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Summary
A life worth living
“Feeling that he might as well be dead”—and concerned that his nursing home administrator might find his secret stash of vodka—centenarian Allan Karlsson quietly slips out of his ground-floor room in...
THE EDITORIAL
A life worth living
“Feeling that he might as well be dead”—and concerned that his nursing home administrator might find his secret stash of vodka—centenarian Allan Karlsson quietly slips out of his ground-floor room in...
THE COLUMNISTS
The cost of taking Halloween away
Over the summer, the phrase “risk budget” entered my personal lexicon and lodged in my brain, based on this very smart New York Times piece about how to cautiously navigate a COVID-19 world where...
NATIONAL
Stand down, everyone
With all the pacing of a Facetime call with your grandparents, the Liberals survived a puzzling confidence vote of their own making Frankly, having a federal election by accident would have been the...
The Nova Scotia killer’s riches
Through a friendship with a disgraced lawyer and a possible real estate scam, Gabriel Wortman got hundred of thousands of dollars The denturist who killed 22 Nova Scotians in April acquired about...
Where food is hard to find
Two Human Rights Watch experts describe how Canada’s climate change inaction is already violating Indigenous human rights While the entire country grapples with COVID-19, the international research...
Changing the channel
What will it take to fix the perilous passage between Malpeque’s harbour and its seafood-rich bay? The wharf at Malpeque Cove, a sheltered harbour on Prince Edward Island’s north shore, is as...
INTERNATIONAL
End of days
Fundamentalists are readying themselves for a confrontation with liberal secularism, with Trump as their crusading knight When you walk into the Sunday service at the Logos School in Moscow, Idaho,...
What did Joe Biden do?
The incumbent keeps saying he did more in 47 months than Biden did in 47 years. As ever, the factual record differs. One of Donald Trump’s catchiest boasts in his campaign against Joe Biden is also...
ECONOMY
How the pandemic blew my family budget
We bought a house, got a dog and are splurging on groceries. In these stressful pandemic times, maybe a little debt isn’t so bad. OPINION I recently downloaded a budget tracking app on my phone, but...
SOCIETY
Stealing time
Stringent COVID-19 protocols are forcing the ultimate trade-off for seniors and their families: how much risk is worth taking in a life well-lived? George Spalding didn’t want to stay in hospital but...
How the West was won
For all its evils, the Hudson’s Bay Company kept vast swaths of Canada from becoming part of the U.S. If there ever was a commercial enterprise that Canadians could call simply “the company” with a...
THE BEST FOR LAST
A lot has changed in 100 years. And also not.
In one of our favourite stories this week Marie-Danielle Smith delves into the remarkable parallels of this year’s U.S. election to that of 1920, which similarly featured a sick president, a global...
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