Shaking hands with the invisible Prime Minister
Election image of the day: Elizabeth May shows up a conspicuously absent Justin Trudeau
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Michael Fraiman
Michael Fraiman has lived in and reported from South Korea, Peru and across Canada. He often covers arts, travel and politics. Find him on Twitter at @mfraiman
Trouble on Air Trudeau, where the media is a real menace
Election Image of the Day: No one knows better than the Liberals that people in the news business are just scraping by
Average dad with car salesman’s grin drops kids off at school
Election Image of the Day: Justin Trudeau was laying the middle-class imagery on thick the day he called the 2019 election
Don’t count out Andrew Yang, the populist technocrat who wants to be president
Yang and his outsized ideas have electrified the Democrats’ presidential nomination race, making him the X-factor in a fast-narrowing field
Jacob Rees-Mogg, the U.K.’s sleepiest MP
Image of the Week: Jacob Rees-Mogg, a hardline social conservative-turned-meme machine, slouched his way through a Brexit debate in spectacular fashion
Help! I’m trapped on a stage with Boris Johnson
Image of the week: The British PM wants the hell out of Europe. Angela Merkel looks like she couldn’t agree more.
Greta Thunberg: A message in a racing yacht
Image of the week: The 16-year-old climate activist is on a daring trip sailing across the Atlantic instead of flying. Take that Donald Trump.
The long history of ’go back to where you came from’ in Canada
Donald Trump’s ugly tweet captured beliefs and sentiments that have deep roots—in Canada
These stranded B.C. salmon are in good hands
Image of the Week: A rockslide on the Fraser River cut off the fish from their spawning grounds, inspiring an inventive—and Herculean—rescue effort
The face of women in the age of Donald Trump
Image of the week: Four U.S. congresswomen have got the best of the U.S. president, and their reaction to his racist tweets says it all