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Margaret Wente

Pot: Why not legalize it?

Sounds swell – until you think about it. Somehow, we've got it kind of right now


Lawrence Martin

Lawrence Martin

There's a new unity in the land

At long last, the wrenching family feuds, the unity headaches, the regional grudges have subsided.


John O'Sullivan

Next stop for Obama: Europe

The Democratic presidential candidate will have to bridge the divide between 'Old' and 'New' in his speech today.


David Naylor

Building an economy based on innovation

In the global race, we are lagging behind countries such as South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and Israel.

globeeditorials

Mr. McGuinty's lonely but worthy battle

Stephen Harper's Conservatives need to heed the Ontario Premier's warnings.


Playing down a big climate change report

The credibility of the federal government's commitment to addressing global warming is at stake.


A step too far on anti-smoking laws

Vancouver's smoking regulators have meandered away from sound health policy.

 

Globe editorials 

Realistic goals in Afghanistan

There is no shame in the Harper government's lowering of expectations about the overall mission.

Rising hope in the Balkans

Serbia's arrest of Radovan Karadzic is a victory for both the international criminal justice system and Serbia itself.

Crime trouble outside big cities

Addressing larger economic issues will do more to reduce crime than harsh sentences.

Thabo Mbeki tries a little harder

The Zimbabwe agreement on power-sharing talks is a good first step. Now, South Africa's president must keep up the pressure.

Harper can take action on Khadr

The Liberals should have done more. But since they can no longer rectify their mistake, that task now falls to the Conservatives.

Some genie, some bottle

An Ontario Court of Appeal judge got it right in the case of OPP head Julian Fantino and Mohawk protester Shawn Brant.


Columnists 

Jeffrey Simpson: Stop the presses! Crime rates are falling

Here is one of Canada's great divides. The media and political elites have seldom talked more about crime, even as crime rates keep falling.

Jeffrey Simpson: Climate brinkmanship in the West

It is one of Canada's pathetic ironies that the two provincial premiers least concerned about greenhouse gas emissions govern the provinces most at risk from climate change.

Margaret Wente: Watch out! Here comes the sun

Toronto is determined to stamp out a 'grave threat' to children's health and safety. That's right. The sun!

Lawrence Martin: Politics of destruction has run its course

The Harper Tories have discovered something of late: Their modus operandi — politics as war — isn't working as well as it used to


Commentary 

Nenad Pejic: Good riddance to a master manipulator

The Bosnian Serb leader and war-crimes fugitive always spoke in terms of 'us' against 'them'

Erna Paris: Good news for international criminal justice

Slowly, steadily, the conviction is gaining credence that crimes against humanity and war crimes must be addressed.

Todd Hirsch: The times, they are a'changin'

We are now in the Post-Hummer Economy. But even if giant SUVs disappear, the idea of luxury won't.

Rebecca Jesseman: Beyond harm reduction

Canadians on both sides of the drug policy debate should work together toward a common goal of providing a comprehensive approach to substance use.

James Laxer: Time to recalibrate the Afghan mission

Hasn't the time come for us to end the bleeding of our soldiers in a conflict in which our vital interests are not at stake?

Frank Harvey: Omar Khadr deserves a fair trial, but where?

Whose interests are being served by those people who are pushing so hard for his return to Canada?


Globe Essay 

Gerald Caplan: Socialism: A faith to love, free of utopias

The NDP needs to inspire a new generation with our vision, our values, our courage.

Doug Saunders: The shy, introverted superpower

Dysfunctional constitution for EU a loss to world - but not necessarily to Europe

Geoffrey Clarfield: Museums should not be held to ransom

Stop the appeasement of art and antiquities thieves

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