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Has Pierre Poilievre’s social media output made him the first influencer in Canadian politics?
Pierre Poilievre has de-emphasized traditional media engagement and is connecting with supporters and the broader public through less mainstream channels. Is this a winning strategy for reaching the public?
Are pandemic effects and progressive discipline policies turning classrooms violent?
The Alberta Sovereignty Act appears to be constitutional
By 2042, one in every four Canadians will be a senior. Our health-care system isn’t ready
Canada’s trucker protests feature in Munk debate on trust in media
On day one, Danielle Smith’s Alberta Sovereignty Act gets Ottawa’s attention
Canada, playing catch-up, enters its own ‘decisive decade’ with China
Medicare Meltdown: The Canada Health Act is failing Canadians
Mainstream media ‘doesn’t deserve to be trusted’: Independent journalist Matt Taibbi on the dangers of narrative-based reporting
Calling all sovereigntists: The Hub Roundtable on the Alberta Sovereignty Act, Quebec’s immigration pickiness, and protests in China
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A wino’s guide to gifting wine
After determining price, wine gifts could be divided into two broad categories: boring or weird. These terms are meant affectionately and might be more euphemistically called dependable or novel.
Can conservatives survive on campus? Princeton professor Robert P. George on being an intellectual minority in academia
This episode features host Sean Speer in conversation with Princeton professor Robert P. George on being a conservative in academia, why truth-seeking should be the highest priority of higher education, and the importance of building institutions.
You want to support workers? Build more housing
Raising taxable income for workers would help. But so would paying less in rent or to own their own home in a dense, walkable neighbourhood that doesn’t require a punishing commute to work.
Canada (finally) picks a side between the U.S. and China
Middle ground-ism was not a sustainable economic or security position for Canada. American expectations about supply chain security alone meant that the Trudeau government was inevitably going to have to pick sides.
‘Pre-emptive’ use of the notwithstanding clause is nothing new
Any supposed requirement that the notwithstanding clause can only be used reactively is at odds with the constitutional text, Supreme Court jurisprudence, and the history of its actual use.
