Anthony Furey

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FUREY: Someone has to say it – it's time to build a wall at Roxham Rd.

Here’s a crazy idea: What if we actually sent the signal to the thousands of people crossing illegally into Canada that they shouldn’t be crossing illegally into Canada?

May 22, 2018 Columnists

A family from Haiti approach a tent in Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle, Quebec, stationed by Royal Canadian Mounted Police, as they haul their luggage down Roxham Rd. in Champlain, N.Y., Monday, Aug. 7, 2017.

FUREY: Here’s the one big misstep the current liberal order keeps making

The other day The New York Times’ resident conservative columnist David Brooks managed to sum up exactly what’s wrong with the liberal order today. He was writing about President Trump tearing up the Iran deal and the now yawn-inducing overreaction it generated from Trump’s opponents. But within Brooks’ specific observations lies the broader key to unpacking a lot of what’s so screwy in both global and domestic affairs right now.

May 19, 2018 Columnists

U.S. President Donald Trump announces his decision to withdraw the United States from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal in the Diplomatic Room at the White House May 8, 2018 in Washington, DC.

FUREY: Toronto ISIS returnee is laughing at us - something must be done

There’s a guy walking about freely in Toronto bragging to the media about going abroad to join the Islamic State. He’s told The New York Times he killed people (executed them in the head, to be precise). Although he’s walked that part back.

May 14, 2018 Columnists

ISIS flag (DELIL SOULEIMAN/AFP/Getty Images)

FUREY: Forget legal challenges, 'direct action' is Trans Mountain's real hurdle

For whatever reason, Canadian politicians abroad tend to be more forthright with the foreign press than with their own. And the latest example comes from Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson when he stopped by Bloomberg News’ NYC office on Tuesday and offered some alarming words about the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain project.

May 11, 2018 Columnists