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THE EDITORIAL
An essential resilience
IT SEEMS an understatement to say that these are unprecedented times. Never before has Canada attempted such a comprehensive shutdown of public interaction and commerce. Government and industry are on...
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THE EDITORIAL
An essential resilience
IT SEEMS an understatement to say that these are unprecedented times. Never before has Canada attempted such a comprehensive shutdown of public interaction and commerce. Government and industry are on...
THE COLUMNISTS
Infection outlook: Short-term pain
John Maynard Keynes, the economist whose ideas are popular in Quebec as elsewhere, used to dislike his colleagues’ appeals to the long run. What matters is what’s happening now, and economists set...
NATIONAL
QUARANTINE NATION
Canadians have shut themselves in and the rest of the world out as the pandemic takes hold. Inside the countrywide lockdown that will change us forever. Chapter 1 Shut it all down ON THE SUNNY beaches...
Operation Get Home
Millions of Canadians were urged to return from abroad. Not everyone would be lucky in their efforts. Christina Radvak stood waiting on the tarmac at the air force base in Lima, Peru. She and her...
INTERNATIONAL
There’s no turning back
Openness and trust were fraying before COVID-19. The damage done to this world view is certain to last. Suddenly, amid a global crisis, everyone’s getting back to the soil. The other day in Saint-...
SOCIETY
Animal lovers needed
Author Peter Christie urges pet owners to extend their love to increasingly vulnerable non-domestic creatures Peter Christie recalls how the “contradictions” in Charlotte’s Web, E.B. White’s classic...
Boon or Doom
Should we wish that the world would shut down every year? And what would we do with all our time? OPINION What if the world shut down every year for an extended period? Let’s say the Canadian...
THE BEST FOR LAST
Comfort in the cold
In one of our favourite stories this week Nick Taylor-Vaisey reports on the painstaking search of the Franklin ships and how it is finally starting to yield treasures—some in pristine condition THE...
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