Editorial: Canadians are angrier than the facts alone can explain

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Editorial: Canadians are angrier than the facts alone can explain

Canadian public anger is justified, but social media twists it into toxic blame. To solve real problems, we must channel our frustration into civic action.

Expositor Staff

Sep 15, 2026 - 4 min read

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There is a particular sound in Canadian public life and online these days that you would not likely hear 15 years ago. It’s found in the “sound” of a comment section. Sharp, certain and always a little louder than the issue that comment is responding to. Walk into a town hall, scroll a local Facebook group, watch Question Period, the tone is the same everywhere: aggrieved, defensive, ready for a fight that hasn’t quite started yet.

Something has shifted and it’s worth asking what.

The easy answer would be that “people are angrier,” but that explains nothing.

People have always been angry about housing, about hospitals, about the price of groceries and the pace of change. What’s different is not the existence of grievance. It’s the machinery now built to collect it, sharpen it and hand it back to us as identity.