Northern Reflections: Getting It Wrong

Things are not going well for Canada’s oil advocates. Max Fawcett writes: Timing, as they say, is everything. And the timing right now for opponents of the federal government’s much-maligned Impact Assessment Act couldn’t be much worse. Arguments around the constitutionality of the act, which has been widely branded as

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Northern Reflections: A Very Bad Place

Michael Harris writes that populism is destroying our politics: Opposition politics has always been the process of casting the appropriate lights and shadows over the other guy’s record—and the facts. No surprise there.   The job of opposition is to oppose, so the characterization of incumbent governments has almost never been

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Northern Reflections: Complete Insanity

Republicans have been threatening to default on the national debt. Developments this week underscore how insane that idea is. Catherine Rempel writes: Recent financial-market turmoil — in regional U.S. banks, as well as some of the larger European institutions — suggests there might be much more fragility in the financial

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Northern Reflections: A Black Hole

Republicans are hell-bent on investigating Hunter Biden’s laptop. Jennifer Rubin writes: Right-wing House Republicans have left little doubt that they want to spend the bulk of their time and energy investigating phony conspiracies and made-up scandals. Their main obsession appears to be Hunter Biden, whose very name has become a

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Northern Reflections: A Fatal Disease

Ignorance is a curse. Willful ignorance is a fatal disease. Kevin McCarthy has succumbed to the disease. Dana Milbank writes: Not since the Know-Nothing Party disappeared in the 1850s has a public figure boasted about his ignorance with as much gusto as Kevin McCarthy does. It doesn’t seem to matter

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Northern Reflections: Dark And Ugly

For the last two decades, we have watched American politics get dark and ugly. The ill wind that emanates from there has blown across our border. Susan Delacourt writes: The fight between Justin Trudeau and Pierre Poilievre was never going to be pretty, but this week both politicians fired off

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Northern Reflections: How To Be Bought

If you want to know how things work in Ontario, consider this piece from The Toronto Star: Premier Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives have quietly held the largest political fundraiser in Canadian history, bringing in a staggering $6 million. Quietly, because even though more than 4,000 people paid $1,500 apiece to

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