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- Canada should stand alongside our neighbours in the Global South as a partner and investor. It would be a good choice for the world and good for Canadians.
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- Canada should stand alongside our neighbours in the Global South as a partner and investor. It would be a good choice for the world and good for Canadians.
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- When done well, public-private partnerships don’t weaken our public system, they make it stronger, more responsive, and more sustainable for the next generation.
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- When done well, public-private partnerships don’t weaken our public system, they make it stronger, more responsive, and more sustainable for the next generation.
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- Women and Gender Equality Canada's latest funding forecast has sparked panic, but for all the wrong reasons. The gender equity sector must zoom out, stop reacting to fear, and push for a complete overhaul of how funding is structured.
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- Women and Gender Equality Canada's latest funding forecast has sparked panic, but for all the wrong reasons. The gender equity sector must zoom out, stop reacting to fear, and push for a complete overhaul of how funding is structured.
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- Rose LeMay
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- CIRNAC and ISC must be forced to actually get the money out the door to Indigenous communities because this is the rare case in which federal spending done poorly actually leads to lost lives.
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- CIRNAC and ISC must be forced to actually get the money out the door to Indigenous communities because this is the rare case in which federal spending done poorly actually leads to lost lives.
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- The federal government needs to stop hiring generalist policy writers and start hiring experts in their field, and then hire managers and leaders with
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- There are no good ethics in trampling over the rights of Indigenous Peoples in the rush for national projects. That's actually the very definition of colonial. Who knew that Canada would so easily cave on its reconciliation commitment when faced with a threat?
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- Tim Powers
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- Just in the last week, we have seen three examples of a more-plodding type of politics, proving the old-school has some life in it still.
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- Just in the last week, we have seen three examples of a more-plodding type of politics, proving the old-school has some life in it still.
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- The noise about the PM’s blind trust can turn people off from politics, particularly those in sectors where they were compensated commensurately for their
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- When people crap on the mainstream media and talk about bias and self-interest, they clearly have never met anyone like Sharon Musgrave.
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- Scott Taylor
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- Now that U.S. President Donald Trump has indeed whacked Canada with a whopping trade tariff, perhaps it's time to make sure that economic pain is felt on both sides of the border.
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- Now that U.S. President Donald Trump has indeed whacked Canada with a whopping trade tariff, perhaps it's time to make sure that economic pain is felt on both sides of the border.
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- Sheila Copps
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- The prime minister is playing defence, by making sure that tariff-affected industries have cushions in place to protect Canadian jobs. Various ministers are travelling the world to reinforce relationships that may prove crucial in the trade war with Trump. But time is also on our side.
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- The prime minister is playing defence, by making sure that tariff-affected industries have cushions in place to protect Canadian jobs. Various ministers are travelling the world to reinforce relationships that may prove crucial in the trade war with Trump. But time is also on our side.
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- The world cannot turn a blind eye to the struggle for survival that has been faced by ordinary Palestinians who were not involved in
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- Pete Hoeskstra says Donald Trump thinks Canadians are mean and nasty for boycotting American booze and travel. But for the first time in my lifetime, the federal and provincial leaders seem committed to work together in securing long-term solutions for Canada. If we can exert monetary influence simply by using our won purchasing power, there is nothing mean or nasty about that.
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- Susan Riley
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- The words 'climate change' have barely passed Carney’s lips, nor did they feature in communiqués from June's G7 summit in Alberta. It has been left to premiers, mayors, and Indigenous leaders to hold press conferences, comfort evacuees, and highlight the frightening reality of more intense, more widespread, more merciless fires.
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- The words 'climate change' have barely passed Carney’s lips, nor did they feature in communiqués from June's G7 summit in Alberta. It has been left to premiers, mayors, and Indigenous leaders to hold press conferences, comfort evacuees, and highlight the frightening reality of more intense, more widespread, more merciless fires.
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- David Crane
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- First, it must closely monitor employment and housing trends for younger Canadians as it sets economic policy, and second, it must show that the system works for them, too, and they can have their own Canadian Dream.
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- First, it must closely monitor employment and housing trends for younger Canadians as it sets economic policy, and second, it must show that the system works for them, too, and they can have their own Canadian Dream.
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- Building this capacity to implement innovation possibilities, in partnership with the private sector and our university-based research community, is the urgent pre-condition if we
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- Building an economy for the future poses huge challenges that will require strong leadership and a focus on clearly set targets and timelines, co-operation from provinces, and cities as well as the private sector, and an earned buy-in from the public.
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- Gerry Nicholls
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- In my view, if Pierre Poilievre is going to win, he’ll do so not by copying Mark Carney’s pragmatism, which would mean fighting him on his turf, but by offering voters a principled alternative.
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- In my view, if Pierre Poilievre is going to win, he’ll do so not by copying Mark Carney’s pragmatism, which would mean fighting him on his turf, but by offering voters a principled alternative.
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- Things are dreary for the NDP, which makes it extremely difficult for the party’s fundraisers to convince donors to generously open their wallets. It’s hard
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- Musk’s America Party lacks a regional base, it doesn’t represent a defined demographic group, and its ideology is vague. But new parties in the United States can sometimes make electoral waves if they become political vehicles for charismatic and powerful people. The jury's still out on Musk's America Party.
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- Michael Harris
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- Trump’s serial lying and reflexive confabulating may entertain his MAGA base, but they are far from harmless fodder for the faithful. The obvious losers are the ones he lies to: the American people. Democracy only works when the electorate is informed.
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- Trump’s serial lying and reflexive confabulating may entertain his MAGA base, but they are far from harmless fodder for the faithful. The obvious losers are the ones he lies to: the American people. Democracy only works when the electorate is informed.
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- A total of 147 countries out of the UN’s 193-member states have all arrived at the same conclusion: something has to be done about
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- CNN just published a poll that found Trump is 'under water' on every file, including immigration, the economy, tariffs, foreign affairs and, yes, the Epstein scandal. A recent Gallup poll (July 7-21) reported that Trump’s approval rating is at 37 per cent and his disapproval rating is at 58 per cent.
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- Gwynne Dyer
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- This is a financial crash of the sort that usually accompanies an exciting new technology, not an existential crisis, but it is definitely on its way.
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- This is a financial crash of the sort that usually accompanies an exciting new technology, not an existential crisis, but it is definitely on its way.
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- Whatever happens at the upcoming Alaska summit, U.S. President Donald Trump will go on setting deadlines and then missing them.
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- One version of the Israeli leader is the amoral master tactician who has no permanent allies. Or the other more sinister character, whose goal has always been the removal of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.
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- Les Whittington
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- The commitment to democracy and individual rights has been and continues to be badly eroded, in part because of U.S. regression under its current president.
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- The commitment to democracy and individual rights has been and continues to be badly eroded, in part because of U.S. regression under its current president.
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- The continuation of the broad CUSMA exemption is still a significant positive development for this country in the context of the full-blown trade war
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- The Russian leader’s ability to hoodwink the American former reality show host has been a constant element of Trump’s actuality for more than a decade.
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- Erica Ifill
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- All of this political theatre, and they didn’t even destroy the uranium they pretended to seek. What a waste of time, money, and military resources.
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- All of this political theatre, and they didn’t even destroy the uranium they pretended to seek. What a waste of time, money, and military resources.
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- Bhagwant Sandhu
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- Shifting deadlines may require discretion, but that’s no excuse to shield national decisions from democratic oversight and public scrutiny.
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- Shifting deadlines may require discretion, but that’s no excuse to shield national decisions from democratic oversight and public scrutiny.
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- As the party prepares for its March 2026 convention, the question isn’t who will lead but what purpose the NDP will serve in Canadian
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- Austerity masked as modernization has a history. Former Conservative PM Stephen Harper offers the real lessons for navigating the balance between fiscal targets and institutional capacity.
