The anti-racist ad that triggered a backlashOne white man acknowledged his ’privilege’ on a Saskatoon billboard. A lot more took it personally.
The Hamburg G20: What could possibly go wrong?With Trump, Putin and Merkel at the table, consensus isn’t likely. This will be chess, played over a shark tank.
What I learned about courage and heartbreak in MosulCityNews journalist Avery Haines spent two weeks volunteering at a medical clinic near the front lines in Mosul and reporting on the fight against ISIS
Edmonton: Land of 1,000 rebranding effortsEvery city struggles occasionally with rebranding efforts, but it’s seldom the ongoing identity crisis that it tends to be in Edmonton
Canada’s beaver problemBeaver populations are making a post-fur trade resurgence, causing lots of trouble and a few cases of panic
And now, a word from the Oxford English DictionaryThe spring list of additions to the venerable word compendium shows how technological change affects language
The rise of the internet’s ’dirtbag left’How a new strain of progressive leftism is using humour, irony, and diaper jokes to push back against the emerging alt-right
Omar Khadr remains a prisoner of partisan politicsOmar Khadr has reportedly reached a settlement with the Canadian government—but he remains caught in the crossfire of years of political point-scoring
How ’the system’ failed B.C. votersB.C. is now being ruled by a ramshackle regime beholden to a fringe party. This is not good democracy at work.
American crime writer Don Winslow on guns, politics, drugs, and the policeThe author takes inspiration from The Sopranos, The Wire and—in his new book, The Force—hip-hop