‘The era of a free, independent, trusted media in Canada is finished’: Peter Menzies on Liberal and Conservative support for continuing media subsidies
23 April 2025
‘A bending of the knee’: Breaking down Mark Carney’s chummy chat with President Trump
David Polansky: Canada’s faux foreign policy leadership
Sean Speer: Mark Carney’s cosmetic budget reforms can’t cover up Canada’s ugly deficit problem
‘Right now there’s cautious optimism’: Peter Tertzakian on if the new Alberta pipeline is possible
Mike Moffatt: Falling sales, falling jobs: Why Canada must cut taxes on new homes
‘A bending of the knee’: Breaking down Mark Carney’s chummy chat with President Trump
David Polansky: Canada’s faux foreign policy leadership
Sean Speer: Mark Carney’s cosmetic budget reforms can’t cover up Canada’s ugly deficit problem
‘Right now there’s cautious optimism’: Peter Tertzakian on if the new Alberta pipeline is possible
Mike Moffatt: Falling sales, falling jobs: Why Canada must cut taxes on new homes
Policy
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‘There’s still a lot to be played for here’: Darrell Bricker on why there’s still plenty of uncertainty around the election’s outcome
23 April 2025
‘Older demographics are far more accessible to reach’: Joseph Lavoie on how the digital campaigns are impacting the election
22 April 2025
‘The debate hasn’t fundamentally altered the race’: David Coletto on where the polling sits heading into the final week of the campaign
22 April 2025
‘We’re seeing about an 80 percent chance of a Liberal government’: Zachary Siewert on trying to predict the Canadian election and the differences between forecasting and polling
21 April 2025
‘This is about two parties with very different visions’: Ginny Roth on the Liberal platform and why it’s a doubling down of the Trudeau approach to government
21 April 2025
‘There was no knockout punch’: Jean Philippe Fournier on a lacklustre French-language leaders’ debate
17 April 2025
‘The power to impose tariffs at will needs to be removed from Trump’: David Frum on Trump’s disregard of the courts and how the trade war tremors will affect the U.S. economy
17 April 2025
‘There’s so much uncertainty out there’: Theo Argitis on the Bank of Canada’s interest rate announcement and the possibility of a recession
16 April 2025
‘There’s a signal that this race is tightening up’: David Coletto on polls showing a drop in the Liberal lead
16 April 2025
‘The first time we’ll see Carney and Poilievre up against each other’: Amanda Galbraith on what to expect from the upcoming leaders’ debates
16 April 2025
‘He’s not changing capes’: Philippe Lagassé on the caretaker convention and Carney’s dual role as Liberal leader and prime minister
16 April 2025
‘Now all the chickens have come home to roost’: Ron Butler on why the GTA condo market collapse is the biggest overlooked issue of the federal election
15 April 2025
‘Totally inappropriate and uncalled for’: Ginny Roth on Doug Ford’s untimely criticisms of the federal Conservative campaign
15 April 2025
‘The Liberals have had a wobble over the last week’: Darrell Bricker on what’s behind the tightening polls
14 April 2025
‘This was a crisis that was coming’: Janice Gross-Stein on the continued U.S.-China trade war and the practical issues of de-globalization
11 April 2025
‘The longer this campaign goes on, Mark Carney’s favourables keep improving’: David Coletto on how Canadians’ attitudes towards the leaders are crystallizing as the campaign continues
11 April 2025
‘The tariffs are probably going to trigger a recession’: Ian Lee on the continued fallout from Trump’s tariff uncertainty
10 April 2025
‘If things are going to shift they have to shift in the next seven days’: Amanda Galbraith on the state of the NDP campaign and how the Conservatives can turn their fortunes around
10 April 2025
‘One of the most self-defeating tactical moves in history’: David Frum on Donald Trump’s obsession with tariffs and America’s increasing isolation on the world stage
9 April 2025
