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Making concessions to get a trade deal when the public’s in fighting mood
Campbell Clark/The Globe and Mail: The bigger issue, for politics and for Canada’s economy, is that Mr. Carney…
August 10, 2026
Even as Canada spends more than ever on our military, this one proud tradition is dying. That’s mistake
Lloyd Axworthy and Michael Manulak/Toronto Star: Phased in through mid-2027, these changes do not constitute a dramatic rupture.…
August 8, 2026
Carney’s Building Canada Act is threat to rule of law, and here’s good example
Althia Raj/Toronto Star: By listing projects under the law as being in the “national interest,” this government —…
August 8, 2026
U.S. booze might end up back on Canadian shelves, but have we lost the taste for it?
CBC: Anderson says the “constant badgering and unfair negotiation practices” from the U.S. have “really give us a…
August 8, 2026
Concession Carney faces his Neville Chamberlain moment
Fen Hampson/The Globe and Mail: But Canada’s problem is not just that Mr. Trump’s idea of a negotiation…
August 7, 2026
Canada’s peacekeeping legacy should not be snuffed out
Bob Rae/Policy Options: It will not be lost on anyone that these missions are in Africa and the…
August 7, 2026
Conservatives need to ask: Why do we want to win – as Conservatives?
Andrew Coyne/The Globe and Mail: An essay by the Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner has attracted some attention, in which…
August 7, 2026
Lloyd Robertson was gentleman’s journalist
Robert Fife/The Globe and Mail: For all his fame, Lloyd– who never wanted to be called Mr. Robertson–…
August 6, 2026
Ontario byelections give Doug Ford chance to prove haters wrong
Scott Stinson/National Post: Ford wasn’t expected to take questions from the media while with Carney, though. That’s likely…
August 5, 2026
Don’t give provinces more money for health, give them more room to raise it themselves
Andrew Coyne/The Globe and Mail: The provinces (sigh) may need more money, but more than that, they need…
August 5, 2026
Antisemitic terrorism is national emergency. Carney needs to act like it
Tasha Kheiriddin/National Post: Prime Minister Mark Carney must declare antisemitic terrorism a national emergency. He should stop lumping…
August 5, 2026
Why answers to hateful content online are hiding in platforms’ own rules
Michael Geist: The reality is that no legislation can fully address online harms. But holding platforms to their…
August 4, 2026
Taiwan’s highest court jailing Beijing’s election proxies. Canada still asking who cleared alleged spy inside NATO’s military command.
Sam Cooper/The Bureau: Within the span of a few days last week, on opposite sides of the world,…
August 4, 2026
China claiming right to punish its critics anywhere on Earth
Reza Hasmath: A new law declares that organizations and individuals outside the PRC who “undermine ethnic unity” or…
August 4, 2026
Talk of Conservative ‘infighting’ misses bigger story: Party messily reinventing itself
National Post: What’s happening isn’t a sign of a threat to the party’s leadership or even a product…
August 4, 2026
Oh, Canada’s hypocrisy! ‘Freedom Convoy’ protesters face ludicrous prison sentences for mere ‘mischief’
James Bovard/NY Post: Crown prosecutor Siobhain Wetscher justified the harsh prison sentences saying “it’s difficult to imagine an…
August 3, 2026
Canada’s diplomats have been dispatched on new mission
Campbell Clark/The Globe and Mail: “What does it tangibly mean for those [diplomats] when they go back to…
August 3, 2026
Conservative infighting could be trouble for Poilievre: ‘He just needs to demonstrate some wins,’ say party strategists
The Hill Times: “The one thing the Conservatives are good at is taking out leaders, and Pierre Poilievre…
August 3, 2026
By-elections crucial test of Carney’s unconventional majority
Jaime Watt/The Globe and Mail: So, over the next month, the Liberals will be free to focus their…
August 2, 2026
Canada cannot trade away danger of Russia-China alliance
Marcus Kolga and Charles Burton/National Post: Calling China a strategic partner while Beijing helps Russia strengthen capabilities that…
July 31, 2026