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Tristin Hopper

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FIRST READING: What Carney’s inner circle really thinks about oil and gas

yesterday 8

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FIRST READING: High immigration is worsening Canada's economic problems, says report

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No other military has racial hiring quotas, virtually nonexistent grooming standards and mandatory tampons in men's rooms

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FIRST READING: Here's just how much money Canada Post is hemorrhaging

30.05.2025 10

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FIRST READING: U.S. gets involved with anti-government standoff at B.C. ostrich farm

29.05.2025 9

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FIRST READING: Restored John A. Macdonald statue could be beginning of the end for history purge

Since 2020 Canada has experienced a wave of name changes and statue removals unlike anything seen since the First World War

28.05.2025 10

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FIRST READING: Canadian youth hammered by vanishing summer job market

Youth unemployment has been pitched sky-high, in part due to temporary foreign worker program

27.05.2025 10

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FIRST READING: Canada increasingly dependent on low-wage migrant workers, says report

Bank of Canada analysis finds share of native-born Canadians in labour force has dropped 10 percentage points since 2006

27.05.2025 10

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'The people will be with us': Inside the thoughts of Canada Post workers considering a strike

24.05.2025 8

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FIRST READING: Report says Canada can best save the planet by producing LNG

Replacing Asian coal with Canadian natural gas would dwarf any other decarbonization efforts to date

23.05.2025 10

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FIRST READING: Non-Indigenous visitors being turned away from B.C. public parks

Province of B.C. has authorized two parks to close to all but Indigenous users

22.05.2025 10

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FIRST READING: Quebec radio host says assisted suicide is 'solution' for the mentally ill

Former politician suggests MAID could be a form of 'liberation' for the institutionalized

21.05.2025 10

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FIRST READING: Carney is already steamrolling basic constraints on power

No budget, and he's already greenlit unprecedented quantities of spending without parliamentary approval

16.05.2025 10

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FIRST READING: Guilbeault is now back in charge of controlling the internet

Ex-environment minister will now be supervising the implementation of the Online Streaming Act

15.05.2025 10

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FIRST READING: The extremely bad housing record of Canada's new housing minister

As Vancouver mayor, Gregor Robertson oversaw an explosion in unaffordability unlike any ever seen

14.05.2025 10

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FIRST READING: Canadian Islamic preacher again in spotlight after calling for destruction of Jews

13.05.2025 10

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Keeping the U.S. below the 49th parallel for 158 years is a feat unlike few in history

12.05.2025 10

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FIRST READING: Carney's whiplash-inducing turn on Trump

Carney praised the U.S. president as a 'transformative' leader working to 'secure the world'

09.05.2025 20

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FIRST READING: Report warns that making nice with Trump is auto sector's only hope

Despite Carney's 'all in Canada' pitch, sector will be devastated without close ties to U.S. market

08.05.2025 10

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FIRST READING: Ottawa hired U.K. contractor to monitor pro-Israel social media posts

Saying that anti-Israel demonstrations are 'pro-Hamas' labelled as right-wing extremism

07.05.2025 10

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FIRST READING: Why the Spain blackout is being framed as preview of Canada's future

06.05.2025 10

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New Canadians, just like young people, broke for the Tories

05.05.2025 10

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FIRST READING: Saskatchewan professor blogs his way through mandatory anti-racism 'boot camp'

Participants told that 'meritocracy' leads to 'inequities'

02.05.2025 30

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FIRST READING: Americans agree that Carney victory was their doing

Republican or Democrat, the U.S. is relatively certain the Liberals won because of them

01.05.2025 10

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FIRST READING: If this had been any other election, Poilievre would be prime minister

01.05.2025 10

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FIRST READING: How the Conservatives could still win this thing

29.04.2025 5

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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

25.04.2025 10

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

24.04.2025 10

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

24.04.2025 10

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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

24.04.2025 9

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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

23.04.2025 10

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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

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

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

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

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 4

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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

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

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

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

03.04.2025 20

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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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31.03.2025 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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