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Progress is in the eye of the beholder
As the US Democratic Party primaries determine who will contend for the next presidential election, the words commentators use to describe the intentions of the different camps illustrate the importance of semantics in politics.

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Can private initiative stop COVID-19 from swarming across the global village?
Do we need a virus to remember that our living standards depend so much on international trade?

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100,000 ways to kill freedom
A parent who’s a little too sensitive asked a teacher who’s a little too accommodating to stop dissecting “Les 100 000 façons de tuer un homme,” a well-known Quebecois song, with elementary students at a school in Montreal’s Mile End district.

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Sanders long overdue for change of heart about Castro
As others have pointed out, the facts are simply not with Bernie Sanders when he praises Communist Cuba’s record, as he did again recently on 60 Minutes.

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Yes, we should listen to First Nations!
Demonstrations organized by members of First Nations are disrupting economic activity in Canada, and preventing people from freely travelling around the country, and even from taking their commuter trains to work.

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Labour shortage: Not a problem, but an opportunity
The Quebec government has created a group to find solutions to the scarcity of labour that is supposedly hindering Quebec growth.

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More bureaucrats mean fewer private sector jobs
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation released a study finding that 43,000 Quebec public sector workers earn $100,000 or more.

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A pragmatic response to climate change
According to United Nations scientists, we could more easily manage the problem of global warming, and do so at an affordable price, by reclaiming abandoned wasteland.

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Unnecessary interventions to lower wireless prices
Canadian telecommunications companies invest billions of dollars every year to expand and modernize their networks. These investments are threatened, however, by increasing intervention on the part of the federal government and the CRTC to force a reduction in the prices of wireless services.

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Putting an end to electric vehicle subsidies
Among all the good reasons to call Quebec’s Roulez vert program into question, the most relevant and the most obvious is clearly its inefficiency.