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Trudeau's trade pitch to Southeast Asian countries came late — very late
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Lynette Ong
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The St. Michael's secret is out, but only to those who didn't already know: Robyn Urback
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Robyn Urback
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Canada's rushed rollout of legal cannabis has been a gift to the illegal market
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Martin Patriquin
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The federal government's carbon pricing plan will eliminate Alberta's hard-earned climate gains
Climate and health will once again be jeopardized by coal combustion, at a time when cheap, emission-free alternatives exist.
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Joe Vipond
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Paying plasma donors is not 'un-Canadian' — it's practical and necessary
We shouldn't allow Canadian blood and plasma donors to become a revenue stream for private companies looking to make a profit. But this doesn't mean we can't compensate them.
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Vida Panitch
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Instead of 'lest we forget' this Remembrance Day, veterans should go with 'we're not gonna take it'
We have recently learned that the previous government, which ended the lifetime provision of care in favour of lump sum payments, also shortchanged us out of millions of dollars in disability allowances, and it will be 2020 before the present government can fix it.
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Tony Keene
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For a politician like Clement, a $100K gazebo is bad, but a sexting/extortion scandal is the end: Robyn Urback
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Robyn Urback
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Populist wins come as no surprise to those whose heads are not embedded in the sand
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Allan Richarz
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The Legion should no longer hold a monopoly on the poppy
Sean Bruyea
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Why can naturopaths mislead the public about their credentials? Because no one bothers to stop them
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Michelle Cohen
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The Trudeau government believes in decorum, not like those goons across the aisle: Robyn Urback
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Robyn Urback
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Canada can't pretend it's business as usual with Brazil's new dictatorship-loving president
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Jon Beasley-Murray
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The massacre at the Pittsburgh synagogue was not an aberration, but a culmination
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Benjamin Shinewald
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Oilsands rhetoric: hysterical and misleading in its criticism, glossy and antiseptic in its defence
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Jen Gerson
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Pardons don't go far enough. Convictions for cannabis possession must be expunged
Benjamin Kates and Pam Hrick
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In a true nation to nation relationship, actions speak louder than empty promises
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Arlen Dumas
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Trump is not America's moral steward. He's simply its reflection: Robyn Urback
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Robyn Urback
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The world of easy money transformed Canada into debt nation. That world is coming to an end
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Theresa Tedesco
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Jamal Khashoggi's tragic end is a wake-up call about the dangers faced by dissidents in exile
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Sreeram Chaulia
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Why are so many former prohibitionist politicians entering the marijuana bu$ine$$?: Robyn Urback
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Robyn Urback
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Actual change won't come to the Catholic Church unless or until a courageous pope arrives first
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Michael Coren
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The Khashoggi execution should forever extinguish the myth of this 'progressive' Saudi prince
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Jeremy Wildeman
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Lose your illusions. It's an ugly, dystopian world: Neil Macdonald
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Neil Macdonald
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The Senate may become an increasingly important site for Indigenous activism
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Emmett Macfarlane
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Why would service providers hold themselves to CRTC targets when the CRTC itself won't?
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Laura Tribe
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Bill Clinton is massively overdue for a #MeToo reckoning: Robyn Urback
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Robyn Urback
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Republicans won a great, pyrrhic victory with Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation
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Dylan Lamberti
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