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Michel Maisonneuve: Jeneroux rewarded handsomely for his disloyalty

Canadians woke up last Wednesday to the news that Matt Jeneroux, a Conservative MP, had decided to join the Liberal party. With the two other turncoats, Michael Ma and Chris d’Entremont, that makes three defections from Pierre Poilievre’s party since the federal election in April. Many pundits are predicting that the Liberals are going to achieve a majority through by-elections and possibly more defections. Fair-weather conservatives are continuing to wonder whether Poilievre is the right man to lead the party into the next election. Read More
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Peter MacKinnon: University of Alberta should be applauded for resisting affirmative action

Proponents of EDI too often overlook or downplay its essential feature: it is discriminatory and contrary to section 15(1) of the Charter and its equivalent in provincial human rights codes. Promoting diversity sounds better than practicing discrimination, but the two have gone hand in hand in our universities and other public settings. As the Post’s Tristin Hopper observed: Canadian universities have engaged in race-centric hiring and admissions, and in some cases, race-segregated student spaces and events. Read More
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Chris Selley: Pity Ireland’s terrible burden — playing soccer against Israel

Lest anyone foolishly think of sport as a reliable escape from politics and strife, recent events do away with that fantasy. A certain kind of Central Canadian is performatively furious with Auston Matthews and Brady Tkachuk, captains of the Toronto Maple Leafs and Ottawa Senators, respectively, for visiting the White House with their Olympic gold medals. Read More
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Terry Glavin: Canadians are right about Trump, but Trump isn’t America

It was quite the performance, you’d have to admit. After all, Donald J. Trump is nothing if not a showman, and his falsehood-strewn schoolboy encomium to himself Tuesday night, which lasted a full hour and 47 minutes, was quite the spectacle. The State of the Union event was punctuated by frenzied bursts of ovation from Trump’s sycophants in the U.S. Congress. Not quite Pyongyang, but close. Read More
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Sterling K. Brown fights for family in Paradise season 2

If a worldwide catastrophe were to happen, one that threatened human civilization, would you have a better chance of surviving if you were alone or in a group? If shows like Man vs. Wild and Alone are any indication, you might be able to subsist solo for a while. But humans are social animals, and things like loneliness and depression could slowly sap your will to survive. Read More
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