Netflix and shill: What the Liberals’ big announcement adds up toThe Liberals are exulting over Netflix’s $500-million investment in Canadian content. But are Canadians actually picking up most of the bill?
Stop whining, America: NAFTA favours your wineThe Canadian wine industry says the rules are stacked against it, at home and in the U.S. So how did wine become a U.S. NAFTA complaint?
What the Democrats’ ’Medicare for All’ plan could spur in CanadaOpinion: For some Americans, Canadian health care is a source of envy. But the ’Medicare for All’ plan shows that our system could use a shake-up, too
Trump was looking for a trade war. Now he has one.Economic historians have a term for this sort of behaviour: beggar-thy-neighbour. It usually makes things worse.
How Chrystia Freeland sees trade talks in the Trump eraWith the Bombardier-Boeing battle casting a dark shadow, the foreign minister frames the ’unconventional’ Trump factor
Interview: Rick Mercer on leaving ’the best job in the world’Paul Wells talks to the comedian about ending his show, being wary of free spaghetti dinners and which politicians could really tell a joke
Teens to Trudeau: No, pot isn’t easier to get than alcoholAnd that raises key questions about what the Trudeau government’s legalization of marijuana is really likely to accomplish
Justin Trudeau’s grossly misleading take on IraqAdnan R. Khan: Canada armed and trained the Kurds. To compare their independence vote to Quebec is a ploy to wash Canada’s hands of a mess it helped create.
How Donald Trump’s past with pro football revealed his true selfOpinion: As the President takes aim at NFL players for taking a knee, Jeff Pearlman finds clues of the present in Trump’s past as a USFL team owner
Why an Alberta college is flying the Blackfoot Confederacy flagAs Lethbridge College unfurls its flag, other schools prepare to do the same