Ashley Csanady
National Post
Toronto, ON, Canada
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Ashley Csanady: Thanks, Ontario government, for taking the fun out of legal weed
As one of the many rational pot smokers in Ontario, I'm not surprised but saddened by the government's predictably parochial approach to legal weed: no cafés, no edibles, no branding, and above all, no fun → Read More
Toronto ‘Free Speech Comedy Show’ cancelled amid backlash
The 'No Fascists In Our City! Free Speech Comedy Show' was cancelled Saturday after backlash to the event's perceived ties to far-right groups, but the organizer says it was really just about poking fun at these very types of controversies → Read More
My eyes hurt after staring at the eclipse: Am I going blind?
Many people — including U.S. President Donald Trump — stole a glance at the solar eclipse without wearing protective eyewear. Here's how to tell if you did any lasting damage → Read More
Researchers discover 91 volcanoes previously hidden under Antarctic ice
If the volcanoes erupt, it could speed up the melting of Antarctic ice — and, further melting of that ice, could also spark an eruption → Read More
New Zealand’s new Labour leader: Questions about baby plans ‘totally unacceptable in 2017’
Jacinda Ardern was leader of the Labour Party for just hours before she was asked whether she plans to have children — and if it would be acceptable for a prime minister to take maternity leave → Read More
Ashley Csanady: It’s absurd to suggest that women are only desirable if they’re fertile
If Christie Brinkley wants to find love at 63, worrying about her fertility is so old-fashioned even the Victorians would have scoffed → Read More
Five false things right-wing provocateur Gavin McInnes said in a CBC interview
The founder of an organization whose members interrupted an Indigenous ceremony used a CBC interview to spread misinformation about the history of the Mi'kmaq people → Read More
The important questions: Why debating dystopian fiction for how realistic it is misses the point of such fiction entirely
Ashley Csanady: To take dystopian fiction literally, to weigh its reality, is to miss the point; it’s to lose the nuance of the imagining → Read More
Ontario budget makes province the first in Canada to offer pharmacare to all residents up to the age of 24
More than four million Ontarians up to the age of 24 will receive free prescription drugs starting next year → Read More
Free abortion pill, cash for boobs and babies: Top 23 takeaways from the Ontario budget
After almost a decade in the red, the Ontario books are back in black. Here’s where they are spending the money → Read More
Here are six ways the Ontario Budget will help (or hurt) your wallet
Ontario released its 2017 budget and it included few new taxes or fees — a shift from recent years as the Liberals cobbled together revenues to help balance their books → Read More
Meet the co-mommas: Women who are partners in raising a son, but not romantic partners
The platonic friends in a novel arrangement that has set a legal precedent, not only in their home province of Ontario, but in Canada, and possibly the world → Read More
Explainer: Is it cultural appropriation when a white politician quotes Beyoncé to boost her campaign?
NDP leadership hopeful Niki Ashton has deleted a social media post quoting Beyoncé and apologized after being accused of cultural appropriation. Here's why → Read More
Getting beyond ‘wear a sweater’: Seven ideas for how to fix Ontario’s hydro system
Rates have more than doubled since the Liberals took power from the Conservatives in 2003, an election the Tories lost in part due to controversies surrounding the energy file → Read More
Ontario spent $70 million on its now-defunct pension plan, 11 per cent of that just on marketing materials
The province announced in June it would axe the Ontario Retirement Pension Plan after a deal was announced to expand the Canadian Pension Plan across the country → Read More
Ontario’s debt will grow to $350 billion in four years, financial watchdog warns
For every dollar of provincial revenue, the FAO found Ontario owes $2.40, compared to $1.93 in Quebec and 84 cents in British Columbia → Read More
America’s gun: How ridiculously easy it is to fire the rifle that’s the symbol of the gun control debate in the U.S.
For $111 and after five minutes training, Post reporter Ashley Csanady opens fire with 'America's gun' just six kilometres from the Pulse nightclub in Orlando → Read More
‘It was either we all die or we open the door’: Pulse nightclub bouncer describes how he led dozens to safety
'I’m sort of just standing there (thinking) there’s no way that’s a gun...I just clicked, this is a gun… We have to get everyone out,' the former Marine said → Read More
Couple on iconic Woodstock album cover still rocking decades later: ‘It’s us. That’s who we are. Still’
Bobbi and Nick Ercoline are the blanket-wrapped pair on the album cover of recordings from the famous peace and music festival and they've never untangled themselves → Read More
People in lower income brackets generally get richer as they get older: Fraser Institute
Are all of Canada's policy assumptions about rising income inequality and cycles of poverty wrong? Fraser Institute's Charles Lammam discusses findings to the contrary → Read More