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Catherine McKenna was always a standout human. Even in childhood, she was the best older sister any kid in her big family could have and a young swimmer so talented that she reached the Olympic trials in her teens. She was a lawyer so adventurous that she left Bay Street law for international human rights work and so energetic at...
Let’s stop using the word “dystopian” to describe life since U.S. President Donald Trump took office on Jan. 20. We’re long past that. Reality has high-jumped over a word we once used to describe science fiction or the weather in August or the vanishing of spring birdsong. Technology has moved faster than we dreamed it could. The U.S. is collapsing...
So farewell then Giller Prize. What a beautiful baby you once were. But you’re grown up now and need public help. Now that your old sponsor’s gone, you say you’ll need $5 million in “stable funding” from Ottawa for three years starting now, the Globe reports. This may not be the right moment, given that the survival of high-quality publishing...
Meet the Olivera family. Cynthia and her husband Francisco, two proud Californians who supported Trump because they want illegal immigrants deported, are going through something that angers and confuses them. Because Cynthia has Canadian citizenship, it’s our duty to help explain. It won’t be easy.
The year of 2025 is looking very much like the year of 2024, chaotic, grim, worrisome, airplane-crashy, genocidal, and frankly a bit short of the generous human behaviour I had been expecting for its first week. I’m glad that former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, a good man among less good men, reached 100 but even he didn’t want to add...
It’s Friday, International Women’s Day 2024. Let public joy be confined, possibly under a weighted blanket. We are not doing well. Women let their guard down. We will need to be tougher than ever in this fatal era. It has been decades since women’s rights were withdrawn so precipitously around the world. We expected feminism to expand exponentially. “Now I...
There’s good news and bad news. Google, a huge and immensely powerful American corporation, has agreed to pay a measly $100 million annually to Canadian news sites who depend on Google links for traffic, just as Google depends on us for content. It was always Big Tech’s plan that everyone around the globe would come to depend on Google and...
The online reaction to news that American war criminal Henry Kissinger had finally died at 100 was a kind of mad gaiety. Joy was unconfined. The ponderous headlines on legacy media about a “polarizing statesman” (CBC) leaving a “complicated legacy” (NYT) only revealed how badly they misunderstand and relay common public opinion. “Once you’ve been to Cambodia, you’ll never stop...
I am all aflutter. This week I did my annual Christmas shop at Loblaws to use up points on my PC Financial card. Such is price inflation that the points didn’t fully cover the bill, which is new. But fine. The purchase went about as well as it does at Pearson Airport check-in. A trade unionist by nature, I try...