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One of the more perplexing aspects of living through the Trump 2.0 era is knowing when to believe what the American president says. After all, it can be easy to dismiss a lot of what emerges from Trump: he is notoriously mercurial, seems highly persuadable and has a propensity to say some truly odd things. But part of learning to...
Back when I was in law school there were two second-year classes taught by a beloved professor that basically every student wanted to get into. One focused on international armed conflict and the other focused on maritime law. The international armed conflict class came with a much heavier reading list, so along with a few friends of mine, we opted...
It reads like the kind of thing that, just a few years ago, would have been unbelievable. But on Elon Musk’s social platform X, formerly known as Twitter, the AI chatbot Grok built into the site is being used to pump out deepfake non-consensual intimate images and even child sexual abuse material (CSAM). In response to international outcry, Musk limited...
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s “elbows up” rhetoric hasn’t exactly translated into action, and the recent events surrounding the American capture of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro are just the latest example of this. Don’t get me wrong: nobody expects Carney or Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand to go out of their way to antagonize the Trump administration with bravado-laden statements. Anything...
Canada is being battered by an especially bad flu season. None of this should be particularly surprising, since we had data from the southern hemisphere’s flu season to suggest once winter reared its head here we would be in for the same flu-induced misery as our cousins below the equator. In a normal country, this kind of advance notice would...
In the last federal election, the Liberals pledged to better protect children online from sexual exploitation. They also promised a suite of measures aimed at cracking down on sexual and intimate partner violence, including making murder motivated by hate like femicide a first-degree offence. Bill C-16, the Protecting Victims Act, introduced earlier this week is a direct result of the...
The Liberal government has agreed to amend the Criminal Code to remove religious exemptions from the country’s hate speech laws, hoping to secure the Bloc Québécois’ support for its Bill C-9. This has prompted outcries from faith communities as well as the Official Opposition: that the move is an assault on freedom of expression and freedom of religion. Currently, the...
Before leaving for the recently held G20 in Johannesburg, Canada had laid out its priorities, for the summit: “improving critical mineral supply chains, using AI for sustainable development, preventing wildfires and natural disasters, reforming development funding and debt, and advancing gender equality through economic growth.” During a press conference at the summit, however, Prime Minister Carney explained to reporters that...
Big Tech companies have allegedly failed to adequately address child sexual abuse material — and encouraged children younger than 13 to use their platforms, according to court filings in a US lawsuit against Meta, Google, TikTok and Snapchat. The most detailed allegations in the court filings are reserved for Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram. Some of the...
With 170 MPs voting for the budget and 168 voting against, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s first budget passed by just 2 votes, putting an end to weeks of election speculation in Ottawa. Notably, both the Conservative party and NDP had two abstentions apiece. Had those MPs voted along with the rest of their party, the budget would have failed, and...
The success of the Zohran Mamdani campaign in the New York mayoral race has progressives all over the world taking notice. So it’s not unsurprising that Canadian progressives would look south for some inspiration on how to run a campaign that can actually win over voters.
If a week can feel like a lifetime in politics, someone should ask Pierre Poilievre how many lives he lived in the past week. Normally, when a minority government releases a budget, the leader of the Official Opposition spends the time after talking about all the ways the budget failed to meet the moment for Canadians. Instead, Poilievre spent budget...
There seems to be a major rift forming between the hit ‘em back attitude of Ontario Premier Doug Ford and Prime Minister Mark Carney’s newfound “get clocked in the face for the greater good” approach. After the Trump administration spent the better part of last week and a bit complaining about an ad paid for by the Ontario government that...
Welcome to an early edition of election speculation season, a time-honoured Ottawa tradition. You see, in normal times Canadians don’t usually go to the federal polls a mere six months after the last time they did. But in case you haven’t noticed, we’re not in normal times. First, let’s state the obvious: Canadians do not want another election. Elections are...
By now, you’ve probably heard US President Donald Trump is very upset that the Ontario government spent up to $75 million on an ad for American television that used former president Ronald Reagan’s own words to positively describe free trade while admonishing the use of tariffs. Initially, Trump seemed unbothered by the ad, referring to it at first without the...
After inviting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Alberta for the G7 this past June, it was clear to anyone paying attention that Prime Minister Mark Carney was going to take a starkly different approach to defending Canadian sovereignty and protecting members of the Indian diaspora in Canada — particularly Sikh Canadians — than his two predecessors, prime ministers Harper and Trudeau.
Six months after being elected, the Carney government continues to enjoy high polling numbers from a Canadian public that is still nervous about Trump’s impact on Canada. Thrust into a political scene that required a lot of tough talk from Mr. Carney, voters assumed they were getting someone who would stand up for Canada to Trump. Outside of terminally political...
One of the reasons the Conservatives lost their fourth straight election after ten years of a Liberal government is because Prime Minister Carney was perceived by the Canadian electorate as being the best to deal with Trump and his tariff tantrums. After blowing past a self-imposed arbitrary deadline of Aug. 1, Canada is still effectively without a “deal.”
After a fourth consecutive electoral loss to the Liberals that saw the Conservatives remain on the opposition benches for the 10th year in a row, the party has a serious decision to make. Pierre Poilievre has a leadership review scheduled for January that he is all but certain to pass. But before they rubber stamp Poilievre, Conservative members should think...
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s decision to invite Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Canada for the G7 has generated a lot of chatter. Unfortunately, there’s a lot that has been missing in the conversation. For starters, the Indian government’s belief that Canada is soft on extremists seeking to establish an independent Sikh state known as Khalistan isn’t exactly new. In...
From the people who brought you classic hits such as: adding gender identity to the Human Rights Act would criminalize free speech and signing onto the UN Global Compact on Migration would mean Canada’s immigration policy being set by “foreign entities,” comes the newest sensation on the scene — portraying the Online Harms Act as a total affront to freedom...
This last year was the worst year of my life. In January, my non-smoking 40-year-old husband, Anoop, was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer and died seven months later. As it became public that my husband had died from such an aggressive form of cancer, I started to get messages from anti vaxxers that my husband had died from something...