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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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Why Canada is predicted to have a bad flu season and what vaccine mismatch has to do with it

A shift in the dominant strain of influenza could lessen the effectiveness of the annual vaccine and spell a rocky flu season for Canada, according to Dr. Isaac Bogoch, a professor at the University of Toronto in the Department of Medicine, and an infectious diseases specialist at the Toronto General Hospital. Read More
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Tasha Kheiriddin: Don’t fall for Carney’s ‘Buy Canadian’ fallacy

Protectionists, start your engines. On Monday, Prime Minister Mark Carney unveiled a “Buy Canadian” procurement policy that prioritizes Canadian suppliers for all manner of federal spending, including a second set of national “major projects” he’s announcing on Thursday. “We will build Canadian, by becoming our own best customer,” Carney intoned. Ottawa will allocate nearly $186 million in new funding to the policy, including “streamlined support for Canadian small and medium-sized businesses trying to break into the federal market.” Read More
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