Donald Trump’s lonely moment of truth
He began the debate sticking to a script, then he returned to type, and by the end came the realization: he is not a president
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Canada’s immigration debate is more serious than America’s
A key Clinton-Trump exchange in Las Vegas contrasts with Ottawa’s policy debate
Talking points: Better cattle farming and a real estate warning
Check out our Talking Points — short takes on the week’s news. (Sound like the smartest person in the room.)
Adam Hochschild on writers who fight back against injustice
Hochschild, a co-founder of Mother Jones, on mounting extremism in the West and the authors who confront it for a living
One way to promote gender parity in politics: financial penalties
NDP MP Kennedy Stewart’s private member’s bill would penalize political parties who don’t run gender-balanced slates of candidates
YouTube star Dr. Michael Evans on common-sense health care
How Toronto Dr. Michael Evans landed a job at Apple, with dreams of improving global health
Joseph Boyden imagines Chanie Wenjack’s final, terrible hours
A spellbinding account of Chanie Wenjack, the Anishinaabe boy who died escaping a residential school
Why ’Moonlight’ is fully deserving of its high-voltage buzz
Moonlight is a meditative, colourful and entirely timely film
Chris Alexander on diplomacy, Trump, and leadership hopes
Our interview with the former MP and Conservative leadership hopeful who helped launch that doomed ’barbaric cultural practices’ tip line
Why the disappearance of NHL fighting is a good thing
Now, if we could just get some more goals...