Opinion

Tabatha Southey: Ideas and news are pumped into our conversations, by our phones, where they can be discussed and debated, and are as welcome as oxygen in an excellent, comfortable, but closed room

Opinion: Mounting concern for both the treatment of animals on Canadian farms and the environmental harms caused by animal agriculture is fuelling an increase in activism

Max Fawcett: Comparing Canada’s oil to OPEC and Russia doesn’t exactly raise the bar for Alberta’s oil and gas industry

Adnan R. Khan: In the U.S. president’s worldview, the strong must beat the weak into submission. But Iran is proving it is not so weak after all.

Stephen Maher: By meeting the organizer’s threshold, the PPC leader earned his ticket—but it shouldn’t extend to equal air time on our TVs as the frontrunners

Andrew MacDougall: Andrew Scheer’s ’Universal Tax Cut’ is his biggest policy announcement to date, and it’s not all obvious that it even happened

Stephen Maher: While Scheer hit a wall with his climate plan and Singh came up short on policy detail, the Green leader, an experienced debater, took over

Tabatha Southey: Between the Greens’ ’own-goaling,’ the NDP being short of good enough, the Conservatives wanting to erase Andrew Scheer’s 2005, and the Liberals’ knack at keeping SNC in the news—here’s how each party stands at the opening of election season

This election demands a candidate who can rise up to these challenging times of trade wars, global instability and public-health crisis. The odds aren’t looking good.

Scott Gilmore: It’s been a pretty good ride and the authors of our long-delayed demise will likely be two of the whitest and most mediocre of us all