National pharmacare plan a political pill or cure-all?
Anne Kingston: These are still just recommendations. But now that the spotlight has turned on Medicare’s incomplete mandate, it will be difficult for politicians to step away.
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Anne Kingston
Senior Writer and Columnist Anne Kingston covers contemporary culture—everything from medical politics to the politics of food. She is the author of ’The Meaning of Wife: A Provocative Look at Women and Marriage in the 21st Century’ and ’The Edible Man: Dave Nichol, President’s Choice and the Making of Popular Taste.’ Find her at anne.kingston@macleans.rogers.com.
Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott on the power of one
In announcing they are running as Independents, two former cabinet ministers take aim at real change in politics
Alabama is closer than we think
Anne Kingston: Canadians who reassure themselves that the southern state’s abortion ban couldn’t possibly ever happen here haven’t been paying attention
Barry and Honey Sherman: Court to unseal estate documents
More clues may surface in the unsolved murders of the billionaire couple when estate documents are unsealed
Federal election litmus test in Nanaimo-Ladysmith by-election reads Green
Anne Kingston: As preview, it delivered in polling gaffes, federal strategies and emphasis on the environment
Why you just may vote Green this time
Anne Kingston: Elizabeth May’s party has emerged as the potential sleeper at an increasingly polarized political moment
Elizabeth May’s #bigfatgreenwedding
O! how this spring of love resembleth/The uncertain glory of an April day!
Why does Canada now have no women premiers? Because it’s 2019
Anne Kingston: The Trudeau government could have paved the way to more women in office had it honoured its election promise to reform the electoral system
The biggest lessons from Dr. Elana Fric’s life and tragic murder
Anne Kingston: There has yet to be a #MeToo equivalent for the largely private crime of family violence
Anne McLellan’s appointment: one more bumbling bid to bury the SNC-Lavalin affair
Anne Kingston: Enlisting the longtime Liberal party loyalist as a ’change-maker’ offers yet another example of a government losing its optics mojo