Featured National Perspectives
Colby Cosh: Alberta's red tape reduction minister ... demands more red tape on vodka
Listen, I take a back seat to nobody in applauding the idea of a provincial cabinet minister of red tape reduction. But the man in Alberta who wears that title, the Hon. Dale Nally, has accidentally reminded us where red tape comes from: it’s a ...
John Ivison: On Chinese interference, Trudeau sounds like someone with something to hide
The crux of the foreign interference inquiry is to discover whether Justin Trudeau danced with the devil in the pale moonlight. In other words, did the prime minister put partisan interest ahead of the national interest by turning a blind eye — ...
FIRST READING: With 'safer supply' showing up in busts, RCMP told to step carefully
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John Ivison: Liberals have a chance to reverse their fiscal doom spiral. Expect them to pass
The budgeting process in the past was a foreign country; they did things differently back then. In my memory at least, Canada’s Department of Finance pushed back against Liberal and Conservative governments. And if budgets produced surprises, ...
FIRST READING: Rents, home prices set to get way worse until at least the next election
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SCOTT TAYLOR: The Chanak crisis, not Vimy, was Canada’s true coming of age as a nation
This week marks the 107th anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge. While April 9 is the day of commemoration, the battle itself lasted three days. What is amazing is the myth that has grown around that April 1917, First World War clash in Northern ...
John Ivison: The new Liberal defence policy's in no hurry to face dangerous global realities
For many years, there was no political payback for increasing defence expenditure, so governments in Ottawa didn’t bother. But recent polls suggest voters are sufficiently spooked by events in Ukraine and the Middle East, not to mention by the ...
Toronto demonstrators urged to 'live up to the example' of Hamas
Even after six months of routine anti-Israel rallies hitting the streets of Toronto, a series of weekend demonstrations featured a notable increase in pro-terror rhetoric and extremist symbology. On Saturday, a child holding a sign ...
FIRST READING: What Canada forsook by failing to develop LNG
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'Who are you to stop someone blowing crack smoke at a newborn?' Inside the thoughts of B.C.'s harm reduction program
This week, a leaked memo in B.C. revealed that hospital workers were being told not to confiscate weapons or illicit drugs from patients – and to look the other way at in-hospital drug dealers. It caused a stir in the B.C. Legislature, but it’s ...