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Braid: Smith’s economic wins with Ottawa are historic and may move dial on separatism
Don Braid/Calgary Herald: What happened Friday was proof that federalism can work. Equally important, it was a sign…
May 16, 2026
Black box that is the Liberals’ fiscal plan
The Globe and Mail: The Liberal government seems intent on replicating Schrodinger’s Cat on a fiscal scale, with…
May 16, 2026
Carney’s pesticide policy could put economy ahead of your health
Althia Raj/Toronto Star: Buried in two omnibus financial bills are provisions that overhaul the Pest Control Products Act.…
May 16, 2026
Carson Jerema: Carney ensnares Danielle Smith in pipeline blackmail
Carson Jerema/National Post: No one should be surprised if all these overlapping plans, regulations and legislation do not…
May 16, 2026
Ottawa sacrifices climate goals for pipeline nobody needs
Thomas Gunton/The Globe and Mail: The Alberta pipeline proposal makes little to no sense. That is why no…
May 16, 2026
Trump claims ‘fantastic trade deals’ with China. What really happened?
CBC: While Trump is portraying the summit as a big economic success for the U.S., analysts parsing the…
May 16, 2026
With possible referendum looming, Carney and Smith find common ground on carbon pricing
Aaron Wherry/CBC: Probably nothing Carney and Smith could have announced this week would have completely extinguished separatist sentiment…
May 16, 2026
I know firsthand why U.S. will never admit that it lost war in Iran
Ben Roswell/The Globe and Mail: Of the many lessons I learned in Afghanistan, the first was that the…
May 15, 2026
As a professor, I’m pressured to give out high grades like candy — and not just by students
Kerah Gordon-Solmon/Toronto Star: Professors everywhere are facing similar pressures (if not enforceable decrees) from university authorities to grade…
May 15, 2026
Terry Newman: Rest of Canada needs to adopt Quebec’s secularism laws
Terry Newman/National Post: The case of Islamic instruction introduced into a public school shows why strict secularization laws…
May 15, 2026
‘It’s sad’: Former minister Dion says project approval revamp pitch latest in ‘trend’ of climate policy backlash
The Hill Times: A ‘shocking’ May 8 federal discussion paper proposes exempting projects from environmental impact assessments, and…
May 15, 2026
Ottawa’s plan to double electricity grid ‘one step forward and two steps back,’ say environment experts
The Hill Times: Brooks said renewable energy already met 100 per cent of the demand for global growth…
May 15, 2026
For Danielle Smith and Alberta separatists, no clear path left for referendum after court loss
Jason Markusoff/CBC: Smith’s caucus and cabinet mates are more prone to celebrate progress toward her pipeline and climate…
May 14, 2026
Carney govt proposal targets extinction protections for endangered killer whales off B.C. coast
Althia Raj/Toronto Star: The federal government’s proposal to legally allow projects to go ahead even if they result…
May 14, 2026
Carney’s plan to ram big projects through is not progress. It’s recklessness
Tim Gray/Toronto Star: Let’s be clear about what’s at stake: Carney’s proposed “Federal Economic Zones” (which are alarmingly…
May 14, 2026
Canada wants sovereign AI data centres. What does that actually mean?
CBC: But as Ottawa reviews more than 160 data-centre proposals to support the growing demands of artificial intelligence,…
May 14, 2026
FIRST READING: New bill could allow police to turn personal tech into listening devices
National Post: Conservative MP Dane Lloyd aked West whether C-22 would order companies to “provide the capabilities to…
May 13, 2026
LILLEY: Liberals can’t sweep voting irregularities under rug
Brian Lilley/Toronto Sun: Nate Erskine-Smith, who lost by 19 votes to Ahsanul Hafiz, has claimed that there were…
May 13, 2026
GOLDSTEIN: It’s as if the foreign interference inquiry never happened
Lorrie Goldstein/Toronto Sun: Carney says we are engaged in a “new strategic partnership” with China — his words…
May 13, 2026
Carney wades into deep waters of environmental regulation
Aaron Wherry/CBC: David Wright, a professor of environmental and resource law at the University of Calgary, shares some…
May 13, 2026