Anthony Furey

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FUREY: If Canada does a prisoner exchange, we need to pull the drawbridge up right after

The idea of giving in to China and trading Meng Wanzhou for the two Michaels that Beijing has been holding hostage for a year and half should rightly offend Canadians’ sensibilities.

June 25, 2020 Columnists

In this file photo taken May 8, 2019, Turnisa Matsedik-Qira, of the Vancouver Uyghur Association, demonstrates against China's treatment of Uighurs while holding a photo of detained Canadians Michael Spavor (left) and Michael Kovrig (right) outside a court appearance for Huawei Chief Financial Officer, Meng Wanzhou, at the British Columbia Supreme Court in Vancouver.

FUREY: Whatever happened to 'we're all in this together'?

There’s an impasse on Parliament Hill that serves as a good example of the broader tensions playing out across society right now.

June 21, 2020 Columnists

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh attends a sitting of the special committee on COVID-19 at the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Thursday, June 18, 2020.

FUREY: Kudos to those cops who are striking a balance

You probably haven’t heard that much about Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best on the news and across social media. Maybe that’s because she appears to be everything we need right now – a calm and level-headed officer, who is very much open to reform but also speaks out against violent looting and is not willing to throw her entire department under the bus. And those sorts of moderate voices sadly aren’t being amplified right now.

June 13, 2020 Columnists

Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best talks to media in front of Seattle Police Department East Precinct in Seattle, Washington, U.S. June 11, 2020.

FUREY: The lockdowns in Canada are over, whether public health officials know it or not

I’ve been breaking the rules ever since the start. Despite officials recommending against it, I’ve been dividing my time between rural Ontario and downtown Toronto, regularly going back and forth. It’s what we felt we had to do to as a family to maintain our sanity as a household with multiple small children.

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June 6, 2020 Columnists

An employee at Zara puts up a sign during a phased reopening from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) restrictions in Toronto, May 19, 2020.

FUREY: Foreign takeovers study a good step for Canada's China file

The stock market is down. Companies are available for cheap. Some pretty good companies. Some sensitive ones. Maybe middle-class people in Canada who have cash to spare will use this opportunity to make some purchases for their TFSAs or RRSPs. Or, maybe, the Chinese government will swoop in and gobble up these companies.

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June 2, 2020 Columnists

Michelle Rempel Garner attends a press conference in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada January 29, 2020.

EDITORIAL: Canadians' similarities matter more than their differences

People all across the Western world have found their cities flare up in activism, protest and, in many cases, rioting, violence and looting. The spark that lit the flame was the caught on camera death of African-American man George Floyd in Minneapolis by a white police officer.

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June 1, 2020 Editorials

FUREY: Canada will soon need to shift from economic support to economic recovery

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has spent the past couple of months announcing a wide array of government pandemic relief programs to prop up the individuals and businesses who’ve watched the money dry up as the lockdowns closed the economy.

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May 23, 2020 Columnists

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau waits for a meeting of the special committee on the COVID-19 pandemic to begin in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, May 13, 2020.

FUREY: The Chinese government is still allowed to buy up Canadian firms - that's got to change

The other day, China quietly gobbled up another Canadian company.

May 21, 2020 Columnists

FILE PHOTO: Chen Yumin, President of Shandong Gold Group Co. Ltd., attends the 13th International Gold & Silver Symposium in Lima, Peru May 29, 2018. REUTERS/Mariana Bazo/File Photo ORG XMIT: FW1

FUREY: Will Trudeau stay the same or pivot post-pandemic?

Everyone knows that we’re not going to be returning to the same normal as before. While society is already slowly reopening, how we function in that society is going to be very different.

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May 16, 2020 Columnists

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrives to a meeting of the special committee on the COVID-19 pandemic, as efforts continue to help slow the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on May 13, 2020.

FUREY: Re-open Canada and let the individual decide

Remember a couple of weeks ago when the State of Georgia was re-opening and we were told the sky was going to fall? They were the first major jurisdiction to take the leap, re-opening many businesses on April 24 only a few weeks after first imposing their lockdown.

May 11, 2020 Columnists

Kristina Boedtger and Colin Patrick work out at Historic Fourth Ward Park on May 10, 2020 in Atlanta, Georgia.

Anthony Furey

LATEST STORIES BY ANTHONY FUREY

FUREY: If Canada does a prisoner exchange, we need to pull the drawbridge up right after

FUREY: Whatever happened to 'we're all in this together'?

FUREY: Kudos to those cops who are striking a balance

FUREY: The lockdowns in Canada are over, whether public health officials know it or not

FUREY: Foreign takeovers study a good step for Canada's China file

EDITORIAL: Canadians' similarities matter more than their differences

FUREY: Canada will soon need to shift from economic support to economic recovery

FUREY: The Chinese government is still allowed to buy up Canadian firms - that's got to change

FUREY: Will Trudeau stay the same or pivot post-pandemic?

FUREY: Re-open Canada and let the individual decide

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