9 h. ago Chris Selley: ‘Birthright citizenship’ is an outdated concept

Arguments against ending it are based almost entirely on lazy economics, hypotheticals, or (especially recently) knee-jerk anti-Americanism

Economics

36 h. ago Justice minister rebuffs Tory push to end birthright citizenship

Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner said Canada must curtail birthright citizenship, with temporary arrivals surging in recent years

Politics

37 h. ago House committee adds language, security checks to ’Lost Canadians’ bill

OTTAWA — The House of Commons immigration committee is recommending most adults eligible for birthright citizenship under the “Lost Canadians” bill fulfil similar requirements to immigrant applicants, on language, knowledge of Canadian history and security checks. MPs on the committee adopted amendments on Tuesday to Bill C-3, which will go back to the House of […]

Events

58 h. ago Chris Selley: Canada is well within its rights to ban Kneecap (but it shouldn’t)

Denying entry to the anti-Israel rappers can only bolster the case for limits on free speech

Economics

4 d. ago Chris Selley: Speech bans are not the path to truth and reconciliation

Truth is a defence against 'hate speech', whether activists like it or not

Economics

6 d. ago Chris Selley: Education reform is change Ontario can believe in

School choice is seen as a third rail — but no one has tested the voltage in years

Society

8 d. ago Chris Selley: If there’s a ‘bunch of yahoos’ in Ontario politics, it’s certainly not Project Ontario

The group is best thought of as conservatives alarmed by some of Ontario’s fundamentals and uninterested in being in power for its own sake

Politics

1 week ago Chris Selley: Ostrich politics are a worrying sign of where our political heads are situated

Even amidst existential crises, Canadian politics is too often obsessed with peripheral issues

Politics

2 w. ago Chris Selley: We’re not going to get euthanasia right, but we could try harder to

The answer to an unsolvable ethical dilemma isn’t always ‘do your best and hope you were right’

Economics

2 w. ago Chris Selley: Carney missed a golden opportunity to ditch the Liberals’ gun buyback

The public safety minister thinks it's a mess. For once, at least, he's right

Economics

2 w. ago Chris Selley: Carney missed a golden opportunity to ditch the Liberals’ gun buy

The public safety minister thinks it's a mess. For once, at least, he's right

Economics

2 w. ago Chris Selley: A constitutional crisis? Sure, why not? We’ve got nothing else going on

The government's intervention on the notwithstanding clause is both ill-conceived and ill-timed

Economics

3 w. ago Chris Selley: On ‘hate speech’, Trump’s attorney general sounds downright Canadian

The standard for hate speech is high in Canada and we should all appreciate the careful balance we've struck with it

Economics

3 w. ago Chris Selley: If not Bonnie Crombie, then who do Ontario Liberals consider electable?

The Ontario Liberals just dumped a leader with a pretty good shot at becoming premier

Economics

last month Chris Selley: Fentanyl’s prevalence in the market is tanking. Politicians claim credit

One thing you will quickly notice looking at opioid-overdose statistics is that they don’t conspicuously discriminate according to politics or policy

Economics