Posts by Shannon Proudfoot

Conservative leader Erin O'Toole, Liberal leader Justin Trudeau, Green leader Annammie Paul, New Democratic Party leader Jagmeet Singh and Bloc leader Yves-Francois Blanchet stand at their podiums before the federal election French-language leaders debate, Wednesday, September 8, 2021 in Gatineau, Que. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

Where to watch tonight’s leaders debate (and all your other questions, too)

Everything you need to know about the where, when and how of tonight’s five-leader face-off

Kristiina Lahde, Technician, Collections Global Fashion and Textiles, Art and Culture (Photograph by Naomi Harris)

Royal Ontario Museum immortalizes face masks

A new exhibit at the Royal Ontario Museum displays dozens of masks from around the world—testaments to human ingenuity in the face of crisis

Brian Clark (Photograph by Spencer Platt/Getty Images; mural photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Life

9/11 ‘rolls like a movie’ in Brian Clark’s brain

He was on the 84th floor of the south tower. While 9/11 does not haunt Clark to the degree it does so many others, he lives in its shadow.

Trudeau, Blanchet, Singh, and O'Toole pose for a photo prior to the TVA leaders' debate on Sept. 2, 2021 in Montreal (Martin Chevalier/CP)

Ottawa

Where to watch the French-language leaders debate

Here’s everything you need to know about the first of this week’s two leaders’ debates, from what’s on the agenda to how to watch it live

Ottawa

Gerald Butts on the election so far: ’A tie game with a lot of hockey left to play’

Justin Trudeau’s former principal secretary talks to Shannon Proudfoot about why the Liberals ran into trouble, what the early polls missed, and how Canada sees Trudeau

Ottawa

Friendly or cold? Careless or practical? What voters see in the federal parties

Innovative Research asked Canadians which human attributes describe the major parties. It’s a revealing look at what each does well—or needs to do better.

One of Montreal's new manhole covers (Photograph by Chloë Ellingson)

Arts

Montreal might have Canada’s most beautiful manhole covers

The city has transformed the most utilitarian and overlooked element of the urban landscape into an elegant piece of design that will beautify the streets for decades to come

NDP MP Mumilaaq Qaqqaq delivers a farewell speech in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill on June 15, 2021 (Patrick Doyle/CP)

Ottawa

Mumilaaq Qaqqaq: ’It’s time to face the scale of justice’

The NDP MP delivered a powerful and eloquent farewell address to the House of Commons. ’As long as these halls echo with empty promises, I will not belong here.’

As interim leader, Ambrose ‘found a way for the party to stabilize’ after Harper’s exit (Photograph by Blair Gable)

Ottawa

Imagine a Conservative party led by Rona Ambrose. Where would it be now?

Contemplating the much-admired, experienced politician as the leader of the CPC is speculative political fiction, but it offers some useful insights into the problems currently dogging the party

Kaplan-Myrth uses chalk to designate a waiting area outside her medical clinic in Ottawa (Photograph by Justin Tang)

Canada

This Ottawa family doctor’s pop-up vaccination clinic delivered 220 shots in a day

The guerrilla vaccination blitz—nicknamed ’Jabapalooza’—was physician Nili Kaplan-Myrth’s answer to the chaotic appointment process in Ontario and what she sees as the baffling underuse of family doctors

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