Opinion

Tabatha Southey: Double-check to make sure you have all your belongings before you leave. Did you leave a book in the bedside table, socks on the floor, feces on the walls? Please check.

Andrew MacDougall: The Liberals’ about-face on refugees, hidden away in an omnibus bill, saws at a pillar of their core identity, to say nothing of their brand promise

Our editorial: The federal ethics commissioner holds little power. But if Parliament is unable to sort out Ottawa’s ethical lapses, at least voters get to have their say.

Adnan R. Khan: When a leader decides they have all the answers, and want the levers of democracy to align to their vision, only bad things can happen

Matt Gurney: Canadians are stuck watching a debate between a party with no plan and a party with a plan that won’t work. All the while China keeps building coal plants.

Andrew MacDougall: The Prime Minister’s failed legal gambit demonstrates that no one in his office is thinking clearly. They need to change that, fast.

Ahmed Sahi: The province’s religious symbols crackdown will have dangerous repercussions across Canada as it sows fear, division and the erosion of fundamental rights

Riley Yesno: Why absence and silence was so powerful at Daughters of the Vote

Andrew Leach: Under the Alberta UCP leader’s plan, Trudeau would have a hard time approving the Trans Mountain project. In fact, so would Andrew Scheer.

Jen Gerson: The UCP is supposed to win back this conservative province. But it’s becoming clear that more and more Albertans are uneasy with what the party represents.