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Jesse Kline: Remember when the left smeared Ford as Trump light?

Having won his third-consecutive majority government on Thursday night, Ontario Premier Doug Ford has successfully positioned himself, as a recent Guardian headline put it, as “Canada’s anti-Trump.” It’s a remarkable transformation considering that a mere seven years ago, the left was trying to brand Ford as a homegrown version of U.S. President Donald Trump. Read More

Avi Benlolo: The Palestinians don’t deserve a state because they chose destruction

No one can fault us for believing that a complete reset is necessary in our future dealings with the Palestinians. Not just a reset, but a fundamental severing and distancing. This perspective comes from someone who has long supported the two-state solution — not out of any illusion that the Palestinians truly desire peace, nor that peace was entirely possible, but because I was willing to give them a chance to take responsibility for their own future. I wanted to believe they wanted a better life for themselves, for the sake of all of us. Read More

New batch of Jeffrey Epstein files draws criticism, called a ‘complete disappointment’

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday released government documents related to wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein, but the first wave of files posted on the Justice Department website have largely been circulating in the public domain for years and didn’t include any new bombshells about the sex trafficking case that has been a favorite subject of conspiracy theorists. Read More

Michael Taube: May Doug Ford’s third majority win herald an era of fiscal conservatism

Ontario Premier Doug Ford and the Progressive Conservatives appear to be well on their way to victory in this Thursday’s election. They’re leading in opinion polls by an average of 40 to 44 per cent — and are ahead of Bonnie Crombie and the Liberals by 10 points or more. Barring an unforeseen turn of events, the PCs will form a third successive majority government and may achieve a small increase in their total number of legislative seats. Read More

Colby Cosh: Trump’s aluminum tariffs are already a failure

If the murky clouds of Trumpian nihilism are dragging down your spirits, we have a quick little mood stabilizer for you: go to the website of the London Metals Exchange and gawp at the price chart for Platts’ index of the “Aluminum Premium Duty Paid US Midwest.” The hockey stick you’ll see there is a picture of President Donald Trump’s off-the-cuff tariff threats against Canada landing squarely on the skulls of middle American manufacturers and consumers. They are, as of Wednesday, paying US$400 (C$570) a tonne more for aluminum, most of it Canadian, than they did before Trump was elected. You would have to have a heart of stone, or perhaps cold gray rolled aluminum, not to laugh. Read More
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