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Gunter: Ontario teachers’ union demonstrates it’s easily insulted

I admire teachers. Oh, sure, I have concerns about the ideology many try to pass on to our children. And some of their well-intentioned ideas – such as zero-tolerance violence policies – have produced unintended (and unwelcome) consequences. For instance, … Continue reading

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Gunter: Koran riots prove it’s time to quit Afghanistan

It’s time to quit Afghanistan. The deadly riots over the burning of Korans at the NATO airbase at Bagram prove that Western forces have accomplished about as much as they can to civilize the place (which isn’t as much as … Continue reading

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Gunter: A province stuck in neutral

As I read the Toronto Star’s editorial about Statistics Canada’s recently released 2011 census population data, it was hard for me not to imagine a plump, aging diva reclining on a brocade covered chaise wailing, “I’m still beautiful! Really, I … Continue reading

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Gunter: Provinces plead to be saved from health care innovation

Albert Einstein famously said that insanity was doing the same over and over and expecting different results. By that definition, Canadian politicians’ approach to health care is insane. When the Liberals resumed office in 1993 after the end of the … Continue reading

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Gunter: The Tories haven’t changed us (1)

A hat-tip to my colleague Kelly McParland for suggesting earlier this week that Stephen Harper and the Conservative government are not so much changing Canada as simply demonstrating how much Canada has moved away from the elite blueprint the Liberals began using … Continue reading

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Gunter: Attawapiskat wants the money, not the manager (1)

Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan and his parliamentary secretary, Greg Rickford, met with leaders from the James Bay Cree community of Attawapiskat on Thursday. They promised short-term emergency shelters and supplies, repairs to a clinic in the remote community, plus a … Continue reading

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Gunter: Welcome to Hotel Kyoto (2)

After federal Environment Minister Peter Kent announced Monday that Canada would be withdrawing from the Kyoto Protocol on carbon emissions, the head of the UN agency that administers the protocol said she would not permit Ottawa to do so. Christiana … Continue reading

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Gunter: Too little, too late from industry and Nebraska on Keystone?

Last week, the U.S. State department, at the behest of the White House, somewhat unexpectedly postponed until after next November’s presidential elections a decision on whether or not to permit the Keystone XL pipeline from Alberta to the Texas Gulf … Continue reading

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Gunter: It’s not for the government to decide who ‘needs’ a gun

On Tuesday morning, members of the National Post editorial board — a group that includes me — got into a fascinating email debate regarding the federal government’s decision to decommission the long-gun registry. We then segued into a discussion of the possibility … Continue reading

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Gunter: Seat-allocation merry-go-round spins

Before I dive once again into the House of Commons representation pool, let me quickly explain why it is impossible to achieve rough parity among the seats each province has by redistributing the existing number of seats (308). It’s the … Continue reading

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Gunter: Mothball ‘dud subs,’ buy nukes

Boy did the Brits ever see us coming in 1998 when the Chretien Liberals pulled up to Honest Nigel’s Used Submarine Shop looking to buy four underwater patrol boats.  The quartet they sold us for the unbelievably low price of just $750 million … Continue reading

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