Category: Politics
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The NDP Leadership Vote Will Not Be Democratic
(Disclosure: I am not an NDP member, nor am I supporting any candidate in the leadership race.) One of the responsibilities we have, if we want to live in a…
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The Green Party of Canada is Dead—And That’s Okay
It’s been a tough few years for the Green Party of Canada, and the 2025 election was no exception: after being kicked out of the leader’s debates, the Greens fell…
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Carney’s Spending Review is “DOGE North”
Welcome to The Unspoken News, a new feature where we’ll be looking at current events from angles that the major news sites have missed. Whether it’s a question that should’ve…
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Is Canada Moving to a Two-Party System?
Canada’s most recent election had a result we haven’t seen in almost a century: the top two parties both got more than 40% of the popular vote. Smaller parties fared…
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Carney’s Honeymoon of Contradictions
The election is over and the Liberals have secured their highest popular vote in decades. Their minority government appears to be stable for the near future, with Conservative leader Pierre…
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2025 Election: What to Expect in the Final Week
The debates are over, advance voting has closed after a record turnout, and we’re into the final week before election day on April 28. Polling shows the gap between the…
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Careful, Canada: Your Patriotism is Being Exploited
On April 2, U.S. President Donald Trump shocked the world by announcing a worldwide slate of “reciprocal” tariffs, basing them on a nonsensical calculation that confuses tariffs with trade deficits.…
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Who Really Chose Mark Carney?
On March 14, Mark Carney was sworn in as Canada’s 24th Prime Minister. As many commentators have observed, Carney is an “unelected” Prime Minister, in the sense that he doesn’t…
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Final Projection: Carney to Win First Round with 71%
(A note to my subscribers: After a long hiatus, I’ve resumed this blog and will be posting weekly on various political topics. I hope you’ll continue to follow me and…
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Carney in a Landslide? Data Disagrees with Polling and Pundits
The Liberal Party of Canada will elect a new leader on March 9. Usually, a party leadership election is something that happens when the party is out of power and…
Saul Bottcher 