Robyn Urback
@RobynUrback
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Columnist, Globe and Mail. Formerly CBC News, National Post.
Toronto
Joined March 2009
Mark Carney should add the gun buyback boondoggle to his kill list
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The digital services tax was bad policy, but killing it now makes us look terribly weak
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What's particularly embarrassing is that this capitulation doesn't actually get Canada anything tangible. We get to restart *negotiations*.
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The digital services tax is terribly dumb policy, but man, scrapping it now makes us look like pathetic little weaklings who will bend to Trump’s whims.
Canada rescinds digital services tax to advance broader trade negotiations with the United States.
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Considering accessory to manslaughter? Don't worry, if you're sentenced in Canada, you'll get to keep your gym membership
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This temporary foreign worker program is really getting out of control.
Border agency investigating dozens of cases of potential Iranian officials allowed into Canada
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He’s nuts but occasionally genuinely funny.
Trump: Putin called me: 'Can I help you with Iran?' . I said 'No, I don't need help with Iran. I need help with you.' 1/
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The right and left have converged in their moral confusion on Iran
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It would be an absolutely enormous feat if Trump could claim that the U.S. destroyed Iran’s nuclear facilities (though not its nuclear program…) without a single American casualty.
“A senior Iranian official told Reuters that Tehran had agreed to the U.S.-proposed ceasefire.”. Looks like the deal is real.
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The war in Gaza has broken brains in a different way: those who see Israel as the epitome of evil end up reflexively supporting its adversaries, even if it means supporting one of the most brutal, violent theocracies on the planet
Never thought I’d say this, but #TeamIran ✌️.
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I really think the Iraq War broke the brains of a generation, both on the left and the right. Iran is not Iraq, history is not repeating itself.
1. On March 20, 2003, President George W. Bush began the bombing campaign in Iraq, justifying the attack with manipulated and bogus intelligence. Twenty-two years later, history is repeating itself. Let's review the facts.
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Spare a thought for poor Tucker Carlson, who advocated for nuking Iran for its attempt to assassinate Trump, but will have to settle for a targeted strike on Iran's nuclear facilities. The restrainers (!?) win again, alas.
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In his new riding, Pierre Poilievre will be stuck between a rock and a separatist place
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One requires a precise medley of arrogance, ignorance and hubris to fly to a foreign country and attempt to breach a decades-old barrier, all while lecturing the Egyptians about their obligations to their Muslim brothers and sisters
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The March to Gaza strides face-first into the complicated reality of the Middle East
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This woman helped a man accused in the fatal shooting of an innocent bystander change his bloody clothes and flee in an uber. Her punishment is a conditional sentence that includes daily outings to GoodLife Fitness.
NEW: Worker at Toronto supervised injection site sentenced in connection with fatal shooting of Leslieville wife and mother Karolina Huebner-Makurat . Khalila Mohammed is spared jail time. Given a conditional sentence and 100 hours community service
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Oh look, CUPE Ontario lending its support to a regime that shot down a plane, killing 85 people from Canada just a few years ago.
This coming Sunday in Toronto there’s going to be a protest in support of the Iranian regime. The same regime that has executed thousands, suppressed the rights of women and girls, and made homosexuality punishable by death. Canada is not okay.
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Israel's defence minister says the people of Tehran will "pay the price" for the regime's targeting of Israeli civilians, which is absolutely the wrong response. The Iranian people are broadly aligned with Israel's objectives. Why jeopardize that?.
הדיקטטור הרברבן מטהרן הפך לרוצח פחדן שיורה ירי מכוון לעבר העורף האזרחי בישראל כדי להרתיע את צה"ל מהמשך המתקפה שמקריסה את יכולותיו. תושבי טהרן ישלמו את המחיר ובקרוב.
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I’d love to know what drug (or perhaps cheap supplement) would convince someone that Ukraine wanting to join NATO is a genuine provocation, but Iran threatening to wipe Israel off the earth, funding proxies in Lebanon, Gaza, etc. and building up its nuclear arsenal is not.
The real divide isn’t between people who support Israel and people who support Iran or the Palestinians. The real divide is between those who casually encourage violence, and those who seek to prevent it — between warmongers and peacemakers. Who are the warmongers? They would.
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