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Ottawa must steel itself against tariffs

On June 19, the federal government said it will freeze at 2024 levels imports of steel from countries with which it doesn’t have free-trade pacts....

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The Editorial Board

Canadian youth should have a universal gap year

Lifespans, traditions and societal expectations have all changed yet the transition from adolescence to adulthood remains rigid. Isabella...

yesterday 9

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Guy Stecklov

Climate disaster preparation is central to Canada’s economic security

The Summit Lake wildfire burns west of Fort Nelson, B.C. on June 8, 2025. Once deemed extraordinary, wildfires are turning into annual occurrences....

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Carole Saab

Will life ever go back to normal for Canadian snowbirds in Florida?

A drone view of Diner Key Marina and residential condominiums at Coconut Grove neigborhood in Miami. Marco Bello/Reuters Gus Carlson is a...

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Gus Carlson

Why is it such a harsh world for LGBTQ+ business owners?

While marketing their businesses as gay-owned was once an effective marketing tactic for LGBTQ entrepreneurs, rising discrimination has led some...

yesterday 10

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Rob Csernyik

What was Mark Carney thinking when he walked back the digital services tax?

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Taylor C. Noakes

The digital services tax was bad policy, but killing it now makes us look terribly weak

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Robyn Urback

The return of the progressive conservative

Prime Minister Mark Carney speaking at a closing press conference following the NATO Summit on Wednesday. Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press As...

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Like Terry Fox had hope, my friend Vanessa Davis had gratitude until the very end

Vanessa Davis and husband, Doug Davis. She had a life-affirming mindset and an excitement to tackle whatever the day would bring, knowing how...

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Jillian Horton

How to win the housing density debate

Toronto city council voted this week against a plan for a citywide authorization of multiplexes of six units. Cole Burston/The Globe and Mail When...

27.06.2025 2

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The Editorial Board

Alberta’s independence panel? Been there, done that

Premier Danielle Smith's Alberta Next panel will travel across the province consulting citizens on how to 'strengthen Alberta sovereignty within a...

27.06.2025 10

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Gary Mason

Canada’s foreign policy must catch up to its military spending

Prime Minister Mark Carney has committed Canada to spending the equivalent of five per cent of its GDP by 2035, two per cent of it by the end of...

27.06.2025 3

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Michael Manulak

Sixty years ago, a philosopher said Canada would be absorbed by America. He could still be right

Canadian philosopher George Grant, author of 1965's Lament for a Nation, wrote a scathing critique on the time's federal government. Today, his...

27.06.2025 20

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Michael Ignatieff

Canada has much to learn from the Israel-Iran war as we boost defence spending

This week's ceasefire follows one of the largest air campaigns in Middle Eastern history. Leo Correa/The Associated Press Eliot Pence is the...

27.06.2025 1

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Eliot Pence

Mommy influencers give us a false notion of parenthood

Leila Mottley’s latest novel is The Girls Who Grew Big. I was a sophomore in high school when Kylie Jenner announced her pregnancy with the...

27.06.2025 1

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Leila Mottley

The Israel-Iran war highlighted a harsh truth for Canada: Our oil economy has no future

Stability in oil prices despite war in the Middle East has demonstrated that Canada can't bank on the oil and gas industry for its economic future....

27.06.2025 6

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John Rapley

Can Pierre Poilievre outrun the ‘yesterday’s man’ label?

Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre will face a leadership review in January. Andrej Ivanov/Getty Images If you are wondering what Pierre...

27.06.2025 10

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Konrad Yakabuski

Considering accessory to manslaughter? Don’t worry, you’ll get to keep your gym membership

Mourners tie yellow ribbons and flowers to a fence following a public vigil for Karolina Huebner-Makurat in Toronto in July, 2023. Chris Young/The...

26.06.2025 1

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Robyn Urback

We need to cool it: In our warming world, we deserve temperature safety

Heat waves are a fact of life, with climate change upping their intensity and frequency. Sammy Kogan/The Globe and Mail Portions of Highway 402...

26.06.2025 10

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Marsha Lederman

Carney’s inner circle of aging white guys has the experience the Trudeau team lacked

Michael Sabia, left, former justice minister David Lametti and former UN ambassador Marc-Andre Blanchard are part of Prime Minister Mark Carney's...

26.06.2025 1

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Lawrence Martin

What we can learn from Quebec’s failed EV subsidies

Quebec is estimated to have lost over $515-million in 2024 subsidizing companies that are now insolvent. Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail Emmanuelle B....

26.06.2025 2

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Emmanuelle B. Faubert

Winnipeg’s famed Portage and Main – shut to pedestrians for nearly half a century – has been reborn

Niigaan Sinclair is an Anishinaabe writer (St. Peter’s/Little Peguis) and a professor at the University of Manitoba.​ This weekend, for the first...

26.06.2025 2

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Niigaan Sinclair

Bomb Iran’s nuclear sites? You can’t separate the mission from who’s in charge of it

U.S. President Donald Trump sits in the Situation Room with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, centre, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, right,...

26.06.2025 9

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Andrew Coyne

As we ponder the Canadian identity, literature can be our road map

Nature is a constant theme from the earliest texts by French and English settlers in Canada to the present. David Jackson/The Globe and Mail Roseann...

26.06.2025 1

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Roseann Runte

Ottawa must stop the CRTC’s misguided, dogmatic internet decision

Earlier in June, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission upheld its decision allowing large telecoms to resell internet...

26.06.2025 3

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Frédéric Perron

Can we find the extra $50-billion we promised NATO we’d spend on defence out of cuts in other spending? Yes we can.

Prime Minister Mark Carney and other leaders at the NATO summit said on Wednesday they would raise defence-related spending to the equivalent of 5...

25.06.2025 50

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Andrew Coyne

Clear a flight path for airline competition

As Canada navigates a mix of economic headwinds, it can consider opening its skies to foreign carriers. Christinne Muschi/The Canadian Press Air...

25.06.2025 3

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The Editorial Board

What was the point of the conflict in Iran? To keep three men in power

From left, U.S. President Donald Trump in 2025, Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in 2007, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...

25.06.2025 4

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Doug Saunders

Democrats wanting to impeach Trump for Iran attack show just how out of touch their party is

Earlier this year, Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders launched their Fighting Oligarchy Tour, to...

25.06.2025 1

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Konrad Yakabuski

Big budget pledges may mollify Trump, but Greenland shows why NATO is still on edge

NATO allies agreed to take on much more of the burden of their defence and global security by pledging to spend 3.5 per cent of their GDP on...

25.06.2025 2

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Campbell Clark

Hudson’s Bay was a ‘zombie firm.’ Canada is full of them and they all need to die

For many years before it ultimately collapsed, the Hudson's Bay was among the growing ranks of Canada’s 'zombie firms.' Nathan Denette/The Canadian...

25.06.2025 10

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Tom Goldsmith

Is Canada’s AI Minister just an industry spokesman now?

Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation Evan Solomon. Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press Jake Pitre is a freelance writer and...

25.06.2025 2

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Jake Pitre