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Toronto Star · The Globe and Mail

John Semley

Publishing · On our record since 2014

Where this writer stands

Public safety2 pieces

Prevention and restraintEnforcement and sentencing
“But that sadness has a root. It is traceable, in microeconomic terms, not to the abundant supply of illegal opioids, but to the widespread demand for them.” Read the piece

Fiscal policy2 pieces

Higher taxes and public spendingLower taxes and tighter spending
“Mamdani wants to freeze rents (the average NYC apartment goes for about $4,000 (US)), make child care and city buses free, raise corporate taxes, open city-owned grocery stores.” Read the piece

Immigration2 pieces

Higher permanent intakeLower intake
“Bad Bunny has been an outspoken opponent of the Trump administration's ongoing, and increasingly Gestapo-like, deportation tactics. And why wouldn't he be? People of Latin-American extraction are the prime targets of those operations. His very community is being terrorized.” Read the piece

Housing2 pieces

Public supply and demand controlsMarket supply and deregulation
“Vancouver could do with a rent freeze.” Read the piece

Health2 pieces

Expand public coverageMore private delivery
“Mamdani wants to freeze rents (the average NYC apartment goes for about $4,000 (US)), make child care and city buses free, raise corporate taxes, open city-owned grocery stores.” Read the piece

Trade1 piece

Diversify away from one partnerDeeper continental integration
“Proof, when we need it, that the long friendship and economic bonds between the two nations can endure the President — or, perhaps, simply ignore him — and all his bellowing .” Read the piece

Foreign affairs1 piece

Alliance restraintAssertive alliances and sanctions
“I find it the whole shtick a little pathetic. It's an exercise not in global power, but the desperate, flailing desire for it.” Read the piece

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