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EBY’S RISKY GAMBLE
B.C. NDP Leader David Eby was midway through the news conference to launch the election last month when he got hit with what would prove to be a defining question of the campaign. “So, have you effectively united the right?” asked the CBC’s Katie...
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Tables have turned against prominent New Democrats
Right now, two left-wing campaigns in different regions of the country appear to be flaming out in similar ways. Both are NDP or NDP-aligned incumbents. They both entered elections they assumed would be an easy win. And as their early momentum has...
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How the European left now does its shopping
Over the weekend, the supposed campaign by France’s youth for better classroom conditions took a detour through Marseille’s Louis Vuitton. Looters armed with hammers and crowbars also cleaned out Hermes and Rolex. According to one estimate, just under...
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Beautiful, proud & unruly, Alberta chooses Canada
Heading into Monday’s referendum, Alberta separatists had several things going for them. The question on the ballot was not independence, but on whether to have another vote, meaning, it should have been easier to pull in soft supporters of separation,...
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Even in peacetime, Canada’s soldiers put lives on the line
Canada is mourning a terrible tragedy at Canadian Forces Base Wainwright, in Alberta, where a devastating fire that broke out during training exercises claimed the lives of four Canadian military personnel and left others seriously injured. Behind...
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BLOCK AFTER BLOCK OF DEATH & DESPAIR
They are rolling a dying man on a stretcher out of the Maple Hotel. He looks to be about 60 years old, unshaven, wild grey curls, filthy white socks. Electrodes are patched to a hairless chest and a monitor seismographs the agonal beatings of a...
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Éric Duhaime, the man who resurrected the Quebec Conservatives
‘Plessisville is Conservative. He’s wasting his time here.” Samuel Côté, a country music DJ, and his girlfriend, Mélanie Lévesque, a social worker, were eating lunch on their porch, just steps away from where Parti Québécois Leader Paul St-Pierre...
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France’s student riots unfold as glorification of terrorism
France has entered its third week of unrest, ostensibly over a lack of funding for schools. In a quest for better classroom conditions, students blockading their school in the north-central region Beaugency last week chanted along to M*R*H*, a song by...
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CARNEY SAYS HE’LL WORK WITH THE PQ
OTTAWA • Hours after the Parti Québécois was elected to a minority government, Prime Minister Mark Carney said he spoke with premier-designate Paul St-Pierre Plamondon and promised to work with him toward increasing sovereignty for Canadians. Speaking...
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Three years after Hamas horror, a momentous election for Israel
Wednesday marks the third anniversary of the October 7 terror attacks on southern Israel — and 20 days before an Israeli election in which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s record is the clear ballot question. To survey the mood in Israel, the Post’s...
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Is this Quebec’s future?
QUEBEC CITY • “To the sovereigntists, I say this: your obsession with holding and winning a referendum harms the progressive cause and feels like psychological harassment to a majority of the population. Many voters share my view.” These words may...
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Congratulations, Canada, you will own another pipeline
Mark Carney spoke to two distinct audiences in Fort McMurray, Alta., on Thursday, where he announced that the proposed West Coast oil pipeline — now known as Pacific Link — has been officially listed as a project of national interest. The first was...
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‘I GRABBED THE ATTACKER, PUT HIM IN A CHOKEHOLD’
An Israeli man who was among the passengers who burst into the cockpit of a flight that had been hijacked and was falling out of the sky on Wednesday described the dramatic rescue in a widely broadcast video interview. Yaniv Hayun was one of at least...
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Eby’s American fashion statement while selling Buy B.C.
The problem with any politician who wraps themselves in the flag, as B.C. NDP Leader David Eby is doing, is that such acts must come off as authentic, or voters will see the move as a cynical electoral prop. Thus, being found wearing an American...
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Welcome to the NHL season that (mostly) shuts out fans
The National Hockey League begins its regular season Tuesday night, which means we are just moments away from confusion across the land as fans try to find the games on their televisions. Traditional broadcast homes have been abandoned. New paid tiers...
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‘ YOU’RE NOT KILLING HIM’
As the thunder of gunfire erupted outside the Sons of Jacob synagogue on Sunday evening, Sharlene Weitzman, one of roughly two dozen congregants inside, thought first of protecting her son, Finn Luke Weitzman, who had accompanied her to mark the start...
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‘YOU ARE GOING TO DIE FOR THE JEWS’
The suspect in the synagogue attack in Belleville, Ont., shouted “You are going to die for the Jews” before an exchange of gunfire with police, according to a video played at a police news conference Thursday. Belleville Police Chief Murray Rodd said...
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‘I am witnessing real-life miracles,’ officer’s wife says
The wife of the police officer who was shot while stopping a gunman outside a synagogue in Belleville, Ont., has released an emotional thank you to supporters and “every scared soul” who was inside the building that night. In a message on Facebook,...
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IN ISRAEL, BELLEVILLE ATTACK LED THE NIGHTLY NEWSCAST
The following is adapted from a speech delivered by Ben Mulroney to the Jewish Federation of British Columbia in Victoria on Sept. 17. I’ve got a list as long as my arm of numbers detailing the rise of Jew-hate in Canada. But you don’t need the...
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COP FOILS YOM KIPPUR ATTACK
It would appear as though the antisemites have finally succeeded at preventing Jewish-Canadians from gathering to worship in peace, after shots were fired outside an Ontario synagogue during Yom Kippur services on Sunday evening. I’d say this should...
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The very big task facing PIERRE POILIEVRE
As the moon circles Earth, its gravitational pull moves the oceans back and forth, creating the cycle of high and low tides. A similar law of physics applies to Canadian politics. As U.S. President Donald Trump spins himself in and out of the news...
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Oh, look: Nicotine is back
After decades of decline, nicotine consumption in Canada is on the rise. People are smoking fewer traditional cigarettes, but alternative products such as vapes, e-cigarettes and most recently — and dramatically — nicotine pouches are taking...
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EU MAKES US AN OFFER
The European Union on Wednesday offered Canada a unique place among its bloc of 27 nations: associate member. It’s new, novel and not the panacea that Mark Carney might sell it as, according to a British academic who has spent years studying Brexit,...
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Brits mull faux fur hats over Canadian bearskin
A cross-party group of U.K. MPs has urged the country’s Ministry of Defence to end the use of real Canadian bearskin for hats worn by the guards who stand outside Buckingham Palace. In a letter to Defence Minister Luke Pollard, 18 MPs and one peer...
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B.C.’s drug experiment didn’t change OD deaths: study
British Columbia’s contentious experiment decriminalizing fentanyl, cocaine and other hard drugs was hailed by provincial health leaders as a “vital” means of keeping people from dying from drug overdoses. It appears it didn’t. New research found no...
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She won a Canadian innovation award at 16. She’s chosen the U.S. for university, and maybe her whole career.
Naila Moloo, 19, won the 2022 Canadian Youth Innovation Award at the age of 16 for creating a flexible solar panel prototype when she was a Grade 11 student at Elmwood School in Ottawa. She plans to become an entrepreneur, pursuing her own AI-startup,...
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THE UNTOLD STORY OF CANADA’S RESPONSE, HOUR BY HOUR
This is an excerpt from Ash and Honor: The Untold 368 Minutes of 9/11, by American author Jeffrey Robinson. The book tells the story of the official response to 9/11 by North American authorities. This excerpt, drawn from multiple chapters, focuses on...
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Why American NHL stars are leaving
Hockey has entered into the Canada-U.S. trade war again. Not over tariffs on hockey sticks or President Donald Trump’s AI-generated meme of himself knocking down Prime Minister Mark Carney on the ice, but as part of the conversation surrounding the...
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‘This won’t be easy, and I won’t pretend otherwise,’ PM says
U.S. President Donald Trump said he plans to remove Canadian-origin products from a U.S. federal government procurement program on Tuesday, his first response since Canada hit the U.S. with retaliatory tariffs. “I am hereby directing the GSA (U.S....
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Canadian planes, the loonie locked in Trump’s sights
Several U.S. states will feel the impact of Canada’s retaliatory tariffs, including Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Texas and Maine, but Michigan could take the hardest hit, analysts say. The mitten-shaped state is most exposed because...
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NEPAL ‘MIRACLE’: PAIR OF TRAPPED WORKERS PULLED FROM TUNNEL.
KATHMANDU, NEPAL • Two hydropower workers were pulled alive on Friday from a tunnel buried by debris in Nepal, a rare ray of hope on the 10th day of rescue efforts after catastrophic Himalayan flooding. Rescuers cheered as one man was pulled through a...
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A system bordering on ludicrous
Helping migrants come to Canada for the purpose of making asylum claims is little different from running a tour operation in the area around the border, says Canada’s immigration board. It’s yet another entry on the long list of ways in which people...
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PM’s recruitment of Barton will please China’s Xi Jinping
There has been no greater gift to the Liberal party’s powerful pro-Beijing comprador caste than U.S. President Donald Trump’s exasperating bellicosity and exhausting trade-relations vandalism. Even after nearly a decade of scandals involving China’s...
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Talks can resume when ‘throwing shade’ ends: PM
The conflict between the Canadian and U.S. government has evolved from a trade war into a war of words. After days of strident comments and insults directed at Canada from multiple U.S. government officials, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Americans...
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We may have to accept the sting of a deal with bullies
It’ll be over by Christmas. It wasn’t true in 1914, but the trade war with the United States had better be resolved by the end of this year. If it isn’t, President Donald Trump has pledged to raise tariffs on Canadian autos to 50 per cent on New...
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HOW TO TRUMP-PROOF CANADA’S ECONOMY
Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada is under attack, bombarded by U.S. tariffs and a trade partner that moves goalposts on a whim. The federal government’s initial response was to offer short-term support for companies and workers hit by this...
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Lake Ontario America ‘effective immediately’
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order in the Oval Office to rename Lake Ontario to “Lake America” immediately. “That’s going to take place right now as I sign the order,” he said during a livestream from the White House...
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ANNUAL CUSMA REVIEW LIKELY ‘NOT ANY TIME SOON’
Canada’s former chief trade negotiator Steve Verheul doesn’t expect formal negotiations on the review of the Canada-United States-Mexico-Agreement between Canada and the U.S. to happen any time soon, following the collapse of trade talks between the...
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Did Howard Lutnick kill the deal?
OT TAWA • Prime Minister Mark Carney told Canadians that he ended trade talks with the Americans because the gap between the two countries was simply “too wide in recent days” to strike a deal. In reality, however, sources say, it was really just one...
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THE CANADA-U.S. TRADE WAR
U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to impose a 50 per cent tariff on Canadian autos, trucks and auto parts, while Prime Minister Mark Carney said it would require a change in “attitude” from the U.S. to restart negotiations after trade talks...
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Tobi Lütke will not comply: Shopify CEO vs. Laurentian elite
Canada has a particularly robust immune system, but rather than rejecting what is harmful, the country's Laurentian standard-bearers swoop in to attack anything that could be positive, particularly if it is not aligned with a mushy left-wing world view...
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Leafs star Tavares to appear in court to fight $8M tax bill
Toronto Maple Leafs star centre John Tavares is set to take the witness stand in a Toronto courtroom Tuesday, in a trial over the taxation of his signing bonus for leaving the New York Islanders to join his hometown team in 2018. At stake for Tavares...
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The slow, heartbreaking death of a Ukraine city
The streets are all-but deserted, but the mood of Ukraine's embattled city of Kramatorsk is emblazoned in foot-high letters across the walls of its ravaged buildings. “This house is like my life: Russia ruined it too.” You can hear the war constantly...
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ANAND'S `MISINFORMED' CONDEMNATION OF ISRAEL
The recent statement by Global Affairs Canada condemning “the ongoing violence in the West Bank” and exhorting against “the expansion of Israeli settlements” invites some analysis and clarification inasmuch as it appears to be both misinformed and...
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`A bad deal for Canada from the start'
We learned this week the outcome of Canada’s gunpoint renegotiation with the United States over revenue from the new Gordie Howe International Bridge, an impressive $6.4-billion cross-border span that Canada paid for and is now finally able to open for...
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William Shatner is 95 years old. And this. Dramatic. Montrealer. Will. Not. Go. Quietly.
Even as he faces his own final frontier, 95-yearold William Shatner is in constant motion, burnishing his legacy as one of Canada's most versatile, consequential — and busiest — entertainers. An actor, author, singer, astronaut and icon, Shatner has...
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SCENES FROM A TORONTO IN DECLINE
What if Canada's largest city started shrinking, and it wasn't all that huge an issue, even with a municipal election just months away? This is the odd situation in which Toronto, forever caught between aspiring to and boasting of “world class” status,...
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One law for First Nations, another for everyone else
There are two kinds of lobster trappers in St. Mary's Bay, Nova Scotia: the non-Indigenous ones who have to abide by federal law, and the Indigenous ones who apparently don't. The Liberal approach to governing the fishery has bred tension and violence...
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THE TERRIFYING RISE OF THE BISHNOI GANG IN CANADA
On May 4, a gunman strolled casually into a business complex in Surrey, B.C., in broad daylight and shot Gurvikramjeet Singh Warring, an Indian immigrant who was renting an office space there. Warring, as the CBC's Fifth Estate would later report,...
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Carney no match for Bond villain Trump T
here was a cinematic quality to the Wall Street Journal's profile of Prime Minister Mark Carney this week, entitled, “The Canadian Who Steered Europe Away from the U.S.” It's almost as if the authors had an eye on the movie version. President Donald...
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