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Stephen Harper

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Politics / World

Can We Repair Canada’s Trade Relationship with China?

June 9, 2020September 10, 2020 - by Derek H. Burney

Canada needs to adjust to a world where China is the other great power. It won’t be easy

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Politics

The Decade in Politics

December 15, 2019February 21, 2020 - by The Walrus Staff

From predicting civil war in the US to evaluating the health of our own democracy, these are the politics conversations that helped define Canada

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Photograph by michael_swan
Politics

Justin Trudeau’s Political Godfather

August 27, 2016November 18, 2019 - by Jonathan Kay

Without Stephen Harper, the Liberals would still be the soulless, grey, grubby political machine they were a decade ago

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Photograph by François Bianco
Politics

Step Back to the Right

November 4, 2015April 8, 2020 - by Adam Daifallah

The conservative authors of Rescuing Canada’s Right update the blueprint for the party—and the movement

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Photograph by Wab Kinew
Politics

United Nation

October 24, 2015April 8, 2020 - by Wab Kinew

Indigenous voters beat Stephen Harper at his own game

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Rolling out a red carpet in front of a plane
Politics

A Friend in Need

October 16, 2015April 8, 2020 - by Adam Daifallah

It’s Mulcair and Trudeau, not Harper, who will weaken Canada’s special relationship with the United States

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Photograph by Torben Hansen
Politics

When Tories Inhale

October 15, 2015June 19, 2020 - by Jonathan Kay

Saturday’s love-in between Stephen Harper and Rob Ford will deliver a pitch-perfect satire of conservative war-on-drugs hypocrisy

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Photograph by Jean-Louis Potier
Politics

How This Became the Niqab Election

October 7, 2015July 21, 2020 - by Jonathan Kay

For the first time in generations, Canada has no great national neurosis. So Stephen Harper created one

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Photograph by Jason Ransom
Politics

The Partisan Debate Dividing The Jewish Community

September 1, 2015December 10, 2020 - by The Walrus

For generations, Canadian Jews have disagreed over key issues. But why does it split along party lines?

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Photograph of Thomas Mulcair courtesy of ndp.ca
Politics

Doubting Thomas

August 28, 2015April 10, 2020 - by Drew Nelles

Does Mulcair’s NDP stand for anything?

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