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Our ongoing solitary confinement problem
Previously on What the Hell Is Going On In Canada’s Prisons?: In August I wrote here about a government-appointed experts’ panel that was tasked with monitoring important changes to the operation of...
THE COLUMNISTS
Our ongoing solitary confinement problem
Previously on What the Hell Is Going On In Canada’s Prisons?: In August I wrote here about a government-appointed experts’ panel that was tasked with monitoring important changes to the operation of...
Let’s be clear
If you help our people, we will hurt your people. It’s a chilling message, coming to Canada directly from the world’s largest dictatorship, but as far as extortion goes China’s pass at it at least...
NATIONAL
This Parliament is broken
We’re heading toward an irreconcilable difference between a hard-to-believe government and an opposition that’s being even less useful A reporter was unfortunate enough to ask Anita Anand how MPs are...
Horgan’s big bet pays off
Anxious B.C. voters rewarded the incumbents, while the Greens hung on and leadership questions weigh heavy on the Liberals British Columbia voters appear to have rewarded John Horgan’s pandemic gamble...
Canada has a new one-party province
And five other takeaways from the Saskatchewan Party’s ‘big honkin’ win’ in this week’s provincial election The Saskatchewan Party’s fourth straight majority seemed a safe bet from the moment Premier...
A sobering history
An otherwise predictable race shone harsh light on the province’s longstanding impaired-driving problem With COVID-19 cases rising across Saskatchewan over the summer, Steven Balog followed Premier...
ECONOMY
The long fix
Canadian universities need repair but are short of the money required to mend historic buildings and upgrade antiquated facilities In June 2018, bricks tumbled off a McGill residence building onto...
SOCIETY
Paddling against the current
Haley Daniels and her father, Kimberly, have blazed separate trails—together Haley Daniels watched with elation from the medals podium as the Canadian flag was slowly raised, marking her bronze in...
‘We went for a bigger sound’
In Limelight: Rush in the ’80s, author Martin Popoff describes a band ‘celebrating everything it meant to be Canadian’ Fans of a certain legendary Canadian rock trio eagerly anticipated Martin Popoff...
THE BEST FOR LAST
Adorable for dollars
In one of our favourite stories this week Prajakta Dhopade delves into the social media phenomenon known as Joey, a sea otter who has won hearts and donations from around the world for the Vancouver...
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