The first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation; Trudeau’s triumph; and the China question
Politics Insider for Sept. 30, 2021: A day of reflection; Canadian Human Rights Tribunal order upheld; and more COVID records
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I ran away from the Kamloops Residential School. This is where I hid.
On his 16th birthday, Ron Ignace’s residential school allowed him to go into town unsupervised. He didn’t go back, instead hiding in his aunt and uncle’s house. ’That was the best damn decision I ever made in my life.’
Bruce Kidd on how sport and society are tightly interwoven—in the world and in his life
Q&A: The Canadian athlete discusses his memoir, ’A Runner’s Journey’, and how athletics and social activism are inseparable for him
Dr. Hayley Wickenheiser explains a remarkable letter she wrote to her future self
The former hockey player, now physician Dr. Hayley Wickenheiser reflects on a letter she penned to herself at the start of med school
The broken triumph of Justin Trudeau
Paul Wells: Why does it feel like the country isn’t any better off after this election? Perhaps because the problems Canada faces demand hard choices, and modern election campaigns reward denial and emojis.
Vaccine mandates are at the top of Trudeau’s to-do list
Politics Insider for Sept. 29, 2021: Justin Trudeau and Chrystia Freeland get to work; Alberta grapples with COVID; hot housing
Five strange things that were up for rent in the ’sharing economy’
There’s an Airbnb-type service for far more than home rentals these days
What it will really take to rename Toronto’s Dundas Street
Toronto’s iconic Dundas Street is about to get a new, more inclusive identity. But renaming a major thoroughfare that runs through the heart of Canada’s largest city is no small undertaking.
Annamie Paul resigns: ’I was breaking a glass ceiling that was going to fall on my head’
Politics Insider for Sept. 28, 2021: Paul calls it quits as Green Party leader; there are sharper knives out earlier for Erin O’Toole; and a 62 per cent voter turnout during this election
Don’t buy the hogwash about the release of Kovrig and Spavor
Terry Glavin: The sooner Canada dispenses with tales of ’prisoner swaps’ and ’diplomatic triangulation,’ the sooner it can have an honest conversation about what this saga revealed