What the first ads say about the election campaign
Dennis Matthews: The ad war can win or lose an election. We now have a good sense of where the attack lines are being drawn by the Liberals and Tories.
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Opinion
The politics behind Ontario’s sex-ed curriculum
Lauren Bialystok: The sex-ed saga may be over for now, but the era of Doug Ford’s populist policy-making has just begun
The question to ask about Andrew Scheer and abortion
Michael Coren: His religion says abortion is homicide and a ’grave sin.’ Can we believe Scheer when he says that, given the power to stop it, he simply won’t do so?
For David Koch, the earth is his funeral pyre
Andray Domise: David Koch used his endless wealth to reshape not only politics but the fate of our planet, for the worse
Dear sister: ’Your life was often hard, but you made it beautiful’
Before You Go: Janine Longy thanks her sibling Marguerite Marie Jeanne for never letting family dramas destroy their love
China’s disregard for the rule of law strikes too close to home
Yaqiu Wang: As more and more Canadians are being plunged into the black hole of China’s criminal justice system, Canada’s ’meddling’ is past due
If I’m listening to Justin Trudeau it means others are too
Andrew MacDougall: Red Tories look at Scheer and his comments on same-sex marriage and we can’t quite take the measure of the man. He can’t afford that.
Should we bring cursive writing back to schools?
Hetty Roessingh: Cursive handwriting has an effect on literacy and creativity
We must have our beef
Corey Mintz: Plant-based alternatives cannot curb climate change. Why? Because we keep going back to beef.
When the world stopped listening to America
Scott Gilmore: It’s become increasingly clear that U.S. power is not only absent under Trump, but unneeded. It is unlikely anyone will unlearn this lesson.