Opinion

Opinion: A poll finds that most Canadians believe we apologize too much for residential schools. But it doesn’t matter if Indigenous rights are unpopular—what matters is we change

Jen Gerson: If Doug Ford performs well Ontario will thrive. But rule by Ford is a high-risk, high-reward strategy that could haunt the PC party.

Opinion: ’One side supports clean water; the other side supports poison. The centrist’s solution is to meet in the middle. Everybody gets poisoned water.’

Opinion: Now that the Ontario PCs have earned a majority mandate, Ford is set to see through his vow to scrap a ’carbon tax’ that isn’t a tax—and potentially sue the feds

Opinion: In the absence of real systemic reform, a bill would allow judges to adjust sentences despite mandatory minimums makes an unjust system better

Opinion: If the G7 nations want to keep to their mandate as the global economy’s hub shifts to the Pacific, they should use this summit to woo India

Opinion: After years of ’therapy’ that tried to ’correct the error’ of his homosexuality, Peter Gajdics has helped spur Vancouver to become the first Canadian city to ban it

Opinion: ’Representation matters. It matters that young women, and young gay people, know that the highest office in this province is not off-limits to them’

Opinion: By uninviting the Super Bowl champions and wrapping himself in the flag instead, Trump himself exposes the flaw in his opposition to the NFL’s anthem kneelers

Stephen Maher: A majority PC government in Ontario, led by an unqualified Ford, could be a powerful example of the need to change our electoral system