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Old tensions are still alive in the UCP leadership race
Neither the Wildrose nor PC parties still exist, but the leadership contest may be another clash of their legacies.
Commotion over the Alberta Sovereignty Act ignores the long track record of provinces working around federal laws
Brian Bird: It’s time to close the chapter on mandates
Is Québec the most conservative province in Canada?
Younger Conservative MPs say they’re the only party addressing Millennial issues
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Canada is an outlier as another hybrid Parliament resumes
More rent control on the horizon? Economists say it is a bad idea
‘People crave identity, belonging, community’: Policy thinker Reihan Salam on urban policy, immigration and identity
After a crazy week in the financial markets, The Hub Roundtable discusses what happens next
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After the Pope’s apology: What comes next?
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Opinion: Let’s make it easier for families that want to have one parent stay home
As recently as 1976, a majority of Canadian children had a stay-at-home parent. Today, that number has dropped to a mere 18 percent.
Sean Speer: Don’t learn the wrong lesson from the U.K. government’s tax cut reversal
The Truss government’s highly-imperfect and clumsily-executed tax cuts were a brief challenge to the prevailing orthodoxy. They represented a rightful recognition that the Western governments’ overfocus on demand-side redistribution has failed to deliver higher rates of economic growth.
Richard Shimooka: Putin is playing a bad hand, but Europe is in for a hard winter
Denied his initial objectives of the complete conquest of Ukraine, Putin must salvage what he can, partly to avoid potential domestic fallout and threats to his regime’s stability.
Patrick Luciani: Which version of Giorgia Meloni will lead Italy?
Last Sunday, the Italians did something they hadn’t done since Benito Mussolini was appointed prime minister by King Victor Emmanuel III in 1922. They elected a right-wing coalition with Giorgia…
Neal Dolan: Canada can’t afford to stay silent on China’s residential schools for Uyghurs
Is there not some inconsistency, not to say hypocrisy, in performing ceremonials of public remorse about human rights crimes committed in the past while responding cautiously to similar offenses being committed in the present on a far larger scale, albeit in distant places?
