Opinion

Sisters Asieh Banisadr, 40, and Salmeh Banisadr, 40, remember their mother, Niloufar Sadr, 1958-2020

Babak Ahmadi, 38, remembers his friends Razgar Rahimi, 1981-2020, and Farideh Gholami, 1981-2020, and his godson Jiwan Rahimi, 2016-2020

Andrew MacDougall: Boris Johnson wants a Canada-style free trade deal with Europe. Good luck with that.

David Moscrop: If American elections were run under Canadian rules, would it make a difference in the quality or outcome of their races?

Gib van Ert: The new sexual assault bill would require newly appointed judges to take courses on sexual assault law. Seems reasonable, but what will governments try to teach judges next?

Frank Graves and Michael Valpy: As in the U.K. and the U.S., ordered populism has polarized Canada into two incommensurable camps

Scott Gilmore: The United Nations has sent election monitoring teams to better organized countries than America. Brace for chaos.

Jane Philpott and Jody Wilson-Raybould: Medical assistance in dying is complex and deeply personal. Is there enough medical and social evidence to understand the implications of an expanded law?

Scott Gilmore: It took 244 years, but his rebellious colonies have finally come back to embrace an authoritarian monarchy

Michael Coren: The Church of England’s recent statements about same-sex marriage is a slap in the face to LGBTQ2 people who’ve remained faithful to the church