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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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Mass Casualty Report makes it clear we need to disband the RCMP

March 31, 2023

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Poilievre promising to fire gatekeepers he can’t actually touch

March 28, 2023

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We are now in witch-hunt territory on interference allegations

March 24, 2023

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The filibuster drama is more proof our Parliament is deeply unserious

March 21, 2023

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We are past the point of a rational examination of foreign interference

March 17, 2023

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Has our normalcy bias prevented us from taking foreign interference seriously?

March 14, 2023

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More “safeguards” around nominations could spell even more trouble for democracy

March 10, 2023

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No, the Senate isn’t just there to vote on things

March 7, 2023

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We don’t need a public inquiry. We just need MPs to grow up.

March 3, 2023

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Foreign interference is serious, but we are not treating it as such

February 28, 2023

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The moving target of what is “broken” in Canada

February 24, 2023

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A reckoning on the Safe Third Country Agreement could be coming

February 21, 2023

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Canada should have its own coronation for King Charles III

February 17, 2023

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Question Period has devolved into Taking Points Mad Libs

February 14, 2023

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Did Trudeau outfox the premiers, or did their normalcy bias catch up with them?

February 10, 2023

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Dominic Barton had a point about the civil service

February 7, 2023

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