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National Column: New NDP leader won’t guarantee a new direction
by Thomas Walkom The New Democrats are guaranteed a new leader when Thomas Mulcair steps down in October. Whether the […]
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National Column: Canada’s alternative facts
Contrary to an increasingly popular Canadian belief, the Trump administration does not have a monopoly on so-called alternative facts. Nor did it invent the concept. […]
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National Column: Another display of smooth fluency
When travelling, it’s handy to show some fluency in local dialects. “We are of course very alert to the challenges posed by the Southern Resident killer whale pod,” Justin Trudeau said on Thursday, cool as a cucumber, as he stood on the dock at Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt, just outside Victoria. […]
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National Column: Liberal meddling risks harming Trudeau’s brand
Alan DeSousa has been the mayor of Montreal’s Saint-Laurent borough since it was created 15 years ago. Initially elected on the ticket of mayor Gerald Tremblay, he survived the corruption scandals that marked that era and was re-elected as part of Denis Coderre’s team in 2013. […]
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National Column: Policy should drive the NDP leadership race
Almost a year after the New Democrats made history of a kind by showing Thomas Mulcair the door, the party has finally corralled enough candidates to hold a proper leadership debate next month.
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National Column: The middle class is still waiting
A funny thing happened on the way to Justin Trudeau’s new world of justice for the middle class: The federal government ran out of money.
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National Column: Spate of byelections will leave big shoes to fill
Under the guise of the first large set of byelections since Justin Trudeau became prime minister, voters are about to turn a definitive corner on generational change on Parliament Hill.
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National Column: Hamburg speech hints at Ottawa shift
The St. Matthew’s Day Banquet in Hamburg has been a big date on the German city’s social calendar for more than six centuries. Everyone who’s anyone in Hamburg attends. Under the gilded roof of the historic town hall’s palatial banquet room, keynote speakers – each year, a German dignitary and a foreign guest – discuss the great matters of the day before hundreds of revelers. […]
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National Column: More than one way to pull our military weight
by Paul Wells At the end of a week of high international diplomacy, it is only natural that Justin Trudeau […]
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National Column: Trump-Trudeau meeting polite but inconclusive
OK. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and U.S. President Donald Trump have met. They did not get into a slanging match. They did agree that Canada and the U.S. are the best of pals. They issued a bland but not unimportant joint communiquÈ. […]
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National Column: Trudeau’s Trump meeting may not be Canadian disaster
Batten down the hatches. All the old Canadian insecurities are about to gust up to hurricane force. […]
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National Column: Influx and integration key
by Chantal Hebert The population of every province west of Ontario is growing at a faster rate than the national […]
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National Column: Liberals shore up their left flank
In the eternal balancing act of Canadian Liberalism, it’s a week for tilting left. One after another, cabinet ministers are lining up to resuscitate programs that please the Liberal base and that the Harper Conservatives fought tooth and nail. […]
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National Column: New wrinkles in Wynne’s foolhardy hydro scheme
Kathleen Wynne is trying to shut down a lawsuit challenging her plans to privatize Hydro One. The Ontario premier would be wiser to simply abandon her foolhardy scheme altogether.
Of all the maladroit moves Wynne has made as premier, privatizing Hydro One is the worst. It creates no economic benefit for the province. Nor does it help the government’s finances. […]
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National Column: The loud actions of Trump drown out silence of Trudeau
Even as Canada’s leaders were addressing the House of Commons to express their solidarity with the country’s grieving Muslim community on Monday, the White House’s press secretary was arguing that the murderous attack on a Quebec City mosque was “a terrible reminder of why the president is taking steps to be proactive, not reactive” on national security. […]
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National Column: A vintage call for government to aid struggling media
Canadian governments have long subsidized media. They still do.
As the authors of “The Shattered Mirror,” the latest jeremiad on the state of newspapers in Canada, put it: “Those who fear that the state will take up residence in the newsrooms of the nation, should recognize it has been well-ensconced there for a long time.” […]