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Quebec’s fantastical reactions to Catalonia’s secession attempts
Reacting to Catalonia’s reckless attempt at unilateral secession, Quebecers have displayed their own confusion about how secession could or could not be achieved in Quebec. Here, ambiguity reigns....
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Stephen Gordon: Canada should specialize in resource development
Was Innis wrong? This question — asked by Simon Fraser University’s Nancy Olewiler in the lead article of the latest issue of the Canadian Journal of Economics — is more controversial than it sounds....
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Colby Cosh: The supreme achievements of English Canadian TV
CBC Vancouver’s Justin McElroy, a hard-working data-minded journalist who lives mostly on social media like the rest of us, has created something interesting on Twitter. If you’re Canadian, and you’re...
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Kelly McParland: The Paradise Papers aren’t a scandal. Liberal hypocrisy is
Every once in a while the big grocery store near me holds a “no-tax” sale: shop all day Saturday and Sunday and don’t pay the HST! It generally attracts a respectable crowd, which is understandable....
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Andrew Coyne: Why did Trudeau miss the TPP meeting? None of the reasons seem...
So to be clear: it is not true that Justin Trudeau skipped a meeting of 11 world leaders planned to close the deal on a remodelled Trans Pacific Partnership, the only one to do so, or that by refusing...
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Jonathan Kay: Post-Weinstein, we must reform due process, not abandon it
“Call me old-fashioned,” Tweeted comedian Kate Willett over the weekend. “But I want a man who will protect me like I’m the reputation of a guy he’s never met.” As of noon on Monday, that comment had...
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John Robson: Want to save democracy? Hold your friends to account
The growing feeling that Russian manipulation of social media helped elect Donald Trump is increasing people’s distaste for both. There is even talk of censoring Facebook, a.k.a. requiring social media...
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Marni Soupcoff: University cancels play about censorship… because it was too...
Last week, Brandeis University cancelled a play about Lenny Bruce – a play that mocks political correctness – on the grounds that the material is too offensive. Just let that sink in for a moment. I...
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Chris Selley: By talking like a conservative, Jason Kenney goes where Patrick...
There is some consternation that Alberta’s newly United Conservative Party opposes Bill 24, the NDP government legislation that would bar schools from informing parents whether or not their children...
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John Ivison: Liberal government doing an outstanding job, says Liberal...
OTTAWA — The Liberals have issued a report card on their own performance, and it turns out they are absolutely brilliant at being the government. The first “mandate letter tracker” looked at the 364...
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The status quo won’t work with North Korea. Try something new, while we can
The annual Halifax International Security Forum runs from Friday to Sunday of this week. To mark the occasion, the National Post is presenting a series of essays written by conference participants....
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Barbara Kay: Let’s hope Canadian courts see the true meaning of the niqab
As was widely anticipated, Quebec’s Bill 62, banning face cover in the realm of public services, will be legally contested: by an individual niqab-wearing woman, supported by the CCLA and the National...
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I’m begging you: Stop donating canned goods to food banks
COMMENT It’s been two years since the Post published the above video, which has subsequently been seen millions of times around the world. Thousands of good people have heard my call to put down the...
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Colby Cosh: The egglegging party’s over: Kinder Eggs are coming to America....
In the era of liquor prohibition, when Canadians made unimaginable fortunes exploiting our porous southern border, everybody understood that the bootlegger’s best friend was the bottle-smashing...
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There’s simply no need to spend $200,000 on a budget cover. I can prove it
A few weeks ago, Canadians learned that the Liberals spent an astonishing $212,000 on cover artwork for their 2017 federal budget. Since then, I have visited the 2017 budget webpage, clicked its “learn...
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Andrew Coyne: Without meaning to, the Liberals have revealed all their broken...
On the websites of some online retailers these days you will come across a quite extraordinary sight. Below the picture of the shirt or floor lamp or whatever item is for sale, there is often a space...
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John Ivison: Self-congratulatory Trudeau fails to live up to his UN...
For all the fine talk about the Liberal government “bringing Canada back to peacekeeping,” the calculation has always been how to minimize the commitment while still appearing to do something. A seat...
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Christie Blatchford: Four years after Sammy Yatim shooting, James Forcillo’s...
TORONTO — It’s an alleged breach of his bail conditions, but paperwork filed earlier on his behalf in the Ontario Court of Appeal offers an inadvertent glimpse into James Forcillo’s shattered life....
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Kelly McParland: The GOP might not be able to excise the Roy Moore cancer
In a country as deeply embroiled in revelations of sexual malfeasance as the U.S., you might wonder what difference one more example of high-level dirt could make. But the case of Roy Moore, who now...
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De Souza: Energy market is shifting, but not because of UN climate conferences
COP23 wrapped up in Bonn this week, the annual jamboree for the international climate class. It’s an article of faith among them that man-made climate change is an apocalyptic threat. And it is a...
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