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The Editorial Board

The stock market is booming. Our economies are busting. What’s going on?

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John Rapley

To be good with today: A found poem about life in prison

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Claire Cameron

Online harassment has psychological consequences for journalists

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Anthony Feinstein

The electric vehicle industry in Canada is losing power. It’s time to recharge it

By November, 2021, my neighbour Mark Wessel had been looking for a new car for almost a year. His gas guzzler had more than 200,000 kilometres on...

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Gary Mason

#MeToo changed our culture, but it couldn’t change our courts

Canadian courts were largely impervious to the cultural forces brought about by #MeToo and stepping through their doors now is like passing through...

yesterday 10

Robyn Urback

Trump is wielding U.S. citizenship as a weapon

In the United States, birthright citizenship was embedded in the Constitution along with the abolition of slavery. Jacquelyn Martin/The Associated...

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Debra Thompson

Trump’s war on Fed Chair Jerome Powell could roil Canada – and your mortgage

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a visit to the Federal Reserve on Thursday. During the visit...

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Jerzy Konieczny

Our desire to document wildlife is intruding on privacy

A phone shows a photo of a deer captured with a trail camera. Kaja Tirrul/The Globe and Mail Larry Pynn is a veteran environmental journalist who...

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Larry Pynn

Canada needs a coherent immigration policy – not another piecemeal fix

Survey data from 2023 and 2024 suggest that while overall support for immigrants remains strong, public backing for high annual immigration levels...

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Michael Trebilcock

Trump’s tariff shakedown takes shape

The U.S. trade deal with Japan and ongoing tariff talks with the European Union offer a framework of what Canada can expect in its negotiations...

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The Editorial Board

Lower the voting age? There are better arguments for raising it

The British government's proposal to lower the voting age from 18 to 16 before its next general election has reignited debate over the issue in...

yesterday 10

Andrew Coyne

The targeting of a Globe reporter needs to be fully investigated

Former Alberta NDP MLA Shannon Phillips, who was secretly surveilled by two police officers in Lethbridge, Alta., in 2017, says the surveillance...

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Gary Mason

No, politics haven’t become polarized. Only one side has moved to the extremes

During her 2024 U.S. election campaign, Democratic candidate Kamala Harris stuck closely to the views of her predecessors by avoiding “woke”...

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Doug Saunders

Canada is not to blame for America’s fentanyl crisis

A new report from the Manhattan Institute supports what law enforcement and drug policy experts have long understood: the majority of fentanyl...

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Jonathan Caulkins

Let’s not let foreign automakers press us into changing the EV mandate

Prime Minister Mark Carney, pictured during a tour of an auto parts factory in Vaughan, Ont., in April. Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press Chris...

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Chris Severson-Baker

Restorative justice could have offered a better path for everyone involved in the Hockey Canada trial

Megan Savard, counsel for Carter Hart, speaks to reporters outside the courthouse after the verdict in the Hockey Canada trial in London, Ont., on...

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Jennifer Llewellyn

Why Ontario is the problem child in Canada’s housing crisis

In the first half of 2025, construction began on only 27,368 new homes in Ontario – a 25-per-cent drop compared with the same period in 2024....

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Jake Fuss

The last thing Canada needs is premiers mucking up immigration even more

Canada's premiers after a three-day meeting in Huntsville, Ont., on Wednesday. Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press After years of messing up the...

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Campbell Clark

Why do we keep letting Canada’s ultrarich use tax havens to stash wealth?

Report finds Canada’s biggest corporations and wealthiest families have over $682-billion in assets stashed in tax havens around the world, a 165...

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Jared A. Walker

As micronations know, the nation-state is a performance

Robert Motum holds a PhD in theatre from the University of Toronto and citizenship to seven micronations. Last month, I found myself in the...

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Robert Motum

So, your friend says you can bring your dog to their cottage - should you?

If you’re the type of owner who asks if you can bring your dog along to a weekend getaway, maybe you should think twice. flyzone/iStockPhoto /...

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Dianne Rinehart

The child-care gap in Canada needs to close

Children at the Blessed Chiara Badano Child Care Centre in Stouffville, Ont., in May. Ottawa announced the Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child...

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The Editorial Board

Domestic travel in Canada isn’t as accessible as we like to think

A flight taxis to a runway while another flight takes off at Vancouver International Airport, in March, 2020. Airline travel has improved for the...

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Max L. Brault

Canada, we’ve already got Trump’s best trade deal

U.S. President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Mark Carney at the G7 Summit in Kananaskis, Alta., in June. BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images...

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Wolfgang Alschner

Things to say to our American friends

The Canadian flag flies outside the Massachusetts State House during a meeting of northeastern U.S. Governors and Canadian Premiers to discuss the...

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The Editorial Board

What makes supply management so uniquely vile? Let me count the ways

Bill C-202 will protect supply management from upcoming trade negotiations with the U.S. Christinne Muschi/The Canadian Press Supply management...

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Andrew Coyne

We won’t let Americans buy our biggest bank. Why let them buy our biggest crypto firm?

If Robinhood's proposed acquisition of WonderFi is approved, the U.S. fintech company would gain control of Bitbuy and Coinsquare as well as more...

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Vass Bednar

Ottawa’s rewriting of the rules on government spending raises serious questions

A Canadian flag flies in front of the Peace Tower on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. Chris Wattie/Reuters Clément Gignac is a Canadian senator. Patrick...

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Clément Gignac

Canada’s outdated elevator rules are adding to the housing crisis

Canadian developers and condo owners are at the mercy of an uncompetitive market, dominated by large manufacturers that insert proprietary...

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Jonathan English

Canada’s sexual-assault law is not the problem – it’s the application of it

Jennifer Dunn, executive director of the London Abused Women’s Centre, outside London's Ontario Superior Court, where five members of the winning...

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Elizabeth Sheehy

Consent education is letting students down, so we’re taking the lead

The High School Too Project is a student-led movement that aims to address the consent-education gap across Ontario. Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail...

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Audrey Akharoh

The Supreme Court just made it much more difficult to sentence youth offenders as adults

The top court's decision sets a new sentencing standard for youth in Canada. Amber Bracken/Reuters The 14-year-old charged in the fatal stabbing of...

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