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Welcome to British Columbia, where you ’pay to play’
B.C. has become a Wild West of political donations. Critics worry it’s slowly eroding public confidence.
Nancy Macdonald
Nancy Macdonald writes primarily for Maclean’s national section. The transplanted Winnipegger now calls Vancouver home and spends her off-hours chasing her spirited toddler.
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Inside the Costa Rican retreat of Manitoba’s premier
Brian Pallister controversially spends weeks of the year in Costa Rica. So Maclean’s went in search of the premier’s foreign office.
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Premier Brian Pallister’s extended escape from Winterpeg
The Manitoba premier is spending weeks away in Costa Rica. His extended breaks raise questions.
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Fentanyl in Vancouver: Death, death. Day in, day out.
There’s no time to grieve as fentanyl deaths mount in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
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The MMIW inquiry begins in 2017. Victims’ families want answers.
As a federal inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls ramps up, families who’ve lost faith in police search for answers themselves
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Justin Trudeau’s B.C. blunder
There are risks to a Burnaby pipeline that Trudeau is underestimating: dead whales and Clayoquot 2.0. And they will cost him in 2019.
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Skin-deep: The awkwardness of Justin Trudeau’s Haida tattoo
The Haida once approved of Justin Trudeau’s ink of a Haida raven on his shoulder. But that was before Ottawa supported an LNG terminal in B.C.
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The Liberals’ relationship with Indigenous communities sours
Trudeau Report Card: How a new ’nation-to-nation’ relationship with Indigenous communities quickly fell apart
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Atoya Montague on the RCMP’s apology
’This is monumental for women in the RCMP, for women in policing, for women who work in male-dominated industries’
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Royal visit 2016: Off script with Will and Kate
Nancy Macdonald on a royal visit that unleashed politics, protest—and decidedly unroyal bear hugs