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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‘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
Commentary

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

Max Robert

Why Bill C-9 is being proposed

Commentary

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?

Commentary

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
Commentary

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
Commentary

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?

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

Stephen Staley
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‘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
Commentary

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
Commentary

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
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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

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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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