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The fight for religious freedom
Monday was a fairly uneventful day for Peter Bhatti, the 60-year-old president of International Christian Voice, a non-denominational organization based in Brampton, Ont. But it was a sad day, as...
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THE COLUMNISTS
The fight for religious freedom
Monday was a fairly uneventful day for Peter Bhatti, the 60-year-old president of International Christian Voice, a non-denominational organization based in Brampton, Ont. But it was a sad day, as...
Central control failure
One thing politicians in democracies and dictatorships have in common is that they both admire dictatorships. Dictators admire dictatorships because the system lets them dictate things; meanwhile, the...
NATIONAL
A planet infected
The chance to contain COVID-19 has passed. What will Canada do when it hits our cities, schools and hospitals? DR. VANESSA ALLEN received a text in late January from the medical director for infection...
Kate Graham’s long-shot campaign
There are many reasons why the outsider’s campaign to lead the Ontario Liberals should have tanked. She’s spun them into positives. With just five days to go before the Ontario Liberal leadership...
Keeping skin in the game
Dwindling demand and the failure of a key fur auction have pushed northern trappers to the brink Every winter, Bill Abercrombie spends weeks in the bush of northern Alberta, trapping lynx, muskrats...
INTERNATIONAL
From party insurgent to yesterday’s man
Bernie Sanders rages on, aggrieved and wounded, as Joe Biden rides a wave of momentum to become Democtratic frontrunner Joe Biden, lifted by a sudden burst of last minute support, has come from behind...
Good luck getting past Jill Biden with your protest sign
It’s been said that Joe Biden won’t go down without a fight. Neither will his spouse, evidently. Jill Biden has never been a conventional political spouse. Opposed to the possibility of her husband’s...
ECONOMY
The Bombardier autopsy
How the company’s dream of global domination died, as told through six decades of annual reports When Bombardier launched its first Ski-Doo snowmobile in 1959, it was initially targeted at trappers,...
SOCIETY
Daughter, doctor
‘She said she wanted to die. It seemed to me an irrational, impulsive wish.’ A MAiD provider in her mother’s last days. By Dr. Madeline Li Daughter My mother’s call woke me at 7 a.m. on a Saturday...
Bouncing back
In the wake of the wildfires, a kangaroo rescue offers sanctuary and TLC. Photographs by Jen Osborne After all this time, Kavany still knows his way around. Two years ago, when the kangaroo first...
The great, amoral Radisson
Mark Bourrie’s award-winning chronicle includes cannibalism, a Caribbean shipwreck and the creation of the Hudson’s Bay Company Mark Bourrie won the 19th—and final—RBC Taylor Prize for Canadian...
THE BEST FOR LAST
Recreating the Tim Hortons menu, for the better
In one of our favourite stories this week Corey Mintz urges the iconic chain to dispense with Dream doughnuts, Oreo iced capps and specialty teas. His version of the menu would feature just 18 items,...
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