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A summer of discontent from Ottawa’s unions is worth the heat

Federal public-sector unions are moderately miffed by the government’s plan to compel their members to work from an office three days a week. They...

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The Editorial Board

A nomination system that’s not worth defending

A number of Conservatives have called for the party brass to investigate new claims that the nomination process is 'corrupt'. Darren Calabrese/The...

yesterday 20

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Campbell Clark

Dear government, can you spare a dime?

Allan C. Hutchinson is a distinguished research professor at Osgoode Hall Law School at York University. There is much politicking going on at...

yesterday 10

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Allan C. Hutchinson

Canada is sleepwalking toward another Quebec sovereignty crisis

Dr. Donald Savoie. Donald J. Savoie is the Canada Research Chair in Public Administration and Governance at Université de Moncton. The last thing...

yesterday 10

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Donald J. Savoie

The housing challenges that Black Canadians face will require Ottawa’s focus

New homes are built in a housing construction development in the west end of Ottawa on May 6, 2021. Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press Shaquille...

yesterday 10

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Shaquille Morgan

The depressing numbers of the venture-capital slump don’t tell the full story

A robot walks on-stage during the annual Nvidia GTC Artificial Intelligence Conference at SAP Center in San Jose, Calif. on March 18. Amid high...

yesterday 3

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Allen Lau

In Canada, a common bond would be sensible 

It’s become impossible to ignore that the Conservatives under Pierre Poilievre are staking a claim to the term “common sense.” The party has...

saturday 20

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The Editorial Board

Europe’s urban advantage leaves Canada in the shade

A GO train heading into Union Station travels past traffic heading north on Lower Jarvis St. to the westbound Gardiner Expressway on ramp is backed...

saturday 30

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Marcus Gee

AI comes down to Earth

OpenAI's ChatGPT app is displayed on an iPhone in New York, on May 18, 2023. Richard Drew/The Associated Press John Rapley is an author and...

saturday 20

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John Rapley

Into the fire: In the Northwest Territories, we canoed through climate change

Manjushree Thapa is a Nepali-Canadian author of 10 books of fiction, non-fiction and literary translation. In January, 2023, my partner and I booked...

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Manjushree Thapa

Diaper creams and thoughts of death: The conversation around becoming a mom should include the dark stuff

Katherine Leyton is a poet, screenwriter and non-fiction writer based in Toronto. When I found out I was pregnant with my first child – and I...

saturday 30

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Katherine Leyton

Motherhood is joy, but also grief. Cancer taught me how to live with both

Farrah Khan and Kristyn Wong-Tam have a son, now 4, thanks to in vitro fertilization. A frozen supply of embryos could have given him a sibling, but...

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Farrah Khan

The ties that dine: The way we cook today means that memory is no longer on the menu

Michael Harris is the author of several books, including Solitude: A Singular Life in a Crowded World and The End of Absence: Reclaiming What...

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Michael Harris

My mother is not in this photo album, but her absence speaks volumes

The following is adapted from the foreword to Portraits of Cape Breton, by Alfred LeBlanc. Linden MacIntyre’s most recent book is The Winter Wives,...

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Linden Macintyre

A force of nature: How a small fern pulled me into a long tradition of writers smitten with the natural world

Zoë Schlanger is a journalist and staff writer for The Atlantic. The excerpt below is from her new book The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of...

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Zoë Schlanger

The foreign-interference scandal shows that it’s time to clean up Canada’s party nomination races

Han Dong, right, arrives to appear as a witness at the Public Inquiry Into Foreign Interference in Federal Electoral Processes and Democratic...

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Andrew Coyne

Quebec’s new history museum proposes an ethnocentric vision of the province’s past

Quebec Premier François Legault gestures during a press conference to announce the creation of the Musée national de l’histoire du Québec at...

10.05.2024 5

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Konrad Yakabuski

It’s distressing to hear accounts of domestic violence – but we must listen

Denise Chong’s latest book is Out of Darkness: Rumana Monzur’s Journey through Betrayal, Tyranny and Abuse. Some people have told me that my...

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Denise Chong

How events overseas can impact Canada’s immigration patterns

Marc Miller, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship speaks in the Foyer of the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on May 6....

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John Ibbitson

A Mother’s Day plea: Be mindful of those around you

The brunches are booked, the barbecues gassed up. Gift guides galore are assisting planners and procrastinators alike. Sappy ads saturate our...

10.05.2024 20

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Marsha Lederman

The era of cheap money is spent

Indebted homeowners and businesses, big-spending politicians and underemployed realtors all have June 5 circled on their calendars, hoping the Bank...

10.05.2024 20

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The Editorial Board

Canada is getting a foreign-agent registry (at last)

A copy of the interim report is seen on a table following its release at the Public Inquiry Into Foreign Interference in Federal Electoral...

09.05.2024 20

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The Editorial Board

To get buy-in for Canada’s World Cup games, Canadians must be able to buy at all

Depending on your perspective, Toronto and Vancouver hosting 13 FIFA Men’s World Cup games in 2026 is a gigantic waste of taxpayers’ money, or...

09.05.2024 10

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Marsha Lederman

Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda scheme is a global lesson in policy stupidity

As voters abandoned his Tories in droves in last week’s local elections over their concerns about post-Brexit economic malaise and the decline of...

09.05.2024 3

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Doug Saunders

Hamas is in trouble with Palestinians in Gaza

Hussein Ibish is a senior resident scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington. Among the least appreciated realities in the Gaza...

09.05.2024 20

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Hussein Ibish

So, what happened to Canada’s gun control emergency?

The situation was urgent, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said four years ago, nearly to the day. There was no time to go through Parliament –...

09.05.2024 40

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Robyn Urback

The economy we have taken for granted is not coming back

From the left: Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, China's President Xi Jinping, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, Indian Prime...

09.05.2024 9

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Jeff Rubin

Results? That’s not Ottawa’s business

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals might well be the apogee of the prioritization of political marketing over governance in Ottawa. Sean...

08.05.2024 10

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Campbell Clark

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