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Alberta is forgetting the hard-won lessons of Northern Gateway

If Danielle Smith wants to build another pipeline across British Columbia, she might want to spend some time actually trying to understand what...

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Max Fawcett

CNO's new tool showed me how Ontario is responding to Ford’s speed camera ban

Councillors from across Ontario are fretting about the speed camera ban and what it will mean for public safety and local funding. As a former...

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Jimmy Thomson

To solve climate change, we need more philanthropy

To solve climate change, we need more philanthropy

We’ve all seen the power of philanthropy. Whether at the global scale, like Bill and Melinda Gates’s famous resolve to eradicate malaria, or at the...

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Eric Campbell

Student paints a more environmentally-friendly future

Student paints a more environmentally-friendly future

These in-their-own-words pieces are told to Patricia Lane and co-edited with input from the interviewee for the purpose of brevity. Claire Lee is...

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Patricia Lane

Our friendly neighbourhood fireball

Our friendly neighbourhood fireball

It’s Thanksgiving, so let’s take some time around the table to appreciate some big things that are actually going right in this climate mess. We’ll...

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Chris Hatch

On Space Week, leaders should look to the stars

On Space Week, leaders should look to the stars

Every October, Space Week offers Canadians a moment to pause, gaze upward and celebrate Canada’s contributions to space. Space Week is also a time...

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Brian Gallant

Pope Leo XIV on the ancient art of lying, a call to action to anyone who values the news they consume

Pope Leo XIV on the ancient art of lying, a call to action to anyone who values the news they consume

  "With your patient and rigorous work, you can act as a barrier against those who, through the ancient art of lying, seek to create divisions in...

10.10.2025 2

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Linda Solomon Wood

Danielle Smith wants a fight with Canada, not a new pipeline

Danielle Smith wants a fight with Canada, not a new pipeline

It’s hard enough to get a pipeline built in Canada, much less one carrying oil to British Columbia’s northern coastline. But Alberta Premier...

09.10.2025 2

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Max Fawcett

Canada’s chance to build, not borrow, tech leadership

Canada’s chance to build, not borrow, tech leadership

President Donald  Trump’s new US$100,000 fee on H-1B visas offers a generational opportunity for Canada to rebuild our tech ecosystem. We can...

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Liam Gill