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OPINION | Growing resilience: What could a secure food system look like?
COVID-19 is emptying shelves, forcing dairy farmers to dump milk, shutting down meat packing plants and leaving many of us worried about food shortages. The pandemic shows food security concerns are real.
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Ryan Stuart
Canada -Calgary ||
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Opinion
Those who want total ban on handguns lack understanding of firearm sports
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James Melnick
Opinion ||
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Point of View
I don't think we'll be nicer after COVID-19, but we might be wiser. That's more important
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Chris Kutarna
Canada -Saskatchewan ||
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Opinion
Stalkerware puts those living with abusers in even greater jeopardy during COVID-19 isolation
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Adam Molnar
Opinion ||
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Opinion
Quarantine and the constitution: Are Newfoundland and Labrador's public health measures legal?
Many have questioned whether the provincial government's public health measures are consistent with the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. But, as contributor Sean Fleming writes, does the province have jurisdiction over matters of quarantine in the first place?
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Sean Fleming
Canada -Nfld. & Labrador |
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Opinion
Pandemic proves companies can change in an emergency — so what about that climate crisis?
Canadian companies' quick shift in production during the COVID-19 pandemic shows that with the right leadership and legislation, fast changes are possible. It also shows we could change our recycling and waste habits to curb climate change.
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Joanne Seiff
Canada -Manitoba ||
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OPINION | Still waiting for Alberta to get the memo on climate-conscious investing
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Max Fawcett
Canada -Calgary ||
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Point of View
Working from home with an autistic child has been the greatest challenge and the greatest eyeopener
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Mark Taylor
Canada -Saskatchewan ||
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Point of View
It's hard to let go, but we'll have to say goodbye to the garage sale during this pandemic summer
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Lesley Hughes
Canada -Manitoba ||
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Opinion
Why Canada should ban the sale, ownership of handguns
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Tony Keene
Opinion ||
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OPINION | Alberta 'war room' selling positive oilpatch pitches, but investors aren't buying
Graham Thomson
Canada -Edmonton ||
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Opinion
Where are the new ideas in this Conservative Party leadership race?
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Kory Teneycke
Opinion ||
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OPINION | For Alberta, the potential of geothermal energy is clear, if it's done right
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Brendan Haley & Sara Hastings-Simon
Canada -Calgary ||
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Opinion
Latest gun control effort isn't merely a failure. It corrodes trust among Canadians
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Jay Nathwani
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Opinion
This grand distance-learning experiment's lessons go well beyond what the students are learning
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Paul W. Bennett
Opinion ||
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Opinion
Caring for those with Alzheimer's disease — like my grandmother — already felt isolating. Then came COVID-19
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Emily Fagan
Canada -British Columbia |
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OPINION | Oil is not dead but Kenney will need Trudeau's help to keep it on life support
Graham Thomson
Canada -Edmonton |
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Point of View
I tried to balance working from home and caring for my kids. I finally called it quits
Canada -Ottawa |
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Opinion
Why Canadians should fight tooth and nail against proof-of-immunity cards
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Françoise Baylis
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Opinion
Sask. should set up a futures fund using share of natural resource revenues
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Sarath Peiris
Canada -Saskatoon ||
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Point of View
Put yourself in their shoes: Let's thank the women on the front line of the pandemic
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Vianne Timmons
Canada -Nfld. & Labrador ||
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Opinion
Liberators of the Netherlands in 1945, today Canada's Armed Forces are eclipsed by Dutch military
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Robert Smol
Opinion ||
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Point of View
For people struggling with addiction and homelessness, compassion may be the hand up that's needed
Jeremy Raven
Canada -Manitoba |
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OPINION | Hey, Calgary, it's time to rethink the lawn
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Ryan Stuart
Canada -Calgary ||
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Point of View
Mom, you lived through the internment of Japanese Canadians. We'll get through this pandemic, too
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Laura Saimoto
Canada -British Columbia |
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Point of View
What my post-partum body taught me: Point of View
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Kailea Switzer
Canada -PEI ||
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OPINION | New Zealand's COVID-19 'success' looks a little different from the inside
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Kate MacNamara
Canada -Calgary ||