Inside Carolyn Bennett’s fraught picnic
The minister of Indigenous and Northern Affairs hosted her regular celebratory Canada Day picnic on Saturday against a backdrop of Indigenous anger and protest.
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Meagan Campbell
Meagan Campbell is based at the Ottawa bureau, where she writes about politics and the people behind it. In the past, she’s worked with The Atlantic Monthly, The Spectator (U.K.) and CBC Radio. She’ll always be from Charlottetown.
How a Canadian helped create the new cricket emoji
It took research and determination to get a symbol for awkward silence to your keyboard
Meet the great-great-great-great-granddaughters of Confederation
From a teen with a Céline Dion connection to a skiing daredevil, Meagan Campbell meets the descendants of Canada’s founders
No more monkeys driving around Toronto?
A bill before Toronto city council would ban exotic animals in mobile zoos, raising questions about animals in the urban jungle
Donald Trump’s ancestral brothel gets a new lease on life
There wasn’t much left of the flesh-pot that Friedrich Trump built on the road to the Klondike. Parks Canada and a Yukon First Nation are changing that.
The missing Mounties of the MMIW hearings
The RCMP must play a part in any remedy for wrongs committed against Indigenous women. But not everyone wants them at the inquiry.
How a relative at MMIW copes: fishing, curling and a pet dog
The inquiry’s first witness offers a wrenching look inside the lives of those left behind, and shares the secrets of how she keeps going
The MMIW inquiry comes out in the open—literally
By design and benign fortune, organizers in Whitehorse have created an ’organic and authentic’ space for inquiry participants
Undercover with Grit agents at the Tory convention
Observing, disrupting, spying—call it what you want. Liberal operatives overcame Conservative attempts at counter-espionage.
How Elevator Mechanic became Canada’s hottest job, for better or worse
Canada’s construction boom has led to tremendous growth in the need for elevator technicians—but the field is having serious growing pains