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Ben Woodfinden: The EU is an economic disaster. What exactly is Mark Carney after? (opens the original)
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This Thursday, Prime Minister Mark Carney is due to address the opening of the European Parliament in Strasbourg. Guest addresses like this aren’t unheard of, but they have mostly been reserved in recent years for civil society figures focused on Ukraine, which was already a signal that something significant was to be announced, and reporting has suggested that some sort of new relationship between Canada and the European Union was in the cards. Then on Saturday, a 5,000-word Wall Street Journal
Ben Woodfinden: Don't trust the Democrats. They will tariff us too, just with a smile (opens the original)
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Hours after Trump’s latest tariffs on Canadian wine, dairy, and autos took effect, California’s Democratic governor and likely presidential contender Gavin Newsom posted on X calling Canada America’s “closest ally.” Then a few days after his initial tweet, Newsom did interviews with CBC and CTV, and on CTV he said something very important for Canadians to take note of. When asked if he would remove all of the tariffs Trump has put in place, he waffled for about a minute before eventually coming
Ben Woodfinden: All hail the judicial smackdown of bike lane rights (opens the original)
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It’s absurd it even came to this, but on Friday the Court of Appeal for Ontario ruled that the Ford government was allowed to remove bike lanes in Toronto, overturning Justice Paul Schabas who ruled a year ago that removing them would violate cyclists’ rights to life and security of the person under Section 7 of the Charter. The decision was unanimous, written by Justice Grant Huscroft, and could be described as a polite judicial smackdown. It’s a win for common sense, and the decision itself is
Ben Woodfinden: Ottawa, the government town that learned to build (opens the original)
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Nobody thinks of Ottawa as a city that builds things, quite the opposite. It is a government town, known nationally for producing reports rather than buildings, the sort of place a Torontonian pictures as a low grey skyline surrounding a committee room. So it might surprise you to learn that in recent years the City of Ottawa has been leading the way in solving one of the biggest challenges facing cities and Canadian policymakers: namely getting homes built. Ottawa recorded 10,864 housing starts
Ben Woodfinden: A Tory MP wants easier access to magic mushrooms. Hear him out (opens the original)
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A few days before Parliament rose for its summer recess, Saskatchewan MP Corey Tochor tabled a private member’s bill (C-286) that would loosen federal law to let doctors prescribe drugs containing psilocybin for depression, particularly end-of-life depression, and fast-track the regulatory approval of those drugs. You may not have heard of psilocybin, but you have probably heard of magic mushrooms, the fungi it comes from. And you might be wondering why on earth a Conservative MP, from a party t
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