Skip to Main Content

CBC News opinion

Notifications

Featured Content

Opinion

The problems with The Problem With Apu

The documentary The Problem With Apu, which tackles the depiction of Apu on The Simpsons, is driven by noble intentions. But it puts forth an argument that will simply make a lot of people roll their eyes. When that happens, we actually take the progressive movement backwards.
Rajiv Satyal
Opinion
Opinion

The activists protesting Antler restaurant don't speak for all vegans

Sarah Bond
Opinion
Opinion

Canada should launch a criminal investigation into the marketing of OxyContin

Nav Persaud
Opinion
Opinion

Doug Ford can't coast on not being Kathleen Wynne: Robyn Urback

Robyn Urback
Opinion
Opinion

The anti-Trump resistance should stop bringing knives to a gunfight: Neil Macdonald

In response to Laura Ingraham Twitter taunts, 17-year-old David Hogg employed exactly the sort of hardball that far-right activists play, and boy, did it work.
Neil Macdonald
Opinion
Opinion

For women, kids and families — we need universal child care

Daycare not only allowed us to develop careers, but also helped us raise a son who is smart and empathetic. All parents — not just those who are of certain financial means — should have that opportunity.
Joshua Ostroff
Opinion
Opinion

Ontario is poised to repeat Quebec's daycare mistakes

Targeting child care at children and families who need it most would bring benefits, but offering so-called universal daycare to every family does not.
Andrea Mrozek
Opinion
Opinion

Can you trust a government pot dealer?: Neil Macdonald

Neil Macdonald
Opinion
Opinion

Wynne's ploy to buy Ontarians' votes is admirably shameless: Robyn Urback

Robyn Urback
Opinion
Opinion

The Sixties Scoop tried to extinguish our culture and our spirit. It failed

Christine Cameron
Opinion
Opinion

Getting tough on Russian aggression, everywhere but in the Arctic

Robert Smol
Opinion
Opinion

Sure, keep listening to Hedley's music. But lose the adulation for its frontman

Jowita Bydlowska
Opinion
Opinion

Jagmeet Singh's outreach has been about thwarting violence, not stoking it

Amneet Singh Bali
Opinion
Opinion

Cambridge Analytica has blurred the line between persuasion and manipulation

Alicia Wanless
Opinion
Opinion

Here's why we pay more for everything in Canada — and always will: Neil Macdonald

Neil Macdonald
Opinion
Opinion

Why I'm still on Team Hedley

Kate Graves
Opinion
Opinion

Canada's peacekeeping mission in Africa is destined to become the folly in Mali

David Krayden
Opinion
Opinion

Piecemeal approach to change perpetuates inequality for First Nations children

Cindy Blackstock
Indigenous
Opinion

Censorship is patronizing. Always has been, always will be: Neil Macdonald

Neil Macdonald
Opinion
Opinion

Every Canadian should have the right to vote — even those living abroad

Ivo Entchev
Opinion
Opinion

Jagmeet Singh keeps getting asked about Sikh extremism because he won't give an answer: Robyn Urback

Robyn Urback
Opinion
Opinion

Why should physicians give up pay raises to subsidize government waste?

Adam Kassam
Opinion
Opinion

Canada's scorn of Donald Trump's protectionism stinks of hypocrisy: Neil Macdonald

Neil Macdonald
Opinion
Opinion

Ontario PCs choose the path of most resistance with Doug Ford: Robyn Urback

Robyn Urback
Opinion
Opinion

The backlash against Weight Watchers' program for teens is an absurd overreaction

Alheli Picazo
Opinion