“Chillax, Pops”
I‘m not sure exactly when Canada struck me anew as a decent place worth fighting for, but it happened sometime this past summer. The arrival of Thomas Noiset, our sixteen-yearold …
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Life during Wartime
Even here on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, surrounded by wealth, beaches, and footloose summer fun, there is sadness, anger, and resignation. Lee Shorey — a fifty-two-year-old high-school teacher and mother of …
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The Last Spike
The week before federal politicians decamped for the summer began with the second Liberal leadership debate in Moncton, New Brunswick. The eleven aspirants tried to separate themselves from the herd, …
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A Family Affair
For columnist Andrew Coyne, a telltale line in last spring’s budget was the promise to improve the tax treatment of capital gains for fishers; for Jeffrey Simpson it was the …
Read MoreThe Shrinking News
On their best days, newspaper editorialists analyze government policy statements for what they hide and reveal, beat back PR flaks and others attempting to set the agenda, and go to …
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Feng Shui Federalism
If things devolve and decentralize in a lot of ways, then what is Canada beyond a concept —Liberal Member of Parliament Ken Dryden Support people rather than places. “—From Bronze …
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Election After-Math
The chimeric effect of the polls turned us into strategic voters. The question was how should I vote to avoid this or that.
Read MoreThe Empty Middle
By Saturday, January 7, 2005, the Jane Creba memorial — small bouquets, compassionate poems, candles — had grown steadily, pushing its way across the sidewalk in front of the Foot …
Read MoreTwo More Solitudes
No man is an island, but a community can become marooned on one. Following a spate of blackon- black murders, culminating in a teenager being gunned down on the steps …
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Schooling: Repeat After Me
My first teaching experience was in the late 1980s at Westwood Secondary School, located north of Toronto’s airport in Mississauga. The local population was clearly transient, “just off the plane” …
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