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FIRST READING: 'Indigenous reconciliation' ranks at rock bottom of B.C. voter priorities

FIRST READING: 'Indigenous reconciliation' ranks at rock bottom of B.C. voter priorities

It did last election too, but that didn't stop it dominating the political agenda

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FIRST READING: David Eby's snap election could blow up in his face

FIRST READING: David Eby's snap election could blow up in his face

Canadian voters have a long track record of punishing opportunistic elections

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FIRST READING: Yet another Canadian massacre prevented at the last minute by police

FIRST READING: Yet another Canadian massacre prevented at the last minute by police

If Const. Jeff Smith hadn't returned fire against a synagogue attacker, 25 congregants would have been at his mercy

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'Education is an instrumental tool for maintaining and furthering the ideology of white supremacy,' reads pledge provided to school staff

21.09.2026 20

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FIRST READING: B.C. stacking up sub-national debt faster than anywhere else in North America

FIRST READING: B.C. stacking up sub-national debt faster than anywhere else in North America

In just four years, Premier David Eby has doubled the province's net debt

18.09.2026 20

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FIRST READING: Stunning byelection upset may portend Alberta conservative fracture

FIRST READING: Stunning byelection upset may portend Alberta conservative fracture

Both pro and anti-independence conservatives were upset with the UCP ... causing the NDP to win

17.09.2026 20

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FIRST READING: The eyewatering cost of the projects Canada is pitching to investors

FIRST READING: The eyewatering cost of the projects Canada is pitching to investors

Quoted price for Port of Churchill expansion could build the St. Lawrence Seaway 16 times

16.09.2026 20

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Woman convicted of disfiguring biting attack given reduced sentence because she's Haitian

Woman convicted of disfiguring biting attack given reduced sentence because she's Haitian

Tristin Hopper: In a decision released this week, the Quebec Court of Appeal ruled that four years was too harsh, in part because it could possibly...

15.09.2026 8

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FIRST READING: As First Nations acquire new land, political control, Beijing appears to take notice

FIRST READING: As First Nations acquire new land, political control, Beijing appears to take notice

Chinese embassy holds summit in Vancouver seeking closer links with First Nations

15.09.2026 30

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Judge rules 'colonialism' caused First Nations man to become deadly drunk driver

Judge rules 'colonialism' caused First Nations man to become deadly drunk driver

Prison time would obstruct efforts by deadly drunk driver to 'regain his culture,' according to Ontario Justice Gethin Edward

14.09.2026 20

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Manslaughter is routinely being applied to homicides where an offender shot or stabbed their victim

14.09.2026 20

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Mark Carney’s support surge coming largely from former Conservatives, poll finds

Tristin Hopper: Roughly one million who voted Tory in 2025 would now vote for Carney – more than enough to flip dozens of Conservative ridings...

10.09.2026 10

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Diana Fox Carney says she realizes the personal 'opportunity' offered by her husband's position

'I am very aware that there are opportunities for me now that other people don’t have,' she told interviewers

10.09.2026 20

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Canada unveils more sign-based retaliation against the U.S.

Tristin Hopper: The new signs, with their ‘Never 51st State’ message, are one of several measures that David Eby’s government has taken to...

09.09.2026 10

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Canadians support hard line against U.S., but don't want to pay for it

Tristin Hopper: When asked if they would pay an extra $500 per year to hold the line in the current trade war, 56 per cent called this ‘unacceptable’

08.09.2026 10

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Canada was founded with the clear goal of not being the United States

Tristin Hopper: Canadians had no problem articulating why they personally didn’t want to live under the Stars and Stripes

06.09.2026 30

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Key government jobs, such as safety inspectors and intelligence analysts, being prioritized by race

Tristin Hopper: Report finds 42 per cent of federal job postings practice ‘explicit or potential prioritization based on group identity’

03.09.2026 20

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'Inclusive' hiring has damaged Canadian research output: report

According to the federal government's ‘equity targets,’ Canada Research Chairs must be 22% ‘racialized,’ 4.9% ‘Indigenous’ and 50.9%...

01.09.2026 10

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Human rights tribunal sides with TMU teaching assistant who decried 'desecration by the Jews'

Tristin Hopper: Ayman Elkasrawy’s claim that he had been fired due to Islamophobia was rejected, but the adjudicator ruled that some discrimination...

31.08.2026 10

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The one problem with Canada threatening to cut off U.S. electricity

Some months, Canada is more reliant on U.S. electricity than the other way around

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Even with tariffs, it's still cheaper for Americans to buy B.C. wine

Tristin Hopper: It’s been more than a year of official pledges to slash Canada’s interprovincial trade barriers. And yet, little has changed

26.08.2026 40

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The worst case scenario for the U.S.-Canada trade war

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25.08.2026 30

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Why Canadians don’t ride trains anymore

Tristin Hopper: Riding trains is no different than a lot of folksy, charming things we used to do, only to stop doing it the moment we could afford...

23.08.2026 30

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Accused child molester charged with molesting more children while on bail

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18.08.2026 20

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New anti-exploitation crackdown in Saskatchewan yields first conviction

Representatives for Dyan Jeny Enterprises pleaded guilty to demanding $12,000 from an employee as a condition of maintaining his Canadian work permit

13.08.2026 40

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B.C.'s Hatley Castle, parcels of downtown Victoria among lands earmarked for transfer to First Nations

Tristin Hopper: The government document warns that the land transfers may ‘take some getting used to,’ as they cover public lands that could end...

11.08.2026 30

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How a Saskatchewan MLA helped free a Bangladeshi slave

‘This was outside the kind of case we usually deal with. But once she called us, I felt a responsibility. She was alone out there’

10.08.2026 20

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Canadian politician repeatedly reads out AI prompts in speech: 'Here’s a more natural flowing version'

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28.07.2026 20

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You can still homestead in Canada

Watch the video or read the transcript to learn how a version of homesteading still exists in the 21st century

26.07.2026 40

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Accused Toronto shooter was free despite torture conviction, alleged gun smuggling indictment

Tristin Hopper: He was one of three men who broke into a Montreal home, beating and torturing the victim until he surrendered $15,000 in...

13.07.2026 40

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What Canada's founders thought of the United States

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Tristin Hopper: Carney is releasing tons of 'strategic plans,' with few results

The easy criticism is that the strategies all read like campaign platforms — filled with grand visions of the future, but often very short on...

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FIRST READING: Carney is an 'illusion,' says Poilievre

Tory leader says Liberal government is heading towards 'collision between reality and the illusion'

01.07.2026 50

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FIRST READING: Poilievre described a Canadian who fled to Mexico for safety. Here's why

She wouldn't be the first woman to flee Canada to get away from a legally unrestrained attacker

30.06.2026 50

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The introduction of decriminalization, on the other hand, directly precipitated one of the world's worst spikes in overdose deaths

29.06.2026 60

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FIRST READING: Official Vancouver World Cup guide includes tips on how to do illicit drugs

No other host city with comparable drug problems to Vancouver included illicit drug tips in its FIFA guide

26.06.2026 40

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FIRST READING: Even the new 'conservative' Supreme Court justice has a weakness for identity politics

Glenn Joyal compelled Manitoba lawyers to state their pronouns in court, and seeks a 'tri-jural' system where Indigenous law is co-equal with Canadian...

25.06.2026 60

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Tristin Hopper: Trespassing charges dropped against academic Frances Widdowson

Widdowson was mobbed and then arrested after stepping onto the UVic campus last year

24.06.2026 40

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FIRST READING: The unprecedented violence targeting Canadian police

At three fatalities in two weeks, Canadian police are being killed at a rate on par with the U.S.

24.06.2026 50

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Tristin Hopper: Poilievre says there are too many ‘heritage months’ in Canada. There are 17

Four of them are happening concurrently right now, and that's not including Pride Season

23.06.2026 30

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FIRST READING: Canada intervenes (again) to stop housing prices going down

Carney's condo 'bailout' just the latest government intervention to stop home prices from dropping

23.06.2026 40

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Ottawa could get sweeping powers to decide who's able to use the internet, and even what AI chatbots are allowed to say

22.06.2026 50

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FIRST READING: Immigration rates still at generational highs, even if population shrinking

Permanent immigration in 2026 poised to be the sixth highest of the last 110 years, asylum-seekers now number 500,000

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FIRST READING: Ontario teachers make billions from SpaceX IPO

The demographic, not known for agreeing with Elon Musk, have enriched their pension fund's assets by more than $10 billion

18.06.2026 50

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FIRST READING: Feds signal departure from 'harm reduction' approach to overdose crisis

'More and more you see provinces who don’t want safe consumptions sites, they want to act more on treatment,' said health minister

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FIRST READING: In Canadian first, Yukon to get Indigenous-only parking spots

Yukon Hospitals enshrines identity-based reserved parking based on their commitment to 'decolonization & Indigenization'

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If every Canadian got the family size they wanted, the country would almost be reproducing at replacement rate

15.06.2026 60

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FIRST READING: Canada effusively welcomes rejected Somalian referee, before realizing alleged terror ties

An Al-Qaeda-linked terror group appears to have gone to bat for Omar Artan, denouncing his inadmissibly to the U.S.

12.06.2026 60

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Canada allows minors into drug consumption sites, but would ban access to social media

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Rise of the Bishnoi Gang helped along by unprecedented spike in Indian nationals coming to Canada on study permits

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