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Chris Selley: Job one for Canada in this scary new world is to stop being stupid

When it comes to COVID-19 post-mortems, inquiries and audits, scrutinizing the ArriveCan debacle shouldn’t really be at the top of the list. But beggars can’t be choosers: If we can’t get a proper reckoning for having kept schools, summer camps, playgrounds, skate parks, golf courses and restaurant patios closed for reasons that look highly suspect in hindsight, even to quite cautious people, we might as well appreciate the feds getting pilloried for their spectacular failure in producing what ought to have been a very simple app. Read More
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Gavin Newsom’s Trump battle won’t save him from Californians angry at hard-left agenda

Thanks to his good looks and fancy breeding, California Gov. Gavin Newsom has done remarkably well in Democratic politics. The one-time husband of one-time Donald Trump Jr.-paramour Kimberley Guilfoyle has survived sex scandals and COVID scandals and six separate recall efforts to somehow emerge as a 2028 front-runner for his party’s presidential nomination. Read More
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André Pratte: Carney’s win is Quebec sovereigntists’ loss

Never since he became Quebec Premier in 2018 has François Legault come back from a meeting with a prime minister with such positive things to say. “We had an excellent meeting, the premier said of the First Ministers meeting in Saskatoon. I have never talked as much about the economy with a prime minister of Canada as yesterday. It’s refreshing.” Read More
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The long history of Canada failing to hit its military spending targets

In an ever-more insecure world, Canada’s federal government has announced it will spend two per cent of its GDP on military spending. That’s the standard that members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization all agreed to back in 2006, but Canada has long been a laggard, to the extent that other governments, particularly the United States, have browbeaten the country for its meagre military spending. Read More
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