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A royal bargain at any price
The royal runaways settled on Vancouver Island today to begin their new life as Canadians. (Insert lazy Tim Hortons joke here.) As with everything else that happens in this frozen wasteland of a...
THE COLUMNISTS
A royal bargain at any price
The royal runaways settled on Vancouver Island today to begin their new life as Canadians. (Insert lazy Tim Hortons joke here.) As with everything else that happens in this frozen wasteland of a...
Chrétien’s China and—Trudeau’s
It was helpful last week of Jean Chrétien’s former right hand Eddie Goldenberg to make, in detail, a case several of his contemporaries have been making piecemeal for more than a year: that taking...
NATIONAL
The best deal in town
Critics ask how Volkswagen avoided criminal charges in Canada over the emissions scandal, and why the PMO met with the company When Volkswagen Canada pleads guilty this week to illegally importing...
Hanging with the enemy
Can a show modelled on reality-TV dating help soften political partisanship in Canada? The morning after Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer announced he was resigning, former MP Lisa Raitt received a...
The Liberal Party and the rule of law
There are striking similarities between what some Liberals say about China and what some Liberals say about SNC-Lavalin Liberals admit this much: executives at a powerful corporation may have done...
Bracing for coronavirus
As fears of a global outbreak gather, we answer key questions about what the pathogen is, how it’s treated and how best to avoid it The new coronavirus—also known as 2019-nCoV—which is believed to...
INTERNATIONAL
Greta Thunberg steps on a lot of well-shod toes
The world’s best-known climate crusader made the Davos elite squirm, with the help of Indigenous activist Autumn Peltier. But is embarrassment enough? This week, one year after her first appearance at...
Broken eastern promises
A Canadian mining exec’s 25-year battle with Kazakhstan is finally over—he hopes The town of Stepnogorsk, a remote speck of civilization in the northern steppe of Kazakhstan, is straight out of a Cold...
ECONOMY
Sky-high prices
The cost of flying has shot up recently, and travellers should brace for more fare increases in the year ahead Earlier this month upstart airline Swoop held a surprise seat sale, offering 100,000...
SOCIETY
Shedding hatred
Michael Coren talks to a theologian about the peculiar hostility toward LGBTQ people in conservative Christianity and how to stop it THE ISSUE OF LGBTQ2 equality, the full acceptance of gay people,...
‘A lovely writer, a lovely man’
James Deacon had an inner strength that made him a top-notch editor and sportswriter—and an even better father and friend If you spent time around James Deacon, certain images come immediately to...
Past developments
In an old bank building in Saskatchewan, experts spend their days ‘basically opening up time capsules’ and developing long-expired film Susannah Stapleton loves a good mystery. Her most recent book,...
THE BEST FOR LAST
Tim Hortons needs to stop dreaming
In one of our favourite stories this week Corey Mintz samples the chain’s line of so-called ‘Dream’ doughnuts, which look reasonably similar to their advertised versions, in the way that lesser...
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