Opinion
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“Country Risk” For Investors: It’s Not Canada. It’s the United States.
In this upside down and volatile world investors now inhabit, it is the United States which astonishingly is starting to fail most benchmarks in country
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Strategies for Canada in the New World Order
New language for the planet we’re on. The Fertile Crescent, the Ukraine’s wheat fields, the fractious Balkans, the Sudetenland. “Geography is destiny”. But Canada? Yes, for
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Reflections on Trudeau’s Departure and a Look Ahead
It is with some sadness that we should watch the end unfold. It is not, as some Opposition leaders have chosen to make it, a
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Where Do The Liberals Go From Here?
Political pundits are rarely at a loss for words. Yesterday’s unprecedented events in Ottawa could strike one dumb. But we will take a stab, political
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Gladiator II: Canada Confronts a Re-Elected Donald Trump. Let the Games Begin.
When he enters the arena on January 20th, 2025, an emboldened President Trump won’t need a net. The rest of us will. He is spoiling
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Divorce NDP Style
The NDP decision to end their agreement to support the minority Liberal government (the “Supply and Confidence Agreement”) is more about political positioning for the
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Sometimes It’s Not Just a By-election…
We Won, They Lost No one was more surprised by last night’s victory than my fellow Conservatives. When St. Paul’s boundaries were redrawn 1996 the
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Perspectives on Federal Budget 2024
Budget 2024: Lots of Everything all at Once Barry Campbell There is always a political calculus behind a Budget. Where a government is in the
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The Toronto Mayoral Election That Was: An Analysis
One day after the New York Times wrote a piece saying that Toronto had gone from ‘a city that works’ to a ‘city in crisis’