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FIRST READING: Canadian police begin calling out judges, prosecutors for worsening crime

'Our members are held accountable for the decisions they make and the actions they take. Why isn’t anyone else?'

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FIRST READING: Elected as a Trump-fighter, Carney now boasting of close Trump ties

FIRST READING: Elected as a Trump-fighter, Carney now boasting of close Trump ties

On first day back in House of Commons, Carney says he speaks and texts 'regularly' with U.S. president

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FIRST READING: Here's all the times the Liberals said they would build an oil pipeline

FIRST READING: Here's all the times the Liberals said they would build an oil pipeline

A curated list of 'major projects' released on Thursday by the Carney government conspicuously doesn't contain one

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FIRST READING: Poilievre slams reports that 'vile monster' is seeking transfer to women's prison

FIRST READING: Poilievre slams reports that 'vile monster' is seeking transfer to women's prison

Official Canadian policy is to assign offenders to a prison corresponding to their self-reported gender identity

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Gang of thieves are now regularly walking into stores to calmly steal thousands of dollars of merchandise in plain sight

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FIRST READING: How Quebec and Ontario are being left out of Liberal immigration reductions

FIRST READING: How Quebec and Ontario are being left out of Liberal immigration reductions

Quebec is the only province where the rate of new permanent residents has actually gone up in 2025

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'Work, then go home forever': Inside the thoughts of the temporary foreign worker program

'Work, then go home forever': Inside the thoughts of the temporary foreign worker program

‘What foreigner could possibly have wider ambitions than to work temporarily in Canada for entry-level wages before quietly going back to where they...

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FIRST READING: Fentanyl, stolen Canadian cars funding terror groups says report

FIRST READING: Fentanyl, stolen Canadian cars funding terror groups says report
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FIRST READING: Quebec rejects race-based federal funding on grounds that 'systemic racism' doesn't exist

FIRST READING: Quebec rejects race-based federal funding on grounds that 'systemic racism' doesn't exist

The official policy of Canada, and of most provinces, is that any unequal outcome is inherent evidence of racism

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Nearly half of all Canadian university students are actively hiding their real beliefs: survey

Nearly half of all Canadian university students are actively hiding their real beliefs: survey

The survey by Aristotle Foundation also finds that students with conservative views now outnumber those with liberal views

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Courts have found a constitutional right to tent encampments, bike lanes and doing drugs in playgrounds

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Quebec vows to ban 'street prayers' in the wake of mass Islamic demonstrations

Quebec vows to ban 'street prayers' in the wake of mass Islamic demonstrations

Tristin Hopper: Quebec anxiety with the sight of public Islamic prayers has been present in some form long before the practice became a fixture of...

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The Americans are selling Canadian natural gas to Europe at a profit

The Americans are selling Canadian natural gas to Europe at a profit

Tristin Hopper: Canada remains one of the world’s largest LNG exporters, but 99.9 per cent of that is sent into the United States via pipeline

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Liberals are already missing their promised lower immigration targets

Liberals are already missing their promised lower immigration targets

Tristin Hopper: Canada is on track to bring in about 422,000 new permanent residents by year’s end, despite a Liberal government promise to take in...

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Servicing Canada's ballooning debt now costs $2,000 per citizen, per year

Servicing Canada's ballooning debt now costs $2,000 per citizen, per year

Tristin Hopper: In 2024/25, the federal government alone spent a record $53.8B on debt interest — more than the $52.1B it paid to the Canada Health...

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FIRST READING: You can legally shoot, stab and bludgeon home invaders in Canada

... but that doesn't mean prosecutors won't put you through a years-long legal odyssey

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'Ukraine agrees to not not lose': The imagined list of Russian proposals to end the war in Ukraine

How about ending all U.S. military aid to Ukraine and Russia promises to leave Taiwan alone?

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Against mounting criticism of its actions, the Supreme Court of Canada leans into a public relations makeover

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'Outside is a privilege, not a right': The imagined thoughts of the Nova Scotia wilderness ban

Until hot, dry conditions subside, we will be prohibiting any further discussion of this matter, as well as mentions of the words ‘liberty,’...

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Omit the over-65 cohort, and his poll numbers and approval ratings plummet

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From Alberta to Stephen Colbert: An imagined look at who Mark Carney will offer statehood to next

All Alberta has to do first is suspend its oil sector, transition its vehicle fleet to 50 per cent EVs and phase out its harmful beef sector for...

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You can commit some extremely violent crimes in Canada without the Crown seeking a sentence as harsh as what they're requesting for Tamara Lich

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As an exodus of Canadian Jews leave for safety reasons

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'What is a conflict of interest, anyway?' The imagined thoughts of Mark Carney’s ethics disclosures

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Spending has become so profligate, even 15 per cent cuts won't make much of a dent

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'We never technically said we would elbow anybody': The imagined thoughts of Mark Carney’s elbow

'As a government committed to the rules-based international order, we would never condone a inherently menacing act such as the bellicose use of an...

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FIRST READING: The remarkably few elbows Carney has thrown at Trump

Zero elbows, actually

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FIRST READING: EU exempting heavy industry from carbon tax as Canada doubles down

With consumer carbon tax gone, Liberals still pursuing industrial carbon taxes

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FIRST READING: Despite cash influx, military says it won't be functional until 2032

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FIRST READING: The most obscure Canada facts we could find

The real-life James Bond was Canadian, we killed Houdini and Col. Sanders retired here

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FIRST READING: What Canada did right

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'What if we just forced people to buy stuff?': The imagined thoughts of the Canadian EV mandate

The Carney government is under growing pressure to drop what is known as the “EV mandate.” This is a policy first introduced in 2022 wherein...

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FIRST READING: B.C. politician pushes bill to force schools to say drugs are bad

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FIRST READING: Internal report shows Ottawa doubtful that wildly overbudget gun 'buy back' will ever work

Severely behind schedule, program is projected to cost $500 million for this year alone

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FIRST READING: Ottawa sets target to keep Canada labour force 25 per cent immigrant

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada instructed to ensure one quarter of labour force "is made up of immigrants and refugees”

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FIRST READING: Just how far behind the world Canada has been allowed to lag on LNG

Canada just produced its first-ever export-ready LNG. Australia did that in the 1980s

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FIRST READING: How Canada's dairy cartel keeps fumbling our foreign trade negotiations

Parliament has just entrenched the one thing that has scuppered more trade negotiations than anything else

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FIRST READING: If Iran collapses, regime officials likely to flee to Canada

Canada already has a reputation as a safe haven for high-ranking officials from Tehran

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FIRST READING: Poilievre now further from electoral victory than at any point since winning leadership

Support for the Carney government has surged since election day

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FIRST READING: Anti-Israel activists beg their 'genocidal' government for rescue

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We showed up right around the time the idea was first accused of being an elaborate political stunt

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FIRST READING: Here’s why three Senators crossed the floor to the Conservatives

They're the first new Conservative senators since 2013

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FIRST READING: It looks like the Liberals are still planning to ban gas-powered cars

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FIRST READING: The new public safety minister doesn't appear to know stuff

Gary Anandasangaree flubbed basic questions about gun laws and drug decriminalization

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'Is a Canadian team even allowed to win me anymore?' The imagined thoughts of the Stanley Cup

'I still spend a disproportionate amount of time with Canadians. It’s just that these Canadians live in the U.S., work for U.S. companies and have...

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