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FIRST READING: What Canada did right

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'What if we just forced people to buy stuff?': The imagined thoughts of the Canadian EV mandate

'What if we just forced people to buy stuff?': The imagined thoughts of the Canadian EV mandate

The Carney government is under growing pressure to drop what is known as the “EV mandate.” This is a policy first introduced in 2022 wherein...

saturday 10

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FIRST READING: B.C. politician pushes bill to force schools to say drugs are bad

FIRST READING: B.C. politician pushes bill to force schools to say drugs are bad
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FIRST READING: Internal report shows Ottawa doubtful that wildly overbudget gun 'buy back' will ever work

FIRST READING: Internal report shows Ottawa doubtful that wildly overbudget gun 'buy back' will ever work

Severely behind schedule, program is projected to cost $500 million for this year alone

26.06.2025 10

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FIRST READING: Ottawa sets target to keep Canada labour force 25 per cent immigrant

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada instructed to ensure one quarter of labour force "is made up of immigrants and refugees”

25.06.2025 10

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FIRST READING: Just how far behind the world Canada has been allowed to lag on LNG

FIRST READING: Just how far behind the world Canada has been allowed to lag on LNG

Canada just produced its first-ever export-ready LNG. Australia did that in the 1980s

24.06.2025 40

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23.06.2025 4

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FIRST READING: How Canada's dairy cartel keeps fumbling our foreign trade negotiations

FIRST READING: How Canada's dairy cartel keeps fumbling our foreign trade negotiations

Parliament has just entrenched the one thing that has scuppered more trade negotiations than anything else

20.06.2025 9

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FIRST READING: If Iran collapses, regime officials likely to flee to Canada

FIRST READING: If Iran collapses, regime officials likely to flee to Canada

Canada already has a reputation as a safe haven for high-ranking officials from Tehran

19.06.2025 20

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FIRST READING: Poilievre now further from electoral victory than at any point since winning leadership

FIRST READING: Poilievre now further from electoral victory than at any point since winning leadership

Support for the Carney government has surged since election day

18.06.2025 10

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FIRST READING: Anti-Israel activists beg their 'genocidal' government for rescue

18.06.2025 6

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We showed up right around the time the idea was first accused of being an elaborate political stunt

17.06.2025 4

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FIRST READING: Here’s why three Senators crossed the floor to the Conservatives

FIRST READING: Here’s why three Senators crossed the floor to the Conservatives

They're the first new Conservative senators since 2013

13.06.2025 10

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FIRST READING: It looks like the Liberals are still planning to ban gas-powered cars

11.06.2025 10

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FIRST READING: The new public safety minister doesn't appear to know stuff

Gary Anandasangaree flubbed basic questions about gun laws and drug decriminalization

11.06.2025 7

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09.06.2025 10

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'Is a Canadian team even allowed to win me anymore?' The imagined thoughts of the Stanley Cup

'I still spend a disproportionate amount of time with Canadians. It’s just that these Canadians live in the U.S., work for U.S. companies and have...

07.06.2025 10

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FIRST READING: The wild overreach contained in the Liberals’ new border control bill

It outlaws paying cash for anything costing more than $10,000

06.06.2025 10

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FIRST READING: How some Canadian cities are becoming more lawless than the U.S.

06.06.2025 10

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

04.06.2025 10

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

04.06.2025 10

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

03.06.2025 10

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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 7

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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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