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I was amused by the comedy of errors that Paul Wells exposed in our history of dealing with epidemics (“The 30-year battle to stop a pandemic,” Coronavirus, June 2020). It shows the problem of...
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LETTERS
LETTERS Crushing COVID-19
I was amused by the comedy of errors that Paul Wells exposed in our history of dealing with epidemics (“The 30-year battle to stop a pandemic,” Coronavirus, June 2020). It shows the problem of...
THE COLUMNISTS
Give us your wired masses, Donald
Two historic developments have aligned to create a momentary and monumental opportunity for Canada. First, we are weathering a global pandemic that has dramatically changed the way the world works....
Brenda Lucki must go
The COVID-19 pandemic has not stopped the anti-Indigenous racism within the RCMP. Commissioner Brenda Lucki has lead the RCMP for over two years and has done little to stop the racial profiling,...
NATIONAL
The world as they see it
Trudeau’s Liberals sense opportunity in the current crisis. Their track record with ‘innovation’ suggests another reality: complex problems are a slog. The strange thing, as the economy contracts,...
Under the radar no more
The next premier of Quebec may well be a Black woman named Dominique Anglade, and she deserves to be known by all Canadians OPINION Dominique Anglade, the leader of the Quebec Liberal Party, is the...
The cost of speaking up
Black police officers who complain about systemic racism face reprisal and harassment. This is what happened to me. OPINION On a warm summer evening in 2016, While patrolling in a police cruiser along...
INTERNATIONAL
More Canada, please
A new poll suggests Americans want less ‘America first’ and a lot more Canada. A third of them would even prefer to live here. If you ask enough Americans, it really sounds like they think Canada is a...
Alarming ignorance
Our polling suggests Trump’s leadership has made Americans less aware of their country’s standing, and more open to off-the-wall ideas OPINION In 38 years polling public opinion you don’t only learn...
SOCIETY
Don’t like classical music crowds? This one will grow on you.
A concert staged exclusively for house plants restores Barcelona’s reputation as the capital of out-there art When Italian opera legend Giacomo Puccini wrote a sombre tune for a string quartet in the...
You’ve been breathing all wrong
Hey mouth-breathers! Use your nose to boost immunity—and mood. It almost feels like foreshadowing when, early in his new book, Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art, James Nestor describes having a...
Prohibition and racist policing
The Anti-Saloon League was part of a perfect storm for minorities driven into the contraband trade through lack of opportunity January 1920: The saloons were shuttered, liquor stores sold out and...
Dear man of the crows . . .
Alec Bruce apologizes to the neighbour he scolded for feeding the crows, after realizing that we all need to be ‘in this together’ I met you only once, and that was to complain after you tossed bread...
THE BEST FOR LAST
A smouldering past
In one of our favourite stories this week Marie-Danielle Smith delves into the painful symbolism of a historic house on the Gaspé peninsula that was recently torched and burned to the ground The old...
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