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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...

yesterday 10

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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

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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...

yesterday 10

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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...

yesterday 10

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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...

yesterday 10

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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...

yesterday 10

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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...

yesterday 10

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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

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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...

yesterday 10

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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”...

yesterday 9

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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...

yesterday 10

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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...

yesterday 4

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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...

yesterday 4

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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...

previous day 10

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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...

previous day 10

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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...

previous day 10

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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 /...

previous day 10

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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...

previous day 10

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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...

previous day 10

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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...

previous day 20

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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...

wednesday 20

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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...

wednesday 20

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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...

wednesday 20

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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...

wednesday 20

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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...

wednesday 20

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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...

wednesday 2

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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...

wednesday 1

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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...

wednesday 6

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Robyn Urback

Won’t you be my neighbour?

In North America, we spend less time in and around the home and we don’t depend on neighbours very much. Laura Proctor/The Globe and Mail Richard...

wednesday 1

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Richard Harris

Great defence spending plan, Carney. It’d be a shame if Ottawa bureaucracy got in the way

In June, Prime Minister Mark Carney said that 'the transformation of our military capabilities can help transform our economy.' Spencer Colby/The...

22.07.2025 10

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Eugene Lang

Shaving department budgets won’t be enough to rein in federal spending

The Carney government has unveiled new spending commitments to strengthen the national economy, soften the blow of U.S. tariffs and boost defence...

22.07.2025 10

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Donald J. Savoie

It’s time to let lawyers come back to the Supreme Court of Canada

The Supreme Court continues to bar many lawyers from appearing in person after shifting to remote advocacy in response to the pandemic in 2020....

22.07.2025 10

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Frank Addario

Canada, don’t make the same mistake with LNG that Australia did

Tanker carrying LNG Canada's first export of liquefied natural gas to Asia, June 30. In Canada, Alberta and B.C. produce 98 per cent of Canada’s...

22.07.2025 10

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Mark Ogge

Canada’s remarkable joint statement on the suffering in Gaza is a good first step

Palestinians, displaced by the Israeli offensive, shelter in tents in Gaza City on Tuesday. Khamis Al-Rifi/Reuters Lloyd Axworthy was Canada’s...

22.07.2025 1

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Lloyd Axworthy

When aggressive tactics are praised as legal strategy, it’s survivors like me who pay the price

The courthouse in London, Ont., where the Hockey Canada trial was held. Nicole Osborne/The Globe and Mail J.B. is the “Ottawa woman” who testified...

22.07.2025 10

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Frank Addario

Keep it up, nasty Canadians

The U.S. ambassador to Canada, Peter Hoekstra, called Canadians ‘mean and nasty’ for boycotting American products, including removing American...

22.07.2025 9

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Campbell Clark

Make room for mayors at the premiers’ table

Premiers at the Council of the Federation meetings, which is officially a gathering of provincial and territorial leaders, at Deerhurst Resort in...

22.07.2025 8

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The Editorial Board

Canada should follow Britain and lower the voting age to 16

Research suggests young people who voted at 16 were more likely to keep voting through their mid-twenties, a period when turnout typically slumps....

21.07.2025 1

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Scott Stirrett

The premiers’ top priority should be unlocking labour mobility for Canadian workers

Labour mobility across Canada in some skilled trades is guaranteed through the national Red Seal program. Marissa Tiel/The Globe and Mail Ben...

21.07.2025 2

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Ben Woodfinden

Smoke: the new reality in summertime

A wildfire burns near Chance Harbour, N.L., on July 14. Dawn Gough/The Canadian Press Even thousands of kilometres from the flames, Canadians were...

21.07.2025 1

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The city of Ottawa risks being hollowed out by the federal government

Office buildings are seen in the downtown core of Ottawa. The federal office portfolio is severely underused and plans to reduce office space by 50...

21.07.2025 20

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Sueling Ching

An honest look at the fiscal crisis in university education in Ontario

Ontario universities, such as the University of Waterloo, have two primary sources of revenue – tuition and grant payments from the provincial...

21.07.2025 50

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Jeffrey Casello

Are Canada’s corporate and securities laws no longer fit for purpose?

In many respects, Canada’s corporate and securities law systems lack the clarity needed to attract global investment. Nathan Denette/The Canadian...

21.07.2025 20

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William Hourigan

What’s our generation’s nation-building, major infrastructure project? It’s housing

In the Greater Toronto Area alone, nearly 41,000 jobs and $10-billion in investment are at risk because of weakening home sales. Richard Buchan/The...

20.07.2025 8

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Brad Carr