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Summary
‘The best country for Trump to be contained in is the one he lives in now. He needs to face up to every lawsuit that has been pending during the past four years.’
2021 hopes and fears Many thanks for an excellent look at the new year (“2021,” The year ahead, January 2021). After much laughter in this household generated by the photos and captions of our Prime...
LETTERS
‘The best country for Trump to be contained in is the one he lives in now. He needs to face up to every lawsuit that has been pending during the past four years.’
2021 hopes and fears Many thanks for an excellent look at the new year (“2021,” The year ahead, January 2021). After much laughter in this household generated by the photos and captions of our Prime...
THE COLUMNISTS
Our elected leaders have failed us
We need to be angrier. So much has been lost. Over 650,000 Canadians have been infected with the coronavirus. Sixteen thousand are dead. Today another 160 will die. It’s the equivalent of a fully...
Why ‘Stay Home’ was a disaster
“We have to hunker down, I just can’t stress this enough,” Ontario Premier Doug Ford said in a press conference last week, signalling the arrival of more restrictions. “This is crunch time right now.”...
NATIONAL
Another tiny perfect shuffle
Industry is a good fit for Champagne. Garneau will be a dignified presence in foreign affairs. But will either make an impact? “For once,” a Liberal I trust told me, “it really is about family.”...
A sure and steady hand
Marc Garneau’s surprise move to global affairs is a vote of confidence in his steadiness, which his new portfolio is sure to put to the test Foreign affairs is traditionally viewed as one of the most...
A winding path to cabinet
The new Transport Minister has spent years handling tough ‘no-win’ assignments and juggling competing interests, colleagues say Omar Alghabra was due for a promotion into the Canadian federal...
A promise to Michael
Vina Nadjibulla and other family members have been waging a seemingly impossible fight to free her husband from a Chinese prison. After two torturous years, what does Canada owe ‘the two Michaels’?...
Making the vaccines flow
Ottawa promised that 20 million Canadians will be vaccinated by Canada Day. How does that fit with the distribution timetable? In December, Ottawa announced that it planned to have three million high-...
Canada is not immune to Trumpism
There is ample evidence that the seeds of authoritarianism are already germinating here. Canadians should not be complacent. In the last month of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, I published an...
INTERNATIONAL
The end of the reality TV presidency
The storming of the Capitol by Trump’s clownish supporters was a fitting end to his era. But the gravest threat to America lives on. Let’s put the theatrics aside: American democracy did not come...
The sadness of so much hate
BLM-Canada co-founder Sandy Hudson on the riots at the Capitol and how anti-Black hatred has grown without consequence It’s Mon., Jan. 11. Last week, a violent mob of white supremacists stormed the...
SOCIETY
Letters to Stan
The 95-year-old wrote of the disappointment of an empty mailbox and the joy of a handwritten note. Maclean’s readers responded. There is satisfaction in the feel of the paper. The weight of the pen....
THE BEST FOR LAST
A Ryan for our time
In one of our favourite stories this week, Jen Gerson discusses how a self-effacing Canadian actor has pulled off an improbable feat, pushing his star higher during the pandemic by shattering the...
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