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Tristin Hopper

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FIRST READING: Analysts predict loonie to rally in case of Conservative win

Assumption is that trade war would wrap up sooner under Poilievre

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Canada's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad decade. The numbers prove it

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FIRST READING: Why record early turnout may not necessarily be good news for Conservatives

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Jordan Peterson says Canadians choosing path of 'severe pain' with Mark Carney

A Carney government would yield accelerated economic decline and an increase in social disorder, Peterson predicted on Joe Rogan's podcast

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FIRST READING: The eyewatering scale of Carney's proposed debt splurge

It would be one of the largest one-term, non-emergency debt accumulations in history

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FIRST READING: More than 300 candidates sign on to campaign pushed by radical anti-Israel group

At least 19 Liberals back platform endorsed by group that celebrated October 7 massacres

22.04.2025 10

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FIRST READING: The weird minutia you missed from the French leaders' debate

FIRST READING: The weird minutia you missed from the French leaders' debate

From Poilievre's weak attempts at humour and Blanchet's gunslinger stance to Carney's use of obscure French words

18.04.2025 1

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FIRST READING: Neil Young becomes second celebrity dual citizen expat to endorse Carney

FIRST READING: Neil Young becomes second celebrity dual citizen expat to endorse Carney

Young hasn't lived in Canada full-time since 1966, which was 17 federal elections ago

17.04.2025 10

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FIRST READING: Pierre Poilievre makes rare mention of non-verbal daughter with special needs

FIRST READING: Pierre Poilievre makes rare mention of non-verbal daughter with special needs

Valentina's not a secret, but the Conservative leader has never previously brought up her condition unsolicited

17.04.2025 10

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FIRST READING: Small signs of Tory momentum as election reaches final stretch

FIRST READING: Small signs of Tory momentum as election reaches final stretch

The current numbers still heavily favour some kind of Liberal victory, but a series of new polls show a noticeable trend towards the Tories

16.04.2025 10

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14.04.2025 3

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FIRST READING: Should Conservatives believe their doomed polls?

The Tories are actually polling better than ever before ... but the Liberals are polling even higher

11.04.2025 2

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FIRST READING: Are Poilievre’s rallies breaking records? Almost

FIRST READING: Are Poilievre’s rallies breaking records? Almost

The records all belong to the Liberals, who now think big rallies are too "Trump-y"

09.04.2025 10

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FIRST READING: How Carney's 'plagiarized' campaign pledges compare to the Tory originals

FIRST READING: How Carney's 'plagiarized' campaign pledges compare to the Tory originals

Liberals have been repeatedly accused of lifting Conservative platform, and even copying their speeches

08.04.2025 10

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FIRST READING: The Liberals may have just lost their most winning issue

FIRST READING: The Liberals may have just lost their most winning issue

Canada is no longer an outlier in its Trump fight, which is bad news for Mark Carney

05.04.2025 10

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Conservatives in the lead for first time in federal campaign, new poll shows

Conservatives in the lead for first time in federal campaign, new poll shows

Although the results would likely translate into a Liberal minority government, 'the Conservatives have narrowed the Liberal momentum gap'

04.04.2025 4

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FIRST READING: Why Canadian women are suddenly breaking for the Liberals

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FIRST READING: Trade unions issue surprise early endorsements for Conservatives

Both unions are not traditionally friendly to conservatives, but made an exception this time around

02.04.2025 9

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FIRST READING: The one crucial variable in this election everyone is ignoring

If voter turnout ticks up only a bit from its historic lows, it upends projections of how this election will go

02.04.2025 4

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Canada's federal carbon tax experiment has ended. Here's what it accomplished (not much)

According to government figures, the carbon footprint of a dollar earned in the Canadian economy has been in steep decline ever since peaking in 1996

02.04.2025 10

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FIRST READING: Mark Carney’s wildly unworkable plan for an 'all-in-Canada' auto sector

That's how the Canadian auto sector used to work, and the cars were both bad and wildly expensive

28.03.2025 20

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FIRST READING: The boomer/millennial divide defining the Canadian election

28.03.2025 20

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FIRST READING: Poilievre tentatively courts Canada's rising dissatisfaction with immigration

Immigration levels is a topic he has long avoided touching

26.03.2025 10

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Former NDP leader Tom Mulcair tells Canadians not to vote NDP

'If you can’t seriously say you’re going to form a government that can take on Trump, then get out of the way,' Mulcair wrote

26.03.2025 10

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FIRST READING: NDP says it has 'momentum' as it stares down electoral collapse

Party is on course for its worst-ever defeat

25.03.2025 10

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FIRST READING: The U.S. political figures who don't want to destroy Canada

Even a fair number of Republicans aren't comfortable with the idea of demolishing Canada

20.03.2025 10

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FIRST READING: New figures on just how badly Canada and U.S. are being mauled by Trump trade war

The U.S. is actually losing more money, even if the impact on Canada is greater

19.03.2025 10

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Alleged synagogue attacker hit with rare charge of 'advocating genocide,' but released on bail anyway

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FIRST READING: The 'fake' document at Carney's Trump-style signing ceremony

It also didn't 'cancel' the carbon tax as claimed; doing that would require reconvening Parliament

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'You're welcome, Canada': The imagined thoughts of Justin Trudeau

'In 3025, when Canada is a nation of non-binary coders taking zero-emission high speed rail to their nightly anti-racist training, maybe then they...

15.03.2025 10

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FIRST READING: Carney shifts one of Trudeau's most ignominious ministers

15.03.2025 10

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FIRST READING: Brits warn that Canada's new prime minister has 'reverse Midas touch'

Mark Carney's reputation as Bank of England governor is more checkered than he may be letting on

14.03.2025 20

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FIRST READING: Americans aren't liking this trade war, either

Trump's popularity is sinking due in large part to his pursuit of tariffs against Canada

12.03.2025 10

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Even in Victoria, anti-Israel protests have cost taxpayers more than $1 million

During the past 18 months, very few Canadian communities have not needed police to contain anti-Israel rallies or dismantle anti-Israel encampments

12.03.2025 4

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FIRST READING: Federal report deems it 'racist' to criticize Canadian anti-Israel activists

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Ontario judge says lenient sentences destroying their 'institutional credibility'

An Ontario appeals court agreed that the 'no jail' sentence for gunman Terrell Burke-Whittaker was too lenient — but decided nonetheless not to send...

11.03.2025 7

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Cases from just the last 40 days of leniency being given to rapists, killers and child attackers

10.03.2025 10

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'I don't think I'm your worst problem here': Inside the thoughts of Wayne Gretzky

'I faithfully did all that was asked of me, and have spent decades here in the U.S. patiently answering questions about how cold Canada is'

08.03.2025 10

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FIRST READING: With NDP staring down electoral collapse, Singh walks back pledge to defeat Liberals

08.03.2025 7

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FIRST READING: How Trump's trade war is blowing up in Americans' faces

The stock market gains racked up following Trump's election are gone, and their once-booming economy is now shrinking

06.03.2025 8

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Pierre Trudeau really, really loved communists | Canada Did What?!

He covered up famines for Red China, and wasn't all that pleased with Ukrainian independence

05.03.2025 10

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FIRST READING: The case for this being an 'illegal' trade war

Fentanyl may only have been a pretext, as Trump can only impose tariffs in the event of a 'national emergency'

05.03.2025 10

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FIRST READING: Canadian border officials say they weren't sure what Trump wanted them to do

Whatever fentanyl and illegal migration existed was curbed dramatically in recent weeks

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'I love Canada': The imagined thoughts of a crime tourist who came to the country to burgle homes

'I hope to steal enough to buy a home here and slip into a comfortable retirement of recreational shoplifting, contract fraud light money laundering....

01.03.2025 10

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FIRST READING: Betting markets still roundly predicting a Poilievre win

Liberal surge in the poll has had little effect on odds that Conservatives win next federal election

28.02.2025 10

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FIRST READING: What Canada actually contributes to the 'Five Eyes' intelligence alliance

After weeks of Canada-bashing, the Trump White House was strangely quick to denounce reports they would kick Canada out of the alliance

27.02.2025 10

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FIRST READING: B.C. politician pilloried for saying the 215 graves at Kamloops don’t exist

Graves are present at many former residential schools, but none have been confirmed at site of Kamloops Indian Residential School

26.02.2025 10

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