Opinion

Our editorial: The experience of 2020 has deeply challenged many of the things we assumed to be true. Maclean’s delved into what’s changed in this fateful year.

Amir Attaran and Lorian Hardcastle: Medical officers of health have the power to defy the government and impose the necessary public health measures to stop the second wave

Letters to the editor, Nov. 12, 2020: Readers weighed in on our latest cover story, the sorry state of the U.S.A. and the ’stubborn, scaly, fork-tongued menace on the loose in America’

Gabrielle Peters: Many disabled Canadians have been forced into poverty by insufficient income support—especially true during the pandemic. Some are considering MAID because they "simply cannot afford to keep on living."

Our editorial: While physical isolation is key to the current approach to fighting COVID-19, it is also a significant causal factor in mental and physical problems among the elderly

Jen Gerson: It’s difficult for someone today, subject to countless videos of police abuse, to wrap our heads around this idea—but the Metropolitan Police Act of 1829 created a liberal institution

Scott Gilmore: Trudeau must stop scolding premiers from the sidelines. He’s the fire chief, and it’s time to put out the fire.

Andrew MacDougall: They aren’t gateways to serious news consumption; they’re pathways to polarization and misinformation. We can choose to stop watching.

Tom Mulcair: The normally efficient Liberal election machine will face big challenges in an inspiring new Green leader, and a disciplined Erin O’Toole

Scott Gilmore: While votes are still being counted it is already clear that America’s dangerous politics and its declining place in the world are the new normal