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Anthony Koch: We need a Pierre Trudeau of the right to remake Canada

There are moments in a nation’s story when a single leader bends the arc of its history toward a new destination. In Canada, no figure accomplished this more sweepingly or more deliberately than Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Agree with him or despise his legacy, and I remain firmly in the latter camp, Trudeau was not merely a prime minister. He was a founder. He took a country with deep British institutional roots, a Westminster state shaped by inherited constitutional tradition, civic restraint, common law sensibilities, and a political culture that still thought of itself, quietly but undeniably, as part of the wider Anglosphere, and he transformed it into something wholly different. Read More
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Donna Kennedy-Glans: A pipeline deal won’t be enough to tame Alberta’s separatists

Ahead of this weekend’s United Conservative Party (UCP) AGM, Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to sit down with Premier Danielle Smith to delineate a roadmap to pipelines, energy regulatory reform and carbon capture projects. One would expect genuine progress in these negotiations to take the wind out of separatists’ sails. But not necessarily; for some independence-minded Albertans, Carney is a separatist’s dream. Read More
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Rob Roberts: Immigration museum (mostly) survives Liberals’ identity-driven agenda 

Canada’s museums have transformed themselves in the last decade, adopting identity-driven makeovers under pressure from the Trudeau-led Liberals. National Post visited institutions from coast to coast to survey the damage and consider its implications. Rob Roberts visited the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 in Halifax. Read More
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