The Aporia · Tristin Hopper

2026-09-06 · National Post

Canada was founded with the clear goal of not being the United States

🔮 McGee, the acknowledged hype man of Canadian confederation, had spent most of his life assuming that the scattered colonies of British North America would eventually be absorbed by the United States. assertive

2026-09-11 · National Post

Mark Carney’s support surge coming largely from former Conservatives, poll finds

🔮 According to a new poll published on Thursday, 13 per cent of respondents who voted Conservative in 2025 would now vote for a Carney-led Liberal party if given the chance. assertive

2026-09-14 · National Post

FIRST READING: Courts keep deciding that stabbing people doesn’t carry ‘intent to kill’

🔮 Gosal had stopped taking his schizophrenia medication and had been drinking, so he couldn’t be expected to appreciate that the stabbings would kill Schmidt. assertive

2026-09-14 · National Post

Judge rules ‘colonialism’ caused First Nations man to become deadly drunk driver

🔮 The crash occurred at 4:24 p.m. on a Friday afternoon, and investigators would determine that Wilson seems to have made no attempt to brake before slamming into the Mitsubishi sub-compact carrying the two Beverlys. assertive

2026-09-15 · National Post

FIRST READING: As First Nations acquire new land, political control, Beijing appears to take notice

🔮 In a statement, Chinese Ambassador to Canada Wang Di praised links with First Nations communities and expressed his hope that they would “lay an even more solid foundation for the China—Canada new strategic partnership.” assertive

2026-09-17 · National Post

FIRST READING: Stunning byelection upset may portend Alberta conservative fracture

🔮 That election, 30.7 per cent of the riding voted for the Progressive Conservatives and 30.4 per cent voted for the Wildrose Party, thus allowing NDP candidate Graham Sucha to slip into power with a vote share of just 31.27 per cent (he’d lose the riding by 40 points after just one term). But with the Alberta NDP on Monday clinching a decisive byelection victory that nobody saw coming, it may represent the first material sign of a conservative bloc that is being fractured by the question of Alberta independence. “The NDP has won Calgary Shaw, one of the most conservative big city ridings in this country. assertive

2026-09-18 · National Post

FIRST READING: B.C. stacking up sub-national debt faster than anywhere else in North America

🔮 The province’s deficit forecast now stands at $13.8 billion for the year, according to an update released this week by the B.C. Ministry of Finance. assertive

2026-09-21 · National Post

Ontario teachers told they serve white supremacist system that must be destroyed

🔮 It’s a projected slide from a Sept. 14 all-staff meeting held within an unidentified elementary school in the York Region, just north of Toronto. assertive

2026-09-23 · National Post

FIRST READING: David Eby’s snap election could blow up in his face

🔮 When Quebec Premier Robert Bourassa called a snap election in 1976, the official reason was that he needed a new mandate to address “a number of very important events (that) will affect the future of Quebec.” assertive

2026-09-26 · National Post

Within 10 days, two pedophile child killers were given temporary passes to leave prison

🔮 Both men are pedophiles who committed their crimes in the early 2000s, and whose victims would now be in their 30s. assertive

2026-09-29 · National Post

FIRST READING: Canadian youth just keep getting more Conservative under Carney

🔮 Overall, the Abacus poll released Sunday confirmed what every other pollster is finding: Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberals are enjoying a near-indomitable lead, and would likely win any snap election call in a landslide. assertive

2026-10-01 · National Post

FIRST READING: Immigration is higher than Ottawa has been telling us (and it’s set to go back up)

🔮 “So that will happen, and we just want to make sure that we’ve got it under control,” he said. assertive

2026-10-02 · National Post

FIRST READING: What SOGI actually tells teachers to do

🔮 B.C. Conservative Leader Lorne Doerkson has stated that if his party forms government, repealing SOGI will be a top priority. assertive

2026-10-05 · National Post

FIRST READING: The seven words in the Charter yielding all of Canada’s wackiest court decisions

🔮 When a B.C. court declared this week that Canadians had a Charter-protected right to traffic in illicit drugs, any veteran court-watcher would have been able to guess the precise section of the Constitution that underlay the new right. mixed

2026-10-05 · National Post

Canada joins U.S. in giving Michael J. Fox its highest civilian decoration

🔮 That would be the Order of Merit, a decoration handed out under the personal discretion of the British sovereign and limited to 24 living recipients at any one time. assertive

2026-10-07 · National Post

Tumbler Ridge killer decorated guns with transgender flag, chose ‘cute’ outfit for mass murder

🔮 In one exchange, killer Jesse Van Rootselaar, an 18-year-old male who identified as female, worried that a video livestream of the massacre might reveal his “ugly” voice. assertive

2026-10-08 · National Post

FIRST READING: Mark Carney’s favourite catchphrase

🔮 It may sound like standard Ottawa boilerplate, but the rhetoric is eerily similar to one of the preferred themes of Prime Minister Mark Carney, who is similarly known to begin speeches with a description of the planet being plagued by division and uncertainty. assertive

2026-10-09 · National Post

FIRST READING: Just as predicted, immigration cuts keep yielding lower rents

🔮 Across Canada, rents have been in decline almost from the moment that the federal government announced in October 2024 that it would be “turning off the taps” on what had previously been the largest migration surge in Canadian history. mixed

2026-10-13 · National Post

FIRST READING: Why Canadian doctors have a ‘duty’ to suggest death as a ‘care option’

🔮 In 2024, a Nova Scotia grandmother was in a hospital gown being prepared for breast cancer surgery when, out of the blue, a doctor suggested she could instead consider death. Miriam Lancaster, 84, had just arrived at Vancouver General Hospital with severe back pain when she was offered MAID in the ER. assertive

2026-10-26 · National Post

FIRST READING: Fifteen days, fifteen identity-based criminal sentences

🔮 If they are a non-citizen, a judge may consider the “immigration consequences” of a conviction and assign a lighter sentence than would be received by a citizen who had committed the same crime. assertive

2026-10-28 · National Post

FIRST READING: Everyone hates the Indian Act. So why does it refuse to die?

🔮 Framers of the Indian Act at the time were open about its paternalistic goals, agreeing in House of Commons debates that Indians were “like children to a very great extent” who “required a great deal more protection than white men.” Nowadays, it would be difficult to name a piece of Canadian federal legislation that is more disliked than the Indian Act. assertive

2026-10-29 · National Post

FIRST READING: Carney’s ‘under control’ immigration still blowing out the numbers

🔮 But even this reduced number will end up charting as one of the highest annual intakes of permanent residents over the last century. assertive

2026-10-29 · National Post

FIRST READING: Carney’s ‘under control’ immigration still blowing out the numbers

🔮 But even this reduced number will end up charting as one of the highest annual intakes of permanent residents over the last century. assertive

2026-10-30 · National Post

FIRST READING: Canada where Trump’s ‘hardball’ strategy failed hardest, says analysis

🔮 The basic premise of U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war on Canada was simple: The massive U.S. economy could dictate favourable terms to a smaller and more dependent neighbour. assertive

Forward-looking sentences extracted from their articles, oldest first. Nothing here checks whether any of it turned out to be right.

👤 Tristin Hopper

About this journalist

What they cover

Leaning

More from this journalist

What they said would happen