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A cheerfully brash bald guy cavorts among the thousands at a Poilievre rally in Windsor, Ont., livestreaming his antics from a pole-mounted iPhone. “Hi, hi, let’s go!” I hear him call. “Do you believe the polls?” “Not for a second,” comes the answer. It’s The Pleb, a right-wing YouTuber and darling of the Freedom Convoy movement who’s been following Poilievre...
ON JANUARY 23, when federal judge Richard Mosley ruled that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his cabinet had overstepped their authority by invoking the Emergencies Act, I thought back to that terrible February when “angry fringe groups” sparked a national debate over how elected authorities should deal with widespread civil disobedience. I’m speaking, of course, of the Wet’suwet’en protests...
ONSERVATIVE POLITICIANS across Canada spent the final weeks of 2023 escalating their war on the environment. They focused most of their artillery on climate—a striking denouement to the worst year of extreme weather in human history.