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Holy Week matters for non-religious people too
These may be increasingly secular and polarized times, but that doesn’t eliminate the need to deal with foundational questions and concepts as we live alongside each other.
La Bourgogne earns its reputation
Ontario’s budget further burdens younger Ontarians
What Australia can teach Canada about getting homes built
We need more than empty words to combat growing antisemitism
The Washington Post: Can billionaire owners like Jeff Bezos save journalism?
SaltWire files for creditor protection with $94m debt: The end of Atlantic Canada’s newspaper giant?
Chaos in Parliament: Five Tweets on the NDP’s last-minute motion on the Israel-Hamas conflict
‘One of the most serious national security breaches in Canadian history’: Margaret McCuaig-Johnston on China’s Winnipeg lab infiltration
Canada’s foreign correspondents are almost extinct
The U.K.’s unorthodox UnHerd: Leaving the mainstream media pack behind
‘It’s just about fighting to exist as a normal dude’: Five key insights from Jamil Jivani, Durham’s new Conservative MP
Calgary’s media landscape is full of holes. The Sprawl fills one of them
Google AI criticized for ‘woke’ rewriting of history
The Northwest Territories’ Cabin Radio: A part of Canada’s North
David Betz on walls, war, and the failed promise of the post-Cold War era
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See moreWe are demolishing our heritage and turning Canada’s cities soulless
Although growth-at-any-cost has been economic orthodoxy for centuries, it’s time for a re-examination. It has led to the unravelling of cities and communities and set the stage for soaring rates of depression among young and old alike.
Don’t overthink it, Canada—we need natural gas now more than ever
Calls to “electrify everything” are not only logistically and economically unrealistic, but highly risky. In Canada, a prolonged grid failure would create emergencies for Canadians in the summer and be catastrophic in the winter
Climate activists are holding back climate progress
Policymakers cannot forget that the greatest reductions in carbon emissions have come from technological shifts driven by market forces, not through virtue signaling or social activism.
I am a First Nations politician. Our chiefs and leaders must be held more accountable
An Indigenous cultural shift is overdue. We need an environment where media scrutiny is routine, community engagement is vigorous, and where stakeholders are held accountable.
Doug Ford risks letting down a generation of Ontarians—and losing the next election in the process
Ford has reaffirmed his NIMBY credentials by shutting down a proposal that would have allowed gentle intensification of neighbourhoods across the province.