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Canadians in every riding support climate change action

New data from researchers at the Université de Montréal and University of California Santa Barbara shows how concerned Canadians are about climate change before the election

The politics behind Ontario’s sex-ed curriculum

Lauren Bialystok: The sex-ed saga may be over for now, but the era of Doug Ford’s populist policy-making has just begun

Should we bring cursive writing back to schools?

Hetty Roessingh: Cursive handwriting has an effect on literacy and creativity

The European Union can help save the Amazon

Claire Wordley and Laura Kehoe: the EU-Mercosur trade deal threatens the health of the Amazon, and the world

How ‘Jihadi Jack’ became Canada’s problem

Audrey Macklin: The world is not made safer from terrorism when the U.K. disposes of their unwanted citizens in Canada

RRSPs or TFSAs? How to decide between the two

The usual choice is to contribute to an RRSP but the TFSA might be better for enhanced flexibility

Theresa May lives on as PM—but Brussels is in charge of Brexit

Theresa May suffered a huge loss on a Brexit vote, and then withstood a no-confidence vote only a day later. What’s next?

Donna Strickland on why scientists need time to make big discoveries

Finding practical applications for groundbreaking discoveries can take years, writes Canada’s most recent Nobel laureate

From ‘Aboriginal’ to ‘Indigenous’: Changing terms in the Trudeau era

Many terms have been used by the Canadian media to refer to the original inhabitants of Canada. The Trudeau era has seen rapid change.

Canada’s showdown with Saudi Arabia exposes Maritime energy insecurity

Opinion: The Saudis didn’t cut the supply of crude oil to Canada after a diplomatic spat. But if they had, Atlantic provinces would be in a tough spot, writes Larry Hughes

Ontario’s scrapped basic-income pilot project was actually deeply flawed

Opinion: A professor who consulted on Ontario’s experiment says its cancellation isn’t the end of the world, as no high-quality data would have been collected

Fighting fires is hard enough. Why are we making it harder?

Opinion A hotter, drier boreal forest means there’s a higher risk of catastrophic wildfires. Yet there are no good new ideas—and no funding for better research