Richard Warnica

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Richard Warnica

Mark Carney’s Liberals have a real plan to address housing. No one is going to care if they don’t get out of their own way

For years before Donald Trump wormed his way back into the U.S. presidency, forcing the entire world, including, and perhaps especially, Canada, to refocus on his mush-brained threats, a single issue dominated Canadian politics: Housing. By the beginning of last year, just about everyone of any political stripe in this country agreed the housing market was out of control. There...

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Poilievre and Carney are poised to recreate a legendary Canadian rivalry

On April 30, 1986, 39 years before Edmonton’s Mark Carney became the leader of the Liberal Party and Canada’s prime minister-in-waiting, his beloved Edmonton Oilers lost the most emotionally devastating hockey game in Canadian history. Many believed the 1985-86 Oilers were the best hockey team in history. They were, by some margin, the favourites to win a third consecutive Stanley...

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No one is listening to the left anymore. This is why

Last November, about a week after I returned from covering the second election of Donald Trump, I went to a performance of the National Ballet of Canada, at the Four Seasons Centre in Toronto. I was having a difficult time that week. Like the rest of the world, I had spent much of the past nine years thinking about Trump...

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‘They’re eating the dogs!’ Inside Donald Trump’s terrifying, absurd, and just maybe disastrous debate

If you had somehow watched the forty or so minutes Kamala Harris spoke Tuesday night during her debate with Donald Trump in isolation, if you had carved them out and watched them back-to-back-to-back without interruption, you could have convinced yourself, at least briefly, that this was a very normal campaign.

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Donald Trump’s rambling disaster of a speech did something no one could have predicted: Give Democrats hope

There was only one thing Donald Trump could do Thursday night to truly shock the world. He had presided all week over the most ebullient Republican convention in 40 years. His opponents were in complete disarray. He had even survived an assassin’s bullet. He was all set up for the most triumphant moment of his political career. And then he...