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The Liberal convention: Everything now
All happy families resemble one another, Leo Tolstoy wrote, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Canada’s federal Liberals, gathered in virtual convention on one another’s laptop screens...
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THE COLUMNISTS
The Liberal convention: Everything now
All happy families resemble one another, Leo Tolstoy wrote, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Canada’s federal Liberals, gathered in virtual convention on one another’s laptop screens...
The gathering storm
In late January, a 66-year-old white man carrying 36 knives and plotting to “execute” politicians in advance of Newfoundland’s provincial election was only narrowly thwarted by Deer Lake police...
THE INTERVIEW
THE INTERVIEW
Canadian Olympic Committee president and Olympian Tricia Smith on what the pandemic did to athletes and why Canada shouldn’t boycott the Beijing Games A global pandemic threw a worst-case scenario at...
NATIONAL
Welcome to consultant town
The ‘shadow public service’ is everywhere in Ottawa. Who really has the government’s ear? Last May, in what we now know was merely the opening chapter of the pandemic, Innovation, Science and Economic...
The unsettling case of Dr. Ngola
Fifty pages of emails, memos and handwritten notes offer details of a troubled investigation into a COVID-19 outbreak Last spring, Jean Robert Ngola Monzinga was arguably Canada’s most infamous COVID...
A very concerning variant
Evidence suggests P.1 is more infectious, causes more severe infection, and evades immunity in those who have been previously infected “I learned about P.1 in late December 2020, and it made my head...
A decade of decay
Anti-fluoride activists are fighting again to keep the chemical out of Calgary’s water supply. But there are holes in their argument. The wisdom of public health authorities has been on everyone’s...
INTERNATIONAL
The old weird France
Macron is closing the school known for churning out presidents, prime ministers and top public servants. We haven’t updated you on French President Emmanuel Macron in a while. It’s not going great....
SOCIETY
‘He has been my strength all these years’
He was at Queen Elizabeth’s side through a tumultuous reign, with a protective focus on duty, responsibility and loyalty. By Patricia Treble For more than seven decades, Prince Philip occupied the...
Inside an empire of pain
A much-anticipated book traces the role of the Sackler dynasty in the opioid crisis It was a long-standing interest in the business practices of drug cartels that first turned Patrick Radden Keefe’s...
The lasting psychological toll of reporting the pandemic
‘What happens when you can’t escape the news, when it’s your livelihood and an innate habit built into your routine?’ The apartment is drowning in noise. There’s nowhere to be these Friday nights, so...
Germs of inspiration
A suite of photos reveals the microscopic lives on the palettes of some of Canada’s most iconic painters Imagine a cluster of dusty pink blooms, or crisp bundles of white rolling across a blue...
THE BEST FOR LAST
A year to remember
In one of our favourite stories this week Sham Al Mukdad explains why starting university during a pandemic is not easy. But being able to study during a lockdown is a blessing. I didn’t expect to...
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