Fault Lines

Fault Lines examines the pressures pulling Canadian society apart and the principles that can hold it together. We look beyond headlines to understand how institutions, communities, and democratic norms are fraying. Our mission is to show how better choices can repair what is broken.

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Canada’s police union president says policing protests is complicated. So where are his solutions?

Stephen Staley
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It’s time to call out antizionism for what it really is

Adam Louis-Klein

The problem with a 2025 UN report accusing Israel of genocide

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Yes, antisemitism is a serious problem in Canada—just read my replies denying it

Michael Geist

When writing about antisemitism proves the point

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Auditor general fires torpedo at Liberals’ mishandling of international student fraud

Stephen Staley
Commentary

Canada is becoming a safe haven for international criminals and terrorists

Daniel Robson

Canada is too useful to fugitives, traffickers, and terror suspects

Analysis

Rising Jewish hate is forcing Toronto synagogues to spend millions on security

Graeme Gordon
Analysis

Toronto’s Al-Quds Day rally revealed the growing shadow of the Iranian regime in Canada

Graeme Gordon
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‘It’s a nasty world now’: Why Canada needs a foreign intelligence service

The Hub Staff
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We do not need human rights tribunals

David Polansky
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My family didn’t come to Canada to live behind walls again

Alexandra Fellus
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It’s obvious why violence is growing in Canada: We’ve tolerated hatred for far too long

Stephen Staley

It’s time to quit being complacent and actually address the root of the problem

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‘The silence of our business community has been deafening’: Jon Love on why it’s time for corporate Canada to stand up against antisemitism

The Hub Staff
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‘It fills you with outrage’: Three more synagogue shootings—why Canada must act now

The Hub Staff
Analysis

U.S. intelligence sees Canada as ‘serious place of concern for Iranian activity’: National security analyst

Graeme Gordon
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‘Practice makes perfect’: What’s behind the increase of protests in Canada?

The Hub Staff
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Canada has a lot to learn from the courage of Iran’s exiles

Stephen Staley
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‘That is not how the legal system operates’: Natasha Hausdorff on how international law is being weaponized against Israel

The Hub Staff
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There’s no excuse for Jewish witch hunts in Canada

Ian Cooper

Summer camp should be a safe space for kids, not another platform to protest Israel

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‘It’s affecting all provinces’: What’s behind the surge in violent crimes across Canada?

The Hub Staff
Analysis

Doug Ford has failed to protect free speech at Ontario universities, say academics

Graeme Gordon
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‘This is not about a series of vandalism’: Canada’s antisemitism problem is only getting worse

The Hub Staff
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The government’s proposed anti-hate law is a necessary response to extremism

Max Robert

Why Bill C-9 is being proposed

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The government’s proposed anti-hate law is a threat to Canadians’ religious freedoms

Daniel Zekveld

Why Bill C-9 needs to be rethought

Analysis

Toronto, Montreal, Edmonton hit violent crime severity records, top-20 cities all see rises except Vancouver

The Hub Staff
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Canada’s great refugee disaster

Stephen Staley

Will anyone at all be held accountable?

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Canada feels broken? You can blame our undermined institutions

David Polansky

Canada’s systems are a shadow of their former selves

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Canada has a youth extremism problem it can’t continue to ignore

Daniel Robson
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The beginning of the end of equity and the ticking immigration time bomb: Roundup

Stephen Staley
Commentary

Stephen Harper and the power of principled leadership

Stephen Staley

20 years after he first took office, Canada misses Harper's principled foreign policy leadership

Analysis

How the West lost control of immigration, crime, and antisemitism

The Hub Staff
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‘There is a sense of disorder’: How dramatic shifts in immigration, crime, and antisemitism are changing the West

The Hub Staff
Analysis

Jews are scared of being Jewish on campus. Here’s how universities are responding

Graeme Gordon
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Canada courting Qatar raises hard questions for Carney about values and security

Ariella Kimmel
Commentary

Canadian pluralism will fail if the law is not equally enforced

Joanna Baron

When it comes to policing anti-Israel protests, is Toronto engaging in real enforcement or just theatre?

Commentary

Kanye West’s insufficient apology and the return of gold stars: Roundup

Stephen Staley
video

‘This is not a Jewish problem, it’s a Canada problem’: Holocaust remembrance demands action, not slogans

The Hub Staff
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‘A historic problem’: Why Canada must tackle its extortion gang crisis—and how

The Hub Staff
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Young conservatives must reject growing identity extremism

Khalil-Najir Miles
Analysis

Jewish university students across Canada speak out about the rise of antisemitism on campuses since October 7

Graeme Gordon
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Reports reveal the CBC’s anti-Israel bias, and Canada’s revolving-door policing continues: Roundup

Stephen Staley
Commentary

Here’s how Canada can prevent antisemitic extremism

Daniel Robson

Canada’s prevention gap grows wider the more complacent we become

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‘Catastrophe’: Jason Kenney on how Trudeau broke Canadian immigration, and how we can fix it

The Hub Staff
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Why won’t Amnesty International call October 7 a genocide?

Adam Louis-Klein

The organization obscures moral and legal truth by shifting from legal assessment to narrative clean-up

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The Iran protests and the deafening sound of silence

Stephen Staley

Five reasons we don’t hear more about the brave people of Iran

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‘The world’s oldest hatred is rearing its ugly head’: How should we respond to our society’s growing fault lines?

The Hub Staff
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Fault Lines: Confronting Canada’s widening rifts

Stephen Staley
Commentary

The uncomfortable reason antisemitism is festering in Canada

David Polansky
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‘It’s inviting a backlash’: David Frum breaks down Canada’s approach to Indigenous reconciliation

David Frum
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The year we cure Gell-Mann Amnesia: The Hub predicts 2026

Stephen Staley
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Should Israel support a two-state solution? The Munk Debates prove open discussion is still possible

Stephen Staley

Whatever the answer, being able to safely argue controversial questions is a win for free society

Commentary

David Polansky: Kind, tolerant Canada is failing the antisemitism test

David Polansky

An increasingly multicultural Canada is increasingly hostile towards Canada’s Jews

Commentary

Joanna Baron: Jews don’t belong behind civic moats

Joanna Baron

We don't need bubble zone laws—we need to enforce the laws we already have

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