Opinion

Letters to the editor, June 21, 2019: Readers weigh in on the North Pole’s migration to Russia, hardening attitudes on immigration and (still) SNC-Lavalin

Chris Turner: The crack unit tasked with pushing back ’lies’ about the oil sands is so far trading in shop-worn spin and conspiracy theories

Tabatha Southey: Doug Ford didn’t appoint a Minister of Whining About Not Being Able to Buy Beer at the Corner Store, but does it really matter?

Andrew MacDougall: The Conservatives have offered up a cynical climate plan—will doing even less than Trudeau be enough?

Andray Domise: Police violence, media complicity and how the Toronto Raptors’ proudest moment became another piece of evidence

Before You Go: Madelaine Sumner watches her 90-year-old grandfather build a bird feeder for a hospital garden. It’s one of many acts that prove he doesn’t live up to his nickname.

Sarmishta Subramanian: The solution to inequality is making public systems the best they can be. Why is the Ford government doing the complete opposite?

Our editorial: Facebook’s senior leadership testified in front of U.S. Congress last year. Neither Zuckerberg nor COO Sheryl Sandberg cared enough to offer Canadians the same courtesy.

Andray Domise: For this party, politics is the aesthetics of hope, the promise of technocracy to solve our problems and the utter incapability of mustering the power to deliver on either.

Tabatha Southey: ’The Conservative party is not the party of the “Barbaric Cultural Practices” hotline, or the niqab ban. Unless that’s what you want it to be.’