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Liberals make good on their promise end partisan government advertising

While the federal Liberals have taken a big step forward in ensuring the objectivity of government ads, Ontario’s Liberal government has taken one giant step backward.

| | Last Updated: May 21 3:58 PM ET
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If Britain leaves the EU, where will it turn?

The importance of this to Canadians is that if the British do, in the end, leave the EU, the issue of “Whither Britain” could be of great potential interest to this country

| | Last Updated: May 21 1:30 PM ET
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How long before Monsef starts answering questions about electoral reform by talking about her cat?

Canadians can anticipate further illogical, barely relevant arguments against holding a national referendum from Canada’s esteemed Minister of Democratic Institutions.

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Big Brother is alive and well in B.C.

Letter writers discuss the B.C. government's lack of respect for private property rights, and other issues of the day.

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More from Chris Selley | @cselley

Full Pundit: Do you like Justin Trudeau when he's angry?

The prime minister goes feral and terrorizes the House of Commons and nothing will ever, ever be the same ever again. Sic semper tyrannis, etc.

| | Last Updated: May 22 3:08 PM ET
More from Colby Cosh | @colbycosh

Psychiatrists in the courtroom: why?

Mental health professionals constantly tell us that mental illnesses don't cause violence; then they appear in court and say the opposite

| | Last Updated: May 20 8:35 PM ET
More from Matt Gurney | @mattgurney

Forget the errant elbow. The real scandal is the Liberals' assault on Parliament

Motion 6 should never have seen the light of day. Conservatives, who earned a reputation for running roughshod over Parliament in their later years, noted that the Liberal proposal went further than they ever contemplated.

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More from John Robson

Trudeau’s outburst was not just ill-mannered. It was revealing

Trudeau's action appears merely highly impolitic bad manners. But it is far worse. It is an attack on the integrity of those we elect to control the increasingly imperious executive.

Enough with the nice stuff. Ottawa returns to normal

Justin Trudeau's tantrum offered the first opportunity since the departure of Stephen Harper to heap scorn on the country’s most senior elected politician. It must have felt good.

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More from Robert Fulford

50 years later, looking back on Mao's war on China

The Cultural Revolution was presented as a purge of Marxist revisionism but the idea seems to have been mainly the product of the leader's vanity.

Kelly McParland

Stuff you may have missed while staring at your cellphone

A Harvard University study says the Chinese government floods social media with almost 500 million bogus messages a year, heaping praise on itself

Matt Gurney

Canada's grandstanding Prime Minister turned his beloved cameras against himself

I don't think the Prime Minister was out of control. I think he was very consciously and deliberately mugging for the cameras, showing how assertive a...

Chris Selley

How not to sell electoral reform

I have long supported ranked ballots, but I won’t support any new system emerging from a process as disgraceful as what’s unfolding in Ottawa.

Jonathan Kay

Don't blame the media for Islamophobia

When terrorists stop praising Allah as they detonate — or, better yet, stop detonating altogether — we will be the first to report on it.

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