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Tom Mulcair: The federal major projects steamroller could run roughshod over everything from Indigenous rights to health
The federal government’s major projects steamroller is about to flatten timelines. It could also run roughshod…
How the Cybertruck beclowned decades of climate progress
Americans have turned away from electric-vehicle adoption, and Elon Musk shares the blame
What happened to restraint in the federal budget?
The Carney government is betting on no global shocks for the next five years, despite warnings to the contrary
‘Canadians are becoming complacent because the messenger is Mark Carney … we’re practising blind faith.’ Letters to the editor for Nov. 11
In today’s letters to the editor: Mark Carney; nuclear energy; menopause; Remembrance Day; Four Seasons Hotels
Google is force-feeding AI to you, and so will everyone else
Tech companies are embedding AI into their products, leaving consumers with little choice
Nvidia investors may make peace with Jensen Huang affair sooner than you think
As Gordon Gekko might say, ethics are for wimps
‘Principled pragmatism’ in foreign policy still requires Canada to be clear about its principles
Strategic partnerships must strike a balance between advancing economic interests and taking human rights seri…
The Liberals’ immigration numbers game
Misleading communications are obscuring the fact that new permanent residents admissions are set to soar
Is your doctor working too much? Ontario seems to think so
We need to know if physicians’ billings are fair and justified, but should do so without persecuting hard-work…
Putin needs to understand that the war in Ukraine is untenable
Instead of appeasing Moscow, negotiations must make clear that the consequences of continuing the war outweigh…
Trump’s chaos is shaking U.S. bonds, and the damage will ripple
Historians will decide whether the man who promised to Make America Great Again ended up making it more like ‘…
‘Ridiculous to align with nations such as China and Turkey while taking an elbows up position with the United States.’ Letters to the editor for Nov. 10
In today’s letters to the editor: Hong Kong; Canada and China; natural resources; MAID; Parks Canada cuts; Way…
The midterms, Trump and Canada: Talking Heads with Andrew Coyne
In this episode of Talking Heads with Andrew Coyne, American political scholar Robert Kagan, says the Democrat…
More long-term beds aren’t a blanket solution to seniors’ care
An approach that aims to allow older Canadians to stay in their own homes is not only more humane – it’s also …
Canada must stand up for human rights in China
The Prime Minister has backed away from Canada’s values in the interest of trade
Rules for advance MAID requests shouldn’t be a provincial patchwork
Bill C-41 is a great first step for Canadians with dementia, but putting the final decision in the hands of pr…
What Canada can learn from Russia (of the 17th century)
Peter the Great’s overriding ambition was to remake the Russian economy and diplomatic relationships
‘After reading about all of the new spending, I have one question: When did Justin Trudeau start advising Mark Carney?’ Letters to the editor for Nov. 9
In today’s letters to the editor: U.S. politics; the budget; war heroes
The sad story of Canada’s last captive whales
The tragedy of this country’s cetaceans, shipped abroad, shows how much humanity’s morality has evolved – and …
News To Me – Feeling blue
A weekly cartoon column by Gabrielle Drolet
A time change that sets back Canadians
Staying permanently on summer time tends to be popular until people experience it
Does anybody really know what time it is?
The mess around daylight saving shows how disjointed and disconnected we can be
Alberta’s new electoral maps leave us with a big question
It appears the authors of the new maps didn’t give much consideration to the public’s feelings
In Saskatchewan, a special war memorial connects the generations
Memorial scroll tiles bear the names of the students and others from the University of Saskatchewan who served…
It’s hard to be ‘masters of our destiny’ when our destiny is shaped in the U.S.
Champagne delivered this week’s budget in an environment that had suddenly become both more and less benign fo…
‘Who do we vote for when each party promises more debt? Our young people may emulate the French and riot in the streets.’ Letters to the editor for Nov. 7
In today’s letters to the editor: Stephen Harper and Vladimir Putin; politics and the economy; slavery and rep…
The budget offers a glimpse of a post-Trump world with more than one problem to solve
Spending plan seeks to straddle painstaking, long-term fixes for an upended world with short-term relief for t…
The battle of wills between Mark Carney and Paul St-Pierre Plamondon is just beginning
Questions have arisen about whether the Prime Minister is insufficiently attentive toward political sensitivit…
Forget the midterm election results - Canadians should still not vacation in the United States
This is not the end of the Donald Trump era. We are firmly still in it. The man is still President
A budget that ducks on debt and defence
The Liberals take credible steps to boost the economy, but fail to take action on the two other major challeng…
Republicans now begin their hard, cruel journey back to reality
Tuesday’s midterm elections in the U.S. sent a shockwave through the Republican Party
How veterans remember the lives of men they’ve killed
It wasn’t simply that the veterans had talked about killing. What really startled me was how these memories ha…
We’re looking on – and mourning – the end of the American-led world order
The sacrifices of the past created decades of relative peace and prosperity. Now Canada has to navigate a new …
Having a female doctor leads to better health outcomes. Why aren’t we learning from them?
It is not the case that every female physician is better than a male doctor. The key insight is that the avera…
I’m an American, and I’m a hockey fanatic. It’s a strange time to be both
The U.S. public’s attitude toward international hockey is more idiosyncratic. It veers from indifference to tr…
‘While it’s polite of us Canadians to believe the U.S. electorate is changing their ways … I don’t think Americans have changed one iota.’ Letters to the editor for Nov. 6
In today’s letters to the editor: U.S. politics; free trade; Russia and hockey; tall towers; Patrick Stewart
A strange budget, as opaque as it is complacent
At this point, federal budgets are of limited use when it comes to telling us what government is doing
The defeat of Susan Collins marks the end of the moderate Republican
The lone GOP survivor in New England lost her seat in Tuesday’s midterms
Is the ‘Islamophobia-palooza’ over? What Abdul El-Sayed’s win says about the politics of hate
Bigoted efforts to defeat American Muslim, Arab or Palestinian candidates flopped in races across the U.S.
The new voices of the U.S. Democratic Party begin to craft a different narrative
There are conflicts on the horizon among the party’s leaders, but impressive speeches from some potential pres…