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The lesson that politicians never learn

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The Editorial Board

What is the ‘Mar-a-Lago Accord,’ the next wacky scheme from Trump’s America?

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John Rapley

DOGE and Elon Musk are upending the underlying architecture of government itself

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Mary Bridges

The Second World War showed Canada how to take control of its own destiny. It’s time we do so again

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Tim Cook

What does Toronto look like? Capturing Canada’s largest city in cartoons

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Brian Gable

A case of mistaken identity, a murder in Cairo, and a decades-long investigation into the death of a journalist

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Peter Gillman

Another Yalta Agreement would condemn Ukraine to a grim fate

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Sergey Radchenko

Want to resist Trump? Take a page from the Soviet dissident playbook

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Benjamin Nathans

The office, an election and the world are rushing at Mark Carney like no rookie PM before

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Campbell Clark

No hugs or sunny ways here. Carney’s government is a lean, mean trade-war machine

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Shannon Proudfoot

No, Trump isn’t out to get Canada’s resources. It’s worse than that

One popular theory about Donald Trump’s seemingly random acts of economic punishment and threats of imperialistic conquest is that they’re part of...

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Doug Saunders

There’s no Pierre Poilievre without Justin Trudeau. That’s why the Conservative Leader seems broken

Jillian Horton is a physician and author of We are All Perfectly Fine: A Memoir of Love, Medicine and Healing. The child psychiatrist Donald...

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Jillian Horton

A small and overdue step in Manitoba toward dignity and reconciliation

A memorial with photos of Morgan Harris attached is shown as family and friends gather at a vigil in Winnipeg, in December, 2022. JOHN WOODS/The...

yesterday 10

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The Editorial Board

A chance to make Mount Royal what it was always meant to be

People look out over the skyline of Montreal from Mount Royal park on New Years Day in Montreal, on Jan. 1, 2024. Graham Hughes/The Canadian Press...

yesterday 10

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Konrad Yakabuski

In the face of American antagonism, I simply remember my favourite Canadian things

People view totem poles and other artifacts in the Great Hall at the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, on...

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Marsha Lederman

The United States is putting the United States in danger

Ron Deibert is the director of the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab and the author of Chasing Shadows: Cyber Espionage, Subversion and the...

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Ron Deibert

Trump’s tariffs have changed Canada’s political calculus about internal trade barriers

A customer buys Canadian-made maple syrup at a Toronto grocery store on March 3. Katherine KY Cheng/Getty Images Diya Jiang is a lecturer at McGill...

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Diya Jiang

America’s scientific community is in panic mode

Demonstrators protest funding cuts outside of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Md., on March 8. MICHAEL MATHES/AFP/Getty Images...

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Molly Knight Raskin

Trump’s attacks on the media are eroding independent journalism

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters before departing on the South Lawn of the White House, Feb. 28, in Washington. Jacquelyn Martin/The...

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Jason Shepard

Decoding Trump’s trade strategy: The historical pattern beneath the headlines

President Donald Trump waves to the media as he walks on South Lawn of the White House, in Washington, Sunday, March 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis...

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Marvin Suesse

If the trade war hobbles Canada’s auto sector, let’s just phase it out

Chrysler Pacificas are loaded onto a transport truck at the Windsor Assembly Plant in Windsor, Ont., on March 6. Dax Melmer/The Globe and Mail...

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Christopher Worswick

America’s slow roll toward thugocracy

New York Police officers arrest a demonstrator who protested inside Trump Tower in New York in support of Columbia graduate student Mahmoud Khalil,...

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Gary Mason

The Hudson’s Bay Company’s collapse might be another chance to rewrite Canada’s story

A close-up image of Jean Baptiste Carpenter's contract with the Hudson's Bay Company, taken by his great-great-great-granddaughter, Tanya Talaga,...

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Tanya Talaga

Under Trump, the U.S. scores own goal in carbon removal game

A welder works at the Deep Sky carbon capture facility under construction in Innisfail, Alta. on Dec. 11, 2024. AMBER BRACKEN/The New York Times...

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Jorden Dye

Canada’s unprecedented election will turn on this question: Who can be the best leader?

Liberal Leader candidate Mark Carney speaks with Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre before a ceremony at the National Holocaust Monument in...

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Andrew Coyne

Ottawa’s tariff spending needs to push an economic pivot

Back in January, Ottawa said it would respond to the threat of devastating U.S. tariffs with a multi-billion dollar pandemic-like support plan for...

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The Editorial Board

Is Canada’s ‘fentanyl czar’ just about diplomacy – or could he actually help address the overdose crisis?

Public Safety Minister David McGuinty, left, and Canada's fentanyl czar Kevin Brosseau speak to reporters outside the White House in Washington, on...

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Mohammad Karamouzian

The erosion of the powerful North America bloc is neither inevitable nor irreversible

Héctor Cárdenas is the president of the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations, a professor of practice at the University of California’s Goldman...

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Héctor Cárdenas

Donald Trump has deprived Quebec sovereigntists of their strongest argument

Leader of the Bloc Québécois Yves-François Blanchet speaks in the Foyer of the House of Commons following a vote in the House on Parliament Hill in...

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Konrad Yakabuski

Team Canada is giving Trump a beating in the tariff war

Canadian and American flags fly on the Canadian side of the Ambassador Bridge in Windsor, Ont., on March 8. GEOFF ROBINS/AFP/Getty Images So far,...

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Lawrence Martin

Has the stock market learned its lesson yet on underestimating Donald Trump?

A picture of U.S. President Donald Trump is taped up on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, on March 7. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Kevin Yin...

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Kevin Yin

Canada can help tame Trump

David A. Welch is a university research chair and professor of political science at the University of Waterloo’s Balsillie School of International...

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David A. Welch

The election Canadians need now

Mark Carney speaks during the Liberal Party’s gathering to announce its new leader in Ottawa, on March 9. COLE BURSTON/The New York Times News...

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The Editorial Board

Bank of Canada made the right call to cut rates. But where to from here?

Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem takes part in a news conference after announcing an interest rate decision in Ottawa, on March 6. Blair Gable/...

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Jeremy Kronick

Enter Carney: The button-down central banker shows he’s not above a little Yankee-bashing and kneecapping his opponent

Liberal leader Mark Carney speaks briefly with media as he makes his way to a caucus meeting on March 10, in Ottawa. Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press...

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Andrew Coyne

The question that Mark Carney must answer in an election

Whatever else happens, Liberal Leader Mark Carney will go down in the history books as the first Canadian prime minister to come to power without...

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The Editorial Board

Chrystia Freeland’s low Liberal support doesn’t tell the whole story

Liberal Party of Canada leadership candidate Chrystia Freeland arrives at the Liberal Party of Canada convention in Ottawa, on March 9. Spencer...

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Marsha Lederman

American democracy is wounded, but it will survive

Protesters hold signs during a rally on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, on March 10. Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images R. David Harden...

11.03.2025 3

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R. David Harden

What’s Trump’s real strategy? It’s all about retribution

Debra Thompson is a contributing columnist for The Globe and Mail. The true purpose driving the decisions of United States President Donald Trump...

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Debra Thompson

For centuries Hudson’s Bay faced death and survived. Can the company do so again?

Hudson's Bay Company officials in an express canoe crossing a lake, Manitoba, c. 1825. Peter Rindisbacher/Library and Archives Canada Stephen R....

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Stephen R. Bown

No more Mr. Nice Canada. Time for us to break global trade rules, too

A ship is seen docked at Global Container Terminals Inc.'s Vanterm facility at the Port of Vancouver on Oct. 21, 2024. JESSE WINTER/The Globe and...

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Mark Lawson

Liberals rush to move past Trudeau while Poilievre wants to look back

Liberal Party of Canada Leader Mark Carney speaks to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau after Mr. Carney was announced as the winner of the party...

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Campbell Clark

Canada needs to hit back much harder against Trump’s America

President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress at the Capitol in Washington, on March 4. Win McNamee/The Associated Press Kristen...

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Kristen Hopewell