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An apology won't end the abuse

Pope Benedict XVI's eloquent letter aimed at Irish Catholics is a brave and welcome gesture. However, he did not go far enough

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March 20: Letters to the editor

Today’s Topics: birth-control backlash; medical errors; Pier 21; organ donation ... and more

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Quit it with the teen trashing

I don't know why we're so cruel to adolescents.

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The Fifth Column

'But then I am a man, so I probably wrote this without thinking about it first. '

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Vrrrrrrrrrrooooooom!

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Margaret Wente

Complexity will destroy us all

Not long ago, I was smart enough to operate an oven without a PhD. No more

Doug Saunders

Dislodging the dollar won't be easy

China would very much like to end the greenback's dominance

Julio Montaner and Stephen Lewis

Dear Mr. Harper: There's a way to pay for global health needs

The net impact of the FTT would be virtually nil on banks and nothing on consumers. But it would raise billions of dollars

Laura Madokoro

We need to extend Pier 21 across Canada

It doesn't make sense for those whose families arrived in the west to go east to discover our immigration history

Stephen Clarkson

The dangerously unbalanced world of global governance

The WTO's principles of freedom did not empower the wretched of the Earth

Akaash Maharaj

Excelling is about values, not medals

Canadian athletes want to own the podium because they are too proud to aim lower

Rick Salutin

A whole lotta ventin' goin' on

In 1992, our elites concocted the Charlottetown ‘accord.' Then they made the mistake of letting the population vote on it

Timothy Garton Ash

A messiah is not enough

Obama's outstretched hand of friendship has been bitten or brushed aside. But it's not all his fault

Lawrence Martin

It's a tough climate for Elizabeth May and the Greens

She owns the environment issue, but that suits her poorly

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