Opinion

Before You Go: ’Thank you for being such a loving matriarch to our family,’ writes Ingrid Littmann-Tai in a letter to her mother-in-law with dementia, her children’s Nai Nai

Adopting a strategy of maximum infection suppression early in this epidemic—such as was seen in Australia, Taiwan and the Atlantic bubble—might have saved 21,000 Canadian lives

Letters to the editor, April 28, 2021: Readers weigh in on ’Year One,’ the most comprehensive reporting of Canada’s COVID-19 response, the social ills caused by capitalism, the portrayal of Jordan Peterson, and more

An alchemy involving copious free time, a car and loads of social capital—adding up to a terrible way to get jabs into the arms that need them most

Adnan R. Khan: The list of America’s unfinished business is long, and bloody. And it is growing longer with the plan to abandon Afghanistan in its time of need.

Adnan R. Khan: With the U.S. withdrawal looming, the Afghan government is attempting to curb women’s rights. Meanwhile, Canada is more interested in playing whack-a-mole with terrorism than doing the hard work of helping a country devastated by it

Justin Ling: We are here because politicians have ignored the core facts of the COVID-19 virus and the main strategies that will clearly fight the pandemic

Stewart Elgie: Joe Biden’s impressive tax incentives are luring clean technology companies that incubated in Canada. The federal budget should be a turning point in the fight to keep them here.

Tess Jieun Ha: Reaching out to people who lost loved ones to COVID-19 was a daunting assignment. But having the opportunity to describe the rich lives of Asian Canadians was an honour.

Jenn Jefferys: To shrug it off as a threat that died along with Trump’s presidency, or as a purely American ailment, is as dangerous as it is apathetic