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Welcome back to Tesla, Elon Musk. We’ve missed you

yesterday 4

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Gus Carlson

Canada’s electric vehicle strategy has failed, and there are lessons to learn

yesterday 4

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Jim Hinton

By letting public spaces and services fail, our cities are breaking a fundamental promise to the people who live there

New, red streetcar moves on the waterfront in downtown Toronto Canada. benedek/Getty Images Jennifer Keesmaat is chief executive of...

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Jennifer Keesmaat

The inequities of equalization must be ended

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has a point – well, perhaps half a point – about the problems with Canada’s increasingly unfit-for-purpose...

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The Editorial Board

Canada has the form of democracy, but not the substance

Andrew Coyne is a columnist for The Globe and Mail. He is the author of a new book The Crisis of Canadian Democracy, from which this essay has been...

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Andrew Coyne

Did Carney, the banker, use his bond-market black magic on Trump?

Prime Minister Mark Carney arrives and greets U.S. President Donald Trump prior to a meeting at the White House in Washington, on May 6. Adrian...

previous day 10

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John Rapley

Carney rode a wave of national pride into office. Now he’s tasked with quelling rising separatism

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith thinks her province is getting a raw deal from Confederation and is making it easier for Albertans to trigger a...

previous day 9

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Marcus Gee

What we lose when we let AI automate our connection to the non-human world

A male red-winged blackbird perches on a cat tail stalk on April 3 in the constructed wetland in Hinge Park, which collects and manages two thirds...

previous day 10

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Marcel O&x27Gorman

Canada needs an architecture policy

Concertgoers crowd around the Club Montreal TD stage on the plaza in front of Place des Arts in Montreal. Roger Lemoyne/The Globe and Mail Toon...

previous day 10

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Toon Dreessen

Canada must reimagine intergenerational life

Tessa McWatt and her mother. Courtesy the author/Supplied Tessa McWatt’s latest book is The Snag: A Mother, A Forest, and Wild Grief. It was time:...

previous day 9

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Tessa Mcwatt

Mr. Carney’s hinge moment is finally here

Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks with media on Parliament Hill following a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Canada-U.S. Relations and National...

friday 5

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The Editorial Board

This Mother’s Day, don’t avoid talking to your kids about the hard stuff

The London Courthouse in London, Ont., on April 30. Nicole Osborne/The Canadian Press Mother’s Day can be a minefield for many reasons. If you are...

friday 2

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Marsha Lederman

Forget ‘Buy Canadian.’ ‘Travel Canadian’ is actually making a difference

A pedestrian walks by the closed Fisherman's Grotto restaurant at Fisherman's Wharf on May 2, in San Francisco. Foreign tourism to California fell...

friday 1

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Robyn Urback

Alberta’s wishy-washy dance with separatism will beggar the province

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith announces proposed changes to several pieces of democratic process legislation, in Edmonton on April 29. JASON...

friday 10

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Israr Ahmad

We must fight back against the rise of ‘algorithmic supremacists’

Left to right: Priscilla Chan, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Lauren Sanchez, businessman Jeff Bezos, Sundar Pichai, and businessman Elon Musk, among...

friday 3

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David Weitzner

A very different kind of scrolling: Why we’re obsessed with ancient texts

Papyri Herculaneum in the National Library of Naples, on June 27, 2019 in Naples, Italy. Antonio Masiello/Getty Images Eric Siblin is the author of...

friday 1

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Eric Siblin

How Meighen and King survived Pierre Poilievre’s seatless dilemma

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre listens to questions from journalists as he arrives on Parliament Hill for a meeting of the Conservative...

friday 10

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Allan Levine

An American Pope? Has hell frozen over?

Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Cardinal Robert Prevost of the U.S., appears on the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, on May 8. Yara...

friday 3

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Miles Pattenden

What do encampments offer that shelters don’t? A chance to build community

Maggie Helwig is an author and the rector of the Church of St. Stephen-in-the-Fields. Her latest book is Encampment: Resistance, Grace, and an...

friday 3

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Maggie Helwig

After Mr. Carney meets Trump, time and polls matter

U.S. President Donald Trump makes a trade announcement as Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, left, Vice President JD Vance , second from left,...

friday 20

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Campbell Clark

This India-Pakistan clash brings out the worst in both countries

A partially damaged wall of the Neelum Jhelum Hydropower Project is pictured following Indian strikes in Nausari, about 40kms from Muzaffarabad,...

08.05.2025 10

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Doug Saunders

In becoming Leo XIV, the new Pope may be eschewing the Vatican’s factionalism

White smoke billows from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel where 133 cardinals are gathering on the second day of the conclave to elect a successor...

08.05.2025 9

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Michael W. Higgins

The Trump administration’s cuts to the U.S. State Department are a threat to Canada

Robert Bothwell and John English are Canadian historians working on an oral political history project about the 1990s and early 2000s. Donald...

08.05.2025 2

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John English

The deplorable rise of MAGA Catholicism

U.S. Vice President JD Vance speaks at the 20th annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in Washington, on Feb. 28. Vance converted to Catholicism...

08.05.2025 20

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Ian Buruma

Doug Ford’s unjustified contempt for courts

Ontario Premier Doug Ford speaks during a news conference in Mississauga, on April 30. Chris Young/The Canadian Press Doug Ford doesn’t like to be...

08.05.2025 10

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The Editorial Board

The world economy is now uncharted territory. Here’s how pension funds can navigate

A trader wears a hat in support of U.S. President Donald Trump at the New York Stock Exchange on Nov. 6, 2024. Andrew Kelly/Reuters Sebastien...

08.05.2025 3

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Sebastien Betermier

Doug Ford is running roughshod over the environment and the law. Sound familiar?

Ontario Premier Doug Ford speaks to media at Queen’s Park in Toronto, on April 3. Laura Proctor/The Canadian Press The entire country loves Ontario...

08.05.2025 10

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Tanya Talaga

Oh, Canada: Alberta is on native land

Janice Makokis is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Windsor, and a member of Saddle Lake Cree Nation in Treaty No....

08.05.2025 1

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Janice Makokis

The return of the measles is an outbreak of failure

Ontario has the biggest measles outbreak in North America with, as of Tuesday, 1,383 confirmed or probable cases in the province and about three-...

07.05.2025 9

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The Editorial Board

Mark Carney goes to the Oval Office and learns a new skill from Donald Trump

Prime Minister Mark Carney and U.S. President Donald Trump engage in a meeting at the White House in Washington, on May 6. Adrian Wyld/The Canadian...

07.05.2025 10

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Shannon Proudfoot

Canada should ditch its patchwork of provincial tax rules

Bob Plamondon was a tax adviser to the federal government and is the author of Freedom Fighter: John Diefenbaker’s Battle for Canadian Liberties...

07.05.2025 4

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Bob Plamondon

Ever since the Middle Ages, papal conclaves have been rife with intrigue

The Sistine Chapel hosted its first conclave in 1492 and became the permanent conclave location in 1878. The Associated Press Jacqueline Murray is...

07.05.2025 1

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Jacqueline Murray

Carney did what voters wanted him to do: Be the adult in the room

Prime Minister Mark Carney meets with U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House, in Washington, on May 6. Evan Vucci/The...

07.05.2025 3

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Robyn Urback

Carney resets the Trump relationship, but not the trade war

U.S. President Donald Trump meets Prime Minister Mark Carney in the Oval Office of the White House, on May 6, in Washington. Evan Vucci/The...

07.05.2025 1

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Campbell Clark

Trump’s betrayal of Canada is starting to unravel

Mark Carney had the right choice of words in his post-election speech when he referred to what Donald Trump was doing to Canada as “the American...

07.05.2025 1

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Lawrence Martin

Carney achieved nothing of substance in Washington. But that’s okay

This composite image shows Prime Minister Mark Carney, left, in Kitchener, Ont. on March 26, and U.S. President Donald Trump, right, in Washington,...

07.05.2025 20

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Kevin Yin

Dear Alberta, please don’t leave

People gather in support of Alberta becoming the 51st state during a rally at the Legislature in Edmonton, on May 3. JASON FRANSON/The Canadian...

06.05.2025 2

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Marsha Lederman

Carney did well in Washington, but he must realize Canada’s only choice is compromise

A visitor to the city wearing a mask of U.S. President Donald Trump poses for a photo in front of a Canadian flag being held by tourists from...

06.05.2025 3

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Jeff Mahon