Caroline Mulroney, the anti-Trudeau, enters the political frayAndrew MacDougall on Caroline Mulroney’s decision to follow in her father Brian’s footsteps—and what she can learn from the current PM
My name is Joseph BoydenBeing Indigenous isn’t all about DNA. It’s about who you claim, and who claims you.
The Dafonte Miller case reveals a troubling trust gap for policeOpinion: Amid allegations of a cover-up in the alleged assault of a teen, the police’s request for trust is hard to take
A not-so-happy 100th birthday to income tax in CanadaThis summer marks a century since Ottawa reluctantly imposed the first federal income tax on Canadians to pay for the war. Once entrenched, though, the tax never went away.
How a smallpox epidemic forged modern British ColumbiaIn 1862, smallpox killed thousands of Indigenous people in B.C.—and what ensued sparked issues that the province still grapples with today
Why foreign press should stop fawning over TrudeauMurad Hemmadi: The international press sees Justin Trudeau as a liberal saviour, and that’s a problem.
The dimmed political legacy of Christy ClarkThe seventh longest-serving premier in B.C. history leaves politics—and, after some electoral drama, a divided province—behind
Why are so many right whales dying in the Gulf of St. Lawrence?Tracing the ’horrific’ deaths of eight right whales that have perished in the region so far this year
How to get the cops out of your Pride paradePride groups in Calgary and other western cities are talking their police out of marching in uniform. The keys appear to be discretion and tact.
The push to erase Canada’s racist pastThe drive to remove monuments and place names that offend racial sensibilities is gaining momentum. Are we facing up to the past? Or hiding it?