Parks Canada has decided to offer a real break in 2024 for people looking to enjoy some of Canada’s glorious outdoors and backwoods.

But only people who are newcomers and new Canadian citizens. In a Parks Canada post, the federal government agency announced that there will be “Free admission for newcomers to Canada and new Canadian citizens” in 2024. That applies to any park in Canada, from B.C. to Newfound and Labrador and there is no indication that free access is limited.

Do you want to be Canadian? Quebecers may get to choose if the Parti Québécois wins the 2026 provincial election, as PQ Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, who is currently leading in the polls, has pledged to hold a referendum on sovereignty if he becomes premier.

Polls suggest that roughly one in three Quebecers would vote to leave Canada. But federalists should not get too comfortable, as this is around the same proportion of Quebecers who indicated they would support sovereignty in 1994, only for the province to reject it by less than one per cent a year later.

Forget Ruth Bader Ginsburg. It is Sonia Sotomayor who is the greatest liberal to sit on the supreme court in my adult lifetime. The first Latina to hold the position of justice, she has blazed a relentlessly progressive trail on the highest bench in the land.

Law professor Paul Campos warned on Saturday that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor remaining on the bench poses a "risk" amid the upcoming 2024 presidential election.

Starting to panic over President Joe Biden’s sinking chances in November, Democrats are starting to lower the lifeboats as the ship lists dangerously to port. One of the first they would like to send off is Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. 

A controversial essay written by former New York Times editorial page editor James Bennet in The Economist is generating lots of buzz and criticism due to his contention that a culture of “illiberalism” has infected The Times.

If you care about the future of journalism and liberal democracy, ignore Bennet’s message at your peril.

The massacre by Hamas on October 7 and subsequent war in Gaza has created the conditions for something surprising: a resurrection of the liberal Zionist political tradition.

The proportion of registered Democrats who have a firearm in their home has jumped significantly over the past few years, according to a recent NBC News poll, with some analysts saying rising crime in urban areas could be behind the increase.

The Trump years had a radicalizing effect on the American right. But, let’s be honest, they also sent many on the left completely around the bend. Some liberals, particularly upper-middle-class white ones, cracked up because other people couldn’t see what was obvious to them: that Trump was a bad candidate and an even worse president.