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News of the World - Freeland and Joly get in huge catfight over right to put lotion on Trudeau's back.
Not totally true, but pretty close. - “I’m functionally illiterate,” Trudeau confesses. “Gerald and Daddy always helped me out.”
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The Biases That Will Kill Democracy: A Field Guide to Our Self-Inflicted Demise
These seven biases and perverse incentives may lead us toward authoritarianism, demagoguery and fiscal collapse. Remember: Positivity is overrated.
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The Parasocial State: How Cowardice, Debt, and Delusion Became a National Creed
And stop blaming Gen Z or the Millenials, Gen X and the Boomers are just as bad.
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Confessions of a Heretic - The Gospel of Shut Up
How “Watch What You Say” Became the New Blasphemy Law of the Secular Church
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Our gross national debt - federal and provincial - should be investigated by Child, Family and Protective Services.
Have the last person to leave pick up the bill is no way to run a country. Math is cruel. We aren't as bad as the US - but we used that excuse on health…
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SIX THINGS WRONG WITH CANADA
#1 - SQUEAKY WHEEL SYNDROME
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Canada: The Diminishing Country
Not really. Thanks to Andrew Coyne on this.
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The Hollow Promise of Justice: Canada’s Betrayal of the Individual
Part Two of "We don't have a justice system, we have a legal system."
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The McMurtry Affair: Unmasking the Theatre of Reconciliation
From Noble Savage to Perpetual Victim: The Dangerous Mythology of Modern Colonial Guilt
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In Canada We Don't Have a Justice System, We Have a Rusty Legal System.
Justice Isn’t Broken—It Was Never Built for You
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The Post-Carney Hangover is Coming.
There
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The Absurdity of Self-Regulated Regulatory Agencies: Maybe the Inmates Shouldn’t Run the Jail
Their rejection rate for complaints is so high you'd think the complaint box empties directly into recycling - they can't even use an electronic drop…
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