Maxime Marquette
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Columns by Maxime Marquette
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PROFILE: Andrew Kan, the police chief who defends having no list and leaves the risk with the bookseller
There is no list. In Hong Kong, no public document says which books may be sold and which ones lead to the police station.…
FACT CHECK: Carney’s 2027-28 balanced budget is still unproven; the PBO says 2029-30
For now, the balanced-budget promise fails the test: unproven. Not false. Not proven. That is the verdict we can reach, on this September 25,…
COMMENTARY: Stephen Fuhr’s agency signs for six GlobalEye, defers the RCAF’s requirements
Ottawa is buying an aircraft because it is proven. And on the same day, Ottawa signs up to develop it.
SPECIAL REPORT: Carney privatizes Montreal-Trudeau, MacKinnon won’t guarantee the ticket price
In Toronto, on September 15, in front of executives and investors, an airport became a series of restaurants and shops.
OPEN LETTER: Ms. Kelly, Canada won’t say thank you under a 50% tariff
Ms. Kelly, one street sign was enough. On September 23, Ottawa city council voted unanimously to start renaming Trump Avenue, in the Central Park…
INVESTIGATION: Beijing cuts Africa to 2.1 billion in loans but moors Latin America to Chancay
2.1 billion — the lowest figure in almost twenty years, according to the loan registers kept by Boston University and the calculations of Oxford…
SPECIAL REPORT: Beijing Promises Stimulus as Its Households Give Up Spending — Factories Slow to 4.5%
That is the growth rate of Chinese industrial output in July, published Monday by the National Bureau of Statistics. A number half the governments…
INVESTIGATION: Two Chinese Ex-Soldiers Arrested in Seoul as 18,000 Troops Launch the Drill They Watched
For five years, a man ran a military-supply shop at the gates of Camp Humphreys, the largest American base anywhere overseas. He sold gear…
SPECIAL REPORT: Beijing buys 40 cargoes of sanctioned Russian gas at a discount — but Washington sanctions no more
On August 28, 2025, a tanker named Arctic Mulan moored at the Beihai terminal, in Guangxi, southern China.