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- The choice is stark. We can continue clinging to oil, hoping a new American imperial thirst to directly control natural resources doesn't turn toward Canadian territory, all while watching the global market for our oil product evaporate. Or we can pivot toward renewable energy, securing both our sovereignty and our economic future.
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- The choice is stark. We can continue clinging to oil, hoping a new American imperial thirst to directly control natural resources doesn't turn toward Canadian territory, all while watching the global market for our oil product evaporate. Or we can pivot toward renewable energy, securing both our sovereignty and our economic future.
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- Not only must our government better support women entrepreneurs and the organizations that champion them, but they must also ensure they have a meaningful voice in economic policy and planning decisions.
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- Not only must our government better support women entrepreneurs and the organizations that champion them, but they must also ensure they have a meaningful voice in economic policy and planning decisions.
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- Our test is to prove him wrong, and not sacrifice the future for the present.
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- Rose LeMay
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- Every time a communication like this comes from our political right, it will be perceived as feeding the Donald Trump machine. It is taking a brick out of our own democracy.
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- Every time a communication like this comes from our political right, it will be perceived as feeding the Donald Trump machine. It is taking a brick out of our own democracy.
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- Call me a dreamer, but this winter solstice season I’m practising hope that 2026 is the year Canada recognizes its strength and credibility as
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- The Prime Minister’s Office is taking a decidedly corporate approach. Then it should make sure that the essential piece of corporate governance is included by being transparent with the board of directors. In this country, the board is made up of voters.
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- Tim Powers
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- Will global dynamics further influence our ecosystem? What will bond us now, or divide us? These are weighty questions we can’t escape in 2026.
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- Will global dynamics further influence our ecosystem? What will bond us now, or divide us? These are weighty questions we can’t escape in 2026.
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- OTTAWA—It was one year ago that federal politics changed dramatically. Then-deputy prime minister and finance minister Chrystia Freeland wrote her poison pen letter to
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- It will not go unnoticed among those who move money around and make investments that the prime minister is currently not encumbered by the political conventions and practices of his predecessor.
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- Scott Taylor
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- NATO leaders should immediately offer the autonomous Danish territory of Greenland permanent membership in the alliance.
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- NATO leaders should immediately offer the autonomous Danish territory of Greenland permanent membership in the alliance.
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- Canada may now have to play catch-up on procuring vessels to protect the North after years of passing up projects.
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- Instead of disarming law-abiding gun owners across Canada, why not offer them the opportunity to enlist in a supplementary reserve by taking an oath of allegiance and registering with a militia regiment at the local armoury?
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- Sheila Copps
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- If you parse Marco Rubio’s statement from last weekend, anyone who is even a competitor of the U.S. in our hemisphere is a potential target of American foreign policy attention. No wonder Prime Minister Mark Carney has muted his comments on the Nicolás Maduro takedown. We could be next.
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- If you parse Marco Rubio’s statement from last weekend, anyone who is even a competitor of the U.S. in our hemisphere is a potential target of American foreign policy attention. No wonder Prime Minister Mark Carney has muted his comments on the Nicolás Maduro takedown. We could be next.
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- Susan Riley
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- In retrospect, Mark Carney’s low-key approach—coupled with his tireless attempts to broaden our trade network—may prove to be the wisest course. Not as emotionally satisfying, or morally invigorating as a well-deserved profanity. But smarter.
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- In retrospect, Mark Carney’s low-key approach—coupled with his tireless attempts to broaden our trade network—may prove to be the wisest course. Not as emotionally satisfying, or morally invigorating as a well-deserved profanity. But smarter.
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- Avi Lewis’ daring, refreshing campaign may come to nothing; end of discussion. Or maybe, if New Democrats are feeling frisky, beginning of discussion. The
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- The longer Prime Minister Mark Carney tries to play both sides of the street—and this game has been going on for decades—the farther behind we fall, environmentally and economically. He must know that.
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- David Crane
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- Our test is to prove him wrong, and not sacrifice the future for the present.
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- But much will depend on the Carney government’s ability to persuade Canadians that current difficulties, and the risk of stagnant incomes as living costs
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- There will be little tolerance for countries pursuing policies that run counter to U.S. commercial interests and, in the Western Hemisphere, little hesitation in pursuing open access for its military and commercial shipping, ensuring privileged access to critical minerals and rare Earth minerals.
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- Gerry Nicholls
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- If the Carney Liberals sense there’s a threat emerging on their left-wing flank, they might themselves move to the left, which would give Pierre Poilievre a better target to attack. So yes, in a way, Poilievre’s best political friend might be his ideological enemy.
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- If the Carney Liberals sense there’s a threat emerging on their left-wing flank, they might themselves move to the left, which would give Pierre Poilievre a better target to attack. So yes, in a way, Poilievre’s best political friend might be his ideological enemy.
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- By making this one pipeline deal, Mark Carney might be hoping to destroy the stereotype that Liberals are a bunch of progressive, tree-hugging greens
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- The upshot is that the changes Steve Outhouse will bring to the party will likely be subtle, not flashy, more about tweaking the party’s engine than giving it a complete overhaul or retool. And maybe that’s all the Tories need.
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- Michael Harris
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- For those who think it is over the top to even imagine that the U.S. might reduce Canada to a vassal state the way it has done to Venezuela, consider the words of Bob Rae, Canada’s former UN ambassador, who says that this country faces an existential challenge from Donald Trump’s klepto-imperialism.
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- For those who think it is over the top to even imagine that the U.S. might reduce Canada to a vassal state the way it has done to Venezuela, consider the words of Bob Rae, Canada’s former UN ambassador, who says that this country faces an existential challenge from Donald Trump’s klepto-imperialism.
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- There's another difference between our two nations that would never empower a Trump, or an operation as corrupt as Fox News. Unlike far too many
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- Donald Trump could very easily go down as the president who was the undisputed champion grifter in U.S. history, with him and his family adding billions to their wealth—despite the strict prohibitions of the U.S. Constitution’s Emoluments Clause.
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- Gwynne Dyer
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- Ottawa should offer military forces to protect Greenland from Russia and China, and ask the Europeans to send some troops to Canada for protection.
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- Despite what the U.S. president says, Greenland is a region of zero strategic importance. If Washington wants to base more troops there, it has only to ask: the treaty says it can have an unlimited number of bases and troops in the territory.
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- Les Whittington
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- It’s obvious that Donald Trump has established a situation where he can operate with little—if any—of the normal constraints of a U.S. president.
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- It’s obvious that Donald Trump has established a situation where he can operate with little—if any—of the normal constraints of a U.S. president.
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- Erica Ifill
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- Knowing that Grok is a gender-based violence generator, why are institutional experts, organizations, and government officials still using X?
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- Knowing that Grok is a gender-based violence generator, why are institutional experts, organizations, and government officials still using X?
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- Prime Minister Mark Carney’s vision for Canada is to make it ‘the world’s leading energy superpower,’ but that just got bulldozed by the United
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- The boost in defence spending won’t amount to much without first ensuring Inuit prosperity, which is key to Canadian authority in the Arctic.
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- Bhagwant Sandhu
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- The question in foreign affairs is not if diplomatic risk exists, but how it is managed. As the government balances that reality, the Conservative response appears rooted to domestic constituencies rather than moored in a coherent vision of Canada’s place in a fragmented global economy.
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- The question in foreign affairs is not if diplomatic risk exists, but how it is managed. As the government balances that reality, the Conservative response appears rooted to domestic constituencies rather than moored in a coherent vision of Canada’s place in a fragmented global economy.
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- Canadian politicians were quick to weigh in on an illegal U.S. military action—but whose interests are they really serving?
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- The party is being battered in the polls and remains, at best, a long shot to regain official party status any time soon. It needs controversy, not controlled messaging.
