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Carney’s incoherent climate policy hurting our European allies, helping China, and holding Canada back
Christian Leuprecht and Dimitar Lilkov/The Hub: Canada’s European allies are handicapped by energy insecurity and vulnerable to global…
June 16, 2026
Canada’s spy service won permission to hack two state-linked botnets — assessed to likely include China — hiding inside Canadian homes
The Bureau: For the first time, a Federal Court judge has authorized Canada’s intelligence service to hack into…
June 16, 2026
How Canada can stand against forced labour in China
Mehmet Tohti, Margaret McCuaig-Johnston, Sarah Teich and Charles Burton/The Globe and Mail: …much will turn on the specifics…
June 16, 2026
Carney’s plot to censor entire internet
Josh Dehaas/National Post: The government can only limit expression if the limit is demonstrably justified in a free and…
June 15, 2026
The Commission: How Bill C-34 creates internet super-regulator that will touch lives of millions of Canadians
Michael Geist: The proposed kids’ social media ban is capturing the headlines, but lost in the debate over…
June 15, 2026
Carney demands much more from his MPs, but also shares more of his insights, strategy, tactics at weekly caucus meetings, say Liberal MPs
The Hill Times: Prime Minister Mark Carney reads his briefing notes and is willing to engage and have…
June 15, 2026
Privacy as a fundamental right? Govt’s terrible privacy track record suggests virtue signalling over genuine commitment
Michael Geist: The government is set to introduce its long-promised privacy reform legislation early this week, with the…
June 14, 2026
Netanyahu has long frustrated U.S. presidents but his dynamic with Trump is unique
The Globe and Mail: But if the dynamic Mr. Trump is colliding with is familiar, his relationship with…
June 13, 2026
Liberals’ Bill C-34 is boomer plan to censor internet
Jamie Sarkonak/National Post: The Liberals could have kept to the simple goal of keeping sexual content online away…
June 12, 2026
Exemption illusion: Why govt’s plan to fast track Bill C-34 means no standards, no privacy review, and no enforcement
Michael Geist: One of the most heavily promoted features of Bill C-34, the government’s Safe Social Media Act,…
June 12, 2026
Chief Justice Richard Wagner disappointed in Canada
Ben Woodfinden/National Post: Wagner is not obliged to retire until 2032, so there will be more Junes like…
June 12, 2026
Honda just issued warning about its future in Canada. That could inadvertently hand win to Chinese EV makers
Adam Radwanski/Toronto Star: “Companies don’t automatically keep building vehicles in the same country just because it’s always been…
June 11, 2026
Law to be named later: Bill C-34 punts 50 key decisions to cabinet and a Digital Safety Commission that does not yet exist
Michael Geist: The government’s plan to address online safety was introduced yesterday with Bill C-34, the Safe Social…
June 11, 2026
Bill C-34, the Safe Social Media Act, explained
Canadian Constitution Foundation: While the CCF supports keeping kids safe, this bill is a sneak-attack on the constitutionally-protected…
June 11, 2026
U.S. ambassador blurts out Trump’s bluff
John Ivison/National Post: The Mr. Bean of ambassadors may have blundered his way through a series of petty,…
June 11, 2026
AI data centres are becoming wedge issue of our era
Konrad Yakabuski/The Globe and Mail: Indeed, data centres are emerging as the defining wedge issue of our times.…
June 10, 2026
Premier Smith’s quiet battle against separatist takeover of UCP heats up
Don Braid/Calgary Herald: The UCP is cooked if separatists take control. Well aware of the threat, Premier Danielle Smith’s…
June 10, 2026
Carney can catch more caucus flies with honey than vinegar
Tim Powers/The Hill Times: The prime minister needs to take a page out of Mulroney’s book and deploy…
June 10, 2026
Uyghur advocate’s warning to Mark Carney: Canada is on “a suicide mission,” and Beijing’s hidden hand reaches into western media
Sam Cooper/The Bureau: “I wonder how many people that Mark Carney has around him that’s actually working for…
June 10, 2026
Trump is a wounded bear, Canada is an easy target
Kelly McParland/National Post: Canada makes an easy target. No bombs are required from the dwindling U.S. armaments supply.…
June 10, 2026