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Amy Hamm: The therapeutic effect of Pierre Poilievre
Pierre Poilievre has become a lightning rod for Canadians' frustration, and for those seeking cathartic release from simply being a Canadian — whatever that means, what with our ongoing national identity crisis — in 2025. Read More
NP View: A roadmap for Canadian prosperity
Again: recall Parliament and let's get to work. Read More
John Ivison: Trump’s tariff position is weakening. We need to make ours stronger
It was a quiet day for the world’s stock markets when Donald Trump landed in Quebec in early June 2018 to join other leaders at the G7 summit at Charlevoix. Read More
Ivison: DEI screening comes before merit questions in Canadian university hiring
Diversity, equity and inclusion policies are “sadly lacking in idea diversity” and are driven by people who believe that racism explains everything, said Mark Milke, founder and president of the Aristotle Foundation on Public Policy. Read More
Opinion: Us, them and we — Canada’s fight to end antisemitism
By Gil Troy and Richard Marceau Read More
Jamie Sarkonak: Taking down internal trade barriers won’t be Canada’s saving grace
Whenever Canada is thrown into chaos, a certain policy meme makes familiar rounds. “Remove interprovincial trade barriers,” it goes. The most recent wave, you’ll know, was triggered by President Donald Trump’s now-paused 25-per-cent tariffs. But, beyond enthusiastic nods of approval from the commentariat, it’s unlikely we’ll see barriers broken down at scale. Read More
Terry Newman: Bonnie Crombie’s embarrassing campaign bus of untruths
Thursday, in Scarborough, Ontario Liberal Leader Bonnie Crombie promised that, if elected, her party will get all Ontarians a family doctor in four years. Unfortunately, election day is fast approaching, and Crombie has neither detailed nor explained the cost of her ambitious plan. She also seems to have a problem getting her health-care facts straight, including the ones she's printed on her campaign bus. Read More
Randall Denley: Ontario Liberals and NDP will have to merge, sooner or later
Ontario’s left-of-centre parties and their supporters need to accept a basic political reality. As long as they continue to split their votes three ways, they are going to lose election after election. Read More
Opinion: Two ways to boost Canadian defence spending and minimize Trump’s tariff threats
By Rick Hillier, Brice Scheschuk and Kevin Reed Read More
Terry Newman: Ontario NDP’s ‘housing first’ plan for encampments would be a disaster
Wednesday, Marit Stiles, leader of the Ontario NDP, told Ontarians she will end the encampment crisis in Ontario — by forcing them to live like the rest of us. Sounds noble, except it's been tried before and has failed. Stiles fundamentally misunderstands how Ontarians end up in encampments in the first place, as if there's a direct line from losing one's home to living in a tent in a park. Encampments have risen in Canada for a number of reasons, the least likely of which is the lack of affordable housing, as Stiles believes. Evidence suggests it's mental health and substance abuse that are the major drivers of encampments across Canada. Read More
Raymond J. de Souza: What Reagan would say about the Trump insanity
After President Donald Trump’s recent unhinged press conference — on the Potomac plane crash, not the one announcing the launch of Trump Gaza — I thought of Ronald Reagan. Read More
John Ivison: A deplorable indictment of Canadians’ access to health care. One of too many
A column that appeared in this space last week, looking at the record high wait times for non-emergency surgery, prompted a heart-wrenching response from one reader. Read More
Chris Selley: We’ll believe Ontario is ‘Team Canada’ on interprovincial trade when we see it
Roll out the barrel, drop the balloons, we have yet another all-party consensus in the Ontario election campaign! Thanks to President Donald Trump’s tariff menaces, Ontario's three major party leaders (and the Greens too) agree it has never been more important that Canadian provinces eliminate interprovincial trade barriers — the cost of which the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) estimates at some $200 billion annually. We could use $200 billion right now. Read More
Terry Glavin: There’s no turning back for Canada now
In the variously stirring and plaintive appeals to American reason that have emanated from this country’s political class over the past several weeks, there’s something unmistakably poignant and strangely melancholy about all of it. Read More
Terry Newman: What Justin Trudeau isn’t saying
On Saturday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau admitted that he and the Liberal party had failed in its negotiations to protect Canadians from 25 per cent tariffs, except that's not how he framed the situation. Instead, he made it look like his government was powerless to address American concerns about securing our border from potential security threats posed by the crossing of illegal migrants and drugs from Canada into the U.S. Read More
Ian Lee: This is Trump’s plan for global economic domination
During the past several weeks, federal cabinet ministers have claimed that we did not know what United States President Donald Trump wants to accomplish by threatening Canada with tariffs. Some pundits have claimed that the president of the U.S. has no substantial understanding of what impact these tariffs will have, and that they are some sort of a vanity project. Read More
Anthony Furey: The Liberals’ hilariously inept attack on Ford
The pausing of tariffs against Canada is a good thing for the national economy, but it’s unclear what it means for those party leaders vying for votes in the Ontario election. This was supposed to be the tariff election. How will it unfold now that there are no tariffs? Read More
Geoff Russ: The astroturfing of Mark Carney
You have no choice but to be a spectator of Mark Carney’s astroturfing. After all, the Liberals have suspended Canadian parliamentary democracy to make it happen. Read More
Christine Van Geyn: Court ruling condemning use of Emergencies Act must be upheld
The Federal Court of Appeal is hearing a once-in-a-generation civil liberties case Feb. 4 and 5 — the appeal in the legal challenge to the Emergencies Act. This is the appeal of a landmark decision of the federal court from January 2024. In that lower court decision, Justice Richard Mosley sided with the legal charity, the Canadian Constitution Foundation, which had challenged Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s invocation of that extraordinary legislation in response to the 2022 Freedom Convoy. Read More
Katherine Brodsky: It’s time for Canada to make new friends
What does it mean to be Canadian? Is it honouring our maple syrup? Knowing more French than the average English speaker? A dedication to ketchup chips? An above-average passion for hockey? A dedication to defending our (troubled, but universal) healthcare system? Being able to list off all the Canadian actors that made it big in Hollywood? Apologizing when other people step on your foot? Or perhaps we define it simply as “not American.” Read More
Randall Denley: The tariff reprieve changes the Ontario election balance
Can we stop pretending that the Ontario election has only one issue, which is authorizing Premier Doug Ford to spend tens of billions of dollars to protect Ontario from American tariffs? Read More
Tasha Kheiriddin: Trump can’t be trusted, Canada must be ready
It’s over. For now. Until he decides to hit us again. After a weekend of pain, Canada has 30 days before the United States decides if we’ve been good enough, or we deserve another beating. Tariffs? Takeover? Who knows what President Donald Trump has in store for us. But one thing is clear: we can never trust him again. Read More
Jack Mintz: Trump sets the stage for the next Canadian election
Jack Mintz is the president's fellow at the University of Calgary's School of Public Policy. Read More
WATCH: Who are the serious candidates in the Liberal leadership contest?
Watch the full video directly below. (If using the National Post iPhone app, the video is at the top of the post.) Read More
Colby Cosh: The trade war’s other casualty — the U.S. Constitution
The children’s television star Fred Rogers once told his audience that when they saw frightening events in the news, they should look for the helpers: you will always, Mr. Rogers said, find people who are helping. I am past middle age, and it’s still good advice, but if I’m being honest, my heuristic now in the same situation is to look for the libertarians. Read More
