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A new sense of economic ambition sets sail, at last

The LNG export industry can provide jobs for the people of northern B.C. and get revenue flowing to provincial and federal governments. HO/The...

yesterday 8

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The Editorial Board

Beauty can be a refuge in this hard and ugly world – but it can serve a greater purpose, too

Sonia Sedivy is a professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto Scarborough and the graduate department of philosophy. She is the author of...

yesterday 10

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Sonia Sedivy

My family’s 40-year tradition of travelling to the U.S. for baseball games pauses in the Trump era

The Scanlan brothers and friends in California's Angel Stadium in Summer 2024. During this particular summer, the brothers achieved a milestone of...

yesterday 7

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Lawrence Scanlan

The small-bore view of oil-pipeline critics

The Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project under construction in 2023. S&P Global projects Canada’s pipelines will hit capacity by 2030. DARRYL...

previous day 10

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The Editorial Board

New leader, or new system? The Conservatives ponder life under two-party politics

Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre has an approval rating of minus four compared to Prime Minister Mark Carney's 21 per cent, according to...

previous day 10

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Andrew Coyne

Danielle Smith isn’t trying to be a MAGA leader. She’s trying to be the Wildrose one she once was

Danielle Smith crossed the floor as Wildrose Party leader in 2014 to join the Progressive Conservatives, seen by social conservatives as a...

previous day 10

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Robyn Urback

Sending a child to camp is anxiety-inducing. But the skills they learn there stay with them for life

A search and recovery worker shines his flashlight through murky waters near Camp Mystic, looking for remains of victims on Sunday in Hunt, Texas....

previous day 10

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Claire Cameron

Out with ‘tu’ and in with ‘vous’ as Quebec aims to restore respect in public schools

Last year, a wing of Coalition Avenir Québec adopted a resolution in favour of making le vouvoiement mandatory in public schools. Graham Hughes/The...

previous day 10

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Konrad Yakabuski

How Wikipedia became one of the greatest inventions of the modern age

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...

previous day 10

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Simon Garfield

More money for Canada’s military should mean more transparency and accountability

Canada's plan to spend 5 per cent of its gross domestic product by 2035 means the defence budget will grow to $150-billion annually. ANDREJ...

previous day 10

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Philippe Lagasse

Iran’s new law aims to crush dissent – at home and abroad

Afghan women chat as their children play in the room they slept in overnight at a transit centre in Herat, Afghanistan, after being deported from...

previous day 10

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Maryam Shafipour

Toronto should welcome the new Ontario Place

The Ontario Place project has faced furious opposition from the start, with critics arguing there was not enough public space. Chris Young/The...

previous day 3

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Marcus Gee

Mark Carney, heed the harsh lessons from the imploding British government

Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks with Prime Minister Mark Carney during a NATO summit in The Hague, Netherlands, last month. Toby...

previous day 3

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John Rapley

Mr. Robertson, tell Toronto a deal is a deal

A multiplex home in Toronto. Eurodale Developments Take away all the political noise and the situation is simple: Toronto council reneged on an...

thursday 20

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The Editorial Board

As the NDP faces financial crisis, radical flamethrowers play with matches

The NDP's share of the popular vote has fallen by two-thirds from 2021, to a record-low 6.3 per cent. Tijana Martin/The Globe and Mail Former New...

thursday 1

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Konrad Yakabuski

News of a deep-sea port along the James Bay coast is a surprise to those who live there

The Ontario government's plan to build a deep-sea port on James Bay is not feasible and does not include consultations with Indigenous leaders,...

thursday 10

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Tanya Talaga

Canada must match the tax incentives in Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’

Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill offers American businesses a myriad of incentives to grow domestically. DARRYL DYCK/The Canadian Press Jeff...

thursday 20

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Jeff Baryshnik

Don’t panic, Canada. Rushing into a deal with Trump would be our worst mistake

Prime Minister Mark Carney meets with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House in May. Leah Millis/Reuters Carlo Dade is the director of the...

thursday 10

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Carlo Dade

Has the Dalai Lama’s lifelong commitment to peace preserved Tibetan identity – or facilitated its erasure by China?

Attendant monks help put a microphone around the Dalai Lama's head during his 90th birthday celebrations at the Tsuglakhang temple in Dharamshala,...

thursday 10

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Kapil Komireddi

Reviving the military is risky political business, but the threats facing Canada are far worse

To ensure that the Canadian Armed Forces is fit for purpose, the government will have to accept increased financial, political and reputational...

thursday 10

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Martin Green

We need to talk about antisemitism

On Tuesday night, Elon Musk’s xAI chatbot Grok praised Hitler on its X account. Dado Ruvic/Reuters By the time you read this, someone, somewhere on...

thursday 3

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Marsha Lederman

Yes, absolutely – Canada needs more oil and gas pipelines to our coasts

The last section of pipeline is assembled on the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project near Laidlaw, B.C., in February, 2024. The expansion...

thursday 20

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Jackie Forrest

Let’s fix the gulf between workplace pensions for public and private sector workers

The 20-per-cent pension participation rate for Canadian private sector workers is much lower than the rates in other developed economies in the...

thursday 3

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Keith Ambachtsheer

The Liberals launch another expenditure review: This time, we mean it

Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne sent letters to cabinet ministers Monday, asking them to find ways to reduce program spending starting...

09.07.2025 10

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Andrew Coyne

Alberta has an Alberta problem

Danielle Smith is opening the door to a referendum at the very moment Ottawa could be an ally in her stated effort to quell separatist sentiment....

09.07.2025 3

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The Editorial Board

Musk’s new party will hurt Trump. Go, Elon!

Elon Musk waves to supporters during a town hall in Green Bay, Wis., in March. The billionaire entrepreneur has decided to start a third political...

09.07.2025 2

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Lawrence Martin

Canada’s age-old stigma against defence spending will cost us dearly

Russia’s 2024 military base expansions and China’s icebreaker deployments threaten Canada’s sovereignty over the world’s second-longest Arctic...

09.07.2025 6

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Omar Saleh

Canada needs to follow through on its promise to help people in Gaza

Nearly half of Canadians believe Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, a recent poll shows. -/AFP/Getty Images Deborah Cowen is professor of...

09.07.2025 1

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Deborah Cowen

Let’s not unilaterally surrender one of our few bargaining chips – supply management

Supply management has long been a lightning rod in Canada’s trade negotiations. Christinne Muschi/The Canadian Press Ed Fast is a distinguished...

09.07.2025 3

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Ed Fast

The police will be there immediately – in more than two hours

Long wait times for police are causing more people to take measures to protect themselves from break-ins and auto thefts. Lisa Marie Pane/The...

09.07.2025 5

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Robyn Urback

The U.S. is not our friend any more. Has anyone told Mark Carney?

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney attend a meeting with G7 leaders and guests, at the G7 summit in...

09.07.2025 3

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Blayne Haggart

Carney risks boosting Western alienation by leaning on his ‘wise men from the East’

One-third of Prime Minister Mark Carney's current cabinet were ministers for Justin Trudeau just six months ago. Spencer Colby/The Canadian Press...

09.07.2025 10

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Preston Manning

Ottawa’s flag flap is a signal of deeper dysfunction

To many Canadians now, the U.S. flag is about as welcome as the plague flag that quarantine ships once flew. Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press One...

08.07.2025 10

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The Editorial Board

Should every small-town hospital have its own emergency room?

In some provinces, more than two-thirds of emergency rooms have closed at some point in the past six years, data show. Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian...

08.07.2025 4

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André Picard

Iran is the latest example of the great strategic bombing delusion

Bombing civilians can often mobilize support even for deeply unpopular governments. ARASH KHAMOOSHI/The New York Times News Service Ian Buruma is...

08.07.2025 2

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Ian Buruma

In Ontario, prisons for young Canadians have become a black box

More than a thousand 'serious occurrences' took place at the William E. Hay Centre, a 40-bed Ottawa juvenile detention facility. Hannah Mattix/The...

08.07.2025 1

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Simon Rolston

With more budget cuts on the horizon, should we expect more tragedy?

A recent study published in the Lancet found that United States Agency for International Development programs have saved more than 90 million lives...

08.07.2025 4

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Marsha Lederman

With Trump’s support, Netanyahu is poised to get his way in Gaza

During Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to the White House, he made it clear that there would be no Palestinian state. Julia...

08.07.2025 2

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R. David Harden

America is sinking, and Canada cannot go down with the ship

U.S. President Donald Trump, joined by Republican lawmakers, holds a gavel after signing his massive spending bill into law during an Independence...

07.07.2025 4

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Claude Lavoie