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Braid: Separatist leaders hatred of Canada leads them and province nowhere
Don Braid/Calgary Herald: There is only one way Alberta leaders’ contempt for Canada makes any sense. They don’t…
May 12, 2026
Scott Stinson: Nate Erskine-Smith’s race to challenge Doug Ford crashes at first hurdle. Will he stay on as an MP?
Scott Stinson/National Post: The Ontario Liberal leadership race, the one that Erskine-Smith had hoped to contest as a…
May 12, 2026
Bell: Done deal! Alberta ready for win on MOU pipeline file in just few sleeps
Rick Bell/Calgary Herald: A newshound asks what makes the premier so confident it’s go time. “When we met…
May 12, 2026
Tasha Kheiriddin: Will Carney really risk his majority over Alberta?
Tasha Kheiriddin/National Post: There’s also the Machiavellian possibility that Guilbeault is spouting off with Carney’s blessing, to reassure…
May 12, 2026
Hedgers in Beijing: Report on banality of accommodation
Michael Kovrig: An unprecedented wave of Western leaders has visited China since Donald Trump’s return to the White…
May 12, 2026
John Ivison: Carney may finally be unhitching Liberals from Guilbeault’s hardcore eco-activism
John Ivison/National Post: Canada was less of a country over the course of the past decade than it…
May 11, 2026
Op-ed: Enemy already inside gates. Mark Carney just opened them wider.
The Bureau: Governments change. The alliance does not. In Ottawa, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivered a…
May 11, 2026
Canada gave citizenship to a terrorist. Revoking it has been ‘ridiculously’ slow
Global: The documents show that an RCMP investigation uncovered considerable evidence that Rana lied on his citizen application…
May 11, 2026
‘It’s just been my best friend’: Are AI chatbots designed to be addictive?
CTV: “When you’re asking questions, it actually talks to you like you’re texting with a human being. It’s…
May 11, 2026
Ottawa spends $6-billion subsidizing trades – for young men. What about young women?
Ilona Dougherty and Brett House/The Globe and Mail: Because it’s 2026, this trades-focused program needs to be complemented with…
May 11, 2026
Carney can maintain lead by avoiding scandals, doesn’t need to ‘win’ in CUSMA review, but needs movement on trade, a major project by 2027, say top pollsters
The Hill Times: Mark Carney is currently in a ‘sweet spot’ because it’s still relatively early in his…
May 11, 2026
PM Carney should seek policy advice from deputy ministers, not political policy advisers
The Hill Times: With serious domestic and international pressures—including the potential for two provincial referendums on separation and…
May 9, 2026
China has outlawed companies from AI-based layoffs. Should Canada follow?
Global: The ruling, posted online last week by the Hangzhou Intermediate People’s Court, sided with a senior technology…
May 9, 2026
Carney runs roughshod over environment: ‘It’s worse than what Harper did’
Althia Raj/Toronto Star: “It’s shocking,” Anna Johnston, a staff lawyer at West Coast Environmental Law, told the Star. “This…
May 9, 2026
Trade deal with China is not a leash
The Globe and Mail: In short, China has shown itself to be no more reliable a trade partner…
May 9, 2026
Adam Zivo: Desperately seeking energized Conservative revival
Adam Zivo/National Post: The conference is smaller and more muted than its predecessors: the main auditorium is half…
May 8, 2026
Accidental statesman: How Trump saved free trade, European democracy and free world
Andrew Coyne/The Globe and Mail: Well, it’s easy to be a critic. Missing from these jeremiads has been…
May 8, 2026
John Ivison: Buzz in Conservative circles this week isn’t about Pierre Poilievre
John Ivison/National Post: The quiescence of his MPs thus far is largely a function of the lack of…
May 8, 2026
Carney has two energy strategies — and there’s not enough room for both
Lloyd Axworthy/Toronto Star: In his dystopian novel “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” George Orwell coined the term doublethink: the capacity to hold…
May 7, 2026
Christine Fréchette has scrambled Quebec politics
Konrad Yakabuski/The Globe and Mail: While the odds are clearly against her as the CAQ remains mired in…
May 7, 2026