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A wake-up call for Canadian health care
I wish I could say with certainty that the death of 37-year-old Joyce Echaquan will be a wake-up call for health systems in Canada. It should be. But history gives us no confidence to make such a...
THE COLUMNISTS
A wake-up call for Canadian health care
I wish I could say with certainty that the death of 37-year-old Joyce Echaquan will be a wake-up call for health systems in Canada. It should be. But history gives us no confidence to make such a...
Libertarians and anarchists for Trump
“I don’t believe in the political spectrum as a line,” Eddy Nix, 51, a life-long anarchist and owner of Driftless Books and Music in Viroqua, Wisconsin, tells me. “It’s a circle. As an anarchist I’m...
THE INTERVIEW
Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson talks to Paul Wells about the fate of the oil sands, cabinet leaks and Canada’s big new climate change plan AFTER THE 2019 election was fought largely on...
NATIONAL
A dream crumbles
After years of big talk and no results, Ottawa’s fantasy of an infrastructure bank that would open a spigot of global cash is over It’s funny the various ways expectations can shrink. Here were Justin...
Getting the party re-started
Newly elected Green Leader Annamie Paul on what her party has to offer, her proudest moments and how to get good people into politics After a year-long contest to replace long-serving leader Elizabeth...
Out of America
U.S. citizens are not flooding into Canada from the land of Trump, but many who came legally to the States from other countries are The jarring indignity of the first Trump-Biden presidential debate...
Marred by hatred
The racist graffiti sprayed on cherished Osoyoos pictographs left scars that may never heal Osoyoos Lake lacked its usual sparkle on a recent overcast Saturday as a couple of First Nations hunters...
INTERNATIONAL
WHAT IF TRUMP WINS?
First-term Trump was lazy, gullible, ignorant, vain and crooked. Second-term Trump would be worse. WHAT IF he wins? The first thing to understand about that great “what if ”—from which so many other...
WHAT IF TRUMP LOSES?
The job of a president Joe Biden would be leading the cleanup crew after a vandal. At stake: the entire American project. Nov. 5, 2008 was a cloudy morning in Washington. A knot of reporters was...
The unpresidential president
For the record: everything that Donald Trump has done as the leader of the most powerful nation on earth Departing from the behaviour of every previous president, during his first term the current...
‘Mr. Vice President, I’m speaking’
In the VP debate, Kamala Harris was calm and assertive, but both she and Mike Pence dodged key questions. It was all so blessedly normal. It was a debate so earnest, so conventional, so calm that you...
Just another American letdown
It wasn’t last week’s Trump/Biden debacle, but the surreal VP debate reflected almost nothing of the world outside the debate hall At the end of Wednesday night’s vice-presidential debate at the...
SOCIETY
A dancer takes her place in the fight for decolonization
A striking portrait of Anishinaabekwe dancer on the Toronto subway in traditional regalia is part of photographer Nadya Kwandibens’s series themed on decolonization Beginning this fall, and continuing...
Enough to make Anne blush
Controversial T-shirts showing a familiar-looking red-braided woman doffing her bikini top have made a comeback on P.E.I. Anne Putnam holds up a white T-shirt, with the words “Prince Edward Island”...
THE BEST FOR LAST
Drinks with ice
In one of our favourite stories this week Marie-Danielle Smith describes the extreme measures being taken to maintain the freedoms that bar patios afforded us over the summer MY TOES ARE slightly numb...
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