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Chris Selley: I miss the old, useful Bloc Québécois

Suspending the right to a speedy trial for the most serious offenders is something the Bloc should be standing against You can save this article by...

01.06.2024 20

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Chris Selley: A tale of two completely screwed-up Crown corporations

Canada Post and Via Rail are hemorrhaging money and stuck in neutral You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an...

30.05.2024 20

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Chris Selley: Beer in corner stores, accomplished in the worst way possible

The beer lobby haunts Queen’s Park staffers’ dreams the way the dairy lobby does Parliament Hill staffers’ You can save this article by...

28.05.2024 9

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Chris Selley: Quebec separatism is a paper tiger

Not even a compelling victory on a clear question would mean Quebec woke up the next morning a sovereign state You can save this article by...

27.05.2024 10

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Chris Selley: Finally, an easy fix to the Citizenship Act, 18 years in the making

Proof of a 'substantial connection' to Canada has always been the best-available threshold You can save this article by registering for free here. Or...

23.05.2024 30

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Chris Selley: 'Decriminalizing' is beside the point

When people can use drugs openly in public, with neither enforcement nor aid forthcoming, the law is pretty much moot You can save this article by...

22.05.2024 10

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Chris Selley: Trudeau's abortion shtick reaches new lows

'It’s not that Roe couldn’t happen in Canada,' said Trudeau. 'It’s that it’s more likely to happen in Canada' You can save this article by...

19.05.2024 30

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Chris Selley: Cities have made their bylaws into an ass

Canada's endless list of unenforced laws weaken the rule of law itself You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have...

17.05.2024 20

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Chris Selley: Dishonest politicians are a scourge from which no law can save us

The question is, how much do we actually care about our leaders lying through their teeth? You can save this article by registering for free here. Or...

15.05.2024 10

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Chris Selley: Greasy party politics is no laughing matter

If Big Dairy can buy a candidate or a party leader, why wouldn't Beijing have a go?

11.05.2024 40

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Chris Selley: The notwithstanding clause can save B.C. from its decriminalization chaos

A judge says addicts must be allowed to use wherever they want. That's the sort of lunacy the notwithstanding clause was designed for You can save...

01.05.2024 20

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Chris Selley: Canada's Supreme Court justices gone wild

If Richard Wagner can't stay in his constitutionally approved lane, why should anyone else? You can save this article by registering for free here. Or...

27.04.2024 30

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Chris Selley: A victory for a citizen's right to reasonable self-defence arrives for Umar Zameer

It might be good advice to capitulate to thugs and robbers, but it shouldn't be a legal obligation You can save this article by registering for free...

23.04.2024 10

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Chris Selley: Quebec discovers to its alarm that French isn't really dying in the province

The Office Québécois de la Langue Française is somehow more willing to acknowledge reality than Canada's entire political class You can save this...

18.04.2024 10

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Chris Selley: Canadian conservatives have more than just newfound confidence on their side

When your opponent's policies are unhinged and unpopular, there's no reason to get defensive about your own You can save this article by registering...

15.04.2024 10

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Chris Selley: Poilievre promises the conservative faithful all their Canadian dreams will soon come true

The more inevitable Poilievre’s victory seems, the more pointed the questions become about how exactly he intends to fix this broken country You can...

12.04.2024 10

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Chris Selley: Absolute support for Ukraine is unapologetic at Canada's annual conservative confab

'Conceding victory to Vladimir Putin and letting the Ukrainians lose...would be a disaster for the West and it would be a disaster for America', said...

11.04.2024 8

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Chris Selley: Memo to politicians — your vodka-jug preferences are not our problem

If Super Value Liquor's super-cheap vodka is such a threat, why can't the minister articulate a better case against it? You can save this article by...

10.04.2024 5

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Chris Selley: Street drugs in hospitals is harm reduction's latest self-sabotaging overreach

Decriminalizing possession and use of hard drugs doesn't mean we can't set any rules at all. Why would it? You can save this article by registering...

06.04.2024 10

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Chris Selley: School meals is another phoney Liberal 'national' program. Don't fall for it

There's nothing wrong with sending the provinces money to province school lunches. But there's nothing 'national' about it, and nor should there be...

03.04.2024 10

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Chris Selley: The war on vaping is a war on public health

People who want you to believe e-cigarettes are as dangerous as real cigarettes are not best placed to encourage vaccination — or anything else You...

01.04.2024 8

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Chris Selley: A warning from Baltimore about preparing for the next inevitable Canadian disaster

Authorities' quick, decisive action may have saved many lives You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an...

29.03.2024 10

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Chris Selley: If not a judge, then who can find proof of oversight on MAID?

An Alberta judge has concerns about a 27-year-old woman's euthanasia application, but no standing on which to question it You can save this article by...

27.03.2024 10

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Chris Selley: Scotland and Canada, united in confusion over freedom of speech

Nobody in either country knows what their landmark new legislation is going to look like in real life. That’s a terrible feature in any law You can...

24.03.2024 10

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Chris Selley: Anthony Housefather's place is not with the Conservatives

The Quebec Liberal leadership race desperately needs a principled small-l liberal candidate You can save this article by registering for free here. Or...

22.03.2024 10

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Chris Selley: The Royal Family's media management is no weirder than Ottawa's

The royals and the federal government both seem to withhold, massage or manipulate the message simply because they can When photo wire services...

20.03.2024 10

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Chris Selley: Big moon god block big sun god! Much darkness. Teachers afraid!

Cancelling classes due to an eclipse is just teachers’ unions insisting their members resist the notion that they should ever need to work on any...

17.03.2024 20

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Chris Selley: Alberta creating a new Canadian police force is a huge opportunity

The need for serious reform — starting with basic accountability — could not be more obvious Meet Trevor Kathnelson. He’s one of Durham...

15.03.2024 7

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Chris Selley: Tips for Canadian society on surviving the Israel-Hamas war

This country should be a sanctuary from such conflicts, not another battleground Fact: If the current Israeli-Palestinian conflict represents a crisis...

13.03.2024 10

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Chris Selley: How to make the notwithstanding clause work better — without weakening it

Canadians should know whether legislation shielded by section 33 of the Charter would otherwise be constitutional A cornered animal can be...

10.03.2024 10

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Chris Selley: Paul Bernardo is the problem, not his prison

Roughly 100 per cent of Canadians agree that Bernardo and Luke Magnotta simply should not be in a medium-security facility The issue of serial killer...

07.03.2024 8

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Chris Selley: Canada gets more embarrassing after anti-Israel protestors thwart the Italian PM's reception

The AGO would have been swarmed with pro-Palestinian protesters even if Trudeau had just dropped by to see the Keith Haring exhibition I realized...

04.03.2024 10

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Chris Selley: There is no 'pharmacare deal'

Ontario hasn't 'opted in' because there is literally nothing to 'opt into' Justin Trudeau’s backroom geniuses want you to see yet another clip of...

03.03.2024 9

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Chris Selley: Governments seeking 'like-minded' judges is Canada's latest non-scandal

We're supposed to see gender and ethnic diversity among judges as an imperative — but ideological diversity as a threat to democracy Premier Doug...

29.02.2024 8

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Chris Selley: The Liberals' 'online harms' legislation will disappoint its supporters most

Bill C-63 is less offensive than some earlier proposals, but only because it tries to do less The Liberals tabled Bill C-63, their much-anticipated...

27.02.2024 10

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Chris Selley: Locking up murderers is a slam-dunk issue for Poilievre's Conservatives Opinion: No normal person believes serial killer Robert Pickton should be eligible for day parole just 22 years after his arrest

25.02.2024 9

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Chris Selley: Locking up murderers is a slam-dunk issue for Poilievre's Conservatives

Opinion: No normal person believes serial killer Robert Pickton should be eligible for day parole just 22 years after his arrest Conservative Leader...

25.02.2024 4

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Chris Selley: Locking up murderers is a slam-dunk issue for Poilievre's Conservatives

No normal person believes serial killer Robert Pickton should be eligible for day parole just 22 years after his arrest Conservative Leader Pierre...

25.02.2024 5

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Chris Selley: With friends like Trudeau, the carbon tax doesn't need enemies

He's caved to the Atlantic provinces. He's caving to Saskatchewan. The other provinces will want in With every passing day it becomes clearer that the...

23.02.2024 7

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Chris Selley: Belleville is the new symbol of Canada's small-town opioid crisis

Harm-reduction advocates have a great case to make ... or they would, if they could resist overselling it I don’t envy the folks in Belleville, Ont....

22.02.2024 10

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Chris Selley: Everyone knows why protesters targeted Mount Sinai Hospital

If pro-Palestinian protesters aren't antisemitic, maybe they could stop intimidating the Jewish community. Ha, ha, I'm kidding On Wednesday at the...

16.02.2024 9

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Chris Selley: Calling BS on government sticker shock

All of Ottawa seems to think $5 billion is a reasonable figure for refurbishing Parliament's Centre Block. It isn't One of the most preposterous and...

14.02.2024 10

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Chris Selley: The notwithstanding clause in action

Every five years, governments have to justify overriding Charter rights. It could be a lot worse — and often is François Legault’s CAQ government...

10.02.2024 9

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Chris Selley: The grocery wars are unmasking Canadian politics, and it's a great thing

People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones — but it's quite enlightening when they do Last week, pollster David Coletto wondered aloud whether...

09.02.2024 10

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Chris Selley: Toronto police are supposed to protect and serve, not fearmonger

Toronto spends less on police than average and it's the safest city in Canada. It's odd that police won't take credit for their efficiency Every now...

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Chris Selley: Danielle Smith can’t avoid the combustible politics of children’s gender

The political and culture-war motivations with this issue are too strong to keep politicians on the straight and narrow and compassionate Over the...

03.02.2024 10

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Chris Selley: Trudeau's cartoonishly aristocratic lifestyle is more than a matter of ethics

It utterly astonishes me that Justin Trudeau or someone with an ounce of sway in his office wouldn’t stop this conspicuously consumptive behaviour...

02.02.2024 10

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Chris Selley: Canada will never be 'ready' to euthanize the mentally ill

Of course we can 'discriminate' against people seeking a medical procedure for which they have no medical need There is remarkably widespread and...

31.01.2024 10

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Chris Selley: Please, Conservatives, leave the woke faux-outrage to the Liberals

Justin Trudeau insulted Jamil Jivani by calling him a 'two-fer,' but there was nothing racist about it Justin Trudeau’s somewhat revamped office...

27.01.2024 6

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Chris Selley: Violating the Charter with the Emergencies Act came from a broken system

The federal government clearly overreached, but it should never have been forced to decide If we are to learn anything useful from the weeks-long...

24.01.2024 10

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