Opinion

Letters to the editor, Feb. 6, 2019: Readers weigh in on Canada’s polarized politics, safe tap water and the dilemma of protecting the environment without harming our economy

Paul Wells: If you want to believe in goofy faux-science theories—from the flat earth to cupping—it’s pretty easy nowadays to find a like-minded friend

Andray Domise: The Super Bowl’s various controversies emphasize capitalism’s infiltration of the political realm. For marginalized communities, selective consumption is one of the few remaining ways to make a statement.

Peter Shawn Taylor: The Liberals reversed a plan to push the eligibility age for retirement benefits to 67. It goes against global trends and economic reality.

Tabatha Southey: Millions of North Americans sought emergency refuge from cold temperatures and hot takes about what happened to all those record highs

Paul Wells: Here in the nation’s capital, land of performative petitioning, we are all about letting everyone know how everyone feels

Alicia Elliot: ’I want a movie about a woman who overcame her encounter with a serial killer and what her life was like after that.’

Opinion: The papal visit challenges the contention that there is an unbridgeable gap between Islam and Christianity

Paul Wells: Parliamentarians settled into their news digs, where the acoustics are good and the decor—along with the MP’s rhetorical material—familiar

Before You Go: Lana Dyment on the despairing consequences of ’chemobrain’ and how through the fog, she sees what really matters