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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...

yesterday 10

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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...

yesterday 20

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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...

yesterday 10

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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...

yesterday 30

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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...

yesterday 20

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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...

yesterday 10

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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...

yesterday 20

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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,...

yesterday 10

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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...

yesterday 10

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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...

previous day 10

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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...

previous day 10

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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...

previous day 10

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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...

thursday 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...

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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...

thursday 20

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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...

thursday 10

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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 –...

thursday 30

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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...

thursday 10

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Jeff Rubin

Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives, common sense and the courts

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre raised a lot of eyebrows, not to mention the hopes of his base, when he said last week that he would invoke...

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The Editorial Board

Of course the keffiyeh is political. But it still shouldn’t be banned from Ontario’s legislature

Unless I misread their biographies, I don’t believe NDP MPPs Kristyn Wong-Tam and Joel Harden trace their lineage to the Levant. Was Mr....

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Robyn Urback

We are in a new space race – this time, with China

The Chang'e 6 lunar probe and the Long March-5 Y8 carrier rocket combination sit atop the launch pad at the Wenchang Space Launch Site in Hainan...

08.05.2024 20

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Michael Byers

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 20

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Campbell Clark

Who would ever want to be president of the CBC?

CBC president and chief executive officer Catherine Tait waits to appear at the Heritage Committee in Ottawa on May 7. PATRICK DOYLE/The Canadian...

08.05.2024 10

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Konrad Yakabuski

A score-settling book by Brian Mulroney is being kept under wraps

In 2007, former prime minister Brian Mulroney published a mammoth memoir. At 1,121 pages, you could barely fit it in an airplane carry-on bin. But...

08.05.2024 20

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Lawrence Martin

The uneasy intersection of oil and climate

Westridge Marine Terminal, the terminus of the Canadian government-owned Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project is seen in Burnaby, from Cates...

07.05.2024 10

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The Editorial Board

Poilievre to business: stop sucking up to Liberals and start sucking up to me

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre speaks at the National Prayer Breakfast in Ottawa on May 7. Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press Ever since the...

07.05.2024 3

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Andrew Coyne

The crisis in health care staffing is no secret - so don’t try to hide the gruesome data

Statistics Canada data show there are currently 91,900 vacancies in the health sector – the bulk of those are for nurses and PSWs. Alex Lupul/The...

07.05.2024 40

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André Picard

The Liberals’ delays on foreign interference carry profound costs

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau makes his way to question period on April 30 in Ottawa. Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press It’s 2024, and Justin...

06.05.2024 10

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Campbell Clark

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