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The women Canada failed
Rada Akbar’s personal nightmare began late last year with what seemed, at least at first, like prank calls to her cellphone. Unlike the usual phishing calls a woman might receive in Afghanistan, where...
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THE COLUMNIST
The women Canada failed
Rada Akbar’s personal nightmare began late last year with what seemed, at least at first, like prank calls to her cellphone. Unlike the usual phishing calls a woman might receive in Afghanistan, where...
NATIONAL
Canada’s public health data meltdown
How Canada went from world leader to laggard in public health tracking technology, just when we needed those systems most For weeks, Canadians have been casting their envious eyes to Israel, where...
It’s getting hot in here
Magical thinking won’t solve the Conservatives’ climate problem. The best thinking in Ottawa, at the precise second I wrote these words, was that there will be no federal election this spring....
The ties that don’t bind us
The pandemic puts Parliament’s stuffy dress code to the test “It’s not about ties,” the Māori legislator said as he was kicked out of New Zealand’s Parliament this past February. “It’s about cultural...
Great Big House on the Prairie
A mystery mansion near Calgary has tweaked some very Canadian hang-ups about visible wealth It comes out of nowhere. You’ll be driving south of the Trans-Canada Highway, through the dun-coloured...
INTERNATIONAL
Tickets to paradise
Vaccine passports may finally set us free. There are just a few ethical and technological problems to work out first. So here’s the thing: I would like to see Blink-182 in concert. I would like to...
The joy and shock of face-to-face human contact
Thanks to vaccination, a Seattle family’s long and painful separation ends in an eye-popping moment of delight At 98, Yoshia Uomoto can’t hear very well. That made it tricky to communicate with her...
ECONOMY
Best communities in Canada
The long-overlooked cities of the Maritimes rise to the top of our ranking, now that more of us are able to work and study from home After 15 years of living in downtown Toronto, Melissa Mahoney was...
One Canada, two internets
As the pandemic drags on, many of us live with web connections too weak for work and study at home When Ontario was thrown into its first lockdown in March 2020, the Workshop Dance Studio owner Nancy...
SOCIETY
When the plague won
In Montreal in 1885, disease and vaccine resistance mixed with devastating results, not unfamiliar to today In the spring of 1885 at Montreal’s Natural History Society, Dr. J.B. McConnell delivered a...
A sex cult’s ugly spin on empowerment
How NXIVM got smart women to abandon their judgment Convicted on counts ranging from wire fraud conspiracy to sex trafficking, Keith Raniere was found guilty of crimes as striking in their breadth as...
THE BEST FOR LAST
Under the I, Inuvik’s bad night
In one of our favourite stories this week, Jason Markusoff recounts how members of a northern community rallied to show that ugliness unleashed by a bingo controversy doesn’t define them One of the...
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