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Toronto falls down on snow removal

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The Editorial Board

How to escape Trump’s trade trap? Put food first

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John Stackhouse

Ottawa’s Haida Gwaii deal is a beacon for the rest of Canada

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Tanya Talaga

Donald Trump’s playbook on Ukraine is the same one he used to withdraw from Afghanistan

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Shoaib Rahim

Can Germany’s defensive democracy hold the line against the AfD?

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Sadiya Ansari

Ottawa’s policy flip-flopping is killing Canadian telcos

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Dvai Ghose

Understand the past to fight for Canada’s future

A statue of former Canadian Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald stands on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on June 3, 2021. Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian...

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The Editorial Board

Donald Trump is right about one thing: America’s cities are being crushed by debt

Chicago's credit rating hit near-junk status in February, according to Standard & Poors. Nam Y. Huh/The Associated Press You don’t have to be a...

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Gary Mason

Carney’s opponents forgot to run away from the status quo

Mark Carney speaks during the English-language Liberal Leadership debate in Montreal on Feb. 25. Christinne Muschi/The Canadian Press For the first...

yesterday 9

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Campbell Clark

No one rained on Carney’s parade, and now, he’s set to be our next prime minister

Liberal Party of Canada leadership candidates Karina Gould, Frank Baylis, Chrystia Freeland and Mark Carney prior to the English-language Liberal...

yesterday 10

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Lawrence Martin

The Liberal Party’s fast-forward leadership contest sharpens sales pitches to succeed Trudeau

Liberal leadership candidates (from left) Karina Gould, Frank Baylis, Chrystia Freeland and Mark Carney take part in the English-language debate in...

yesterday 10

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Shannon Proudfoot

Dear Donald: Canada’s struggling auto industry is not a threat

New trucks crowd a parking lot at the GM assembly plant in Oshawa, Ont., on Sept. 24, 2019. Chris Helgren/Reuters Greig Mordue is an associate...

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Greig Mordue

Does Donald Trump want to let firms bribe foreign governments again?

President Donald Trump holds up an executive order relating to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in the Oval Office at the White House, on Feb. 10...

yesterday 10

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Martin Kenney

Will Mark Carney’s weak French be his Achilles’ heel in Quebec?

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Konrad Yakabuski

A bullying U.S. A fractured world. A chance for Canadian trade to show its quality

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Kevin Yin

Mark Carney’s two-track budget plan: other than these six objections, it’s a pretty good idea

Spend less, invest more. As slogans go, Mark Carney could do worse. Despite some online ridicule, it’s a perfectly sensible idea. Too much of the...

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Andrew Coyne

Robust trade brings zest to our tables

A customer shops for produce at a grocery store In Toronto, on Feb. 2, 2024. Cole Burston/The Canadian Press Many of the millions of Canadians who...

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The Editorial Board

In this economy? It’s time to welcome foreign students again

Students and pedestrians walk along Gould St. on the Toronto Metropolitan University campus on Jan 22, 2024. Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail...

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Christopher Worswick

DeepSeek just changed the AI Game — but is Canada even playing?

DeepSeek, a relatively unknown Chinese AI startup, has upended expectations with a new model that rivals the best in the world – yet which it says...

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Joël Blit

Ontarians should focus on the miserable state of our schools during this election

Naomi Buck is a Toronto-based writer. Anyone following the current Ontario election could be forgiven for forgetting that education is a provincial...

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Naomi Buck

Canada needs to reset its priorities for the G7 presidency

Valerie Percival is an associate professor at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University. Shawn Barber is a former...

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Valerie Percival

Even with his gaffes, Carney is still the front-runner after the French debate

Mark Carney speaks during the first of the two nights of the Liberal Leadership Debate at the MELS studios in Montreal, Feb. 24, 2025. CHRISTINNE...

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Campbell Clark

If Canada is tearing down interprovincial barriers, let’s start with health care

Spurred by U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat of significant tariffs on Canadian goods, there has been a lot of earnest political banter these...

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André Picard

No, a CBC call-in show did not commit treason

It’s nice to see people getting passionate about public broadcasting, but what went on this past weekend was something else. Some Canadians were...

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Marsha Lederman

How Canada can win the race for capital

For decades, Canada had a simple yet powerful pitch to investors: Put your money to work here and you’ll enjoy unfettered access to the vast U.S....

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The Editorial Board

Three years after the invasion of Ukraine, I feel both the destruction and the resilience in my bones

Marusya Bociurkiw is a filmmaker, writer, and Professor Emeritus at Toronto Metropolitan University. As a kid in the 1970s, I found Ukraine, The...

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Marusya Bociurkiw

Trump and Zuckerberg, a new bromance for a brave new world

This combination of pictures created on shows Mark Zuckerberg (left), CEO of Meta, on Jan. 31, 2024, and U.S. President Donald Trump on Sept. 17,...

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Gus Carlson

Is it responsible for sports betting firms to target thrill seekers?

Silquia Patel, (right), celebrates after making her bets at the FANDUEL sportsbook during the Super Bowl LIII in East Rutherford, N.J., on Feb. 3,...

monday 10

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Timothy Dewhirst

America’s pronatalism preoccupation will only put mothers at greater risk

Miranda Brady is an associate professor in communication and media studies at Carleton University and author of Mother Trouble: Mediations of White...

monday 10

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Miranda Brady

Arctic security must be a top priority for Canada – not an afterthought

Ranj Pillai is the Premier of Yukon. Ken Coates is the director of Indigenous affairs at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. Canada’s Arctic policy...

monday 10

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Ranj Pillai

We must not waver in our support for Ukraine

A soldier holds a flag during the joint military funerals for Volodymyr Semenyuk, 43, and his military comrade Serhiy Voytenko, 53, on Feb. 24, in...

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Natalka Cmoc

Why should small businesses get all the tax breaks?

Pedestrians on Yonge St. in Toronto on March 3, 2021. Fred Lum/the Globe and Mail Allan Lanthier is a retired partner of an international...

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Allan Lanthier

Freeland’s last chance is Carney’s high-pressure moment

There are two last chances for Chrystia Freeland. They are also two tests that could blow up Mark Carney’s front-running campaign. The Liberal...

23.02.2025 4

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Campbell Clark

Strong and Free: In memoriam, free trade, 1989-2025(ish)

It was a good run for continental free trade, 36 years of a rising tide of trade and prosperity that transformed the economies of Canada, the...

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The Editorial Board

Canada’s border is broken, but not the way Trump thinks. Here’s how the next government can fix it

A large proportion of refugee applicants are also qualified economic immigrants who simply knew of no opportunities to apply for normal immigration...

22.02.2025 2

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Doug Saunders

As a Holocaust survivor, I’m alarmed to see the rising strength of Germany’s far right

Charlotte Knobloch is a Holocaust survivor and the former president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany. On a sunny Sunday afternoon just over...

22.02.2025 2

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Charlotte Knobloch

On the eve of elections, Germany is deeply divided and in a dark mood

Frank Trentmann is a professor of history at Birkbeck, University of London, and author of Out of the Darkness: The Germans, 1942-2022. As Germany...

22.02.2025 3

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Frank Trentmann

What is Canada? A found poem about our country

Claire Cameron is a novelist, essayist and author of the forthcoming memoir How to Survive a Bear Attack. This poem was assembled using quotes from...

22.02.2025 1

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Claire Cameron

It’s time for Canadian pension funds to have a climate mandate

Wind turbines in Niederaussem, Germany, as the sun rises on Nov. 2, 2022. Michael Probst/The Associated Press John Rapley is a contributing...

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John Rapley