Opinion

Scott Gilmore: The ranks of his official friends are thinning. Increasingly its Putin giving Trump what he really craves: validation and assurance.

As Donald Trump assails Canada’s supply-managed dairy industry, history shows how perceptions around Canadian milk changed—turning it into something worth defending

Opinion: Mike Schreiner on why he ran as a Green MPP in Ontario’s election, despite the odds—and why, with his caucus of one, he remains optimistic about change

Opinion: Liberal partisans, in particular, have deployed ’alt-right’ as a slur—an act of stifling debate on knotty issues from the folks that brought you ’sunny ways’

Opinion: Anti-immigrant rhetoric is part of Canada’s history—and since glories of the past have inspired alt-right movements, that thinking needs to be called out when it’s seen

Opinion: You can’t build a strong present or future by tearing down young or old people—a needed reminder after the backlash to a letter from the Prime Minister’s Youth Council

Opinion: History—not to mention Ottawa’s centralized form of government—suggests that cabinet shuffles are irrelevant for nearly everyone outside official Ottawa

Before You Go: In 2005, Claudette Landry and her 16 siblings learned they had a 17th—a first-born brother, put up for adoption during the war, and who fought to find them

Opinion: Amid the deals and shiny products, the tech industry has hurt social mobility and workers’ rights—and yet politicians are too eager to prostrate themselves for these companies

Scott Gilmore: After Helsinki, America is in unchartered waters, facing the possibility that its president is no longer defending America