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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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On Venezuela and Canada’s Vichy voices

January 8, 2026

Canada
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In 2026, Mark Carney needs to get the provinces in line over their data

January 4, 2026

Canada
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The faux debate over Carney’s future Senate plans

January 2, 2026

Canada
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Stop being credulous about anti-immigrant sentiment

December 29, 2025

Canada
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Is Carney capable of being a post-neoliberal prime minister?

December 23, 2025

Canada
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Disallowance is a constitutional dead letter

December 20, 2025

Canada
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Floor-crossing to a majority parliament?

December 17, 2025

Canada
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Danielle Smith playing Carney for a mug will only accelerate her separatist crisis

December 14, 2025

Alberta
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Ending the parliamentary year on another note of dysfunction

December 9, 2025

Canada
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Rustad’s ouster offers several key reminders

December 7, 2025

British Columbia
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Of Arsonists and Leopard-Tamers

December 2, 2025

Alberta
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Carney bends the knee to Danielle Smith

November 30, 2025

Alberta
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Virtue-signalling to CEOs

November 25, 2025

Canada
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The tyranny of clichés about Western Alienation

November 23, 2025

Alberta
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Why is Mark Carney taking a page from Nigel Farage?

November 18, 2025

Canada
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Our Parliament needs more Nate Erskine-Smiths, not more message control

November 16, 2025

Canada
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