Opinion

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?

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.

Our editorial: If Trudeau and the Liberals want to do politics differently, they should put an end to omnibus bills that bury controversial non-budgetary measures

Tabatha Southey pens a Dr. Seuss-themed ode to MPP Sam Oosterhoff and his staff, whose instinct when met with senior citizens protesting library cuts was to call the police

Jen Gerson: Alberta has more than its fair share of political legends. Whether he’s hero or villain—and he’ll probably be both—Jason Kenney could be next.

Scott Gilmore: Canadians don’t often move out of their birth province. We vacation elsewhere. We barely know each other. We’re now unable to muster national responses to big issues.

Terry Glavin: Andrew Scheer’s Conservatives have a racist jackass problem and they’re not doing enough to shake it.

Letters to the editor, May 1, 2019: Readers weigh in on cheating for our kids, the politics of retirement and more

Tabatha Southey: In the interest of fairness to the man at the centre of the story, an annotated look at President Trump’s own words on the Mueller matter