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Dignity for the mentally ill cannot be deemed a nuisance

Flowers are left near the crime scene after a man drove a vehicle into pedestrians at the annual Lapu Lapu festival in Vancouver in April. After...

yesterday 8

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The never-ending riddle of Canadian health spending

A paramedic loads a stretcher into an ambulance at a hospital in Montreal in 2022. Spending on health care in Canada has grown by more than four...

yesterday 8

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André Picard

Affordable housing is out of reach everywhere in Canada

The downtown Vancouver skyline in the distance beyond houses in Burnaby, B.C., in July, 2023. DARRYL DYCK/The Canadian Press Steven Globerman is a...

yesterday 8

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Steven Globerman

Danielle Smith helped create a separatist monster that is now attacking her

Premier Danielle Smith speaks at the United Conservative Party AGM in Edmonton on Saturday. Her speech echoed some of the rhetoric of Donald Trump...

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Gary Mason

The push and pullback of internal trade

Ontario Premier Doug Ford speaks during a meeting of Canada’s premiers in Huntsville, Ont., in July. Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press Despite...

previous day 10

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Once too close to Trudeau for a Carney cabinet, Marc Miller is back

Mark Miller stands with Gov. Gen. Mary Simon and Prime Minister Mark Carney after being sworn in as Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture in...

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Campbell Clark

The UCP is a party with concerns wildly divergent from those of Albertans at large

Premier Danielle Smith speaks at the United Conservative Party AGM in Edmonton on Saturday. The event was a fractious affair marked by divisions....

previous day 2

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Kathy Kerr

Canada must build its own supercomputers or risk surrendering its future

A supercomputer at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts in Bologna, Italy. ALI WITHERS/Reuters Ryan Grant is an associate...

previous day 10

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Ryan Grant

In Hong Kong, a city’s skin caught fire. Other cities may want to take note

The bamboo scaffolding on charred buildings of Wang Fuk Court housing complex following a deadly fire, in Tai Po, Hong Kong, on Friday. Maxim...

previous day 10

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Jason Wang

Canada’s foreign aid cuts might be what the Global South needs to chart its own course

Sudanese families displaced from El-Fasher reach out as aid workers distribute food supplies at the newly established El-Afadh camp in Al Dabbah,...

previous day 10

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Themrise Khan

Breaking the hypnotic spell of misinformation

A video began circulating on Facebook shortly before the Irish presidential election in October. It was a report by the national broadcaster, RTÉ,...

sunday 7

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The Editorial Board

A pipeline is just the beginning: More threats coming for Indigenous rights

Terri-Lynn Williams-Davidson, K.C., and Elizabeth Bulbrook are lawyers at White Raven Law. Prime Minister Mark Carney, right, signs a pipeline...

29.11.2025 10

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Terri-Lynn Williams-Davidson

A game changer on and off the ice

Vancouver Goldeneyes' Sarah Nurse (20) celebrates her goal with Michelle Karvinen (33) as Seattle Torrent's Mariah Keopple (20) looks on during the...

29.11.2025 3

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News To Me – You can be almost anything

29.11.2025 4

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Gabrielle Drolet

Toronto’s transit failures are no joke

A test train departs Sloane Station during ongoing system testing for the Eglinton Crosstown LRT in Toronto, Oct. 9. GABRIEL HUTCHINSON/The Globe...

29.11.2025 10

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Marcus Gee

Vancouver must go wild – for the good of us all

View of Vancouver with Stanley Park in the foreground. Getty Images Margaret Munro is a Vancouver-based freelance journalist. With a whistled song...

29.11.2025 2

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Margaret Munro

Women ruin it: A found poem about complaints

Claire Cameron is a novelist, essayist and author of the memoir How to Survive a Bear Attack, which recently won the Governor-General’s Literary...

29.11.2025 2

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Claire Cameron

Bitcoin is now the barometer for the buckwild U.S. economy, and it looks bad

Bitcoin has for a long time led the way for the market, so its recent struggles may suggest the worst hasn’t passed for markets. JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP/...

29.11.2025 40

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John Rapley

A Quebec Liberal Party meltdown ups the likelihood of a PQ victory in the next election

Quebec Liberal Leader Pablo Rodriguez, right, opted not to seek a National Assembly seat in advance of the 2026 election, instead naming MNA Marwah...

28.11.2025 2

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Konrad Yakabuski

Carney’s pipeline pivot seizes a hinge moment for Canada

Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith met in Calgary on Thursday to sign an energy agreement that includes a pledge for a...

28.11.2025 2

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The Editorial Board

The day the modern internet was born

A year-long series looking back on the most significant moments of the past 25 years, how they changed our world, and how they will continue to...

28.11.2025 6

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Max Read

Should companies disclose to investors how they contribute to Canada?

Grant Vingoe is the chief executive officer of the Ontario Securities Commission. Recent trade tensions, protectionist policies and geopolitical...

28.11.2025 10

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Grant Vingoe

A blockbuster not-yet-agreement with the devil in the politics

Prime Minister Mark Carney has made a new pipeline to the British Columbia coast a national priority. Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press There is a...

28.11.2025 1

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Campbell Clark

If nothing else, Danielle Smith is a disruptor

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has made multiple attempts at challenging the norm in Canadian politics. Sammy Kogan/The Globe and Mail Every so...

28.11.2025 2

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Robyn Urback

Violence in Canadian schools is reaching a tipping point. What needs to change?

Naomi Buck is a writer based in Toronto. On a June afternoon in 2022, in the hallway of an ivy-covered high school in Ottawa, 15 year-old Matthew...

28.11.2025 20

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Naomi Buck

The Alberta-Ottawa energy deal marks a major shift in Canadian politics

Prime Minister Mark Carney has signed a deal with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith that the two sides say will make Canada a ‘global energy...

27.11.2025 2

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Andrew Coyne

The Ford government needs to come clean on the costs of going all-in on nuclear power

If you needed any more proof that North America is on the cusp of a nuclear-power renaissance, consider the U.S. Department of Energy’s move last...

27.11.2025 4

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Konrad Yakabuski

Ukraine has earned the right to shape its own future. Washington and Moscow are denying it that right

The United States is intent on pushing through a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine that favours Moscow. Jeenah Moon/Reuters Michael Bociurkiw is...

27.11.2025 7

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Michael Bociurkiw

Europe’s inevitable crackdown on illegal migrants is fully under way

Migrants try to board a smuggler's boat in an attempt to cross the English Channel off the beach of Gravelines, northern France on Aug. 12. SAMEER...

27.11.2025 2

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Gary Mason