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- It's uncertain if Chris d’Entremont can successfully carry the banner as a Liberal. But he joins a long line of defectors who make covering the House of Commons interesting.
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- It's uncertain if Chris d’Entremont can successfully carry the banner as a Liberal. But he joins a long line of defectors who make covering the House of Commons interesting.
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- Money is tight, wars are a huge distraction, and the climate has become unfashionable, so we’ll just have to wait and hope for better times.
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- Money is tight, wars are a huge distraction, and the climate has become unfashionable, so we’ll just have to wait and hope for better times.
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- Rose LeMay
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- Five federally operated regional treatment centres are 'not fit for the purpose,' and Ivan Zinger argues the Correctional Service of Canada should not even be in the mental health business, but should hand that to the experts. It’s hard to disagree with the logic.
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- Five federally operated regional treatment centres are 'not fit for the purpose,' and Ivan Zinger argues the Correctional Service of Canada should not even be in the mental health business, but should hand that to the experts. It’s hard to disagree with the logic.
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- The Non-Insured Health Benefits program covers less than provincial and territorial health care, even though the Canada Health Act stipulates that Canadians will have
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- In the budget discussions, it might be worth remembering that reconciliation means fixing systems that are broken. This includes wildly huge administrative budgets.
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- Tim Powers
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- The Conservatives did everything the wrong way in dealing with Chris d’Entremont's floor crossing, handing their political opponents a win.
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- The Conservatives did everything the wrong way in dealing with Chris d’Entremont's floor crossing, handing their political opponents a win.
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- Scott Taylor
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- To try and deny or diminish your own comments once they have been ridiculed in public is not good leadership.
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- To try and deny or diminish your own comments once they have been ridiculed in public is not good leadership.
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- Sheila Copps
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- Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has not said much recently, but the number of Canadians visiting his state has hit a post-pandemic low. The drop was 26 per cent. The Canadian travel boycott is hitting Florida where it hurts: in the pocketbook.
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- Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has not said much recently, but the number of Canadians visiting his state has hit a post-pandemic low. The drop was 26 per cent. The Canadian travel boycott is hitting Florida where it hurts: in the pocketbook.
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- Jean Chrétien belled the Alberta cat in a way that everyone can understand: 'They never sold as much oil as they have today and
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- With referendums now being threatened in Alberta and Quebec, the current prime minister and his cabinet should remember what we almost forgot: 'Les absents ont toujours tort.'
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- Susan Riley
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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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- 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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- For many Canadians, if an election would rid the country of Pierre Poilievre’s snarky social media hits, his obsessive focus on enemies, his hypocrisy—lamenting
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- The question: is corporate Canada ready to do its part? It certainly won’t refuse emergency funding to see it through the current uncertainty. But how able, and willing, is it to disrupt decades-old supply chains, retool its factories, and redirect its efforts away from the United States?
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- David Crane
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- The budget has positive measures, but it fails to provide a credible plan for the future. What is the Carney government’s vision for the future?
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- The budget has positive measures, but it fails to provide a credible plan for the future. What is the Carney government’s vision for the future?
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- We need to truly transform our economy when so much around us is changing so fast. We need an arm’s length council to independently
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- Canada lacks the capacity for transformative change. If the Nov. 4 budget fails to change that, our nation will be more of a bystander than a participant in the transforming world economy—and we'll be poorer as a result. We need a new economy.
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- Gerry Nicholls
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- The environmental movement has suffered a loss.
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- Watch for provincial governments to attack Carney for not doing enough in the budget. Mind you, none of this means Carney won’t survive the onslaught. It
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- A recent study by the Canadian Digital Media Research Network, noted that '[social media] influencers, not parties, or newsrooms, dominated distribution and attention across platforms during [this year's federal election] campaign.' Should all of this scare us? Maybe.
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- Michael Harris
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- If Donald Trump has nothing to hide, if, in fact, he wanted to back up his claim that he neither participated in Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking, or even knew about it, there is a simple solution. Give the green light to release all the Epstein files held by the U.S. Department of Justice.
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- If Donald Trump has nothing to hide, if, in fact, he wanted to back up his claim that he neither participated in Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking, or even knew about it, there is a simple solution. Give the green light to release all the Epstein files held by the U.S. Department of Justice.
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- Gwynne Dyer
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- With video editing, there is an honour system which says that you can edit the shot, but you must not change the meaning.
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- With video editing, there is an honour system which says that you can edit the shot, but you must not change the meaning.
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- Money is tight, wars are a huge distraction, and the climate has become unfashionable, so we’ll just have to wait and hope for better
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- The biggest city in western Sudan, swollen to half a million or more people due to minority ethnic groups fleeing genocide, fell to rebel forces at the end of October after a two-year siege.
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- Les Whittington
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- The Conservative leader has shown no inclination or ability to temper his highly polarized style, which makes his chances in the next election appear unpropitious.
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- The Conservative leader has shown no inclination or ability to temper his highly polarized style, which makes his chances in the next election appear unpropitious.
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- Erica Ifill
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- The NDP and Conservatives both seem to be lacking the political acumen needed to cash in on voters desperate for a response to the cost-of-living crisis.
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- The NDP and Conservatives both seem to be lacking the political acumen needed to cash in on voters desperate for a response to the cost-of-living crisis.
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- Bhagwant Sandhu
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- Mark Carney’s first budget displays the prime minister’s administrative instincts: control the narrative, project calm, and preserve credibility in bond markets.
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- Mark Carney’s first budget displays the prime minister’s administrative instincts: control the narrative, project calm, and preserve credibility in bond markets.
