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FIRST READING: U.S. youth identifying as non binary is in freefall, says Canadian researcher

FIRST READING: U.S. youth identifying as non binary is in freefall, says Canadian researcher

Collapse in numbers of young people identifying as 'queer' deemed a 'fading of a fashion or trend'

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FIRST READING: How postal workers lost Canadians

FIRST READING: How postal workers lost Canadians

Never before have postal workers had fewer defenders in Ottawa

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Multiple times a week, a criminal gets a more lenient sentence in a Canadian court because of their race or immigration status

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'All hail the benevolent orange bringer of peace': Inside the thoughts of Mark Carney

'All hail the benevolent orange bringer of peace': Inside the thoughts of Mark Carney

‘You want a U.S.-Canadian trade strategy? I can give it to you in one word: Hate‘

11.10.2025 10

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FIRST READING: Canadians don't care about Palestine as much as Ottawa seems to think they do

FIRST READING: Canadians don't care about Palestine as much as Ottawa seems to think they do
10.10.2025 10

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FIRST READING: Here's all the Liberal memoirs that have bashed Trudeau (so far)

FIRST READING: Here's all the Liberal memoirs that have bashed Trudeau (so far)

All the critiques are different: Some slam as an economic illiterate, while others say he's simply a deeply flawed person generally

09.10.2025 10

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FIRST READING: Poll shows Tories climbing back as Carney trust erodes

FIRST READING: Poll shows Tories climbing back as Carney trust erodes

A new Postmedia-Leger poll tracked the Liberals at 44%, against 38% for the Conservatives

08.10.2025 10

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FIRST READING: B.C. premier admits that decriminalizing drugs was a mistake

FIRST READING: B.C. premier admits that decriminalizing drugs was a mistake

As recently as last year, Eby was still dismissing critics who said decriminalization would only make everything worse

07.10.2025 10

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'Have you considered selling more oil?' The imagined thoughts of Danielle Smith’s proposed pipeline

'Have you considered selling more oil?' The imagined thoughts of Danielle Smith’s proposed pipeline

‘Would you believe that no other land possessing this miracle liquid has entertained the possibility of leaving their oil where it lies?’

04.10.2025 10

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FIRST READING: B.C. report details how a few people are causing most of the crime

FIRST READING: B.C. report details how a few people are causing most of the crime

Kelowna says downtown is being devastated by only a handful of chronic offenders that are constantly sprung from jail

03.10.2025 7

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As many as 47,000 foreign students may now be in Canada illegally: IRCC

As many as 47,000 foreign students may now be in Canada illegally: IRCC

47,175 people who entered Canada as students are potentially ‘non-compliant,’ meaning they are not attending classes as required by the terms of...

03.10.2025 6

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FIRST READING: Why Canadian terror designations don't really do anything

FIRST READING: Why Canadian terror designations don't really do anything

Ottawa is designating record numbers of new terror groups, few of which will be affected whatsoever by the moniker

02.10.2025 10

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FIRST READING: Canadian bill would strip internet access from 'specified persons'

FIRST READING: Canadian bill would strip internet access from 'specified persons'
01.10.2025 10

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FIRST READING: Canadian AI research position open only to disabled women

Screening for university jobs by race and identity is now standard practice in Canada, and often federally mandated

30.09.2025 10

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29.09.2025 4

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'What cruel universe allowed me to live?' The imagined thoughts of home mail delivery

'What cruel universe allowed me to live?' The imagined thoughts of home mail delivery

‘Questioning the very nature of my existence is a darkness I have never known. Until now’

27.09.2025 10

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FIRST READING: The terrorists praising Mark Carney

Despite Carney claiming his recognition of a Palestinian state isolates Hamas, the Gazan terrorist group was one of the first to praise it

23.09.2025 10

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Tristin Hopper: The housing affordability fix that Canada refuses to adopt

22.09.2025 10

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FIRST READING: Mark Carney’s do-nothing world tour

All the 'deals' he keeps signing with foreign countries don't actually say or do anything

22.09.2025 10

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'Everything has gone great': The imagined thoughts of Chrystia Freeland

‘Before I entered politics, Canada was a cruel, inward-looking place that would sooner cut the GST than fund gender-inclusive rice farming projects’

20.09.2025 10

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Mark Carney's French is really quite bad

19.09.2025 10

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FIRST READING: Diversity mandates killing Canadian science, famed academic tells Commons committee

Racial quotas now standard for Canadian academic hiring, grant funding

19.09.2025 10

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FIRST READING: Frustrated by soft-on-crime policies, First Nations take on drug dealers alone

Assembly of First Nations recently accused Ottawa of fostering a 'criminal impunity currently enabling traffickers and dealers'

18.09.2025 10

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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?'

17.09.2025 10

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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

16.09.2025 10

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15.09.2025 10

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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

12.09.2025 10

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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

11.09.2025 10

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

10.09.2025 10

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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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08.09.2025 9

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'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...

06.09.2025 10

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

05.09.2025 10

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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

04.09.2025 10

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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

03.09.2025 20

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

01.09.2025 10

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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...

29.08.2025 6

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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

28.08.2025 10

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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...

27.08.2025 10

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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...

26.08.2025 10

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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

25.08.2025 10

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18.08.2025 10

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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?

16.08.2025 10

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

11.08.2025 9

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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

05.08.2025 7

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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

28.07.2025 10

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As an exodus of Canadian Jews leave for safety reasons

21.07.2025 10

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