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About Dale Smith

Dale Smith is a freelance journalist in the Parliamentary Press Gallery and author of The Unbroken Machine: Canada's Democracy in Action (released March 2017).


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Jason Kenney’s Nice History of Canada

July 14, 2026

Alberta
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The incoherence of Carney’s Senate appointments

July 12, 2026

Canada
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How do you placate a fiction?

July 8, 2026

Alberta
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Canada Day should have been a wake-up call for Carney

July 4, 2026

Canada
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Canadians are underserved by our justice committee

July 3, 2026

Canada
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Fundraising for 24 Sussex shows how unserious we are as a country

June 26, 2026

Canada
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A few lessons for Canada on Starmer’s resignation

June 24, 2026

Canada
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The ritual contempt for the work of the Senate

June 22, 2026

Canada
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Carney needs to stop avoiding the Commons

June 17, 2026

Canada
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How many shameless reversals until the Liberals become Conservatives?

June 14, 2026

Canada
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Arbour makes a key point about diversity

June 10, 2026

Canada
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Poilievre’s catastrophizing and revisionist history

June 7, 2026

Canada
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Condescension versus crybabies

June 3, 2026

Alberta
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Guilbeault’s departure underlines just how egregious the climate backslide is

May 31, 2026

Canada
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The Ontario Liberals are courting a crisis in grassroots democracy

May 28, 2026

Canada
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Danielle Smith’s referendum exposes the rot in her politics

May 24, 2026

Alberta
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