National Post
Oil begins moving on $34 billion Trans Mountain pipeline expansion
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- Oil begins moving on $34 billion Trans Mountain pipeline expansion
- Date posted
- 9 hours ago
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- The Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, a major Canadian infrastructure project, cleared a significant hurdle despite numerous delays and legal challenges. Now federally owned, the project aims to transport bitumen from Alberta to the west coast. Calgary Herald columnist Chris Varcoe discusses with Dave Breakenridge the economic implications for Canada and Alberta, the project's troubled progress, and its impact on future infrastructure projects.
Background reading:Varcoe: 'We landed the plane': Inside the story of turbulence and triumph to complete the Trans Mountain expansion (https://calgaryherald.com/opinion/columnists/varcoe-trans-mountain-tmx-pipeline-project-expansion-completed)
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- Canada leads the world in carbon taxes
- Date posted
- 11 hours ago
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- If you’re a Canadian watching this, you’ve probably paid a carbon tax today … unless you’re a Newfoundlander who just bought some heating oil. But unlike most of our other taxes – income taxes, sales taxes – this is a rather unique thing we do.
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- Justin Trudeau's imaginary hate militia
- Date posted
- 1 day ago
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- With the Trudeau government getting killed in the polls by the Conservatives, this has become their leading attack against Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre. The premise is this: There is a white supremacist neo-Nazi militia that wants to destroy Canada called Diagolon. And that Poilievre is actively courting their support. There’s just a couple problems with this.
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- Pierre Poilievre expelled from House of Commons
- Date posted
- 3 days ago
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- Pierre Poilievre expelled from House of Commons for calling Trudeau 'wacko,' 'extremist'
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Full story here https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/pierre-poilievre-calls-trudeau-wacko-expelled-from-house-of-commons
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- Is this the end of Justin Trudeau?
- Date posted
- 3 days ago
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- National Post columnists Jamie Sarkonak, Rahim Mohamed and Adam Zivo discuss the prime minister's political future.
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- Unlike the US, the Canadian political class isn’t full of seniors
- Date posted
- 4 days ago
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- We Canadians don’t have much to be smug about as compared to the Americans these days, but we can still boast that our political class isn’t a gerontocracy. As of this video, the U.S. president is Joe Biden, and his chief rival for that position is Donald Trump: Age 81 and age 77, respectively. Our leader is Justin Trudeau and his chief rival is Pierre Poilievre. Age 52 and 44. But it gets weird.
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- The RCMP said he was a sex-trafficking kingpin
- Date posted
- 7 days ago
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- A Toronto man was jailed for over two years on human smuggling accusations before being released on bail and finding out at his trial that his charges had been dropped. Freelance reporter Luc Rinaldi joins the show to discuss the police's focus on him, the lengthy pre-trial detention, and the impact on his life in Canada.
Background reading:The RCMP said he was a sex-trafficking kingpin. 'They destroyed my life' (https://nationalpost.com/feature/rcmp-destroyed-my-life-with-sex-trafficking-kingpin-claims)
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- How Canada became a warning to the world
- Date posted
- 7 days ago
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- There’s been a lot of this happening: Foreigners pointing to Canada [there’s 3 links there] as an example of what not to do. It’s because, in just the last decade, Canada has gone farther than anybody else on a whole whack of progressive issues, and a lot of them are yielding unintended consequences.
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- Having two genitals at once now covered by Canadian taxpayers
- Date posted
- 7 days ago
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- Sex change procedures – or gender affirmation surgeries as they’re called as of this video – have been covered by the Canadian health care system for quite some time now. But we’re now the world’s first public health system that will pay for a procedure where surgeons install a vagina while you keep your penis, thus having two genitals.
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- Trudeau government may have stopped deportation of a serial blockader
- Date posted
- 7 days ago
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- You may have heard that if you blockade roads in Canada, you could get a federal government invoking our version of martial law, freezing your bank account, and putting you in court for a year or so. But that’s only if you do a certain kind of blockade.
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- Harry Jerome: The first to break 10 seconds?
- Date posted
- 10 days ago
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- In 1960, Canada’s Harry Jerome sprinted into the record books in Saskatoon, but was he the first to break the 10-second barrier for the 100-metre race?
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- Police arrest multiple suspects in Canada's largest gold heist
- Date posted
- 10 days ago
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- In an update to the sensational gold heist at Toronto's Pearson airport, where over $20 million in gold was stolen from an Air Canada cargo facility, significant arrests have now been made across Canada and the U.S. National Post reporter Adrian Humphreys joins the show to discuss how police made breaks in the case, ties between the heist and allegations of gun smuggling, and what happened with all that gold.
Background reading: Toronto airport gold heist loot was melted in a forge in local jewelry store's basement (https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/toronto-airport-gold-heist-loot-melted-at-jewelry-store-forge)
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- The conspiracy theory as to why Trudeau is so terrible at his job
- Date posted
- 12 days ago
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- I don’t think it’s tremendously controversial to say that, on the fundamentals, Canada under the premiership of Justin Trudeau has gotten worse in almost every way. Crime, affordability, productivity, health care wait times; it’s all bad. And if you go to the darker corners of the internet, they’ll tell you that it’s all part of a plan.
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- Why Canadians can’t read news on Facebook
- Date posted
- 14 days ago
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- If you’re in the United States, or Britain, or Sweden … or most of the free world, you could very well be watching this video on Facebook. But not here in Canada.
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- Federal budget aims to please Millennials and Gen Z
- Date posted
- 14 days ago
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- The Trudeau government introduced a new budget focused on affordability and appealing to younger Canadians, accompanied by increased spending and debt. Toronto Sun columnist Brian Lilley joined the show to discuss its outreach to Millennials and Gen Z, its shortcomings, and criticism from traditionally Liberal supporters.
Background reading:LILLEY: Key architects of past Liberal budgets slam Trudeau's latest (https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/key-architects-of-past-liberal-budgets-slam-trudeaus-latest)
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- Canada’s official archives are full of porn
- Date posted
- 15 days ago
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- If I was to ask you where I might find Canada’s largest and most stash of erotic literature and pornography, would you guess that it’s our official state archives? Library and Archives Canada actually has quite a large number of blue materials in its collection, from explicit pulp novels to old Playboys to one of the world’s only copies of Sexcula, an incredibly raunchy Vancouver film from 1973.
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- Canada's airports, ranked
- Date posted
- 15 days ago
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- Canada's busiest airport, Toronto Pearson, scored 52, placing it fifth in a list of 25 airports.
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- 'I am not ashamed,' ArriveCan contractor Kristian Firth tells MPs
- Date posted
- 16 days ago
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- GC Strategies co-founder Kristian Firth was called to the bar in Parliament to be admonished and then grilled by Parliamentarians for failing to answer their questions on his role in the ArriveCan debacle. He’s only the second private citizen in Canadian history to receive such a dishonour. Firth has been a key player in the ongoing ArriveCan scandal because of his two-person IT consulting firm’s central and lucrative role in the development of the application during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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- Speaker 'admonishes' ArriveCan contractor Kristian Firth over evasive testimony
- Date posted
- 16 days ago
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- GC Strategies co-founder Kristian Firth was called to the bar in Parliament — literally a long brass bar near the entrance of the House of Commons that can only be passed by MPs or those invited by the Crown — to be admonished and then grilled by Parliamentarians for failing to answer their questions on his role in the ArriveCan debacle. He’s only the second private citizen in Canadian history to receive such a dishonour.
“On behalf of the House of Commons, I admonish you,” Speaker Greg Fergus said directly to Firth.
Firth has been a key player in the ongoing ArriveCan scandal because of his two-person IT consulting firm’s central and lucrative role in the development of the application during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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- The Liberal government tries to capitalize on capital gains
- Date posted
- 16 days ago
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- Ottawa bureau chief Stuart Thomson talks to National Post reporter Ryan Tumilty about this week's federal budget and the political reaction.
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- Canada doubles down on puberty blockers for children
- Date posted
- 16 days ago
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- Canada and the U.K. both implemented basically the same policies regarding child gender transitions … and at the same time. But the UK is now hinting this was a huge mistake.
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- How the $20M Toronto airport gold heist unfolded
- Date posted
- 16 days ago
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- On. April 17, 2024, Peel Regional Police and the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) announced details and arrests made concerning the theft of gold and cash from Toronto's Pearson International Airport. Detective Sergeant Mike Mavity, major case manager for "Project 24K" summarized the investigation.
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- Here's what's in Canada’s 2024 budget
- Date posted
- 17 days ago
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- Canada’s budget plan for 2024 focused on winning over young people.
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- 'More on interest than health care': Pierre Poilievre on the 2024 budget
- Date posted
- 17 days ago
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- Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre responded to the Liberal government's 2024 budget after it was tabled in the House of Commons on April 16.
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- Chrystia Freeland tables 2024 federal budget | FULL SPEECH
- Date posted
- 17 days ago
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- Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland tabled Canada's 2024 budget on April 16. In her budget speech, Freeland said younger generations need help given the swift rise in housing costs and other inflationary pressures.
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- What we learned from testimony at the Foreign Interference Inquiry
- Date posted
- 17 days ago
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- Last week, a foreign interference inquiry concluded after two weeks of testimony from MPs, intelligence officers, and even the Prime Minister, investigating potential foreign interference in the 2019 and 2021 elections. Catherine Levesque from the National Post discussed the inquiry's findings on Chinese interference and the government's response to external threats on a recent show.
Background reading: Five big takeaways from Justin Trudeau’s testimony about foreign interference (https://nationalpost.com/news/justin-trudeau-foreign-interference-testimony-five-takeaways)
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- The Titanic passenger who actually survived by floating on a door
- Date posted
- 18 days ago
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- The ending of James Cameron’s Titanic famously features the protagonist, Rose, surviving the 1912 sinking by climbing aboard what looks like a floating door. But there was one passenger who did indeed survive by climbing onto a door. He also happened to be one of just eight Chinese passengers on the ship.
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- Governments got 'addicted to spending.' Now they need to grow the economy
- Date posted
- 21 days ago
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- Ottawa bureau chief Stuart Thomson talks to Goldy Hyder, the president and chief executive officer of the Business Council of Canada, about the current mood in corporate Canada and what to expect from the federal budget on April 16, 2024.
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- Why Canadian hospitals are suddenly filled with armed men doing drugs
- Date posted
- 21 days ago
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- Health workers in British Columbia have started telling the media that hospitals have started becoming way more dangerous than usual. Patients armed with knives and even axes. Patients openly shooting up heroin or smoking meth in public spaces or shared rooms. Drug dealers wandering hallways with impunity.
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- How to pronounce the name of Pierre Poilievre
- Date posted
- 22 days ago
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- Something is happening right now that has never really happened to Canada before. Foreigners are endorsing our opposition leader. But for the most part, foreign supporters – and some Canadians – are mispronouncing his name.
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- Trudeau has already censored social media
- Date posted
- 22 days ago
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- The Liberals’ proposed Online Harms Bill has brought down international condemnation that it’s a blueprint for censoring free speech online. But during an unrelated Canadian inquiry into alleged Chinese electoral interference, it emerged that the Trudeau government has already dabbled in internet censorship.
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- Liberal government defence policy boosts military spending
- Date posted
- 22 days ago
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- The federal government announced plans to significantly increase military spending, aiming to expand the Canadian Forces and invest in new equipment. David Pugliese of the Ottawa Citizen joined the show to discuss the budget details, the equipment to be purchased, and how this aligns with allies' expectations on military expenditure.
Background reading:Liberal government defence policy boosts military spending, commits to new purchases of helicopters, missiles, aircraft (https://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/defence-watch/liberal-government-defence-policy-boosts-military-spending-commits-to-new-purchases-of-helicopters-missiles-aircraft)
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- The anti-Israel group that has non-profit status in Canada
- Date posted
- 23 days ago
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- The group shares leadership with the People’s Front for the Liberation of Palestine, an active Gazan terrorist group who participated in Oct 7 and took hostages. Their websites are virtually identical, and they’re known to circulate statements with the exact same language.
According to a 2019 report by Israel’s Ministry of Strategic Affairs, it is “likely” that donations collected by Samidoun in Canada are finding their way into actual Gazan terrorism.
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- Housing in Canada is poised to keep getting worse somehow
- Date posted
- 23 days ago
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- Whenever Prime Minister Justin Trudeau makes a public appearance these days, it’s usually something housing-related. A new condo-development. A new affordable housing complex. If he can show up and stand behind a lectern reading “building more homes, faster,” he’s there.
The reason is simple: The Trudeau government is getting utterly slaughtered in the polls.
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- The world keeps begging Canada to sell them more gas
- Date posted
- 26 days ago
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- Here’s something that’s happened several times now: A foreign leader comes to Canada and says “Canada, you have so much natural gas, and we have so little. Please sell it to us. We’ll pay you billions upon billions of dollars – and also hail you as a hero for selling us energy that doesn’t come from Russia or some dodgy country in the Middle East.
And then Canada says … “No.”
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- Canadians are turning incredibly conservative
- Date posted
- 28 days ago
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- The Canadian population has suddenly taken a conservative turn. As in, they’re now more conservative than almost any other point in Canadian history.
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- Police warn Canadians may revolt once they realize how broke they are
- Date posted
- 29 days ago
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- A Royal Canadian Mounted Police report contains a warning that’s never really appeared in these kinds of reports before: Canadians are starting to realize how broke they are, and they may not be very happy about it.
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- What to expect from the April 8 solar eclipse
- Date posted
- 29 days ago
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- This April 8th, a total solar eclipse will captivate parts of North America, particularly Ontario and Quebec, with other regions observing a partial eclipse. Montreal Gazette's Susan Schwartz joins the show to discuss the widespread excitement and influx of visitors eager to experience this rare event.
Background reading: Why the April 8 solar eclipse is totally a big deal (https://montrealgazette.com/news/why-the-april-8-solar-eclipse-is-totally-a-big-deal)
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- The Trudeau plan to jail you for pre-crime
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- The government of Justin Trudeau has long made promises to pass legislation that would crack down on what they call “online harms.” It’s already a criminal offence in Canada to engage in certain kinds of hate speech, so the thinking was this would be a ramped-up version of that.
But what they came up with was Bill C-63, a law that went quite a bit more extreme than anyone expected.
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- From safety to best locations to view: All you need to know about the April 8th solar eclipse
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- On Monday April 8 North America will experience a solar eclipse. This is a phenomenon in which the moon passes directly in front of the sun, blocking out its light and turning day, for a few minutes, into night.
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- Shocking lapses outlined in auditor general's report on B.C.'s safe supply trial
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- Two years post-launch, B.C.'s "safer supply" program, aimed to curb the overdose crisis, faces scrutiny from Auditor General Michael Pickup for issues with transparency, access, and potential drug diversion. Vancouver Sun's Vaughn Palmer joins Dave Breakenridge to discuss the AG's findings, recommendations, and the political response in B.C.
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- Canadians still positive about immigration but they want Ottawa to “get its act together” - minister
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- This week, John Ivison talks to Canada’s immigration minister, Marc Miller.
Miller has just announced a suite of measures aimed at capping the number of temporary residents in Canada at 5 percent of the population over the next three years, a 20 percent drop on current levels. This follows an explosion of temporary foreign workers and international students, which increased the country’s population at the fastest rate since the 1950s and contributed to the rising cost of shelter.
Miller has admitted the situation is “a mess”. He said that measures like waiving restrictions on international students working off-campus and increasing the percentage of foreign workers businesses are allowed to hire made sense in 2022, when there were nearly a million job vacancies.
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- Kate Middleton reveals she has cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- “We hope that you will understand that, as a family, we now need some time, space and privacy while I complete my treatment,” said Catherine, Princess of Wales, who is the wife of Prince William and a future queen of the U.K. and Canada.
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- Violent crime up in Canada
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- Canada's violent crime severity index has risen 30 per cent in the last decade.
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- History of Political Lies
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- A truth in the research on deception is that humans are generally willing to give each other the benefit of the doubt. We have what researchers call a “truth bias,” meaning we are more likely to judge statements to be true than false. We’re also better at assessing true statements than false statements.
But in the world of politics, that even the most naive voter views with a certain level of cynicism, do we still have that same generosity? Are we easily duped? Or do we run political speech through a different filter than the one we use for our friends and family?
Most importantly, can we tell when politicians are lying?
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- 'This is not the end': Why Liberal divisions on the Israel-Hamas war aren't going away
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- The National Post's Ottawa bureau chief Stuart Thomson talks to reporter Catherine Lévesque about the chaotic evening in the House of Commons over the NDP’s contentious Palestinian motion.
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- 'I am a Canadian, I am a Jew and I am a Zionist': Liberal MP condemns motion that 'rewards Hamas'
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- Liberal MP Anthony Housefather gave an impassioned speech on March 18 during a debate over a non-binding NDP motion, which originally called for the immediate recognition of a Palestinian state. The motion also called for an immediate ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war, more humanitarian aid into Gaza and an embargo on any arms trade with Israel. Late into the debate, however, the Liberals surprised the House with an extensive amendment with a long series of changes. Most notably, the amendment called for the government to work with international partners towards a “just and lasting peace,” which would eventually include a Palestinian state, rather than immediate unilateral recognition of statehood. It also called for Hamas to lay down its arms as part of a ceasefire. Housefather voted against the amended motion, while most Liberals voted in favour of it.
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- NDP motion to recognize Palestinian state 'rewards Hamas massacre,' Conservatives say
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- The Conservatives said on March 18 that they will be voting against an NDP motion to recognize a Palestinian state.
“This motion is about rewarding Hamas for their massacre. This motion is a vote to reward the murder, the rape, the kidnapping of Israelis, and this motion is deeply irresponsible for this Parliament,” said Conservative Deputy Leader Melissa Lantsman in the House of Commons.
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- 'We have to condemn both sides': Joly explains Canada's position on Israel-Hamas war
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
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- "Canada will remain committed to a two state solution including the creation of a Palestinian state where Palestinians and Israelis live side by side in peace security and dignity. The long term security of Israel, the normalization of diplomatic relations in the Arab world, and the creation of Palestinian state cannot be considered separately or in opposition to one another. They're intertwined," said Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly in the House of Commons on March 18, during a debate over an NDP motion.
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- What is the carbon tax?
- Date posted
- 2 months ago
- Description
- Canada’s carbon tax raises the price per tonne on fossil fuels by $15 every year until it reaches $170 by 2030.