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Why can’t Peter MacKay speak French?
Peter MacKay made the front page of both Le Journal de Montreal and Le Journal de Quebec on Sunday morning. GOOD LUCK MISTER was the enormous headline, below a full-page photo of MacKay announcing his...
THE COLUMNISTS
Why can’t Peter MacKay speak French?
Peter MacKay made the front page of both Le Journal de Montreal and Le Journal de Quebec on Sunday morning. GOOD LUCK MISTER was the enormous headline, below a full-page photo of MacKay announcing his...
A hero for our times
In news that would bring my dog great joy, police in Japan are considering laying charges against a postal worker who had hoarded 24,000 pieces of mail in his home. When asked why, the man said that...
NATIONAL
A party in need
Two broadly similar candidates lead a claustrophobic leadership race. Conservatives, here’s a thoughtful alternative. By the end of January, the 2020 Conservative leadership selection process was two...
The proxy war over Hong Kong
Activists in Vancouver say pro-Beijing provocateurs are trying to intimidate them There were many umbrellas. There were the vast black ones that a huddle of people can fit underneath. The blue-and-...
The grim outdoors
Fire danger has led authorities across the country to dismantle homeless encampments. But where do their inhabitants go? Warren Redhead doesn’t mince words when it comes to the situation in which he...
INTERNATIONAL
A bully bid for the presidency
Latecomer Michael Bloomberg is trying to win the White House the old-fashioned way—by buying it The wealthiest person ever to hold elective office in the history of the world selects four strips of...
How to build two enormous hospitals at breakneck pace
During the SARS crisis, China built a hospital in seven days—a record at the time. Now, as coronavirus spreads, comes another rapid response. Canadian politicians love to snipe at our “hallway...
SOCIETY
Being Black in Canada
Desmond Cole sits down with Sarmishta Subramanian to discuss his new book The Skin We’re In DESMOND COLE first emerged on the public stage with his dogged challenges to the practice of police carding...
A how-to guide for a global crisis
Mark Jaccard offers Canadians a practical path to fight climate change Late last September, trying to feel the moment, I took in downtown Toronto’s version of the one-day “climate strikes” that were...
The myth of memory decline
We really are wiser after 70, insists leading neurologist Daniel Levitin—and young people forget stuff all the time San Francisco-born Daniel Levitin, 62, is Professor Emeritus of neuroscience and...
THE BEST FOR LAST
This building cannot possibly be in Ottawa
In one of our favourite stories this week Paul Wells braces for disappointment as the city unveils the design for its new library. Instead, he finds a structure that is both useful and attractive—one...
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