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The problem with the Great Reset
I see Pierre Poilievre has been busy again. This is often a mixed blessing. Over at the Conservative finance critic’s website there’s a petition you can sign if you want to help him STOP THE GREAT...
THE COLUMNISTS
The problem with the Great Reset
I see Pierre Poilievre has been busy again. This is often a mixed blessing. Over at the Conservative finance critic’s website there’s a petition you can sign if you want to help him STOP THE GREAT...
Real reform of the RCMP won’t come from within
There is reason to hope that Justin Trudeau will follow in his father’s footsteps and force real reform on the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for the first time in decades. A report Thursday from...
NATIONAL
Getting the point across
Persuading some Canadians to receive a COVID vaccine will be tough. Rolling it out may be even more difficult. In 1979 and 1980, Canada saw its worst spike of measles in a decade. In Ontario, which...
Waiting for the jab
Health Canada’s top medical advisor opens up on how Ottawa is reviewing COVID-19 vaccines, and when we can expect one Canada hasn’t flattened the curve since August. New daily cases for COVID-19 are...
The gravity of Alberta’s COVID crisis, in one phone call
A doctor’s call to tell a family their loved one had died captures the exhaustion, frustration and sorrow washing over the province With COVID-19 having killed hundreds of Albertans, Dr. Simon Demers-...
Steady as they go
The Liberals remain in minority territory, according to the latest 338Canada projection; the Tories sit near their unshakeable floor Election season appears to have come to an end in Canada for 2020....
Ottawa unplugged
Will Ottawa finally start hitting climate change targets? Its efforts to buy electric cars suggest a bumpy road ahead. Even before Justin Trudeau took office in 2015, he made some ambitious promises...
INTERNATIONAL
Let’s dump Trump’s accomplices
Social media and cable news are both pathways to polarization and misinformation. We can choose to stop watching. Now that Donald Trump has been fired by (enough of) the American people, it’s time to...
ECONOMY
The future of giving
‘Mutual aid groups’ and GoFundMe campaigns are thriving as donations move away from traditional causes When Chantal Chartrand started a GoFundMe campaign to raise money for Joyce Echaquan’s husband...
SOCIETY
THE BEST OF THE SEASON
An eclectic selection of just-published new fiction and non-fiction to get us through the nights of winter ahead SPECULATIVE FICTION The 2084 Report James Lawrence Powell Most academics can write, but...
Studying to be a better citizen
There are plenty of job prospects for arts graduates. But the degree’s true value is more profound than practical. On April 22, 2020, I submitted the last paper of my arts degree at the University of...
THE BEST FOR LAST
The end of urgency
In one of our favourite stories this week Scott Gilmore looks at the ways the pandemic has changed daily expectations—and made our once frenetic lives a lot more laid back I FILED THIS column late....
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