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Tristin Hopper

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FIRST READING: Immigration rates still at generational highs, even if population shrinking

FIRST READING: Immigration rates still at generational highs, even if population shrinking

Permanent immigration in 2026 poised to be the sixth highest of the last 110 years, asylum-seekers now number 500,000

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FIRST READING: Ontario teachers make billions from SpaceX IPO

FIRST READING: Ontario teachers make billions from SpaceX IPO

The demographic, not known for agreeing with Elon Musk, have enriched their pension fund's assets by more than $10 billion

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FIRST READING: Feds signal departure from 'harm reduction' approach to overdose crisis

FIRST READING: Feds signal departure from 'harm reduction' approach to overdose crisis

'More and more you see provinces who don’t want safe consumptions sites, they want to act more on treatment,' said health minister

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FIRST READING: In Canadian first, Yukon to get Indigenous-only parking spots

FIRST READING: In Canadian first, Yukon to get Indigenous-only parking spots

Yukon Hospitals enshrines identity-based reserved parking based on their commitment to 'decolonization & Indigenization'

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If every Canadian got the family size they wanted, the country would almost be reproducing at replacement rate

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FIRST READING: Canada effusively welcomes rejected Somalian referee, before realizing alleged terror ties

FIRST READING: Canada effusively welcomes rejected Somalian referee, before realizing alleged terror ties

An Al-Qaeda-linked terror group appears to have gone to bat for Omar Artan, denouncing his inadmissibly to the U.S.

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Canada allows minors into drug consumption sites, but would ban access to social media

Canada allows minors into drug consumption sites, but would ban access to social media

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Rise of the Bishnoi Gang helped along by unprecedented spike in Indian nationals coming to Canada on study permits

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FIRST READING: Immigration has been artificially juicing Canadian GDP the whole time

Mark Carney recently declared that lower immigration has likely precipitated Canada's slide into recession

04.06.2026 20

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Senate votes to jail Canadians for 'residential school denialism'

Tristin Hopper: The only vote against was from a Senator who said it wouldn’t go far enough

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FIRST READING: Committee to fight Jewish hate includes former defender of Hezbollah and Yasser Arafat

'I remember Mr. Alghabra lobbying me, before he was in politics, to keep Hezbollah legal,' said Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre

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FIRST READING: Is the technical recession recession just a technicality, technically?

Conservatives notes that even if the recession is small, Canada is the only country experiencing one

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Sudden Canadian disinterest in emissions matching global trends

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FIRST READING: Child sex change advocate appointed head of Canadian Paediatric Society

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FIRST READING: Indian trucker given $2,000 fine for fiery crash that killed two

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FIRST READING: Liberal MP photographed next to serial organizer of terrorist vigils

Salma Zahid said she didn't notice his shirt praising Iran's supreme leaders

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Tristin Hopper: Kamloops residential school 'graves' could have been septic pipes all along

Five years after the explosive announcement of 215 children's graves, the only way to know what's under the ground is to excavate.

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FIRST READING: Here's how quickly they're building pipelines everywhere else

The UAE is cranking out a pipeline to bypass the Strait of Hormuz in a matter of months

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FIRST READING: He's Canada's number one author, and he's leaving Canada for safety reasons

Gad Saad said constant Montreal death threats ultimately proved untenable

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FIRST READING: What Carney has actually done

Most of his achievements exist only on paper. Here's the actual, material things his government has done.

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FIRST READING: Muslim Association speaker who has lunched with Hamas barred entry to Canada

Anas Altikriti was booked by same group that held an event with Mark Carney 11 months ago

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FIRST READING: Parti Québécois leader alleges a vast, secret, federal conspiracy to stop him

He offered no evidence for the claim, and said he didn't intend to

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FIRST READING: New bill would allow police to turn personal tech into listening devices

Bill C-22 could force tech companies to allow police to eavesdrop through phones and smart speakers

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FIRST READING: Even Democrats are weirded out by Canada's enmeshment with China

Several top Democrats in recent years have warned of Chinese infiltration in Canada

12.05.2026 30

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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

11.05.2026 30

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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 30

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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 30

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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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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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

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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

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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 30

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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

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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

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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

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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 40

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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

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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 50

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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

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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

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