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Another American ally bites the dust
The maelstrom began with a shocking Sunday night communique from the White House: President Donald Trump had given Turkish strongman Recep Tayyip Erdogan a green light to launch a massive invasion of...
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THE COLUMNISTS
Another American ally bites the dust
The maelstrom began with a shocking Sunday night communique from the White House: President Donald Trump had given Turkish strongman Recep Tayyip Erdogan a green light to launch a massive invasion of...
The irony of the First Nations’ vote
Voting in federal and political elections is considered by political scientists to be an important act of democracy, both a right and a responsibility of citizens. Election officials in Canada, be...
NATIONAL
Cracks in the platform
The details of duelling $6-billion tax pledges from Trudeau and Scheer deserve a closer look, including one not-insignificant omission Entering the home stretch of this fall’s federal election race,...
Nothing but middle class
In a country where even acknowledging that class exists can be hard, the term ‘middle class’ has become a hypnotizing election catch-all Class is everywhere in this election, invoked seemingly every...
Well, that was helpful
The one-liners were zinging in the leaders debate. But when 11 people share a stage, it doesn’t leave room for much else. “We’re definitely going to have a lively debate tonight,” CTV National News...
Have the Tories blown it in Quebec?
The Conservatives have fallen behind the surging Bloc, cutting the odds of seat gains needed to win the election At the outset of the campaign, no serious data showed that the Bloc québécois could be...
Rhinestone candidate
In Central Nova, country singer George Canyon battles the knock that, politically speaking, he’s all hat and no ranch “Should I wear the hat?” George Canyon wonders aloud as he prepares to go door-...
There’s no hiding the personal toll of an election campaign
Elizabeth May telling her husband she won’t be home on Thanksgiving Sunday reminds us that party leaders are people, too God created the world in six days, and on the seventh took a day to rest....
THE SMART VOTER’S GUIDE TO THE FEDERAL ELECTION
Everything you need to know about where the parties stand on the biggest issues in this fall’s campaign. By Aaron Hutchins, Nick Taylor-Vaisey, Alireza Naraghi and Maclean’s staff THE ECONOMY AND JOBS...
INTERNATIONAL
Rallying like a contender
All but undone by her bogus ancestry claims, Elizabeth Warren now draws adoring crowds in the Dems’ nomination race with her agenda for radical reform. Can she complete the comeback? The U.S....
SOCIETY
Taking care of America’s most wanted
Two of the Snowden refugees have a new home in Montreal. What about the others? Pale skin, worried eyes and one plastic bag—this is what Vanessa Rodel remembers seeing when Edward Snowden appeared in...
How a runt wolf from Canada became a hero
And how wolves are much closer to humans than we’ve ever thought When the wolves returned to America’s first wilderness park a quarter-century ago, humans began to flock by the hundreds to Yellowstone...
THE BEST FOR LAST
Escape from OC Transpo
In one of our favourite stories this week, Shannon Proudfoot tries to take a ride on Ottawa’s transformative new light rail system, and discovers why commuters suddenly face a whole new kind of...
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