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John Ivison: If Trudeau won’t answer the questions in question period, what’s the bloody point? If Trudeau’s pioneering use of non-sequitur politics takes hold in the House, frustrated taxpayers are going to demand someone provides adult supervision OTTAWA — There was an...

February 28, 2018 Guessing Justin's mental age By Theo Caldwell Not to brag, but I was embarrassed by Justin Trudeau before he went to India. The Good Book instructs that whoever...

Damore, Diversity, and Disruption at PSU written by Andy Ngo I held my breath as the protesters stood up and began their walk-out. “Please, let it be peaceful,” I said to myself. In the weeks leading up...

There is so much wrong being said about the death of Colten Boushie and the trial of Gerald Stanley, it’s hard to know where to begin. First off, let me start by saying I covered the North Battleford Provincial Court and Battleford Court of Queen’s Bench from 2004-2008 for the Battlefords...

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer painted a stark vision of the political battle on the horizon Friday as party faithful gathered in the national capital to plot a course towards a ballot-box victory in 2019. The choice, Scheer told the Manning Networking Conference in his first major...

Political commentary on court verdicts hurts views of justice system: lawyers Linda Givetash, The Canadian Press Published Sunday, February 11, 2018 6:33AM EST VANCOUVER -- The public perception of political interference in criminal trials places the independence of Canada's judiciary...

Several people in the courtroom yelled "Murderer!" seconds after a Saskatchewan jury found Gerald Stanley not guilty of killing Colten Boushie early Friday evening. As a sheriff's deputy put his hand on his shoulder, Stanley recoiled for a moment before being hurriedly led out of the tense...

Odd things I encountered on the internet. Is everyone aware that the # symbol actually means "pound"? So the line added to tweets that looks like this: #metoo should correctly be read as "Pound Me Too" I do not think that is what they had in mind. LOL .

When Henry Ford unveiled his brand new Model T at the turn of the 20th century, he noted that "Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants, so long as it is black." A reader reminded me of that quote after I took to Twitter to share what might be Prime Minister Justin...

This writer has been saying for weeks that #MeToo was going to hit Canadian politics. It has struck with a fury in Hollywood, the media, Washington and the cultural elite. It was only a matter of time before it took down the creeps and criminals slithering through the Canadian corridors of...

OTTAWA — Liberals followed a secretive, unethical process to nominate a new ethics commissioner and force a decision before a long winter break, opposition parties say. “It’s just ragingly incompetent and frustrating and cynical,” New Democrat ethics critic Nathan Cullen said Tuesday. He...

I’m a prof at Wilfrid Laurier University who supports free speech. I’m not the only one. I’m part of a group who, in the wake of the Lindsay Shepherd affair, launched a petition calling on Laurier to adopt the “Chicago Statement”— a policy that ensures maximum freedom of expression on...

Dear Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly: May I call you Melanie? You seem to have blocked my access to your ministerial Twitter account, so please forgive the formality of an open...

These are dark days in Ontario. A three-minute news clip from the Ontario government’s TV station prime time show The Agenda has roiled higher education in the province. Not everyone is blessed to live in Ontario, so perhaps not all reading this know of that worthy program. The Agenda...

Even the interviewer seemed surprised at the answer Rory Stewart, the U.K. minister of international development, gave about how Britain should deal with citizens who chose to join Islamic State. "I'm afraid we have to be serious about the fact these people are a serious danger to us, and...

Cast your mind back to the dark days of 2014 and 2015, before Sunny Ways. The last days of the Stephen Harper government. The leader holed up in his Centre Block crypt, lonely and accursed, like some latter-day Richard III, though with better hair and no hump. The country wallowing in...

On the websites of some online retailers these days you will come across a quite extraordinary sight. Below the picture of the shirt or floor lamp or whatever item is for sale, there is often a space for customers to leave reviews or comments. And the comments, remarkably, are not always...

With Canada set to announce its next role in a peacekeeping mission this week, two retired Canadian generals say there’s actually no such thing as peacekeeping anymore. Retired major-generals Lewis MacKenzie and David Fraser say given that there are very few regions of the world with...

Bray New World by Mark Steyn The War on Free Speech November 9, 2017 Share95 Dartmouth man, 2017 Professor Mark Bray is what passes for the intellectual wing of Antifa. You might recall that I mentioned him here:Antifa, says Mark Bray, "have no allegiance...

Since being elected, the Trudeau government has repeated over and over again that it wants to help families “who are working hard to join the middle class.” Which raises an important question — has the government actually lived up to this rhetoric on personal income taxes, a key policy area...