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FP's Terence Corcoran: Mulcair, GM, Pembina and the old left

Terence Corcoran wrote 2 hours ago: News Friday that General Motors would be shutting down one of its two assembly operations in Oshawa … more →

Tags: Alberta, Dutch disease, exchange rates, Left, manufacturing, oil sands, thomas mulcair, Unions

FP's Lawrence Solomon: Drop effort to keep Somalia together

Lawrence Solomon wrote 2 hours ago: Last in a series To save Somalia from piracy, terrorism, hunger, corruption, warlordism and a third … more →

Tags: Foreign Aid, Nationalism, Somalia

Andrew Coyne: ‘Fair wages’ come from laws of economics, not legislation

Andrew Coyne wrote 5 hours ago: Buried deep within Bill C-38, the omnibus budget implementation bill, on page 305 of 425, just befor … more →

Tags: Canada, Policy, Omnibus Bill, Omnibus Budget Bill, Productivity, Wages

Gary Clement's week in review for May 27 - June 2, 2012

Gary Clement wrote 7 hours ago: Gary Clement takes a look at the week gone by: Gary Clement/National Post [np-related] … more →

Tags: Gary Clement, Gary Clement's Week In Review

Kelly McParland: Obama has no taste for a war with Bashar Assad

Kelly McParland wrote 10 hours ago: It’s difficult to imagine the United States getting actively involved in direct military actio … more →

Tags: Canada, U S Politics, World Politics, Afghanistan, Arab Spring, Barack Obama, Bashar al- Assad, chemical weapons, Damascus

Michael Den Tandt: Ottawa learns a lesson about competitive bidding

Postmedia News wrote 11 hours ago: OTTAWA — At long last, to hear Public Works Minister Rona Ambrose tell it, the federal Conservatives … more →

Tags: Canada, Conservatives, F-35, Government Spending, Military Procurement, Rona Ambrose, sole sourcing, Stephen Harper

Matt Gurney: In his secret war against Iran, Obama sends in the geeks

Matt Gurney wrote 11 hours ago: White House handout If you’re looking to understand what the U.S. and Israel are really doing … more →

Tags: U S Politics, World Politics, Cyber-warfare, cyber weapons, George W. Bush, Iran, Iranian Nuclear program, Israel, obama

National Post editorial board on SpaceX: The ultimate public-private partnership

National Post Editorial Board wrote 11 hours ago: On Thursday, 900 kilometres off the coast of Los Angeles, the next step in human space exploration s … more →

Tags: Canada, U S Politics, World Politics, Dragon Capsule, International Space Station, NASA, National Post editorial board, private-sector, Space

Chris Selley's Full Pundit: Our radical centrist Conservatives

Chris Selley wrote 12 hours ago: These aren’t your grandfather’s Tories If you had asked the Ottawa Citizen‘s Dan G … more →

Tags: Canada, Policy, social issues, World Politics, Alberta, european fiscal compact, F-35, Ireland, lee richardson

Kelly McParland: Thomas Mulcair's oilsands fly-by was more show than tell

Kelly McParland wrote 12 hours ago: If Thomas Mulcair was trying to convince anyone that his interests as NDP leader lie just as much ou … more →

Tags: Alberta, Alberta government, Alison Redford, Big Oil, Dalton McGuinty, energy buisness, Fort McMurray, NDP, oilsands

Charles Krauthammer: Barack Obama, drone warrior, treats death as campaign fodder

Charles Krauthammer wrote 14 hours ago: A very strange story, a 6,000-word front-page New York Times piece on how, every Tuesday, Barack Oba … more →

Tags: 2012 U.S. Presidential Election, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Guantanamo, Mitt Romney, Pakistan, Pentagon, Terrorism, U.S. drone strikes

Today's letters: Gay bullying: It’s a real problem in all schools

Paul Russell wrote 14 hours ago: Re: Church Rejects Ontario’s Gay Club Decision, May 29. When I was working in a Hamilton school as a … more →

Tags: Baby Boomers, Catholic Church, Gay-Straight Alliance, Gen Y, Homosexuality, Israel, turkey

UN treats broken, oppressed, brutalized Zimbabwe as just another tourist spot

Araminta Wordsworth wrote 14 hours ago: Full Comment’s Araminta Wordsworth brings you a daily round-up of quality punditry from across the g … more →

Tags: World Politics, Araminta Wordsworth, Full Comment Abroad, Movement For Democratic Change, Robert Mugabe, Tourism, UN World Tourism Organization, zambia, ZANU-PF

Dan Delmar on Quebec protests: Is there a leader in the house?

National Post wrote 15 hours ago: The ongoing battle over education in Quebec will not end before a monumental shift in public percept … more →

Tags: Canada, social issues, Jean Charest, Parti Québécois, Pauline Marois, Québec, Quebec Culture, quebec government, Quebec Liberals

Matt Gurney: Police have no excuse for giving Magnotta alert the brush-off

Matt Gurney wrote 15 hours ago: In the ongoing investigation into the body parts case, launched after Luka Rocco Magnotta allegedly … more →

Tags: Canada, social issues, 9/11, Emergency Calls, Luka Rocco Magnotta, Policing, Toronto Police

Sid Ryan: The case for zero tuition

National Post wrote 16 hours ago: Numerous National Post columnists have argued that striking Quebec students should just accept highe … more →

Tags: Canada, Dalton McGuinty, Government Spending, Ontario, Québec, Tuition, Tuition Fees, tuition protests

Gregory Thomas & Derek Fildebrandt: Euro-zone lessons for Canada

National Post wrote 17 hours ago: As we watched TV images of rioting students trashing downtown Montreal, one of our colleagues quippe … more →

Tags: Canada, Debt, Equalization, equalization payments, Equalization program, EU, Provinces

Allan Gould: The Eichmann effect

National Post wrote 17 hours ago: Today, the first of June, marks exactly 50 years since one of the most infamous men of the past cent … more →

Tags: social issues, World Politics, Adolf Eichmann, History, Holocaust, Israel, Jewish history, Jews, Nazis

FP's Peter Foster: Chevron versus the law of the jungle

Peter Foster wrote 1 day ago: Alan Lenczner is a well-respected Toronto litigator, but one wonders if he is fully cognizant of the … more →

Tags: Chevron, Ecuador, Energy, environment, Legal, Pollution


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