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Opinion
What's the difference between the Conservative and Liberal platforms? The colour: Robyn Urback
At a policy level, what the two leading parties in this election propose isn’t all that different: lower income taxes, a mishmash of credits and subsidies for parents and homeowners, and at least four more years of deficits. With either option, we’re not looking at dramatically different Canadas.
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Robyn Urback
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Disabled people are experts in adaptation. They should make the rules, not schools
Erin Clark
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Why did it take a clueless white dude in brownface to get us to talk about race in this election?
Tejpal Singh Swatch
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Justin Trudeau — a self-appointed moral steward in blackface: Robyn Urback
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Robyn Urback
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Scamming your way into Canada is easy. The fix is easy too, if government is willing to act
Some Canadian employers and their employees conspire against the country’s immigration program. Immigration officials in Canada know how they could fix this, if they were allowed to.
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Richard Kurland
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Opinion
The campaign is a hologram — make-believe tensions over minuscule differences: Neil Macdonald
But political parties must claim to be radically different from one another, and political journalism must play along, or else why exist? So the Liberals and Tories concentrate on what does distinguish them: their leaders.
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Neil Macdonald
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The Liberals' first-time homebuyers incentive is a bad deal
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Soheil Karkhanechi
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The NDP should've been the 'change' option this election. Instead, it's grasping for relevance: Robyn Urback
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Robyn Urback
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The inconvenient truth about Quebec's secularism law Trudeau doesn't want to face: it's popular
Jean-François Lisée
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Point of View
Owning a dog means playing God. It's a role no human wants to play: Neil Macdonald
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Neil Macdonald
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Tennis is so much of a mental game. That's why Bianca Andreescu shines
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Oren Weisfeld
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Was Canada's Mali mission worth it? Absolutely
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Brian Cox
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OPINION | What's really holding back the oilsands? It's not the bill of goods you're being sold
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Andrew Leach
Canada -Calgary ||
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For years, we worried 13 Reasons Why could provoke suicidal behaviours. Now we have the evidence
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Natalie Mota and Christine Henriksen
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Canada played a critical role in nuclear development. We should play a critical role in reparations
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Matt Korda
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Quebec's secularism law is a national disgrace — and yet barely an election issue: Robyn Urback
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Robyn Urback
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Opinion
This election should be about more than which leader sucks. Alas, it won't be: Neil Macdonald
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Neil Macdonald
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'Jihadi Jack' shouldn't be one country's problem. We need an international response
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Kyle Matthews
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Trump's disloyalty slur is about shoring up support from evangelicals, not American Jews: Neil Macdonald
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Neil Macdonald
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Like you, I never thought the opioid crisis would knock at my door. Then it came for my son
Katherine Steinhoff
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Canada has flipped the burden of proof for bail in cases of repeated intimate partner violence
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Cassandra Richards & Souhila Baba
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A Prime Minister's Office drunk on its own arrogance: Robyn Urback
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Robyn Urback
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Winter is coming, and so is an uncharted economic abyss: Neil Macdonald
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Neil Macdonald
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There's no easy path forward in Canada's dispute with China, but there is a moral one
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Patrick Groeneveld-Meijer
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Prosecuting returning ISIS fighters is incredibly difficult, as it should be
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Colin Dea
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Canada glories in summer, while Trump feeds and waters his racist mooncalves: Neil Macdonald
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Neil Macdonald
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Improving our health care will come from greater public investments, not private alternatives
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Thara Kumar
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