The scale of Ottawa's defeat is a jarring and continuing indictment of the capacity of the Canadian state, and the state must reverse this situation, decisively.

While French commandos in buses got their people out, we sent texts (in English) telling our friends to head to the airport on their own

I wouldn't be shocked if the referendum failed simply to spite Jason Kenney.

Alberta's real advantage isn't its tax structure.

This was an election about nothing. It’s a tribute to vanity, and an excuse for the callow pursuit of a power with no aim.

Line readers know what to expect from us. What the National Observer feels its owes its readers is up to them.

The PM won't lose votes for skipping the genocide vote. But he may lose some sleep.

The Corp in this guise has wandered so far from its core purpose that there is no longer a visible path to redemption.

This crowd is mostly friendly. But anyone telling you there's no dark edge here is either blind, or lying to you.

The WEF portrays itself as a highly influential elite organization. In reality, it's an overpriced sales conference.

We are not owed any particular future, and are not guaranteed more of what we've already had.

One measure of sincerity is a willingness to accept the consequences of your actions.

The once-royal couple are celebrities now. That's their chosen job. And their claims need to be considered accordingly.

Bill Blair dropped the ball at the airports in March of 2020. And he did it again this week on the B.C. border.

The Liberals muscled through legislation regulating the Internet while accusing the bill's critics of spreading misinformation.

We've become a spiritually and morally weak people, incapable of being meaningfully good.

The sooner the Liberals realize they're trying to do the impossible with their gun ban, the better it'll be for them.

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You have a moral duty to get the first vaccine made available to you

Houses exist to juice the economy and keep the elderly afloat on paper gains well into their retirement years.

Crazy people don't think they're crazy. You can't see it when you're in it.

We're heading into a generational crisis. Our leaders are not prepared.

Our public broadcaster has the responsibility to be the organization that keeps Canadians informed of major international events when all others fail.

The Social's Jess Allen was right. This is a culture that enables bad behaviour.

I have a bruise that’s older than the new reality in German security planning.

If you don't see the peril here, well, all I can say is enjoy Prime Minister Pierre and all of the inevitable drama that the coming populist wave will entail.

I have bad news. I also have good news. But then bad news again.

Arguing about the meaning of the word always missed the point.

It took B.C. three days to declare a state of emergency. The provincial emergency alert system does squat. And everyone keeps passing the buck.

The Ukrainian president was justifiably livid after Canada agreed to send Russian gas turbines back to Germany. But betraying our principles is a part of our heritage.

Some say our classification system is politicized. And there's some truth to that. But the real answer is worse. The system is ... random.

Have our public-health communicators learned nothing from the pandemic? The audience isn't experts. It's normal people.

On revisiting the Netflix tax, anti-trust legislation, COVID-19 rapid testing, and the carbon price that isn't a tax.

I won’t tolerate casual Trumpism in my personal or political cohort anymore. Derek Sloan should not be in the Conservative caucus and certainly shouldn’t have been allowed to run for the leadership.

If the moderates can't hold the CPC, our democracy will be the worse for it.

"Physically we're here, but our minds are with the people who are in danger, like my parents for example. They are in Mykolaiv."

Even in the face of extreme violence, the protests against the regime are continuing.

Health care collapse. Lucki remains unlucky. Listicles aren't the same as a functioning country. And more!

Facing a quasi-formal coalition between the Liberals and the NDP, the Conservatives are at a serious disadvantage. Deal with it.

Too much of our analysis and commentary about the major outage has missed the mark — this was bigger than one telecom's bad day.

The news industry has real problems. This would make them worse.

How do you deal with knowing the date and time when your parent will die?

Policy and politics are not discrete and inviolable little bubbles. It's all politics, babe.

What are the Conservatives going to do about it?

What the WE scandal reveals about Canada's Liberal elites is not that they are corrupt, but that they are impervious to thinking.

Many partisans continue to struggle with it, conservative and progressive alike, and until they change, nothing will change for vulnerable women.

Sloly is broke, the Emergencies Act is Woke, and Doxxing is still bad, em'kay?

We already can't process their applications or house the ones we let in. He's sure we can handle even more?

The Kenney government’s conspicuously lukewarm reaction to the Biden/Harris victory shouldn’t be surprising

Ukraine has said that all men of military age — 18-60 — will be required to stay and defend their country. But women and children are getting out, when they can.

We're all sick forever now.

The Liberals have made the Chinese interference scandal worse for themselves at every possible step.

The Liberals will have to decide which of their grand plans will have now have to be put off — probably indefinitely.

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“If Quebec can do it, why can’t we,” many have asked. Alas, if only Quebec could.

COVID and now Afghanistan are showing us how deeply dysfunctional our institutions have become

Joe Biden was leading the electoral college, but not by nearly enough to prevent a period of protracted uncertainty in America.

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