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Know your enemy
Back in October I was sipping a beer in a rundown bar in St. Maries, Idaho, when Stan Taylor, a Canadian libertarian who had moved to the U.S. in his early 20s because he loved his guns and distrusted...
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THE COLUMNISTS
Know your enemy
Back in October I was sipping a beer in a rundown bar in St. Maries, Idaho, when Stan Taylor, a Canadian libertarian who had moved to the U.S. in his early 20s because he loved his guns and distrusted...
My kingdom for a palace
A riddle: which president in the last half-decade sought the company of well-turned-out women who sought the company of well-to-do men who were married to other well-turned-out women; used his wealth...
NATIONAL
True blue who?
Erin O’Toole’s path to victory is obvious: run for the centre. Problem is, it might not work. These days the federal Conservative party’s website is so scrupulously bland I wondered at first whether I...
Pitching a broader tent
A grassroots group of Black Conservatives hopes to bring people of colour into the Tory fold In mid-January, Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole issued an unusual and lengthy statement, which seemed to...
A call to arms
Inside Canada’s impossibly high-stakes rush to lock down tens of millions of doses of the most sought-after product on Earth When Agnes Mills was a young teenager, she battled tuberculosis for three...
Shooting the messenger
Sixty years ago, researchers looking for mRNA were ridiculed by colleagues. Thankfully, that didn’t stop them. A few days before Christmas, Matthew Meselson, a 90-year-old professor at Harvard, called...
A vessel of history
As it heads to the scrap yard, trailblazing sailors recall the storied past of the HMCS Cormorant A tourist enjoying a sunny summer day in Bridgewater, N.S., might not have looked twice at the rusting...
Missing lynx
Canada lynxes like Yukon, a cat being studied at the Point Defiance Zoo in Tacoma, Wash., can traverse entire regions to find food to sustain them This photo of a Canada lynx named Yukon (housed in...
SOCIETY
The loneliness economy
From friend rentals to robots, business is stepping in with solutions for the spike in the rate of isolation In the fall of 2019—a time that’s beginning to acquire the sunlit aura that earlier...
THE BEST FOR LAST
My, what big paws you have
In one of our favourite stories this week Michael Fraiman gets on the trail of a giant wolf, whose massive tracks in the Mackenzie Valley have reopened the unanswered question of how big these...
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