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 resurgence of measles and even the disappearing corner store.
Now, with the arrival of The Sunday Editorial (like this one) in late September, you can read the view of the editorial board every day of the year, save Christmas. And read you did: as of Saturday morning, Globe and Mail readers had spent a collective 4,718,829 minutes – or nearly nine years – reading the daily editorials in 2025.
We appreciate the gift of your time. And in return, we thought you may like a guided tour through the Top 10 Globe editorials of 2025 as measured by reading time, the pieces that truly grabbed the attention of readers in a year jam-packed with history.
U.S. President Donald Trump participates in a call with U.S. service members from Mar-a-Lago, Fla. on Thanksgiving Day.Pete Marovich/Getty Images
The U.S. President is of enduring interest to The Globe audience, which comes as no surprise. But the editorial board aims to be judicious in how often we weigh in on Donald Trump’s various and escalating provocations (despite his repeated appearances in this list).
The impetus for this piece was somewhat different; the sense that Mr. Trump was starting to bump up against limits on what had been a free-range run of political excess. Republicans ignored Mr. Trump’s edict to bar the release of the Epstein files. He was forced to retreat on tariffs, in the face of mounting discontent over inflation. And earlier in the month, voters had rebuked Republicans in special elections.
That was cause for guarded optimism, but, as the headline warned, also concern. How might he lash out?
Prime Minister Mark Carney, right, signs a pipeline memorandum of understanding with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith in Calgary on Nov. 27.Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press
When Alberta Premier Danielle Smith launched her public consultations on the future of her province, she did so using her well-worn slogan, “Alberta has an Ottawa problem.”
The editorial board’s view was that Ms. Smith was playing a dangerous game – dangerous to her and the province, if the separatist sentiment she seemed to be carefully stoking became a conflagration. That was the Alberta problem for Alberta.
Rather than treat Ottawa as an adversary, we wrote, “she should extend her hand to the federal government, not clench it in a fist.” By late November, the Premier was doing........