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Freezing Order reads like a fictional spy thriller, but it’s all true

  • April 26, 2022
On Oct 4, 2017, Parliament’s House of Commons voted 277-0 to pass the Canadian version of the Global Magnitsky Act. This historic human rights act, first passed in the U.S. in 2012, allows gove...
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Putin will turn his eyes towards Canada’s Arctic next

  • April 11, 2022
The ugly war in Ukraine has forced a long-overdue reckoning with the pathetic state of our military. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau offered Ukraine’s President Zelensky “unwavering and stea...
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Will Smith’s rage was understandable

  • March 29, 2022
During a comedy tour 10 years ago, Quebec comedian Mike Ward mocked a child by the name of Jérémy Gabriel with specific regard to Gabriel’s rare medical condition, Treacher Collins...
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Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act in bad faith

  • March 28, 2022
The Freedom Convoy’s sojourn in Ottawa, culminating in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s “Just watch me (Daddy)” moment in proclaiming the Emergencies Act, revealed a huge iceber...
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Ontario’s Bill 67 is critical race theory in a thin disguise

  • March 14, 2022
It is hard to overstate the illiberal nature of Ontario’s Bill 67, the Racial Equity in the Education System Act, now headed for third reading and certain passage. The ostensible purpose of ...
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Everyone needs to stop calling everyone else a Nazi

  • March 7, 2022
    When Donald Trump was first elected, my friends on the left would routinely refer to him as a new “Hitler.” The words “fascist” and “Nazi” were flun...
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Could Jean Charest be the leader the CPC needs?

  • February 26, 2022
Justin Trudeau’s political brand is so tarnished, it’s unlikely anything can bring back the shine. All that stands between Trudeau and a resumption of his previous career as a snowboar...
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Sunny ways are long gone

  • February 18, 2022
A Globe and Mail journalist reportedly sent the following rather ghoulish message to some private e-mail addresses: “I’m reaching out to people who seem to have donated to the GiveSendGo ...
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“Mentally-illing” dissidents is making a comeback

  • February 15, 2022
There’s a new phrase in town for an old totalitarian tactic, and it does not roll trippingly off the tongue: “mentally-illed.” Li Tiantian, a pregnant school teacher who taught in a...
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The next Conservative leader has an opportunity to win back women

  • February 9, 2022
It’s too early for me to declare for a favourite in the upcoming federal Conservative leadership campaign, although I will say I’m sorry Rona Ambrose remains a non-starter. But there are s...
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A rebuttal to Marc Miller on potential unmarked graves

  • January 31, 2022
According to markers laid down in print and on Twitter by Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Marc Miller, we may be watching in real-time a noose tightening around the freedom to question the go...
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Why is Prince Andrew the only one being held accountable?

  • January 18, 2022
It was with a pang that I was informed by People.com that “Queen Elizabeth strips Prince Andrew of [his eight] military titles and patronages amid sexual assault lawsuit,” as the headl...
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The CBC’s woke bias has been a problem for decades

  • January 10, 2022
Canada’s journalism world was rattled recently when Tara Henley — previously unknown to me — a now-former CBC radio and TV producer, as well as on-air columnist, not only called ...
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Civility defeats social media vitriol

  • December 24, 2021
The “Christmas column” can be the bane of one’s writing year. Unless your country is actually being invaded, there’s no point in writing about world events. Or Quebec’s ...
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Trans athletes create a competitive imbalance in sports

  • December 6, 2021
On Nov 20, outrage was sparked in the world of sport by yet another case of a natal male making mincemeat out of competitors in a women’s division. Trans-identified swimmer Lia – formerly...
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Suzuki exposed as a fraud who pays lip service to his causes

  • November 30, 2021
Reader’s Digest used to do annual polls to discover which prominent Canadians were deemed most trustworthy by the public. In first place in 2010 for the second year in a row: “eco-cha...
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KAY: Green extremists ignore indigenous voices that don’t fall in line

  • November 27, 2021
In mid-November, a handful of Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs in BC spearheaded yet another attempt — thwarted by the RCMP — to scuttle Coastal GasLink’s $6.6 bi...
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