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Tristin Hopper

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

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

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.

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 10

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

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 20

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

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 10

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

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 20

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

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 10

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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)

03.04.2026 30

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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 10

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

30.03.2026 10

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

Antizionists say 'no'

27.03.2026 20

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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

26.03.2026 30

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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

25.03.2026 40

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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

24.03.2026 30

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

23.03.2026 30

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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 30

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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 30

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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 30

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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 30

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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 20

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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 30

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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

06.03.2026 30

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

Lots of politicians change their minds, but not like this

05.03.2026 50

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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

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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 20

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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'

02.03.2026 50

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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 20

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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

26.02.2026 40

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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 40

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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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FIRST READING: The Canadians being punished by the state for not believing in gender ideology

Twice this month, Canadians been fined by a human rights tribunal for violating the legal mandate that gender is self-affirmed

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FIRST READING: Tkʼemlúps blames feds, church, 'spiritual protocols' for why it hasn't exhumed graves

First Nation has received $12 million in federal funding to exhume 215 alleged graves announced in 2021

19.02.2026 30

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FIRST READING: The people who want the temporary migrants to stay permanently

With two million visas set to expire, union-endorsed campaigns are emerging demanding they stay

18.02.2026 30

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Canadians now spending $1 billion per year to cover health-care costs of refugee claimants

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17.02.2026 40

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All the neat stuff Quebec can do, but Alberta can’t

The Francophone province has latitude when it comes to immigration, the criminal code and the Canadian constitution

17.02.2026 40

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FIRST READING: Liberals overlooked the one gun control measure that could have prevented Tumbler Ridge

Firearms were removed by police from the shooter's house, only to be returned just before the massacre

13.02.2026 50

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FIRST READING: The little-noticed Carney plan to ignore most of the laws

Amendment buried in omnibus bill would allow cabinet ministers to bypass any non-criminal law they wanted, for whatever reason

12.02.2026 10

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FIRST READING: University of Alberta to become first to abandon race-centric hiring

11.02.2026 10

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FIRST READING: The Liberals are still blaming Conservatives for failures

Ask why food prices are rising, Prime Minister Mark Carney said it was Tory "obstructionism"

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Cheap and abundant electricity used to be Canada's defining trait. Now it's a net importer of power.

09.02.2026 20

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FIRST READING: Canada is losing control of a major city to gangsters

Foreign criminals slip into Canada easily, and when caught they get bail

06.02.2026 30

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FIRST READING: Where and how Canada shows up in the Epstein files

Mark Carney is mentioned 69 times (sort of)

05.02.2026 40

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FIRST READING: Group alleges Kingston, Ont., broke law by removing Sir John A. Macdonald statue

126-year-old statue was taken down within four days of an activist group demanding it

03.02.2026 10

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How Stephen Harper was right about what the Liberals got wrong

02.02.2026 10

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FIRST READING: Carney definition of 'capital' recognized by nobody else on earth, says budget watchdog

Up to $92 billion of Carney's 'capital investment' would be considered operational spending in any other developed economy

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