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Modern living: First month’s free  

According to the real-estate research firm Urbanation, 63 per cent of purpose-built rental (PBR) buildings across the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA) offered incentives during the third quarter of 2025; 33 per cent offered free rent for two months or more, up from 11 per cent a year ago. This marks a sharp shift that signals growing pressure on landlords, and a rare moment of leverage for tenants.   Read More
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Adam Zivo: Wab Kinew’s worthy plan to lock up meth addicts

“People who are suffering from meth addiction do not have the right to determine how the rest of us are going to live in our society,” declared Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew last week, ahead of passing a bill permitting the involuntary detainment of drug-intoxicated individuals for up to three days. The move is a step in the right direction to restoring order on public streets, even if more work needs to be done on treatment. Read More
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André Pratte: Separatist fantasies about Quebec’s global influence get a free pass

From outside the province, it is not easy to understand (or care for) what is currently going on in Quebec politics. Even if 65 per cent of Quebecers say that they would vote "no" to a referendum on Quebec’s sovereignty, the separatist Parti Québécois (PQ) enjoys a comfortable lead in the polls one year ahead of the Oct. 5, 2026 elections. The PQ leader, Paul St-Pierre Plamondon (known by his acronym PSPP), has repeatedly committed to holding a referendum on independence if his party forms government, oblivious to the fact that one third of his party’s supporters would vote against separation. Read More
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Geoff Russ: Canada desperately needs to find its ‘we’ again

The classical liberal John Stuart Mill once warned that “free institutions are next to impossible in a country made up of different nationalities.” He wrote that, without a “united public opinion,” representative government lacked the common sympathies and culture required for it to work properly. He added that even entities like the army would cease to identify with the people and become another branch of the state. Read More
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Chris Selley: Of course the poppy is political. That’s not a bad thing

Across the Commonwealth, Remembrance Day controversies tend to be rote affairs: some bureaucrat or politician says something dumb about poppies, or some group gets behind “peace poppies,” or some TV personality — let’s call him Don — says something indelicate about how many and which Canadians he sees wearing poppies, or some drunken yob is caught on camera using a cenotaph as a toilet. Read More
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