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Globe editorials

Time for a bigger TV picture

Canadian broadcasting desperately in need of a visionary federal overhaul.

What readers think

Nov. 16: Letters to the editor

Today's topics: ski jumping boycott, painkilling addiction, royal row, smell of the brisket ... and more

What readers think

Nov. 14: Letters to the editor

Today's topics: Dwight Dunkin' and his HST doughnuts, Rick Salutin and 11/11, the Arctic Cold War, blackface brawl, the 'new' citizenship guide ... and more

What readers think

Nov. 13: Letters to the editor

Today's topics: swine flu shots, guts but no glory, Reagan and Gorbachev, Cuban spuds, free trade, the long-gun registry, the devil in the Irish, the tea in the British ... and more

Web-exclusive commentary

H1N1: media and message

Journalists and health communicators find virtue in the realm between panic and apathy, say Josh Greenberg and William Fox

The Fifth Column

'... After the first half-hour you pretty much get the gist of it'

Editors pick readers' most insightful online comments

Today's editorial cartoon

Squirt!

Browse editorial cartoons by Brian Gable and Anthony Jenkins

Peter A. Hall and Michèle Lamont

The wear and tear of our daily lives

Harvard academics Peter A. Hall and Michèle Lamont share their insights into what makes societies successful

Thomas Axworthy

Democracy abroad: our obligation and interest

Supporting those who fight for it is worth the cost

Lysiane Gagnon

Liberals' faint hope is that the Tories trip

Their victory in Quebec's heartland is a tremendous boost for the Conservatives

Rana Sarkar

Opportunity knocks: Time to pursue free trade with India

We need to think differently and act quickly to reduce our reliance on a single partner

Margaret Wente

My honey's got the bug

Fair time has become deadly serious for the Bee Boyz's ribbon quest

Rex Murphy

Hypocrisy $tar$ in Hollywood

How can so much be spent for what is, finally, so little?

Jeffrey Simpson

PM's China, India travels are overdue

The economic dynamism of India's economy, and the explosive growth of China's, mean their political weight will grow

Alan Dershowitz

America is on trial as much as Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

Can the self-confessed mastermind of 9/11 expect justice in the emotional shadow of the World Trade Center?

Rob Huebert

Arctic sovereignty: Let’s join the Texan and St. Nick

A new U.S. attack sub has surfaced at the North Pole – and so will a Russian rival. Canada must make sure its new Arctic ships can compete

Wendy Dobson

A sensible but revolutionary notion

Canada has a role to play in this weekend's complex APEC gamesmanship

Jeffrey Simpson

Sign of the fish: another judicial inquiry

The latest salmon crisis has local explanations, but it's part of a worldwide crisis of fisheries

Rick Salutin

Think Remembrance, then think rebranding

The contradictions of our new military vision, like those of 11/11, linger

Timothy Garton Ash

Beyond Berlin: Europe's new chapter starts now

Once more unto the breach – different times, different walls

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The monarchy: Offshore, but built-in

Polls say Canadians are ambivalent about being subjects of an overseas sovereign, but the Crown is in the warp and woof of our form of government

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Continental divide

Where does Asia end and Europe begin?

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