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The fight against reconciliation
Reconciliation has not just gone off the rails—many Indigenous peoples think it’s dead. That is a damning assessment from peoples who, more often than not, have extended their hand in peace and given...
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THE COLUMNISTS
The fight against reconciliation
Reconciliation has not just gone off the rails—many Indigenous peoples think it’s dead. That is a damning assessment from peoples who, more often than not, have extended their hand in peace and given...
NATIONAL
Where are the vaccines?
No new Pfizer doses arrived in Canada this week, and fewer than a third of those allotted for next week are expected. Why the delay? Earlier in January, Pfizer revealed that it would be slashing the...
The problem with modernizing
The crisis around the Governor General points up a widespread ill of our age—ignoring the boring, hard-to-fix things in favour of the new worked, until it became impossible to ignore the appointee’s...
Help wanted at Rideau Hall
An expert on the Westminster system delves into Julie Payette’s resignation, the awkward role of the Chief Justice and what’s next After months of media reports about a toxic workplace at Rideau Hall,...
The power of youth
Young people can swing elections when they turn out to vote, a 338Canada study finds, and right now they favour the NDP We do not have to go too far back in time to see the impact young voters can...
How to engage social conservatives
Sloan’s ouster highlights two key questions: Who speaks for Canada’s social conservatives and what are they trying to say? God bless Derek Sloan. No sooner had Conservative leader Erin O’Toole found...
Saved from a snowy tomb
A B.C. skiing star is alive thanks to six friends—and no thanks to his avalanche beacon Nick McNutt made it look so effortless, even for a pro skier. He bounded, glided, swished and soared down a...
This soaring swimming pool ups the ante when it comes to condo architecture
A glass-bottomed swimming pool at a luxury residential complex in Vancouver epitomizes how condominium towers are starting to shape the architectural character of our cities As you walk by Vancouver’s...
INTERNATIONAL
The open border effect
Five years ago, more than a million refugees arrived in Germany. Today, many are working full-time. What can Canada learn from this mass, unplanned migration? When Sami Shmayess was visiting his...
SOCIETY
Losing a daughter, finding a son
A grieving mother helps create a DNA database to identify Canada’s missing Because Judy Peterson lost her daughter, Monique Gamelin found her son. The tale of how the two mothers’ lives became so...
THE BEST FOR LAST
The price of gold in Steeltown
In one of our favourite stories this week Prajakta Dhopade explains why pet fish dumped in local waterways have become the scourge of Hamilton’s marshes and harbour Tys Theysmeyer remembers standing...
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