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1 week ago | 
readthemaple.com | Alex Cosh
This is the first story in a two-part investigation.
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2 weeks ago | 
readthemaple.com | Alex Cosh
Western alienation and Alberta separatism are back in the news. After the Liberal Party snatched victory from the jaws of defeat in last month’s federal election, a small but vocal minority in the heavily Conservative-voting Prairie provinces, particularly Alberta, are calling to break up Confederation. They are getting a helping hand from some of the highest rungs of power.
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3 weeks ago | 
readthemaple.com | Alex Cosh
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1 month ago | 
readthemaple.com | Alex Cosh
Although both the Liberals and Conservatives enjoyed their highest vote shares in decades in last month’s federal election, experts say both parties have areas of support that are soft and could shift back to smaller parties in the years ahead. Ninety-one per cent of MPs in the House of Commons are now Liberals or Conservatives, a nine per cent increase from the results in 2021.
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1 month ago | 
readthemaple.com | Emma Paling |Alex Cosh |Davide Mastracci
Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre is getting an easier ride at media events during the current election than Liberal Party Leader Mark Carney, an analysis by The Maple finds. The data shows that despite Poilievre’s constant complaints that the media go easy on his Liberal opponents, the opposite is true in this election campaign.
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2 months ago | 
readthemaple.com | Alex Cosh
Mark Carney’s Liberal Party is avoiding questions about a Canadian company receiving a contract to supply the Israeli military with up to $78.8 million of artillery propellants, despite the Liberal government’s promise to block military exports to Israel last year.
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2 months ago | 
readthemaple.com | Davide Mastracci |Emma Paling |Alex Cosh
The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) is a Zionist lobby group that has a stated priority of “strengthening the Canada-Israel Friendship.” It has aimed to do so in several ways, including lobbying MPs and taking them on fully paid trips to Israel. I’ve published several articles on CIJA’s activities since 2022, including a list of the 10 MPs most lobbied by CIJA and a breakdown of MPs CIJA has taken to Israel.
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2 months ago | 
readthemaple.com | Alex Cosh
Israeli occupation forces arrested Hamdan Ballal, the Palestinian co-director of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, this week after he was brutally attacked by a mob of Israeli settlers at his home in the occupied West Bank. Shortly after the attack, Ballal’s Israeli co-director Yuval Abraham posted on X: “Soldiers invaded the ambulance he called, and took [Ballal].”Ballal and two other Palestinians were released from Israeli detention on Tuesday.
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2 months ago | 
readthemaple.com | Emma Paling |Alex Cosh |Peter McFarlane
It might sound hard to believe, but a London-based bookie had a hand in sparking Canadian media’s early fascination with Prime Minister Mark Carney. The year was 2011, and the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) had just resigned after being charged with attempted rape in the United States. The London bookie, William Hill, took bets on his successor and included Carney on the list of possible candidates. The odds were long, ten to one.
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Mar 6, 2025 | 
readthemaple.com | Alex Cosh |Taylor C. Noakes
The two frontrunners in the race to replace Justin Trudeau as Liberal Party leader have received poor scores from an advocacy group that supports Palestinian human rights.
