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J.D. Tuccille: America’s Democrats embrace radical socialism

Moderate Democrats watch as their party slides into hate and economic authoritarianism

Michael Murphy: Andy Burnham's empty promise to 'do more' for the British people

New U.K. prime minister cartoonishly blames neoliberalism for the country's problems

Geoff Russ: Multiculturalism is a terrible reason to drop hockey for soccer

If anything, government should be funding our historic national sport

Opinion: Canada must confront Russia's Arctic aspirations

The region can't be ceded to authoritarians

Chris Selley: Doug Ford shows how not to get something built

Other Toronto-region airports provide far more compelling alternatives to Pearson than the downtown than the Island

Canadian politician repeatedly reads out AI prompts in speech: 'Here’s a more natural flowing version'

In the New Brunswick legislative assembly, MLA Bill Oliver read out a line from a prepared text that started: ‘Here’s a…

Marty York: Carney's antisemitism council fiddles while Jewish businesses burn

Two months ago the PM promised action on antisemitism. Last weekend's shootings show that nothing has changed

Joel Kotkin: Immigration alone won't solve Canada's population decline

Rather than looking abroad for solutions, we should ensure young Canadians have a hopeful future

Michael Higgins: Of course young people are losing faith in democracy

Half of the under-30s crowd thinks a strong leader with no elections would be a good way to govern. It's not surprising…

Colby Cosh: British Columbia's trash-recycling paradox

The province has established a whole command-and-control system for recycling, and it is starting to fray

Liam Ferguson: The ICC is not a serious court

The International Criminal Court poses a serious threat to the sovereignty of Canada and its allies

Scott Stinson: Will the Billy Bishop airport cost Mark Carney his friendship with Doug Ford?

The Ontario premier might feel betrayed after all of his public support for the prime minister

A veteran cop explains what’s really happening inside Canadian policing: Full Comment podcast

Hank Idsinga discusses the recent expose of corruption by some Toronto officers

Jamie Sarkonak: Why the B.C. Law Society walked back claims of buried children

Two years of litigation with a truth-seeking B.C. lawyer has ended in a settlement and more careful language about…

Chris Selley: Why so shy about running for Parliament, Avi Lewis?

For the NDP, there are two theoretically winnable byelections coming up. The party leader should want to run in one

Geoffrey Moyse: Haida land deal enabled by legal subterfuge

Governments secretly negotiated recognition of Aboriginal title over entire Haida Gwaii archipelago without any legal…

John Carpay: Our privacy had decent protection until the Liberals stepped in

New laws threaten to undo all the personal privacy protections Canadians have won in court

You can still homestead in Canada

Watch the video or read the transcript to learn how a version of homesteading still exists in the 21st century

John Weissenberger: Blissfully caffeinated in Middle America

As we blow south this summer, like so much Ontario woodsmoke, primo jitter juice will be awaiting in the caffeination…

Raymond J. de Souza: Ukrainian protests reflect a healthy democracy

Ukraine has managed, remarkably, to preserve and even enhance its democratic culture during the restrictions of wartime

Irwin Cotler: What happened to Carney's Davos call for principled, pragmatic foreign policy?

In some respects, the government has followed through on the PM's speech. In other respects however, it has been…

Conrad Black: Canada must not accept disrespect from the Americans

We were the only country that was unjustly treated by Trump's tariffs

Vivian Bercovici: No more plausible deniability for Netanyahu

It's been made clear to him in a letter that an immediate infusion of troops are needed, otherwise the IDF will…

Margareta Dovgal: Carney must embrace Canada's petrostate status

Jamil Jivani: Does Mark Carney want to lead the U.S. Democratic Party?

The prime minister cares more about applause from the American left than getting a deal for Canadians

Terry Glavin: Carney's global quest for photo ops comes with crippling compromises

Why has Canada signed a security MOU with Qatar?

Avi Benlolo: Cognitive dissonance won't save the West from the evils of Hamas

Society must start hearing and seeing the evil of anti-Zionism

Colby Cosh: Why Mark Carney felt comfortable spreading misinformation

The prime minister must have known that media would go easy on his falsifiable story about the Gordie Howe…

Amy Hamm: Boomers drunk on CBC is the source of Carney's power

There is a disconnect in the minds of older Canadians between bad Liberal policy and our societal decay

Adam Zivo: Zelenskyy jeopardized Ukraine by ousting brilliant military reformer

He now seems to have realized his mistake

Heather Exner-Pirot: Cutting off oil exports to spite Trump would cripple Canada

Resources should be used as carrots, not sticks

Chris Selley: OK, we’ve won on stigmatizing tobacco. Why not try it for hard drugs?

The same people who keep calling for ever more terrifying cigarette package warnings support precisely the opposite…

Rob Breakenridge: Come clean on the bridge deal, Mr. Carney

If the prime minister had just told the truth about the agreement with Trump, Canadians would have likely understood

Josh Dehaas: Aboriginal title claims should be proven in courts, not signed away by governments

If governments believe the claims are strong, then why not let the courts test them?

The failure of elbows up Carney

The prime minister's tactics for dealing with Trump have not paid off

Michael Higgins: It's not reconciliation when law societies exaggerate anomalies as 'graves'

B.C. lawyer Jim Heller has settled defamation case against the Law Society of British Columbia

Jamie Sarkonak: Carney hasn't weatherproofed Canada for the Trump hurricane

Reducing internal trade barriers remains a challenge

Peter MacKinnon: Canadian universities must look within and speak out on findings

Like in the US, issues here likely also strike at the very heart and soul of what universities should be

Mohamed Fahmy: A new threat to oil markets emerges in the Iran war

Houthis target Saudi shipping routes, as U.S. and Iran step up attacks

Scott Stinson: Of course we should not put U.S. alcohol back on our shelves

Conceding anything in good faith to Donald Trump is an invitation to get burned in bad faith