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The last few weeks may have at least buried any remaining notion that Canadian leaders can exert much control over...
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The last few weeks may have at least buried any remaining notion that Canadian leaders can exert much control over...
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One afternoon earlier this month, Charlie Angus stood in the House of Commons to lament. "Mr. Speaker, I always say...
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Some amount of conflict is inherent to democracy — particularly so in a political system that prominently features His Majesty's...
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When the going gets tough, political leaders sometimes feel the need to get going. And the scramble for safer ground...
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Standing by the docks in downtown Nanaimo, B.C., on Monday morning, Liberal MP Alexandre Mendes told Radio-Canada she came to...
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The Conservative Party sent a note to supporters on Tuesday afternoon with the subject line, "Help fire the Speaker." "Greg...
Last week, Lianne Rood decided to take a stand. Appearing in a video recorded outside a Tim Horton's restaurant in...
In January, the Federal Court found that the Trudeau government's use of the Emergencies Act to respond to the protests...
Nathaniel Erskine-Smith, the Liberal MP who made a name for himself as a backbencher with his own voice, posted a...
In the fall of 2021, the editors of the Canadian Tax Journal devoted several dozen pages to the "hotly debated"...
In November 2018, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau went to Calgary to speak to the chamber of commerce. A crowd gathered...
The Trudeau government's eighth budget is aimed explicitly at the fact that, for many Canadians, life does not seem very...
Earlier this year, the Public Service Commission of Canada reported that the size of the federal public service had reached...
A half-hour into his appearance before the public inquiry into foreign interference, Justin Trudeau arrived at a dramatic moment, from...
Last summer — around the same time public support for the governing Liberals began seriously to erode — Prime Minister...
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