Opinion

’You told me that you’re taking this one last journey into what Shakespeare called the “undiscovered country” in his play Hamlet. Mom, you remain an inspiration to me until the end.’

Adnan R. Khan: Trump’s paranoid gang of conspiracy theorists are armed and angry, preparing for war. It’s starting to feel downright apocalyptic here—and I’ve barely mentioned the pandemic

Scott Gilmore: The fatal flaw in election models is that they assume a free and fair election

Sarmishta Subramanian: In just a few weeks our kids will pile into overcrowded, poorly ventilated classrooms. Our voices aren’t being heard. So maybe it’s time to walk off the job (if we have jobs)

Tiffany Wang tells her grandmother, who lives in China, that she visits every year to dance for her. "Having to smile knowing that you have forgotten me feels like my heart is being scratched with a knife."

Amir Attaran: Seven promising vaccine candidates are nearing the finish line. Why hasn’t Canada locked down orders for them like our closest allies have?

Letters to the editor, Aug. 20, 2020: Readers weigh in on Canada’s troubled national police force, the pandemic’s productivity crisis and foxes under a Toronto boardwalk

Mark Kingwell: The U.S. seems to lack the will to beat COVID-19, indulging instead in a ’cult of selfishness’ that means the country fails the marshmallow test. But research states we’ll all fail the test sooner or later.

Andray Domise: This structure not only eroded the modes that Africans had long thrived on and carried out in their tradition, it drove the production of social and environmental ruin

Andrew MacDougall: How did WE become the only option for Ottawa’s youth program? A look at the official lobbying records offers some clues.