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What is the value of higher education in Canada?

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Boxi Yang

When Artemis II returns to Earth, Jeremy Hansen should bring back moon trees

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Aaron Boley

The state of 24 Sussex is an insult to Canada

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Chris Westdal

Development charges rest on a shaky foundation

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I just turned 64, and I can’t stop thinking about this Beatles song

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Jonathan Zimmerman

The Sunday Editorial: The top 10 takes of 2025

So far this year, The Globe and Mail has published 339 editorials (including this one), spanning federal politics, international affairs, the...

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AI isn’t taking away young people’s jobs (at least not yet)

Fear that AI may take away jobs from young people seems misguided, writes Viet Vu. Jobs in Canada’s technology sector have been in decline since...

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Viet Vu

Microwaving fish, and the lost art of office etiquette

More than five years after the pandemic spurred a mass shift toward working from home, employers are increasingly expecting their workers to come...

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Oh no, the MAGA economy isn’t working for the MAGA crowd

Supporters listen to U.S. President Donald Trump speak during a political rally in Rocky Mount, North Carolina on Dec. 19. ANDREW...

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John Rapley

2025 wasn’t all doom and gloom

Katisha Paul, Union of BC Indian Chiefs Youth Representative, and Peyal Laceese of the Tsilhqot’in nation were among the representatives who...

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Marsha Lederman

What the starchitects did to Toronto

A wooden staircase in the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, designed by architect Frank Gehry, in November, 2008. NATHAN DENETTE/The Canadian...

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Marcus Gee

Forget polarization. This year, we found a new Canadian consensus

People participate in a rally on Parliament Hill in Ottawa in March. Donald Trump’s return to the U.S. presidency sparked a new wave of Canadian...

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Campbell Clark

News To Me – How do you pick a New Year’s resolution?

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Gabrielle Drolet

We have questions: A found poem about the year 2025

Claire Cameron is a novelist, essayist and author of the memoir How to Survive a Bear Attack, which recently won the Governor-General’s Literary...

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Claire Cameron

This new year, patriotism is on the menu: Eat at a restaurant, and support Canada

The hospitality sector, which employs 1.2 million people, makes $120-billion annual revenue (or 5 per cent of Canada’s GDP). ILLUSTRATION: THE...

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Corey Mintz

The murder that led to an uprising around the world

A year-long series looking back on the most significant moments of the past 25 years, how they changed our world, and how they will continue to...

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Christina Sharpe

Will 2026 be the year of Quebec sovereignty’s comeback?

Parti Québécois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon vows to hold another referendum on Quebec independence if his party wins next fall’s provincial...

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Konrad Yakabuski

A defence of Canadian spelling, with vigour

November’s federal budget featured certain words spelled with an ‘s’ instead of a ‘z,’ favouring British instead of Canadian spelling....

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In 2025, the Trump administration had us asking: Who thinks up these things?

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at his Mar-a-Lago club on Monday. Alex Brandon/The Associated Press David Shribman is the former executive...

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David Shribman

Dear Gen Z: You’re not watching the world end – you’re about to build a new one

If you are under 30, there’s a message you’ve likely received many times during this painful year: You’re inheriting the wreckage of a once-great...

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Doug Saunders

Will 2025 be remembered as the year Canadians re-embraced nationalism?

Canadians take part in an 'Elbows Up, Canada!' rally in Nova Scotia in April, 2025. Darren Calabrese/Reuters Michael Adams is the founder and...

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Michael Adams

Donald Trump’s America is committing civilizational suicide

U.S. President Donald Trump reaches out to shake hands with Russian President Vladimir Putin at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage,...

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Carl Bildt

North American free trade is dead. The sooner Canada accepts that, the better

Even if USMCA survives in some form, Canada should prepare for a very different trade relationship with the U.S. Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press...

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Lawrence Herman

For free: Double mattress, heavily used. What a giveaway showed me about hard times in Canada

Food in storage at The Sharing Place food bank in Orillia, Ont., in October. Demand for food banks has grown in Canada since the onset of the...

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Shannon Moneo

In the U.S.’s early years, this man wanted to Make America British Again

William Cobbett (1763 - 1835) Journalist, reformer and MP. Hulton Archive/Getty Images David A. Wilson is a professor in the Celtic Studies Program...

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David A. Wilson