05.2025 10

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The shooting of Israeli embassy workers didn’t happen in a vacuum. And it could happen in Canada next

26.05.2025 7

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Joe Biden’s personal tragedy is also America’s betrayal

23.05.2025 10

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We need a by-election in Terrebonne

22.05.2025 10

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Danielle Smith is against forest fires, but she’ll leave this lighter right here

15.05.2025 10

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Mark Carney’s cabinet change is a mirage

13.05.2025 10

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Forget ‘Buy Canadian.’ ‘Travel Canadian’ is actually making a difference

09.05.2025 10

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Carney did what voters wanted him to do: Be the adult in the room

07.05.2025 9

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Globe columnists Urback, Coyne and Mason discuss: Carney stays Prime Minister. What now?

02.05.2025 10

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If Poilievre is genuinely humbled, the Conservatives should keep him around

02.05.2025 10

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Pierre Poilievre was the right man for the moment. Then the moment changed – and he failed to adapt

29.04.2025 10

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Boomers for bankers, millennials for mavericks: Why the generational divide is bad for Pierre Poilievre

25.04.2025 10

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Mass murderers spending life in prison is good, actually. But we don’t need the notwithstanding clause to make it happen

22.04.2025 6

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Did the Conservatives go too hard on Jagmeet Singh?

17.04.2025 7

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Mark Carney undermines his ‘adult in the room’ aspirations by keeping button-making staffers

15.04.2025 10

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Trump’s policies will send asylum seekers to Canada’s border. What’s our plan?

10.04.2025 8

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A wedge has emerged on religious freedom. Pierre Poilievre is on the right side of it

10.04.2025 10

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Pierre Poilievre has a women problem

03.04.2025 10

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It is astonishing – and reprehensible – that Paul Chiang remains a Liberal candidate

31.03.2025 9

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Upon reflection, I have decided to spend less time with my family and run for re-election

27.03.2025 20

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Mark Carney is offering voters the other guy’s ideas, without the other guy

25.03.2025 20

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The chilling case of Mahmoud Khalil should enrage anyone who purports to support freedom

21.03.2025 10

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