PoliticsMichael Ignatieff gets it very wrong on SyriaIgnatieff’s latest writings on the Syria situation make him very difficult to take seriously
WorldHow Litvinenko’s poisoning fits into Putin’s power playEverything Vladimir Putin has done to reassert Russian power has seemed farfetched, outlandish and inconceivable—until he did it
CanadaHow a Vietnamese boat person helped save a family of Syrian refugeesSponsored by strangers nearly four decades ago, Phung Tran is paying forward the life-altering favour—with some help from her ’Canadian grandmother’
OttawaWhy Trudeau’s crass stance on Syria is lose-loseBy promising to pull out of the anti-Islamic State air campaign while still taking part in it, Canada has alienated both hawks and doves
CanadaFinding refuge in Ottawa: Rasha’s long journey from DamascusFor a refugee named Rasha, the road’s been fraught from Damascus to Beirut, then Edmonton, then Ottawa. But she’s found happiness at last.
WorldOur editorial: The price of Western retreat is instabilityThe Taliban’s resurgence reminds us that the fight isn’t over in Afghanistan
WorldPrepare for a whole new refugee crisis in 2016The defeat of ISIS will unleash a new flood of refugees just as nations try to seal their borders
CanadaWhy Trudeau is lost on the Middle EastThe many ways the Prime Minister’s position on the fight against ISIS is still shot through with contradictions
WorldNewsmakers 2015: Alan Kurdi, the boy on the beachThe heartbreaking image of three-year-old Alan Kurdi became the face of a wrenching global refugee crisis
OttawaISIS in Syria: Letter from WashingtonThe Americans are writing to allies asking them to do more. Canada’s on the list.