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Scotland says No: What the best Globe voices say

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Scotland says No: What Globe voices say

For Scots, achieving independence would have been the easy part

Doug Saunders writes the Globe and Mail's international-affairs column, and also serves as the paper's online opinion and debate editor

The last few months have provided a lesson in the new realities of nationhood: It’s never been easier, nor worth less

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Britain is about to learn that federalism is a messy business

Jeffrey Simpson is The Globe and Mail’s senior political columnist

The Scottish referendum will produce a series of cascading changes of a kind the British have never known

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Yes or No, the Scottish referendum vote was unfair (Unlimited subscribers only)

Brian Lee Crowley - Managing director of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute in Ottawa

The 50-per-cent-plus-one criteria is a morally defective method for a decision with such critical ramifications

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The future Britain is going to look a lot like Canada

Steve Hewitt, senior lecturer in American and Canadian Studies at the University of Birmingham

Canada’s former mother country may still be worthy of the name United Kingdom, but the version that goes forward is increasingly going to resemble its Canadian child.

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In the end, Scots chose realism over romanticism

Arthur Herman is the author of The New York Times bestseller How the Scots Invented the Modern World

The damage a majority Yes vote would have done was difficult to fathom or calculate

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Dear Scotland: An open letter from your Canadian cousins

Globe Debate: Canada’s leading forum for world-class opinion and debate

Here is our advice and our plea: Stay in the United Kingdom.

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Dear Britain: An open letter from your Canadian cousins

Globe Debate: Canada’s leading forum for world-class opinion and debate

Our advice comes down to this: Exercise extreme caution. Change as much of your constitution as you must – and as little as you can.

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