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A woman attends a protest during the visit of Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Berlin on Sept. 1, 2020. Markus Schreiber/AP Photo
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Andrew Bennett: The Chinese Communist Party is routing its oldest foe: religion

The lack of coherency in the government of Canada’s approach to China reflects a confusion of its interests and a hypocrisy in its values.

Andrew Bennett - Posted on April 29, 2021
Russia's President Vladimir Putin and China's President Xi Jinping walk in Brasilia, Brazil on Nov. 14, 2019. Eraldo Peres/AP Photo
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Balkan Devlen: Wishful thinking is no substitute for strategy with China and Russia

Russia and China are strange bedfellows driven to one another by their shared neo-authoritarian ideology and conviction that the West is in terminal decline.

Balkan Devlen - Posted on April 28, 2021
Grade 1 students wear masks during class at elementary school in Montreal on March 9, 2021. Ryan Remiorz/The Canadian Press
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Deani Van Pelt: The pandemic made us reimagine work. Schools should be next

Reflecting back on this crisis, did our centralized school systems fail us? Wave upon wave of school building closures cannot be ignored and months of lost education cannot be dismissed.

Deani Van Pelt - Posted on April 28, 2021
Liberal Party members vote for the new party constitution at the 2016 convention on May 28, 2016. John Woods/The Canadian Press
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Royce Koop: How to fix Canada’s political parties

Over the past few weeks, we’ve seen members go to party conventions and vote to approve policy resolutions that their leaders will surely ignore for the next election.

Royce Koop - Posted on April 27, 2021
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets with the Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress Zhang Dejiang at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China on Dec. 5, 2017. Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press
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Janice Stein: Canada needs to walk and chew gum when it comes to China

The relationship between the United States and China will be the scaffolding of the international order that emerges from the ashes of two global events that bookended the last decade.

Janice Stein - Posted on April 27, 2021
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland talk with parents during a virtual discussion on child care on Apr. 21, 2021. Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press
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Federal budget sparks economic growth concerns

When the Liberal government came to power, it quickly tried to shift the focus away from deficits and onto the debt-to-GDP ratio.

Stuart Thomson - Posted on April 27, 2021
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing, China on Dec. 5, 2017. Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press
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Canadians are disturbed by the prospect of China as the next superpower: Poll

Seventy-five percent of respondents reported they are uneasy with the prospect of China becoming the next global superpower, according to survey data conducted by Public Square and Maru/Blue and provided exclusively to The Hub.

L. Graeme Smith - Posted on April 26, 2021
For Plato, freedom does not enable us to lead good lives; we are only free when we seek the good. This is a distinction classical liberals reject.
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Michel Kelly-Gagnon: Liberty is a prerequisite of the good life

Classical liberals don’t value liberty purely as an end in itself and we don’t simply value liberty because we are nothing but libertines. Classical liberalism rests on a much more foundational and important insight about the central role liberty plays in enabling us to lead good, fulfilling, and meaningful lives.

Michel Kelly-Gagnon - Posted on April 26, 2021
Steve Jobs was an atypical boomer and institution builder. Paul Sakuma/AP Photo
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Howard Anglin: Boomers aren’t innocent, but the prosecution’s case is weak

Cultural cohesion was already unravelling by 1968, when the first boomers cast their first presidential ballots

Howard Anglin - Posted on April 23, 2021
Linh Huynh from Women's College Hospital prepares doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at a pop-up vaccine clinic in Toronto on April 17, 2021. Cole Burston/The Canadian Press
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Livio Di Matteo: How can we spend so much on health, yet still fail so badly?

The immediate response in 2020 was an increase in total health spending as taken from assorted announced federal and provincial measures totalling $44 billion though much of it remains unspent.

Livio Di Matteo - Posted on April 23, 2021

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