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Scott Stinson: Doug Ford is a free-market champion. Except for this one

Scott Stinson: Doug Ford is a free-market champion. Except for this one

By effectively killing the resale ticket market, the Ontario government is creating a host of new problems

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National Post

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Scott Stinson: Drake's Toronto ice ‘sculpture’ a grim, confusing lesson in viral publicity

Scott Stinson: Drake's Toronto ice ‘sculpture’ a grim, confusing lesson in viral publicity

No longer do people rush downtown because Drake might be doing something cool like holding an impromptu concert. Now they rush there because he made...

23.04.2026 9

National Post

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Scott Stinson: Why surveillance pricing is the hot new political villain

Scott Stinson: Why surveillance pricing is the hot new political villain

‘Big Tech using AI to drive up your grocery prices’ is a sentence practically engineered to set off alarm bells

23.04.2026 10

National Post

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Scott Stinson: Ontario MPPs blast Doug Ford over aborted plans for $28.9M private jet

Scott Stinson: Ontario MPPs blast Doug Ford over aborted plans for $28.9M private jet

Two days of bad headlines, helped by the fact that ‘Gravy Plane’ made for excellent copy, was enough to cause Ford to explain that, upon further...

20.04.2026 7

National Post

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Scott Stinson: Ontario buys $28.9M private jet for Premier Doug Ford's travel

Doug Ford's office defended the private jet as important for his travel, but critics say it's out of touch

17.04.2026 10

National Post

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Scott Stinson: Ontario to let provincial park visitors drink alcohol at (gasp!) picnic sites and beaches

For a guy who is well-known as a non-drinker, the Progressive Conservative Premier sure does want to make it easier for the rest of us

15.04.2026 6

National Post

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Scott Stinson: Ontario plans to keep school trustees, but make them powerless

There have been so many cases of runaway spending that cutting up their credit cards was always going to be a popular option. Or at least not an...

13.04.2026 10

National Post

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Scott Stinson: Doug Ford gets closer to the (Liberal) majority he covets

Ford would have been heartened by news that Carney had taken a step closer to majority status by adding Marilyn Gladu to his expanding Liberal tent

10.04.2026 20

National Post

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FIFA takes a page from Trump’s playbook to justify World Cup ticket prices

07.01.2026 10

St. Catharines Standard

Scott Stinson

New Year, new Ontario Liberal Party? It’ll take more than resolutions

03.01.2026 10

St. Catharines Standard

Scott Stinson

New Year, new Ontario Liberal Party? It’ll take more than resolutions

03.01.2026 10

The Star

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The NDP was wise not to trigger an election. Now the party can focus on staying alive

20.11.2025 10

St. Catharines Standard

Scott Stinson

The NDP was wise not to trigger an election. Now the party can focus on staying alive

20.11.2025 10

The Star

Scott Stinson

Take it from a suburban GTA driver: Doug Ford’s toll-free Highway 407 is just not working

22.10.2025 10

The Star

Scott Stinson

Think Trump’s stance on immigration looks absurd from a Canadian perspective? Wait till you see it from Europe

25.09.2025 10

St. Catharines Standard

Scott Stinson

Think Trump’s stance on immigration looks absurd from a Canadian perspective? Wait till you see it from Europe

25.09.2025 9

The Star

Scott Stinson

Markham will host the Toronto Indy next year. I live in Markham. This is a very bad idea

09.09.2025 20

The Star

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Cowardly politicians are refusing to call out paranoid fantasies for what they are

26.08.2025 20

The Star

Scott Stinson

Cowardly politicians are refusing to call out paranoid fantasies for what they are

25.08.2025 10

St. Catharines Standard

Scott Stinson

Photo radar is becoming increasingly common. That doesn’t make it any less infuriating

23.08.2025 10

The Globe and Mail

Scott Stinson

Am I taking crazy pills, or is Doug Ford still talking about putting a tunnel under Highway 401?

12.08.2025 10

St. Catharines Standard

Scott Stinson

Pierre Poilievre and the Toronto Maple Leafs have more in common than blown leads in spring

29.06.2025 10

The Star

Scott Stinson

It’s time to change the terms of Rogers’ sweetheart hockey deal with the CBC

13.06.2025 10

The Star

Scott Stinson

Doug Ford doesn’t hate bike lanes. He’s just a suburbanite

24.05.2025 9

The Star

Scott Stinson

Tariffs may put money in U.S. coffers — but there’s still one thing Trump won’t acknowledge about that

14.05.2025 9

The Star

Scott Stinson

Trump keeps showing us the cracks in his harebrained schemes. It’s useful information for those who have to negotiate with him

07.05.2025 10

St. Catharines Standard

Scott Stinson

This is where Pierre Poilievre is losing the campaign

27.04.2025 10

St. Catharines Standard

Scott Stinson

This is where Pierre Poilievre is losing the campaign

27.04.2025 10

The Star

Scott Stinson

Canadians are laser-focused on Trump. After a spotty decade of Liberal government, that suits Carney just fine

14.04.2025 10

St. Catharines Standard

Scott Stinson