A suspected Taliban prisoner has his hands strapped by a Canadian soldier after a raid on a compound in northern Kandahar in May 2006. John D McHugh/AFP/Getty Images
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Torture and the paper trail

A consistent pattern of looking the other way when informed about the abuse of Afghan detainees would say something disturbing about a whole group of Canadian institutions

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How to make real progress against poverty

The spread of food banks shows the dysfunction in Canadian income security programs, says Hugh Segal

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'The ethos of our elite is that the ends justify the means'

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Jonathan Crush

The urban poor are going hungry

In the next 30 years, most of the three-billion increase in population is expected to occur in developing country cities

J.L. Granatstein

No life like it: shrinking numbers, increasing strain

Will our reserve forces survive until the Afghan commitment ends in 2011?

Jeffrey Simpson

Why the dog of a nuclear deal with India didn't bark

Great photo ops, but substantively, the PM's Indian trip was a bust

Rick Salutin

Our own little Abu Ghraib?

It's one more proof, a uniquely Canadian one, that the war on terror has become the chief incubator of terror

Gary Mason

Waiting for an apology in the Far North

In 1953, Ottawa began to relocate Inuit families in the Arctic. The toll continues

Lawrence Martin

It's only been a decade, but the conservative way is redefining us

The celebrated advent of Barack Obama makes Canada's trend line look all the more remarkable

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