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Tristin Hopper

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FIRST READING: The easy fixes Carney isn't doing

FIRST READING: The easy fixes Carney isn't doing

If his whole plan to boost the economy, there are many levers he hasn't pulled

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FIRST READING: The non-Trump Americans now trying to assert jurisdiction over Canada

FIRST READING: The non-Trump Americans now trying to assert jurisdiction over Canada

BC making all its laws subject to Indigenous oversight may also include tribes in the U.S.

07.05.2026 10

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Here's the political baggage Louise Arbour brings to the role of governor general

Here's the political baggage Louise Arbour brings to the role of governor general

Tristin Hopper: She said the army recruited too many white people and said demographic replacement is a good thing, for example

06.05.2026 8

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FIRST READING: Ottawa has no idea how many temporary migrants are still here

FIRST READING: Ottawa has no idea how many temporary migrants are still here

While Canada has asked millions of migrants to leave, there's no way to track whether they're doing so

06.05.2026 20

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FIRST READING: B.C. turned a $56 million hotel into a low-barrier shelter. It's now an unliveable biohazard

FIRST READING: B.C. turned a $56 million hotel into a low-barrier shelter. It's now an unliveable biohazard

It's one of nine hotels purchased for $221 million subjected to similar fates

05.05.2026 10

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Nathan Chasing Horse is going to prison for 37 years. In Canada he'd probably be free in five years

04.05.2026 10

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FIRST READING: 'Hate speech' to critique child gender transitioning, says Nova Scotia minister

FIRST READING: 'Hate speech' to critique child gender transitioning, says Nova Scotia minister

Nova Scotia MLA was responding to report highlighting school policy of socially transitioning children without consent

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FIRST READING: Denmark to procure state-of-the-art Canadian assault rifle before Canada does

FIRST READING: Denmark to procure state-of-the-art Canadian assault rifle before Canada does

Canadian procurement is infamously slow, but usually not when the equipment is manufactured at home

30.04.2026 30

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FIRST READING: Why the Americans are coming hard for supply management

Both Democrats and Republicans are yearning to take the boots to Canada over milk

29.04.2026 20

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FIRST READING: As Carney government approves first pipeline, First Nations threaten to destroy another

Proposed oil pipeline made a big deal of Indigenous ownership. A consortium of West Coast First Nations doesn't care

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FIRST READING: Senate report on Jew hatred makes zero mention of Islamic extremism

Report concludes that 'young Canadians' radicalized by 'social media' are responsible for most of the unprecedented upsurge in threats on Jews

24.04.2026 20

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FIRST READING: Canada pledges $200 million to 'space port' that is just a concrete pad in Nova Scotia

Site consisting of a gravel road, two sea cans and a concrete pad to be rented at $50,000 per day for 10 years

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FIRST READING: University founded to memorialize dead white men now rejecting white men for jobs

Five active job postings by Memorial University explicitly bar applications from heterosexual white men

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FIRST READING: Canada says it didn't endorse UN Iran appointment (except it did)

Video of April 8 meeting shows Canada expressing no objection to Iran being appointed to UN oversight committee

21.04.2026 30

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There's no written rule against the governor general unilaterally declaring war or Donald Trump being sworn in as prime minister

20.04.2026 20

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FIRST READING: Skyrocketing provincial and federal debt set to hit 100 per cent of GDP

Unprecedented federal debt binge is being matched by similar record-breaking debt binges at the provincial level

17.04.2026 20

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FIRST READING: Why the massive Liberal poll leads might be an illusion

Veteran pollsters says survey are chronically undercounting Conservatives by up to seven points

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FIRST READING: Alberta is setting the template on how to defy Ottawa

Province has been pushing the limits of their power on issues generally considered the exclusive domain of the federal government

15.04.2026 20

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FIRST READING: No Canadian P.M. has ever been more personally enmeshed with the U.S.

Half of Carney's daughters live there, almost his entire stock portfolio is American, and he's the first PM to never attend a Canadian university

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Tens of thousands of Canadian businesses now require security guards where none was ever needed before

13.04.2026 20

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FIRST READING: Iranian-Canadian activist threatened with criminal charges for posts

Goldie Ghamari told she faced possible jail time for encouraging Iranian mosques to be bombed

10.04.2026 30

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FIRST READING: Canada told mentally ill must be euthanized lest they kill themselves

The argument has been at the core of Canadian euthanasia policy since the beginning

09.04.2026 30

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FIRST READING: Why it would be extremely dumb for Canada to join the EU

For one thing, non-European countries are literally not allowed to join

08.04.2026 30

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FIRST READING: Canada finally gets around to stripping non-profit status from a terrorist group

It took 17 months, and happened only because the terror group didn't file proper paperwork

07.04.2026 20

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FIRST READING: Why a Canadian, of all people, is on Trump's moon rocket

NASA traded a seat on a moon mission for a robot arm (that they now don't need)

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FIRST READING: What Canada could do with the $90B it's blowing on high-speed rail

It would be about the same price to build a second Canada on top of the first

02.04.2026 30

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The income for a Canadian senior is now higher than for a Canadian supposedly in their prime earning years

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FIRST READING: Canadian police politely ask antizionists to stop blocking roads all the time

Antizionists say 'no'

27.03.2026 30

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FIRST READING: At least the real estate is getting affordable

For the first time in a generation, a declining economy is syncing up with declining home prices

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FIRST READING: Canada threatens native English speaker with deportation for not speaking English

58-year-old Scottish midwife Heather Gilchrist speaks English perfectly. But an automated glitch disagrees

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FIRST READING: NDP frontrunner proposes mass amnesties, waves of new asylum-seekers

Avi Lewis called it 'anti-immigrant backlash' to draw a line between high immigration and real estate affordability

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Migration numbers might be slightly down, but immigration screening and border security remains in ruins

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FIRST READING: B.C. school trustee quits to call out gender ideology in schools

Laurie Throness, a former BC MLA, cites Tumbler Ridge massacre as a wake up call

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FIRST READING: As Jew hate hits all-time highs, Canada is 'systematically' purging its rolls of Jewish charities

Eight Canadian Jewish organizations have been delisted as charities, often following pressure campaigns from anti-Israel activists

17.03.2026 40

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FIRST READING: Carney was elected to save the economy. It's only gotten worse

Lost jobs, stagnated productivity, and Mexico now claims the title as the largest U.S. trading partner

16.03.2026 40

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FIRST READING: What the floor-crossers got in return

New titles, free trips, and tighter control of the millions flowing into their ridings

13.03.2026 40

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Everyone from soldiers to food inspectors to cancer researchers to immigrant screeners are now hired because of their skin colour

09.03.2026 40

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'Canada doesn't not condemn Iran strikes, or not possibly': Inside the imagined thoughts of Carney's foreign policy

‘Clearly, Canada must be clear about its clear statement that clarity is needed in the clearance of misconceptions regarding the evolving situation...

07.03.2026 30

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Daylight saving time ends Sunday. Why B.C. is right to ditch the clock change

Opinion: It saves lives, it increases productivity, it’s free, and everybody loves it

07.03.2026 40

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FIRST READING: Gun 'buy back' has cost $24,000 per gun

For every three guns taken in, the government could have instead hired another police officer

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FIRST READING: Mark Carney’s most breathtaking u-turns

Lots of politicians change their minds, but not like this

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FIRST READING: Canada one of the world's last holdouts on medically transing children

U.S., Australia, New Zealand and much of Europe now pulling back on puberty blockers and surgeries for minors

04.03.2026 30

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FIRST READING: Potential new Iranian power broker has extensive ties to Canada

Ali Larijani, one of the lead architects of the January massacres of Iranian civilians, is alleged to have nieces and nephews across Canada

03.03.2026 30

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FIRST READING: The most successful anti-woke party in Canada

Separatism may actually be a liability for the Parti Québécois, which has taken a strong stand against 'wokisme'

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FIRST READING: New Brunswick sits on an ocean of natural gas. It’s now importing Australian LNG.

Australia did the exact opposite of Canada in developing its LNG sector, and is now reaping the rewards

27.02.2026 30

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FIRST READING: One in four Canadian employees now works for government

Share of public employment reaching levels of unsustainability last hit before 1990s debt crisis

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FIRST READING: B.C. judge surprised by police actually enforcing drug laws

Decision concludes that brazen illicit drug sales are rampant and nobody ever seems to get punished for it

25.02.2026 50

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John Cleese says he's now avoiding B.C. because of crackdown on gender ideology criticism

B.C. Human Rights Tribunal cases have been brought against non-citizens such as Cleese, and also against comedians making comments as part of a...

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FIRST READING: Canada likely to mark 100,000th MAID death by summer

More Canadians are dying from assisted suicide each year than all the world's other countries combined

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25,000 people from some of the most dangerous countries on earth received refugee status without ever meeting a government employee

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