HeyJaredDefending Canadian Democracy
Informed analysis on events in Canadian politics in an era of misinformation and democratic decline.
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You don’t have to caricature Alberta separatism as vacuous or racist, the separatists do it themselves (opens the original)
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Over at journalist Paul Wells’s newsletter, he has opened the door to guest columnists on the Alberta secession question. In the latest, which gives Derek Fildebrandt the mic, Paul seems aware for the potential of a little backlash, leading with a little disclaimer about why he thinks it’s valuable to platform people with opposing views.We can quibble over where the line should be (or whether there should even be a line, I suppose) on ‘platforming’ horrible people, but I think the post itself de
Dissecting the Ontario Court of Appeal's decision on Bike Lanes and Section 7 of the Charter (opens the original)
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The Ontario Court of Appeal (ONCA) has overturned a trial court decision finding that the removal of bike lanes violated section 7 of the Charter and the right to life, liberty and security of the person. The original trial decision was based on an assessment of evidence about the government’s policy objectives and the safety provided by bike lanes, which supported a holding that forcing the removal of lanes was both arbitrary and imposed grossly disproportionate harms to cyclists. <div class="s
Mark Carney returns to grubby patronage and damages the renewed Senate (opens the original)
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In the Golden Age of Twitter, before it was bought up by a white supremacist oligarch and transformed into a wasteland of disinformation and hate, the Canadian politics nerds used to half-joke about how badly Canada needed The Economist Party. As far as I can recall, the idea of The Economist Party was hyped by smart, policy-focused journalists like Andrew Coyne and academics (especially economists (duh), but also political scientists like myself). It was a simple proxy for a simple idea: what i
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