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William Watson: All checks, no balances here in Nastyland

William Watson: All checks, no balances here in Nastyland
24.07.2025 10

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William Watson: Our better-funded military will need to be more lethal

William Watson: Our better-funded military will need to be more lethal
22.07.2025 10

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William Watson: To save Canada Post, how about supply management?

William Watson: To save Canada Post, how about supply management?
15.07.2025 10

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William Watson: Liberal MPs won’t rebel, U.K. Labour-style, so cut away, Carney 

William Watson: Liberal MPs won’t rebel, U.K. Labour-style, so cut away, Carney 
10.07.2025 7

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William Watson: We need to be less desperate for a deal with Trump

William Watson: We need to be less desperate for a deal with Trump
08.07.2025 8

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William Watson: New research finds that sleep trumps social justice

26.06.2025 10

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William Watson: Canada strong? On farm cartels, Canada pitiful

24.06.2025 10

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William Watson: Whisky, tobacco, butter and Liberal capabilities

12.06.2025 10

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William Watson: Do good pipelines make good nations? 

10.06.2025 10

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William Watson: Economically, COVID was a one-shock stop

03.06.2025 20

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William Watson: Carney’s throne speech ventriloquism was a little too obvious

29.05.2025 10

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William Watson: The throne speech should be short, sweet and backward-looking

27.05.2025 10

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William Watson: Chatbots are changing everything and nothing

22.05.2025 10

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William Watson: Get the Ozempic! Cabinet has grown by almost two-thirds in two months

15.05.2025 10

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William Watson: Free trade is being replaced by crony trade

13.05.2025 10

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William Watson: Carney survives Trump’s BS and bile

08.05.2025 10

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William Watson: In economic policy, Mr. Carney, humble is as humble does

06.05.2025 10

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William Watson: We're a long way away from one person-one vote

01.05.2025 10

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William Watson: Lessons from the election campaign, whoever won

29.04.2025 10

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William Watson: This election’s 10 dumbest economic proposals

24.04.2025 10

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William Watson: If you’re thinking of voting Liberal, read their platform first

24.04.2025 20

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William Watson: Poilievre’s Trump problem is overrated

10.04.2025 10

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William Watson: What did Saint-Pierre and Miquelon ever do to you, Mr. President?

08.04.2025 10

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William Watson: Our goal should still be access to the U.S. market

02.04.2025 10

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William Watson: Don’t give up on the U.S. market just yet

01.04.2025 10

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William Watson: Equal-time leaders' debates are unfair to voters

27.03.2025 10

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William Watson: To raise productivity, let Canadians profit from it 

26.03.2025 10

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William Watson: 51st state? With the 47th president? No thanks, eh

20.03.2025 10

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William Watson: Let’s not build pipelines to nowhere just to annoy Trump

18.03.2025 10

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William Watson: Do we fight Trump to our last sacred cow?

13.03.2025 10

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William Watson: One thing the election won’t be about — how to handle Trump

11.03.2025 10

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William Watson: Trump's tariff reciprocity could be OK for us

06.03.2025 10

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William Watson: Let's hope Poilievre 'cuts, cuts, cuts.' Someone’s going to have to

04.03.2025 10

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William Watson: Elites and populists are both right and wrong about each other

27.02.2025 10

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William Watson: Return of the ugly American

26.02.2025 10

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William Watson: Our Trump transition plan should focus on safety nets

20.02.2025 10

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William Watson: Does our net export of hockey players mean U.S. tariffs are coming?

19.02.2025 20

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William Watson: Washington going policy-crazy doesn’t mean we should, too

11.02.2025 10

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William Watson: Please, no ministries of trade diversification

06.02.2025 10

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William Watson: The U.S. tariff order focuses on fentanyl. That's our off-ramp

04.02.2025 10

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William Watson: Thinking about tariffs can induce migraines

30.01.2025 9

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William Watson: Ottawa tells Amazon be more like Canada Post

28.01.2025 10

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William Watson: Beggar-thy-customer is a lousy idea Mr. Trump

23.01.2025 10

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William Watson: Compared with the U.S., our ship of state is barnacled with ministries

21.01.2025 10

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William Watson: Searching for ways to poke Trump in the eye 

16.01.2025 10

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William Watson: My plan for domestic political interference in the Liberal leadership race

14.01.2025 10

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William Watson: Make the states provinces, Donald, and be PM for life

11.01.2025 10

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William Watson: Trudeau was a consequential prime minister, alas

10.01.2025 10

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William Watson: Liberal GST holiday fiasco may lead to tax sanity

A change of leader, eventually of government, is the right time to shift the tax system toward simpler rules, broader bases and lower rates You can...

07.01.2025 10

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William Watson: Good news in 2025 would be governments saying 'No!'

Any new federal government needs to channel the Chrétien-Martin years and focus on spending restraint and fiscal responsibility You can save this...

02.01.2025 10

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