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Justin Trudeau’s face
You’ll be relieved to know Justin Trudeau will be talking to his children about all this. The Prime Minister will, he told reporters at the back of the Liberal tour plane in Halifax, be telling his...
THE COLUMNISTS
Justin Trudeau’s face
You’ll be relieved to know Justin Trudeau will be talking to his children about all this. The Prime Minister will, he told reporters at the back of the Liberal tour plane in Halifax, be telling his...
NATIONAL
Owning up to an ugly image
An expert on blackface in Canada says Trudeau’s lapse wasn’t unusual for the time, but this campaign disaster is anything but ordinary When Cheryl Thompson, a professor at Ryerson University in...
Confronting blackface
When Justin Trudeau admits to wearing blackface he is contending with a dark history far beyond mockery of offended minorities Three days before the death of British abolitionist William Wilberforce...
Jagmeet Singh and his idealism find their moment
Justin Trudeau’s brownface debacle turned all eyes on the NDP leader. Without question, he rose to the occasion. Late on Wednesday night, NDP leader Jagmeet Singh expressed what millions of Canadians...
Are you a robot or a real Tory?
The Conservatives are using pre-recorded voice actors and a controversial technology the Liberals abandoned at the last moment If you get a call from the Conservative Party during this election, you...
Fear of Maxing out
Bernier met organizers’ threshold and earned his ticket to the debates—but he shouldn’t get equal air time In 1968, in the first televised Canadian leaders debate, in a long ago era of skinny ties and...
Election 43’s ‘abortion debate’
Focus on a mythical debate ignores the larger sweep of social conservative policies promoted by anti-abortion groups During the first leaders’ debate (minus Prime Minister Justin Trudeau) last week,...
A win-win-win situation
The 2015 federal election was an unusual one, because its results were more than acceptable to all three major parties What if they held an election and nobody lost? No, that’s not a prediction for...
We are the dead
A months’-long Maclean’s investigation into intimate-partner violence reveals how systems, politicians and people have failed women and girls. By Anne Kingston On Dec. 3, 2016, Dr. Angela Mailis awoke...
INTERNATIONAL
Blundering toward war
In the U.S. president’s worldview, the strong must beat the weak into submission. But Iran is proving it is not so weak after all. I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that Donald Trump means it...
ECONOMY
Where all the weed went
Our survey of provincial pot websites found ridiculously uneven supply and selection across the country, reflecting problems in the market as a whole At midnight on Oct. 17, 2018—the second it became...
SOCIETY
No more waiting around
Canada’s young climate activists are taking on the job their parents’ generation won’t: stepping up to save the planet Emma Lim, a first-year student at McGill University, launched the “No Children,...
Enough with the phone shaming
Ideas and news are pumped into our conversations by our phones. They’re as welcome as oxygen in a nice, comfortable, but closed room. This week something went viral on Facebook. No, it was not an...
THE BEST FOR LAST
Ghosts of cyberspace
In one of our top stories this week Prajakta Dhopade explores how our digital footprints live long after we do, and how failure to plan for them can result in legal fees, headaches and heartaches for...
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