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Colby Cosh: The ‘right to bike lanes’ mocks the Charter

11 janvier 2026 à 12:00
Will the sacred right to bike lanes survive? The first great test is coming up on Jan. 28, as the Ontario government takes last summer’s startling Cycle Toronto ruling to the provincial Court of Appeal. In July, Superior Court Justice Paul Schabas ruled in favour of the bike-lobby group in a suit against the province, striking down provisions of the awkwardly named Reducing Gridlock, Saving You Time Act that would have removed bike-exclusive lanes from a list of Toronto traffic arteries (and re-opened them to automotive traffic). Read More
Reçu — 8 janvier 2026 6.9 📰 Infos English

Colby Cosh: UCP MLAs threatened by the recall-petition weapon they created

8 janvier 2026 à 12:00
On Tuesday, Albertans learned (thanks to CP’s Jack Farrell) of an interesting data point in labour’s quiet voter-recall war against the United Conservative government. In October, the Alberta assembly passed a statute ordering striking schoolteachers back to work — something that was routine throughout Canada until 2015, when the Supreme Court discovered an unwritten and previously undetected right to strike in the Charter. The back-to-work bill invoked the Charter’s notwithstanding clause, overriding the novel Charter right, in order to get schools open before autumn turned into winter. Read More
Reçu — 3 janvier 2026 6.9 📰 Infos English

Colby Cosh: 24 Sussex is an insult to Canada? Come off it, bro

3 janvier 2026 à 12:00
The inferior national newspaper has seen fit to bid farewell to the old year by printing another op-ed bemoaning the uninhabitable state of the prime minister’s traditional primary residence at 24 Sussex Dr. I wonder if this is going to become an actual political cause in 2026 — whether our sudden Trump-era panic about state capacity and national self-reliance is going to be pressed into the service of rebuilding or rehabilitating 24 Sussex. Read More
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