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How to remember
THE MOST MOVING sound at Remembrance Day ceremonies, to our minds, is not the long-held mournful note of the Last Post—hauntingly beautiful though it is. Nor is it the scorching sound of the flypast...
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THE EDITORIAL
How to remember
THE MOST MOVING sound at Remembrance Day ceremonies, to our minds, is not the long-held mournful note of the Last Post—hauntingly beautiful though it is. Nor is it the scorching sound of the flypast...
THE COLUMNISTS
Re-election means never saying sorry
I’ve got a hunch that when the federal Liberal caucus meets, observers will be surprised, even taken aback, by the jovial tone among Liberals. And an emerging theme of federal politics in months to...
NATIONAL
Scheer’s moment of truth
The Tory leader has to convince caucus that he knows what went wrong and can fix it. They’d be wise to be suspicious. When Conservative MPs gather in Ottawa on Wednesday for the first meeting since...
Climate change’s culture war
As the face of the climate change file, Catherine McKenna has endured a torrent of vile abuse Three days after the federal election, a dozen reporters, cameramen and photographers were waiting outside...
Sexism is status quo
Misogynistic slurs, masculinity contests and lack of discussion of issues affecting all women serve as a blaring wake-up call The sight of Catherine McKenna’s Ottawa Centre campaign office defiled by...
Giving up on Canada
‘Wexit’ is a cartoon version of Alberta that other Canadians find easy to attack—because it spares them the burden of self-examination The baseball caps were sold to the side of the rally at the Boot...
The question that haunts Scheer
When Andrew Scheer was asked if he believes being gay is a sin, he couldn’t say ‘no’. It’s a major political problem in Canada in 2019. “No.” It was the answer Andrew Scheer had to give to make the...
Reconciliation doesn’t look like this
When it comes to B.C.’s fight against the ‘extinct’ Sinixt people, John Horgan’s government has already lost in the court of public opinion OPINION On Oct. 24, British Columbia unveiled legislation...
The face of death has beady eyes
The marauding river otter has returned, touching off an oh-so-Vancouver frenzy of joy, profiteering and cultural conflict The incident left six dead in Chinatown the weekend after Halloween, prompting...
INTERNATIONAL
Does Donald Trump know how Titanic ends?
Fresh off their dramatic World Series win, the Washington Nationals paid the president a visit at the White House. It wasn’t Trump’s most self-aware moment. If ever there were a symbol of Donald...
EDUCATION
Come land a job
Centennial’s bright new Downsview build is an ambitious bet on Canada’s aerospace sector A labour shortage looms over Canada’s aviation industry—by 2025, the sector is expected to see a deficit of...
An answer to the ‘unicorn gap’
Wilfrid Laurier’s business school has a program to help Canadian start-ups dominate world markets—and it’s free Most successful entrepreneurs have an “a-ha” moment to tell. Bernadette Butler has a...
What the signs really say
Laurentian now has three languages labelling buildings on campus: English, French and Anishinaabemowin Mia Bourque, a master’s student in Laurentian University’s Indigenous relations program, says the...
SOCIETY
Life after care
Kids who grow up in the system are not expected to do well. That’s a big part of why they don’t. Jane Kovarikova spent 10 years in foster care in Ontario, shuffling between a number of homes beginning...
Lost & found?
Let’s give the once and future 27th letter of the alphabet its due Earlier this year, the burger chain A&W unveiled a new logo to mark its centenary and placed itself at the centre of a simmering...
THE BEST FOR LAST
The 53-year punt return
In one of our favourite stories this week Aaron Hutchins delves into the campaign to get an extraordinary football play into the record books—and discovers a problem THERE WAS a fence around the...
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