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Class consciousness
The article on being working class is brilliant (“What does it mean to be working class in Canada?” Education, September 2019). How many of us from the “older generation,” offspring of parents who...
LETTERS
Class consciousness
The article on being working class is brilliant (“What does it mean to be working class in Canada?” Education, September 2019). How many of us from the “older generation,” offspring of parents who...
Mystery island
Interesting story by writer Stephen Maher about Oak Island (“‘Hoax Island,’” Nova Scotia, September 2019). I have been a pragmatic historian, researcher and enthusiastic observer/interpreter of this...
Hustings honchos
Really, Maclean’s (“Who’s the political genius?” Politics, September 2019)! Having Paul Wells write the piece on the Liberal campaign director? You are letting your bias show again. The profiles of...
THE COLUMNISTS
Donald Trump is sinking
Just over five years ago Donald Trump asked the question on Twitter: “Are you allowed to impeach a president for gross incompetence?” It now appears he has his answer. After what many saw as overlong...
What Inuit need from the next government
Elections can bring out the worst in people, but as we have seen this week, they often shine a spotlight on issues of national significance that can help us reach a place of greater understanding...
NATIONAL
A fresh diplomatic fiasco for the Trudeau government
Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland has ordered a review after the approval of an honorary consul upset many in Canada’s Syrian community and embarrasses the Liberals The wealthy Montreal businessman...
Reach out and Facebook
The Liberals are spending big on social media this election. The Tories, meanwhile, are turning to the phones, documents suggest. In the first week of the election campaign, the Liberal Party outspent...
Housing plans no one should buy
The Conservatives and Liberals have both rolled out policies to address affordability for new buyers. Neither really works. Evan Siddall can’t say the Conservative Party’s campaign pledge to increase...
In case of Liberal emergency: break glass and release red canoe
The Liberal leader retreats to his comfort-watercraft while floating a novel election promise Here’s a bit of Russian-doll logic to think about: today, Justin Trudeau paddled around in a canoe in...
The outliers
The reporting of Trudeau’s blackface shed light on a diversity challenge—there aren’t enough people of colour in journalism Last week, after the trifecta of images were released of Trudeau in...
INTERNATIONAL
Trump’s few friends
As threats of impeachment loom over the U.S. president, Republicans are still rallying around him. But some don’t seem so sure. Donald Trump needs only 34 friends to save his tangerine neck but his...
Surviving ‘tantrum style’ politics
As Trump keeps going lower, theorist Northrop Frye explains all the shrieking—and even shows a way past it to democratic renewal Anyone clinging to sanity deserves a mechanism for coping with the...
ECONOMY
The obvious answer
We don’t have to stop flying or swear off meat to slow climate change. OPINION Sometimes, it takes a child to say out loud what we all know to be true in our hearts. And when it comes to climate...
SOCIETY
Start small—very small
Micro-organisms like sea-ice algae are central to the production and consumption of greenhouse gas yet ignored in most climate policies How do the planet’s octillions of microbes affect climate...
THE BEST FOR LAST
Moscow’s man in St. John’s
In one of our favourite stories this week Nick Taylor-Vaisey touches base with Russia’s honorary consul in Newfoundland, who discusses language, history and commonalities between Canada and its Arctic...
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