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After a court decision on tariffs, what’s next?

Editorial 4 minute read Yesterday at 2:01 AM CST

U.S. President Donald Trump loves the word tariffs — he’s said so many times.

In fact, he’s said “I love the word tariffs — it’s the most beautiful word in the dictionary.”

The U.S. Supreme Court? Not so much. At least, not when the president claims he can unilaterally impose them.

Friday, a majority of the court struck down Trump’s use of the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act, saying, bluntly, “IEEPA does not authorize the president to impose tariffs.”

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Data centres and infrastructure: an expensive pairing

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Data centres and infrastructure: an expensive pairing

Editorial 4 minute read Friday, Feb. 20, 2026

Governments around the world — India being the latest — have been falling over themselves trying to lure power-hungry, water-thirsty data centre operations to build in their backyards.

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Friday, Feb. 20, 2026

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Google’s data centres consume billions of litres of water each year.

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                                Google’s data centres consume billions of litres of water each year.

Tariff cracks are starting to show

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Tariff cracks are starting to show

Editorial 4 minute read Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026

U.S. President Donald Trump has made tariffs — punitive, erratic, inflammatory, self-injurious and, more often than not, petty in their application — the foundation of what passes for economic policy during his second term in office.

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Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026

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A border marker is shown just outside of Emerson, Man.

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                                A border marker is shown just outside of Emerson, Man.

A sign of hope amid true darkness

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A sign of hope amid true darkness

Editorial 4 minute read Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026

It’s been eight days since the mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C.

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Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026

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A vigil for mass shoting victims in Tumbler Ridge.

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                                A vigil for mass shoting victims in Tumbler Ridge.

Trump’s move to pre-empt fair elections

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Trump’s move to pre-empt fair elections

Editorial 4 minute read Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2026

U.S. President Donald Trump has waged an unrelenting war on democratic institutions since beginning his second term in January 2025. So much so that many observers have warned that he is trying to install an authoritarian government in the place of the current democracy.

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Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2026

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U.S. President Donald Trump

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U.S. President Donald Trump

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                                U.S. President Donald Trump 
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                                U.S. President Donald Trump

Taking back the right to backpacks

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Taking back the right to backpacks

Editorial 4 minute read Saturday, Feb. 14, 2026

It’s tough being a high-school student in Canada in 2026.

Some of them entered high school in the shadow of COVID-19, where the typical norms of secondary education radically changed out of necessity. Post-pandemic, the very-online, social-media-driven world of teens has been overrun with liars, grifters, scammers and extortion artists.

Not only do you have to take care not to snap and share intimate photos of yourself, lest they break containment onto the wider internet, you now have to wonder if someone will take your more innocuous photos and use them to generate sexually explicit material with an AI chatbot.

And then, for some reason, your school decides you shouldn’t be allowed to carry your backpack around with you to class, even though you may have been doing it for years.

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Saturday, Feb. 14, 2026

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Sturgeon Heights Collegiate bans backpacks in class.

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                                Sturgeon Heights Collegiate bans backpacks in class.

Small movement on U.S. tariffs only the beginning

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Small movement on U.S. tariffs only the beginning

Editorial 4 minute read Friday, Feb. 13, 2026

It’s a long road with no turns, but plenty of potholes. On Wednesday, there was a glimmer of hope up ahead — but let’s not get ahead of ourselves.

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Friday, Feb. 13, 2026

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Prime Minister Mark Carney

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                                Prime Minister Mark Carney

Remembering history to move ahead

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Remembering history to move ahead

Editorial 4 minute read Thursday, Feb. 12, 2026

With his party’s long-anticipated leadership review squarely in the rear-view mirror and armed with a resounding endorsement from its membership, Pierre Poilievre can set his focus on setting the future direction of the Conservative Party of Canada.

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Thursday, Feb. 12, 2026

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Former prime minister Stephen Harper

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                                Former prime minister Stephen Harper

Free speech used to justify corporate profit

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Free speech used to justify corporate profit

Editorial 4 minute read Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2026

Why was “free-speech absolutist” Musk so upset about the idea that the owners of sites could be criminally charged for using improper control of site algorithms to tilt comment in one political direction or another, impacting everything from public opinion to voting?

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Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2026

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X owner Elon Musk

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                                X owner Elon Musk

Critical incidents are supposed to lead to action

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Critical incidents are supposed to lead to action

Editorial 4 minute read Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2026

The failure to recognize and intervene when a patient’s health has deteriorated remains one of the most troubling and persistent causes of death and serious injury in Manitoba’s health-care system.

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Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2026

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Health Minister Uzoma Asagwara

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                                Health Minister Uzoma Asagwara

A needed pivot on Canadian EV policy

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A needed pivot on Canadian EV policy

Editorial 4 minute read Monday, Feb. 9, 2026

Prime Minister Mark Carney has put a charge — pun intended —into Canada’s beleaguered auto industry. His timing could not be better.

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Monday, Feb. 9, 2026

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Prime Minister Mark Carney

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                                Prime Minister Mark Carney

Buying expensive fighters from unfriendly neighbours

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Buying expensive fighters from unfriendly neighbours

Editorial 4 minute read Saturday, Feb. 7, 2026

It is long past time for Canada to put an end to the interminable saga of the F-35 purchase.

Especially considering the correct decision only becomes more obvious with time.

Set in motion during the reign of Stephen Harper’s Conservative government nearly 16 years ago, the purchase of dozens of advanced F-35 Lightning II fighters from the United States has been an albatross around the neck of subsequent governments, none of which has yet been able to settle for good on whether to buy the jets in order to replace Canada’s aging fleet.

The deal seemed to be sewn up in January 2023, when the federal government announced it had finalized an agreement with the U.S. government, defence company Lockheed Martin and its partner Pratt & Whitney to purchase 88 of the jets. Yet three years later, Canada finds itself reconsidering again.

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Saturday, Feb. 7, 2026

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Interim federal NDP Leader Don Davies

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                                Interim federal NDP Leader Don Davies

Danielle Smith plays separation carrot-and-stick

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Danielle Smith plays separation carrot-and-stick

Editorial 4 minute read Friday, Feb. 6, 2026

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is beginning to look like something of a separation arsonist.

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Friday, Feb. 6, 2026

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Alberta Premier Danielle Smith

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                                Alberta Premier Danielle Smith

Bracing for a future global water shortage

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Bracing for a future global water shortage

Editorial 4 minute read Thursday, Feb. 5, 2026

Declaring bankruptcy is by all accounts a painful, traumatic and perhaps even humiliating process.

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Thursday, Feb. 5, 2026

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The world is running short of water.

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                                The world is running short of water.

Spain joins nations imposing limits on social media

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Spain joins nations imposing limits on social media

Editorial 4 minute read Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026

It’s the sound of another shoe dropping. There are likely to be many, many more.

Australia was the first, bringing in legislation to ban anyone under 16 from using social media, and requiring social media companies to exclude anyone under that age.

Denmark has banned access to social media for people under the age of 15 (13, with parental permission). France has also required age verification for social media sites, setting the age at 15 as well — and French authorities reportedly raided the French offices of Elon Musk’s X on Tuesday as part of a preliminary investigation into spreading child pornography.

Now, Spain has gone a step further.

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Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026

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X owner Elon Musk

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                                X owner Elon Musk

The time for fax machines is past

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The time for fax machines is past

Editorial 4 minute read Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2026

Manitoba’s health-care system is plagued by long waits, crowded emergency rooms and chronic staffing shortages. But it is also bogged down by something less dramatic and far more absurd.

Fax machines.

Yes, fax machines. In 2026.

Doctors Manitoba’s new report, bluntly titled Axe the Fax, should be required reading at the legislature and in every health authority boardroom. Not because it contains some radical reinvention of medicine, but because it shines a harsh light on the daily inefficiencies that quietly sabotage patient care and waste physician time.

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Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2026

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Doctors Manitoba president Dr. Nichelle Desilets

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                                Doctors Manitoba president Dr. Nichelle Desilets

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