Les Perreaux
@perreaux.bsky.social
Editor. https://policyoptions.irpp.org/
Retired reporter. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/authors/les-perreaux/
Retired reporter. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/authors/les-perreaux/
Doug Cuthand, the Indigenous affairs columnist for the Saskatoon StarPhoenix and Regina Leader-Post, is retiring after 35 years. Impossible to overstate what an important voice he has been in Saskatchewan.
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Cuthand: It's not goodbye, it's 'miostus' (later)
After 34 years of writing for the StarPhoenix and Leader-Post, Indigenous affairs columnist Doug Cuthand is retiring to focus on his health.
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November 22, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Doug Cuthand, the Indigenous affairs columnist for the Saskatoon StarPhoenix and Regina Leader-Post, is retiring after 35 years. Impossible to overstate what an important voice he has been in Saskatchewan.
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Danny Parys: Keeping Canadian companies in Canadian hands policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/11/cana...
Elbows up: Keeping Canadian companies in Canadian hands
Foreign takeovers are eroding Canadian brands, jobs and accountability. Policymakers should tighten net-benefit reviews.
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November 20, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Danny Parys: Keeping Canadian companies in Canadian hands policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/11/cana...
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"Every media era gets the fabulists it deserves... this generation’s internet scammers are scavenging in the wreckage of a degraded media environment." Oof, this bleakly fascinating story from @nickhunebrown.bsky.social is today's media industry must-read, and with a hell of a kicker:
Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era | The Local
A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.
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November 19, 2025 at 10:18 PM
"Every media era gets the fabulists it deserves... this generation’s internet scammers are scavenging in the wreckage of a degraded media environment." Oof, this bleakly fascinating story from @nickhunebrown.bsky.social is today's media industry must-read, and with a hell of a kicker:
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Firms reporting terrible ROI for GenAI bodes ill for PM Carney with his all-in focus on GenAI, as @bhaggart.bsky.social & I explain in this oped for @policyoptions.irpp.org policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/11/ai-r...
November 19, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Firms reporting terrible ROI for GenAI bodes ill for PM Carney with his all-in focus on GenAI, as @bhaggart.bsky.social & I explain in this oped for @policyoptions.irpp.org policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/11/ai-r...
Valérie Lapointe, Charles Breton: Unlocking growth through interprovincial trade reform policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/11/comm...
Unlocking growth through interprovincial trade reform
Canada could boost growth by reducing interprovincial trade barriers. Here's four conditions to harmonize the market.
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November 19, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Valérie Lapointe, Charles Breton: Unlocking growth through interprovincial trade reform policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/11/comm...
Jared Wesley, Mireille Lalancette, Alex Marland: How to tamp down hyperpartisanship in Canadian politics policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/11/part...
How to tamp down hyperpartisanship in Canadian politics
Party discipline shapes Canada’s Parliament. Practical reforms could empower MPs, restore debate and improve policymaking.
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November 14, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Jared Wesley, Mireille Lalancette, Alex Marland: How to tamp down hyperpartisanship in Canadian politics policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/11/part...
Natasha Tusikov, Blayne Haggart: Canada’s AI strategy risks democracy and digital sovereignty policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/11/ai-r...
Canada’s AI strategy risks democracy and digital sovereignty
The government's plan overlooks rising U.S. authoritarianism, data sovereignty and the risk of outsourcing public services to tech firms.
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November 13, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Natasha Tusikov, Blayne Haggart: Canada’s AI strategy risks democracy and digital sovereignty policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/11/ai-r...
Clément Gagnon: Souveraineté numérique : le Canada doit protéger ses intérêts policyoptions.irpp.org/fr/2025/11/s...
Souveraineté numérique : le Canada doit protéger ses intérêts
Le Canada dépend trop des géants américains du numérique. Il est urgent de sécuriser nos infrastructures critiques.
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November 13, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Clément Gagnon: Souveraineté numérique : le Canada doit protéger ses intérêts policyoptions.irpp.org/fr/2025/11/s...
Joshua Langston, Shawn Harmon & Janice E. Graham: On ostriches, polarizing politics and buried heads.
Why CFIA needed to act decisively to enforce public health safety regulations in the controversial B.C. case.
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Why CFIA needed to act decisively to enforce public health safety regulations in the controversial B.C. case.
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On ostriches, polarizing politics and buried heads
Disinformation around an ostrich cull shows how pandemic-era distrust still undermines science and public health in Canada.
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November 12, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Joshua Langston, Shawn Harmon & Janice E. Graham: On ostriches, polarizing politics and buried heads.
Why CFIA needed to act decisively to enforce public health safety regulations in the controversial B.C. case.
policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/11/ostr...
Why CFIA needed to act decisively to enforce public health safety regulations in the controversial B.C. case.
policyoptions.irpp.org/2025/11/ostr...
Rachel Samson: La capacité du budget à remplir ses promesses reste à démontrer. Pour réussir, la fonction publique devra exceller dans l’exécution, alors que son personnel et son financement réduits.
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November 6, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Rachel Samson: La capacité du budget à remplir ses promesses reste à démontrer. Pour réussir, la fonction publique devra exceller dans l’exécution, alors que son personnel et son financement réduits.
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Somebody should mobiliZe to buy Mark Carney a CANADIAN Oxford Dictionary.
November 5, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Somebody should mobiliZe to buy Mark Carney a CANADIAN Oxford Dictionary.
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This is going to be a fantastic event and I can’t wait to come up to Ottawa for it. See you there 💫
Join us on Nov 18 for our annual Fall Lecture with @caulfieldtim.bsky.social, one of North America’s top voices on health & science misinformation. He'll unpack the forces shaping our “information chaos” & what it takes to separate fact from fiction in today’s world.
🎟️Register now: irpp.org?p=20841
🎟️Register now: irpp.org?p=20841
How to Escape the Fake: Making Good Policy in the Age of Misinformation - IRPP
Join us for an evening of dialogue and networking with Canada’s dynamic public policy community. This year’s IRPP fall lecture will feature Canadian author and scholar Timothy Caulfield, one of Nort...
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November 3, 2025 at 8:26 PM
This is going to be a fantastic event and I can’t wait to come up to Ottawa for it. See you there 💫
I stopped covering muncipal campaigns a few years ago and had to start reading up like a regular citizen before I vote.
As I was perusing the CBC promise tracker, I was amused to find this on one of the biggest city challenges. (Yes, the details behind the promises are different, but still.)
As I was perusing the CBC promise tracker, I was amused to find this on one of the biggest city challenges. (Yes, the details behind the promises are different, but still.)
November 3, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I stopped covering muncipal campaigns a few years ago and had to start reading up like a regular citizen before I vote.
As I was perusing the CBC promise tracker, I was amused to find this on one of the biggest city challenges. (Yes, the details behind the promises are different, but still.)
As I was perusing the CBC promise tracker, I was amused to find this on one of the biggest city challenges. (Yes, the details behind the promises are different, but still.)
Montreal has managed to go 12 years without a mayor resigning in disgrace. Thank you Valerie Plante and may new mayor Martinez Ferrada extend the streak to 16.
(It’s a low bar I know but you should have seen the place before.)
(It’s a low bar I know but you should have seen the place before.)
November 3, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Montreal has managed to go 12 years without a mayor resigning in disgrace. Thank you Valerie Plante and may new mayor Martinez Ferrada extend the streak to 16.
(It’s a low bar I know but you should have seen the place before.)
(It’s a low bar I know but you should have seen the place before.)
There will be the usual lectures about turnout in the Montreal municipal election but in 34 years of voting I’ve never come closer to not bothering.
November 3, 2025 at 2:33 AM
There will be the usual lectures about turnout in the Montreal municipal election but in 34 years of voting I’ve never come closer to not bothering.
Pity the Sunday news reporters in Toronto who thought they’d be covering a victory party today but are instead chasing the red-head kid.
November 2, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Pity the Sunday news reporters in Toronto who thought they’d be covering a victory party today but are instead chasing the red-head kid.
I thought the Jays were good at things like not falling asleep on bases.
November 2, 2025 at 12:30 AM
I thought the Jays were good at things like not falling asleep on bases.
There are a lot of Torontonians in this Montreal bar.
November 1, 2025 at 2:47 AM
There are a lot of Torontonians in this Montreal bar.
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Shohei wearing those New Balances, like a dad
November 1, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Shohei wearing those New Balances, like a dad
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If Canadian PM Carney manages a “reset” with China, it will be the fifth reset in 20 years under three Prime Ministers. Two of those resets have required their own reset, by the same PM, after they went south. Heavy lies the hand on the China Reset button
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Opinion: Carney wants a China ‘reset.’ May he avoid the mistakes of the previous four
To be sure, the Prime Minister has good reasons to attempt this century’s fifth reset
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October 31, 2025 at 6:29 PM
If Canadian PM Carney manages a “reset” with China, it will be the fifth reset in 20 years under three Prime Ministers. Two of those resets have required their own reset, by the same PM, after they went south. Heavy lies the hand on the China Reset button
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My 11-year-old officially works harder to accommodate people at his birthday parties than the Quebec state.
Bill 94 has passed in Quebec.
Students and staff will have to attend school with their faces uncovered. Menus adapted to religious restrictions will be prohibited. Absences or leave granted to staff for religious celebrations also gone. montreal.citynews.ca/2025/10/30/q...
Students and staff will have to attend school with their faces uncovered. Menus adapted to religious restrictions will be prohibited. Absences or leave granted to staff for religious celebrations also gone. montreal.citynews.ca/2025/10/30/q...
Religious symbols ban: Quebec passes law to prevent students, staff from covering their faces
The Legault government passed Bill 94 on Thursday, aimed at strengthening secularism in the Quebec school system. From now on, students will have to attend school with their faces uncovered, as will v...
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October 31, 2025 at 7:02 PM
My 11-year-old officially works harder to accommodate people at his birthday parties than the Quebec state.
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My longstanding unpopular stance is that the beginning of the end was comment sections on news stories. The day we created this false narrative that everyone is entitled to "weigh in" on literal facts, we created the conditions for this BS where you have to "hear people out" or you're censoring.
The era of “you’re all under a moral obligation to elevate the worst stances and treat them as acceptable” has not produced good results, but if we do it even more, maybe the positives will start to appear.
Mind-blowing stuff from Robby Soave.
"Podcasters should not avoid Fuentes." Of course they should. Deplatforming Nazis is good. Not amplifying them is not censorship.
Also laughable to claim Fuentes has been deplatformed. His growing reach is directly tied to MAGA destigmatizing naked racism.
"Podcasters should not avoid Fuentes." Of course they should. Deplatforming Nazis is good. Not amplifying them is not censorship.
Also laughable to claim Fuentes has been deplatformed. His growing reach is directly tied to MAGA destigmatizing naked racism.
October 31, 2025 at 4:55 PM
My longstanding unpopular stance is that the beginning of the end was comment sections on news stories. The day we created this false narrative that everyone is entitled to "weigh in" on literal facts, we created the conditions for this BS where you have to "hear people out" or you're censoring.
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Join us on Nov 18 for our annual Fall Lecture with @caulfieldtim.bsky.social, one of North America’s top voices on health & science misinformation. He'll unpack the forces shaping our “information chaos” & what it takes to separate fact from fiction in today’s world.
🎟️Register now: irpp.org?p=20841
🎟️Register now: irpp.org?p=20841
How to Escape the Fake: Making Good Policy in the Age of Misinformation - IRPP
Join us for an evening of dialogue and networking with Canada’s dynamic public policy community. This year’s IRPP fall lecture will feature Canadian author and scholar Timothy Caulfield, one of Nort...
irpp.org
October 31, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Join us on Nov 18 for our annual Fall Lecture with @caulfieldtim.bsky.social, one of North America’s top voices on health & science misinformation. He'll unpack the forces shaping our “information chaos” & what it takes to separate fact from fiction in today’s world.
🎟️Register now: irpp.org?p=20841
🎟️Register now: irpp.org?p=20841
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En tout cas, c'est pas le moment de se déguiser en Bob L'Éponge.
October 31, 2025 at 3:24 PM
En tout cas, c'est pas le moment de se déguiser en Bob L'Éponge.
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An amazing obituary with an unexpected appearance by the Raelian movement, a cult known for UFO belief and sexual libertinism.
In his first job interview with Reuters, Anthony Grey was asked why he wanted to cover international news. To be mixed up in important events, he said. His wish would come true — to a ruinous degree reut.rs/4oP6r83
October 31, 2025 at 2:53 PM
An amazing obituary with an unexpected appearance by the Raelian movement, a cult known for UFO belief and sexual libertinism.