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Flying blind on solitary confinement
Public Safety Minister Bill Blair says he has ordered Correctional Service Canada to hand over data to an independent panel reviewing its practices, nearly a year after the panel first requested the...
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THE COLUMNISTS
Flying blind on solitary confinement
Public Safety Minister Bill Blair says he has ordered Correctional Service Canada to hand over data to an independent panel reviewing its practices, nearly a year after the panel first requested the...
NATIONAL
The rise and fall of WE
The charity invented by an earnest 12-year-old finds itself engulfed in a cynical, star-studded cronyism scandal. How on earth did we get here? AN ADOLESCENT BOY in a blue T-shirt, hosting a press...
Spoiled for choice
A bounty of leadership candidates is a sign of the Greens’ ‘optimistic’ future An emergency physician, an astrophysicist, a former mayor and several lawyers walk into a bar. Actually, it being a...
This land is your land
A landmark case clears the way for Black people who moved to Canada in the 1800s to reclaim the land they were promised Twenty years ago, Christopher Downey began building his house on the land where...
INTERNATIONAL
Great American Implosion
Trump’s paranoid gang of conspiracy theorists are armed and angry, preparing for war. It’s starting to feel downright apocalyptic here—and I’ve barely mentioned the pandemic. I moved to Boston last...
California, where terrifying wildfires are a rhythm of life
Nothing but heavy rain seems capable of halting the infernos wracking the state. Same goes for ball games. Breaking wildfire records has, tragically, become an annual event in California. In 2017, the...
ECONOMY
Will they ever be back?
The pandemic dealt universities a financial blow that could drive overdue change In early August, McGill provost Christopher Manfredi took the bus from Westmount to the school’s downtown Montreal...
SOCIETY
Talking to herself
Actor, comedian and writer Julie Nolke on the pros and cons of hitting it big during the pandemic What would you say if you could have a chat with yourself from a few months ago—before a catastrophic...
SPECIAL INTEREST FEATURE
Excellence Prevails Amid Current Challenges
The advantages of private schools, or “independent schools” as they are called if they are not-for-profit, always played to a wide range of student needs. High academic standards, superb grounds and...
THE BEST FOR LAST
Pricing out the predators
In one of our favourite stories this week Hamdi Issawi checks out an auction in B.C. of life-sized, animatronic dinosaurs. The bidders, like the beasts on sale, fell into two categories: grazers and...
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