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The upside down world
Despite the musings of the prime minister of the United Kingdom, at the United Nations no less, to the effect that sinister, tech-savvy mattresses will soon be able to read our dreams, it would seem...
THE COLUMNISTS
The upside down world
Despite the musings of the prime minister of the United Kingdom, at the United Nations no less, to the effect that sinister, tech-savvy mattresses will soon be able to read our dreams, it would seem...
Our children do deserve better
In the early 1980s, a British anarchist who went by the name of Larry Law produced and distributed a series of pocketbooks, called Spectacular Times. The booklets, containing handwritten aphorisms...
NATIONAL
Is better always possible?
Elections sometimes give us a chance to improve government. But it requires someone to step up with a compelling project or reason to be optimistic. Surely they’re having us on. At some point, don’t...
Show you the money
Why the Liberals and Conservatives are going toe-to-toe on how to make life less expensive At the start of the 2019 federal election campaign, Andrew Scheer claimed it was obvious how the Liberals...
The most volatile voters
The past decade of Quebec politics has been marked by voter mood swings. Anything can happen here. When Quebecers went to the polls in the October 2018 provincial election, they elected 74 candidates...
Chalk one up for the Bloc
After a strong performance at the French-language debate, the eloquent Yves-François Blanchet will bear watching So, karma’s still fun. “Here we see that there are three of us who are aligned with...
Jagmeet Singh’s moment
The NDP leader was off to a solid start. Then came the Trudeau scandal that cast everything in a new light. A small herd of reporters, NDP campaign organizers, and parents with children recruited to...
It’s all riding on this riding
The NDP has held this Windsor stronghold for 17 years. Now, the Liberals are challenging with a star candidate. “Are you NDP?” Seconds after New Democrat Brian Masse left his car for a canvass in...
How millennials could power the Greens
Youth voter turnout spiked in 2015. Anomaly, or the start of a meaningful trend? Street names at the corner of Fountain and Freshfield streets in Guelph, Ont., summon bucolic imagery far from its...
The Afghanistan war vet who could take down a Liberal heavyweight
Ottawa battled Capt. Kimberly Fawcett to avoid paying for her prosthetic leg. Now she’s running against the incumbent who failed to answer her pleas for help. On a freezing night in 2006, Capt....
On tour with the Supremes
Supreme Court justices hold historic hearings in Winnipeg—and the crowd goes wild By the time the doors of the Manitoba Law Courts opened to the public at 8:30 a.m., Rowan Greger had been standing in...
SOCIETY
The vaping crisis
E-cigarettes were supposedly helping smokers kick nicotine. Instead, they’ve hooked—and killed—young people. Soaring teen addiction. Kids on life-support. Weird deaths. Terrifying lung damage. A...
The last monarch?
First Her Majesty got embroiled in the politics of Brexit. Now it threatens to breakup her domain. Queen Elizabeth II has spent the 67 years of her reign scrupulously adhering to constitutional...
THE BEST FOR LAST
When life is a crane wreck
In one of our favourite stories this week, Lindsay Jones traces the path of Dorian through downtown Halifax, where the ruins of a construction crane—and the lives of local residents—were left dangling...
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