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Shannon Proudfoot
Shannon Proudfoot is an Ottawa-based writer covering politics and public policy for Maclean’s. She loves writing people-focused narratives and bringing academic research into real life. She believes The Golden Girls is the greatest television show ever made.
The fiscal update: We are in for a hard winter
Shannon Proudfoot: Enormous quantities of money will be spilled to try and get Canada through the coming months and, maybe, into a shiny spring
This Quebec politician dropped the gloves on the ice. Now he wants fighting banned.
Quebec’s National Assembly unanimously approved a bill to end hockey fights sponsored by Enrico Ciccone, a former NHL player who racked up 1,469 penalty minutes and 28 points. The next move is up to the government.
2020 was the year that changed everything
The pandemic, political upheaval and an economic crisis have exploded truths and ideas that mere months ago seemed so fundamental they were beyond question
The psychological toll of the Trump era
Shannon Proudfoot: With his election loss, Trump’s rule by chaos is drawing to a close. And with it our role as unwilling audience members in his drama.
And so Canada escapes the obviously terrible idea of a pandemic election
Shannon Proudfoot: With all the pacing of a Facetime call with your grandparents, the Liberals survived a puzzling confidence vote of their own making
Kids have lost so much. Don’t take Halloween too.
Shannon Proudfoot: With a modicum of creativity, trick-or-treating would be as low-risk as adults grabbing takeout. Why the lack of effort to make it happen for kids?
My day-long disastrous ordeal of trying to get a COVID test in Ontario
Shannon Proudfoot: Line-ups start at the crack of dawn. Wait times stretch for days. As schools reopen and demand soars, prepare for a new kind of lockdown purgatory.
Flight 752: A family torn apart
Abbas Saadat said goodbye to his family as they headed home to their lives in Edmonton. Don’t worry, they told each other. Life was good.
Don’t fear the social conservatives
The organized SoCon wing looms large over the Tory leadership race. A new report suggests it would tolerate a moderate leader.