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Cherry-picking leaves Conservative Quebec MPs in the pits

When Ontario Conservative MP Andrew Lawton nominated Don Cherry for the Order of Canada, it didn't seem like a big deal. But then the party apparatus...

19.03.2026 10

National Observer

Supriya Dwivedi

Critics of Idlout's floor-crossing should offer Canadians something better

Considering Lori Idlout stated that she would do what is best for her constituents, there is no doubt that being on the government benches is better...

16.03.2026 5

National Observer

Supriya Dwivedi

Mark Carney is thinking of banning kids from social media. This is why it’s a terrible idea

Mark Carney is thinking of banning kids from social media. This is why it’s a terrible idea
13.03.2026 6

St. Catharines Standard

Supriya Dwivedi

Mark Carney is thinking of banning kids from social media. This is why it’s a terrible idea

Mark Carney is thinking of banning kids from social media. This is why it’s a terrible idea
13.03.2026 20

The Star

Supriya Dwivedi

Carney is making Poilievre's excuses too easy

By citing national security when refusing to speak about potential foreign interference from the Indian government, the prime minister is making the...

10.03.2026 10

National Observer

Supriya Dwivedi

OpenAI's deal with Trump is putting Canadians at risk too

Which leaves us with the current predicament: a US government that is openly hostile to large swaths of its own people and a frontier AI company more...

04.03.2026 20

National Observer

Supriya Dwivedi

Mark Carney is heading to India with his eyes half-closed

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26.02.2026 10

The Star

Supriya Dwivedi

After Tumbler Ridge, the Carney government needs to lead on AI regulation

Time and time again, Big Tech has shown itself either unwilling or unable to act in a manner that prioritizes user safety and well-being, opting...

25.02.2026 30

National Observer

Supriya Dwivedi

Carney's realpolitik ignores very real risks to Canadian lives

In an ordinary world, the killing of Canadian Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar and the words of Narendra Modi and Indian government officials, would...

20.02.2026 40

National Observer

Supriya Dwivedi

Jivani's Washington rendezvous reveals Conservatives just aren't serious

Jivani’s trip has further cemented the Conservative brand as being onside with Trump’s trade war on Canada since all Jivani did after returning...

13.02.2026 10

National Observer

Supriya Dwivedi

Why do we regulate vacuum cleaners more strictly than social media?

If Canada is going to join the tide of other countries embarking on social media bans for children and younger teens, then it is going to have to make...

04.02.2026 30

National Observer

Supriya Dwivedi

Donald Trump is famously unreliable. But this is how we know what he really plans to do

30.01.2026 8

The Star

Supriya Dwivedi

Trump will use the Greenland argument to grab Canada's Northwest Passage

A 1988 agreement between Canada and the United States about the sea lane left its legal status largely undecided, allowing both countries to assert...

21.01.2026 20

National Observer

Supriya Dwivedi

Mark Carney’s minister’s tepid, late-night response was anything but ‘elbows up’

16.01.2026 10

The Star

Supriya Dwivedi

The unintended consequences of Quebec's planned abortion bill

Should Quebec’s Bill 1 pass as it is currently worded, anti-abortion groups will finally have the leverage they have been looking for to try and...

10.01.2026 10

National Observer

Supriya Dwivedi

Mark Carney's elbows are up on a bended knee

Don’t get me wrong: nobody expects Carney or Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand to go out of their way to antagonize the Trump administration with...

09.01.2026 9

National Observer

Supriya Dwivedi

When it comes to vaccines, Canada is normal no longer

According to a recent poll conducted by Leger Healthcare, while the majority of Canadians remain confident about the safety and effectiveness of...

19.12.2025 30

National Observer

Supriya Dwivedi

Mark Carney’s bill to protect kids has one big blind spot

15.12.2025 10

St. Catharines Standard

Supriya Dwivedi

Mark Carney’s bill to protect kids has one big blind spot

15.12.2025 10

The Star

Supriya Dwivedi

Conservatives choose rage-bait over real debate on hate speech

The party's criticisms of an agreement between the Liberals and Bloc Québécois on Bill C-9 could have been legitimate and substantive. Instead, they...

09.12.2025 20

National Observer

Supriya Dwivedi

Liberals leave everyone confused with mixed MOU messaging

Since signing the agreement with Alberta last week, the messaging from federal Liberals has been at best somewhat muddled, and at worst painfully at...

03.12.2025 10

National Observer

Supriya Dwivedi

Mark Carney is giving in to the bros

28.11.2025 10

The Star

Supriya Dwivedi

Ottawa must counter Meta's bad policy idea with a better one

As the Carney government prepares to re-introduce aspects of the Trudeau government’s Online Harms Act, it should do so with a clear-eyed approach...

27.11.2025 10

National Observer

Supriya Dwivedi

At the end of the day, Pierre Poilievre’s fate as Conservative leader depends on one thing

14.11.2025 10

St. Catharines Standard

Supriya Dwivedi

At the end of the day, Pierre Poilievre’s fate as Conservative leader depends on one thing

13.11.2025 10

The Star

Supriya Dwivedi

Lessons for Canadian progressives from the Mamdani campaign

While there are ample lessons to be learned from the Mamdani campaign and Mamdani himself as a candidate — incredible message discipline, a...

13.11.2025 10

National Observer

Supriya Dwivedi

Carney apology to Trump shows rift in Team Canada approach on tariffs

After the Trump administration spent the better part of the last week and a bit complaining about an ad paid for the Ontario government that...

04.11.2025 10

National Observer

Supriya Dwivedi

Canadians don’t want an election. This is why Ottawa might

01.11.2025 6

St. Catharines Standard

Supriya Dwivedi

Ford’s anti-tariff ad was dumb, but not for the reasons you think

The problem with the Ontario government’s ad wasn’t that it doctored or “cherry-picked” Reagan’s remarks on tariffs and free trade or that...

29.10.2025 10

National Observer

Supriya Dwivedi

Carney’s capitulation to Modi is embarrassing

No Canadian government should ever sit idly by while a representative of a foreign government tells a Canadian news program that the Canadian national...

23.10.2025 20

National Observer

Supriya Dwivedi

Mark Carney isn’t who he said he was

13.09.2025 10

The Star

Supriya Dwivedi

Mark Carney can’t (and shouldn’t) ignore Donald Trump. But we’ve seen the perils of a PM too focused on the president before

30.08.2025 10

St. Catharines Standard

Supriya Dwivedi

Mark Carney should learn from Trudeau: don’t let Trump trump everything

30.08.2025 9

The Star

Supriya Dwivedi

Mark Carney should learn from Trudeau: don’t let Trump trump everything

29.08.2025 10

St. Catharines Standard

Supriya Dwivedi

I worked side-by-side with Justin Trudeau. This is what I think of Mark Carney’s first big mistake

21.06.2025 10

The Star

Supriya Dwivedi