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Escape from planet Earth
Before we consider space exploration, we must first acknowledge the limitations of time travel. I am writing to you, who resides in what is from my perspective the future, from the epoch immediately...
THE COLUMNISTS
Escape from planet Earth
Before we consider space exploration, we must first acknowledge the limitations of time travel. I am writing to you, who resides in what is from my perspective the future, from the epoch immediately...
Dying for the right to live
OPINION In the minutes before her lethal injection is to be administered, Susan (not her real name) says she plans to ask hospital staff to make one call to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. She says his...
NATIONAL
The battle for the left
An economic and health crisis. A progressive movement that’s surging. This is the NDP’s moment to shine. Why isn’t it? They have a charismatic leader with good favour-ability ratings, an on-trend...
A lost world returns
Human remains unearthed on Vancouver Island have resurfaced the tragic story of the Pentlatch people On a sunny day in August, at the controls of a Komatsu 300 excavator, 32-year-old Jesse McKay was...
Stop fighting, or else
An NHL enforcer-turned-MLA is pushing a private member’s bill to ban fighting in Quebec’s major junior hockey league To hear Enrico Ciccone describe it, retiring from the NHL is a bit like shaking...
Doctors, forget about our ‘lanes’
We spend much of our lives tending to the aftermath of failed social policies, afraid to engage. This is our call to speak out. OPINION The first time somebody told me to stay in my lane, I was 15....
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
A world of trouble
The crises are stacked up outside the Oval Office. Biden’s great advantage will be knowing that nothing will be given to him simply because he’s a fresh face. After all it would not have been fitting...
The brick wall in front of Biden
He might have won, but Democrat dreams of wielding triple-threat power in Washington are in jeopardy If counting trends continue and Joe Biden ekes out a victory in the presidential race, he’ll almost...
The decline of America
It is clear already that America’s dangerous politics and its plummeting place in the world are the new normal It’s a different world today—albeit not the world many expected. Democrats did not get...
SOCIETY
The star is born
A new retrospective traces the remarkable rise of Joni Mitchell, from the small-town folk singer in Yorkville to an undeniable musical force You can tell from the way the guy at the Half Beat club...
THE BEST FOR LAST
The emergency pop-up mayor
In one of our favourite stories this week Jason Markusoff meets the small town mayor who rushed to the rescue of a neighbouring community whose own mayor departed and council came unglued, leaving it...
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