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A seat at the table: Pushing back on discord and division
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Seeking common ground at the Thanksgiving table
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Political conversations at Thanksgiving can feel dreadful. They don’t have to.
The Common Sense Revolution at 25: History has lessons for Ford
Twenty-five years ago today, on June 8, 1995, the people of Ontario elected one Michael Deane Harris as premier. Harris’s program, the “Common Sense Revolution,”…
Could carbon sanctions change the politics of climate change in Canada?
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Frame job: Ontario’s review of the books is an ideological exercise
The Ontario government’s attempt to discredit the former Liberal government by ordering a line-by-line review of the books has yielded its desired consequence: framing the…
Are middle class tax promises a false hope?
Ontario PC Leader Doug Ford has proposed a $2.8-billion “middle class tax cut,” despite the fact the province is facing a deficit.Promoting tax cuts as…
Care and change: The messages driving Ontario’s 2018 election
Sixty-two times. That’s how many times the Government of Ontario drew upon the word “care” in a throne speech designed to claim its stake in…
Ontario PC convention: Will it shed light on Patrick Brown’s agenda?
In 2015 Patrick Brown won the leadership of Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives (PC) on a promise of party renewal and provincial change, but since then he…
Don’t bank on TD’s $15 minimum wage impact forecast
Business in skewed economic assessments of Ontario’s move to a $15 per hour minimum wage has been brisk this week.
Politics, not trade, behind Canada’s reversal on Israeli wine labelling decision
Earlier this month, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) ruled that wines made in the occupied territories of the West Bank could not be labelled…
Trudeau and Macron, the radical centrists
Macron and Trudeau at the G20 summit in Hamburg © PMTrudeau Flickr photostream.
Populism ascending
Photo of Donald Trump by Gage Skidmore. Donald Trump was still about two weeks away from winning the U.S. presidency when The Populist Explosion was…
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