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Zineb Riboua: The West is facing rising third-worldism

Oct. 29, 2026

“A good chunk of the population” in France is opposed to what the French culture and way of life represents, and “that’s a huge, huge problem,” says an international security expert. Zineb Riboua, a research fellow with the Hudson Institute’s Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East, said t…

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Jacqueline Leighton: Self-censorship kills learning

Oct. 23, 2026

A climate of self-censorship in which students fear being “ostracized or shamed by the larger group” is the dominant force shutting down learning on Canadian university campuses, says the vice-dean at one of the country’s major research institutes. Jacqueline Leighton, an education psychologist who…

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Jean-Guy Forgeron: Public service reform must come from the top

Oct. 16, 2026

Canada’s bureaucracy is very good at “self-diagnosis of its problems” but “what it's very bad at is treating those symptoms,” says a retired veteran public servant who spent years working at the centre of government. Jean-Guy Forgeron, who served as chief of staff to the clerk of the privacy counci…

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Heather Mason: I was incarcerated with male sex offenders

Oct. 9, 2026

Allowing male prisoners into what used to be female-only spaces has fundamentally “changed the landscape of women's prisons,” says Heather Mason, a former federal inmate turned advocate for women’s sex-based rights. Mason’s time in correctional institutions has given her first-hand knowledge of a j…

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Jerome Gessaroli: Solving Canada’s competitiveness problem with investment

Oct. 2, 2026

Canada has been “using subsidies as a substitute to help solve our competitiveness problem,” says economist Jerome Gessaroli. He called this approach “wrong,” “inefficient,” and “expensive.” Gessaroli offered his observations as he reflected on the state of investment in Canada, in the wake of the …

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Mark Mancini and Asher Honickman: How judges became policymakers

Sept. 17, 2026

In 1985, a Supreme Court of Canada decision (B.C. Motor Vehicles) about driving with a suspended licence helped transform Section 7 of Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms into a powerful tool of judicial review. But did the Court decision go too far? Section 7 protects life, liberty, and securi…

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Étienne-Alexandre Beauregard: Making the case for the common good

Sept. 10, 2026

Western societies face a growing crisis with a gradual waning of trust, social cohesion, and shared norms. But is something deeper happening to the cultural foundations that make free societies possible? As these norms weaken, individual desires are increasingly placed above social obligations whil…

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Eric Kaufmann: How diversity requirements reduced productivity for Canada's research chairs

Sept. 4, 2026

Critics of DEI have long warned that demographic-based hiring requirements can come at the expense of merit and academic excellence. In a recent MLI paper, The equity excellence trade-off: A study of EDI in the Canada Research Chairs Program, senior fellow Eric Kaufmann, alongside coauthors Leif R…

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Sylvain Charlebois: Canada's dairy industry in decline

Aug. 21, 2026

Canada's dairy industry is one of the most protected sectors of the Canadian economy. But is that protection holding the industry back? While Canada's dairy sector has long benefited from policies designed to protect farmers and maintain stable prices, critics argue that these measures are limiting…

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