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The connection of church and state
Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Notre Dame University law professor Amy Coney Barrett have just begun and it’s going to be a challenging time for the woman chosen by Donald Trump to replace...
THE COLUMNISTS
The connection of church and state
Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Notre Dame University law professor Amy Coney Barrett have just begun and it’s going to be a challenging time for the woman chosen by Donald Trump to replace...
NATIONAL
Testing the political waters
Ben Harper, the 24-year-old son of Stephen, is working in the office of Alberta’s premier Add one more to the long Canadian list of political offspring who follow their parents into government life....
Physician, shield thyself
The gruesome killing of an Alberta GP has pushed physician abuse out of the shadows When Kathryn Dundas was a young physician working emergency room shifts, she would sometimes spot her stalker...
Rock of ages
How one dogged collector scouring a Quebec quarry amassed a multi-million-dollar ‘national treasure’ It was the beginning of the 1980s when a Quebec beekeeper caught the bug—“la piqûre”—for a hobby...
The great equalizer
For former youth in care, a program that waives tuition can be critical to access higher education Nathaniel Ap* didn’t know what he wanted to do after high school. At age 17, he was renting a home...
They Were Loved
The magnitude of COVID-19’s impact on Canadians’ lives is difficult to fathom. Canada has lost thousands of people to the pandemic, with each loss cascading throughout families and communities. They...
INTERNATIONAL
The unbridgeable divide
How do you convince rural Americans that the cities are not the anarchy Trump says they are? How do you convince urbanites to engage with rural fears rather than dismiss them? When my wife and I first...
The powder keg that is Armenia versus Azerbaijan
The conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh was a bomb waiting to go off. It’s been that way for centuries. If you wanted to explain the current Azerbaijan-Armenia conflict, where would you begin? Would you...
SOCIETY
‘It’s urgent students are supported’
Students are at increasing risk of mental health problems, and universities are struggling in their efforts to respond Before the pandemic descended and emptied its hallways, the Davis Building at the...
Burning issues
In a new book series, Canadian political and cultural critics grapple with COVID-19 and racism Inspired by 18th-century political pamphlets such as Voltaire’s Treatise on Tolerance, an attack on...
THE BEST FOR LAST
And so we got a cat
In one of our favourite stories this week photographer Sarah Palmer explores and documents an upside of lockdown loneliness: our renewed appreciation for pets. Meet Bowie, Stella, Teddy, Gea, Sam,...
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