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The best of 2011: Canada

  • Our health care delusion

    One study ranked Canada dead last in timeliness and quality care

    By Ken MacQueen

  • Goodbye Retro Metro

    Goodbye, retro Métro

    Montreal’s fleet of stylish subway trains—the oldest in North America—is on the verge of extinction

    By Martin Patriquin

  • The assassin among us

    Nur Chowdhury faces execution for killing Bangladesh’s president. That’s why he’s safe in Canada

    By Charlie Gillis

  • Forget Freud, Forget Marx. Rioting, above all, is fun.

    Everyone is over-thinking the Vancouver riots way too much

    By Andrew Potter

  • So Rob Ford doesn’t like the gay pride parade? So what?

    Why gay rights aren’t endangered by Toronto’s mayor

    By Emma Teitel

  • Raining on the pride parade

    A million people at the Pride parade? Really?

    There’s a good reason the figure is unbelievable: it’s wrong

    By Claire Ward

  • The $25,000 cow

    That’s the average value of a milk quota per cow under a supply-management system

    By Andrew Coyne

  • Montreal is falling down

    A history of bad design choices now haunts the city as its bridges, roads and tunnels crumble

    By Philippe Gohier

  • too many cops

    Too many cops?

    The crime rate is down but police forces are growing. We’re poorer as a result, but not necessarily any safer

    By Ken MacQueen and Patricia Treble

  • Maher Arar’s mind cannot forget

    Arar’s body has recovered, but the memories of his torture persist

    By Jonathon Gatehouse

  • So much for the ‘People of Einstein’ myth

    Emma Teitel on how a York University student makes Jews look bad—and why that’s a good thing

    By Emma Teitel

  • A royal Canadian disgrace

    The RCMP: a Royal Canadian disgrace

    What will it take before someone fixes the iconic force?

    By Charlie Gillis and Ken MacQueen