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Building transit in Canada has gone off-track

Both the Canada Line in Vancouver and the Réseau express métropolitain in Montreal have aspects worth emulating. A train is stopped at a station...

yesterday 9

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The Editorial Board

Here are the actual reasons Doug Ford is calling an early election in Ontario

Ontario Premier Doug Ford steps out of an office to speak to the media at the Ontario Legislature in Toronto on Dec. 11, 2024. Chris Young/The...

yesterday 8

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Robyn Urback

Playing poker with the elephant: Canada should call America’s bluff, and raise a new trade agreement

The world is potentially being turned upside-down, with tariff escalation back at the forefront as in the 1930s – a surefire recipe for high...

yesterday 10

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Andrei Sulzenko

Trump’s aggressive rhetoric aims to reset the narrative on Canada

Nathan M. Greenfield is a military historian, author and the North American correspondent for the University World News. In December, after...

yesterday 10

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Nathan M. Greenfield

The next prime minister’s growth plan must focus on homegrown innovation

Ann Fitz-Gerald is the director of the Balsillie School of International Affairs and a professor of international security in Wilfrid Laurier...

yesterday 8

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Ann Fitz-Gerald

Doug Ford calls for snap election before his record catches up

Doug Ford is not the first Premier to try to capitalize on Mr. Trudeau’s unpopularity. Mr. Ford attends a news conference at Queen's Park...

yesterday 10

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Campbell Clark

To foster greater trust in artificial intelligence, we need better regulators

People check their phones as AMECA, an AI robot, looks on at the All In artificial intelligence conference on Sept. 28, 2023, in Montreal. Ryan...

yesterday 10

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Clifton Van Der Linden

Why the union hate, Amazon? What’s really behind the closing of Quebec operations

yesterday 0

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Barry Eidlin

If Ottawa botches the economy now, Canada might break apart

A man holds a Quebec flag as people gather in a city park on St-Jean Baptiste Day in Montreal on June 24, 2020. Graham Hughes/The Canadian Press...

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Christopher Worswick

It’s time for Canada to finally grow up

It may seem odd to say that Canada, the world’s fourth oldest continuous democracy, needs to start behaving like a grownup, but that is precisely...

saturday 40

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The Editorial Board

In keeping TikTok in the U.S., Donald Trump is channelling his inner Sun Tzu

Gus Carlson is a U.S.-based columnist for The Globe and Mail. As legal experts ponder the validity of TikTok’s 75-day reprieve in the U.S.,...

saturday 2

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Gus Carlson

Hollering, coercion, and endless preening. It’s the art of the Trump deal

The author of Donald Trump’s book 'The Art of the Deal' Tony Schwartz told The New Yorker he regrets presenting Trump as 'more appealing than he...

saturday 10

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Shannon Proudfoot

What North America can learn from the greatest transportation system in the world

Taras Grescoe is the author of Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile, as well as High Speed , a newsletter about the...

saturday 10

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Taras Grescoe

We get the transportation networks that we ask for. So let’s ask for better

Passengers disembark a VIA Rail train at Toronto’s Union Station on Nov. 13. Sammy Kogan/The Globe and Mail Christof Spieler is an urban planner,...

saturday 10

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Christof Spieler

I don’t have a family doctor: A found poem about health care

Claire Cameron is a novelist, essayist and author of the forthcoming memoir How to Survive a Bear Attack. This poem was assembled using quotes from...

saturday 10

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Claire Cameron

We thought we were safe. Then tariff talk returns. Behind a week of whiplash

U.S. President Donald Trump addresses the Detroit Economic Club in Detroit, Mich., on Oct. 10, 2024. Rebecca Cook/Reuters John Rapley is an author...

saturday 5

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John Rapley

Biden was a failure. Trump will be a catastrophe

Then U.S. President Joe Biden with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump at the White House on the inauguration day of Trump's second presidential...

24.01.2025 2

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Omar El Akkad

What might we learn from previous attempts by the Americans to invade Canada?

The Death of General Montgomery in the Attack on Quebec, painted by American artist John Trumbull in 1786. Yale University Art Gallery/Public...

24.01.2025 4

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Madelaine Drohan

Belarus will ‘elect’ a dictator again. But the fight for freedom is not over

A police officer walks past a billboard ahead of presidential elections in Minsk, Belarus, on Jan. 24. Pavel Bednyakov/The Associated Press Marcus...

24.01.2025 1

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Markus Kolga

A tariff war is Canada’s new political fig leaf

Looming tariffs are being floated as a reason B.C. Premier David Eby might renege on his election commitment of a $1,000 per household rebate....

24.01.2025 1

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The Editorial Board

At Auschwitz, there was no why

A woman crosses the 'Arbeit macht frei' gate at the site of the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz prior to the 80th...

24.01.2025 1

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Marsha Lederman

The candidate running from herself to get away from Trudeau

Liberal MP Chrystia Freeland, candidate for the leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada, makes her way to a meeting of the Liberal caucus in West...

24.01.2025 10

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Campbell Clark

‘I urge you to hear the voices of the Iranian people.’ Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi remains unbowed

Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi, the 2023 Nobel Peace prize winner. Nooshin Jafari/Supplied Samira Mohyeddin is a Toronto-based journalist and...

24.01.2025 1

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Samira Mohyeddin

We must confront the reality that Canada has a four-tier health care system

Anthony Sanfilippo is a cardiologist, a professor of medicine and a former associate dean at Queen’s University. He is the author of The Doctors...

24.01.2025 10

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Anthony Sanfilippo

To understand why I was violently attacked, we have to see anti-gender ideology for the threat that it is

A Waterloo Regional Police vehicle at the scene of a stabbing at the University of Waterloo, in Waterloo, Ont., June 28, 2023. Nick Iwanyshyn/The...

24.01.2025 20

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Katy Fulfer

The L.A. fires could happen in Canada - but there’s too much we still don’t know

A resident views a property that burned during the Eaton fire in the Altadena area of Los Angeles county, Calif., on Jan. 21. JOSH...

24.01.2025 2

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Elliott Cappell

It’s time to end public funding for Catholic schools in Ontario

Catholic schools in Ontario are technically 'separate schools,' but since the 1980s, they have received full funding from the provincial...

24.01.2025 10

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Marcus Gee

When politics gets turned inside-out

Mark Carney speaks during his Liberal leader campaign launch in Edmonton, on Jan. 16. JASON FRANSON/The Canadian Press If you were to come up with...

23.01.2025 10

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The Editorial Board

Lessons from Canada’s Nobel Prize win, and why capping graduate students will harm our economy

Like so many eminent Canadians, Nobel Prize winner Geoffrey Hinton is an immigrant. Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail Meric Gertler is the 16th president...

23.01.2025 10

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Meric Gertler

With politics on Turtle Island in chaos, Indigenous communities are staying the course

The political reality couldn’t be stranger than at this moment. Canada’s federal leadership has all but disappeared, and into this vacuum...

23.01.2025 2

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Tanya Talaga

The TikTok ban is already dead in the water

Jon Penney is an associate professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, a research fellow at the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab, and a faculty...

23.01.2025 10

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Jon Penney

The rest of Canada should stop vilifying Danielle Smith, and start listening to her

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith speaks with reporters before a meeting in Halifax on July 15, 2024. Darren Calabrese/The Canadian Press No Canadian...

23.01.2025 7

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Robyn Urback

Supreme Court ruling on secularism law could land like a bomb in Quebec

A man walks past the Supreme Court of Canada in Ottawa, on June 16, 2023. Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press Supreme Court of Canada rulings touching...

23.01.2025 5

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Konrad Yakabuski

Can Danielle Smith get another pipeline built in Canada? Not any time soon

Among the many grievances Alberta Premier Danielle Smith holds against the rest of Canada – or at least the so-called liberal elites who run it –...

23.01.2025 5

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Gary Mason

Perhaps an economic union with the U.S. is not a bad idea after all

Canadian and United States flags are seen flying near Parliament Hill, in March, 2023, in Ottawa. Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press Claude Lavoie is a...

23.01.2025 2

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Claude Lavoie

For clues on tariffs, look to Trump’s choices for top economic posts

There may be less than meets the eye in President Donald Trump’s sweeping use of executive authority to signal major overhauls of U.S....

22.01.2025 1

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Konrad Yakabuski

While Trump spurns Canada, China opens the door

A new “golden age” is coming to America, Donald Trump promises, and if his first days in office are any indication, it has some remarkable...

22.01.2025 2

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Lawrence Martin

Extension of donation deadline due to postal strike should be made permanent

Charitable donors are required to make contributions before Dec. 31 in order to claim tax benefits. The deadline creates a year-end rush, fosters '...

22.01.2025 10

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Benjamin Alarie

Canada must hit the U.S. where it hurts most: its lucrative patents

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump prepares to depart after watching the launch of the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Starship rocket in...

22.01.2025 10

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Richard Gold