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Canada’s election campaign has revealed a deeply fractured country

Oct. 20: 'Build it, and I believe they will come.’ What readers think of high-speed rail in Canada

Why did our children stop walking to school?

Why Canada’s federal elections ignore cities

Tim Querengesser

Not sure how to vote? Start with the parties that recognize there’s a climate crisis

Margaret Atwood

In this election, what’s a black voter to do?

Editorial Cartoons for October, 2019

Canada called an election – and you’ll never guess what happened next

On gun control, Liberals offer half measures, and Conservatives offer a step back

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The bold steps Alberta should take to address its fiscal woes

A simple one-party majority isn’t the only way forward, and other lessons from odd governments

Oct. 19: ‘Alberta seems to be a significant architect of is own economic malaise.’ Plus other letters to the editor

Young people aren’t politically apathetic – we’re disillusioned

Canada’s best prime ministers were losers – so let’s stop turfing defeated party leaders

John Ibbitson: Character attacks drag all parties down

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Who deserves mental health? It should be everyone

Elizabeth Renzetti

Elizabeth Renzetti

Thousands of Canadians have died from overdose. The silence of our federal leadership is deafening

Jordan Westfall and David Mendes

True democracy is not an ancient idea – and in Canada, we risk it all when we forget that

Jean-Pierre Kingsley

October 18 Updated

This election, Canadians can’t afford to ignore parties’ defence policies

Thomas Juneau and Srdjan Vucetic

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Want a competitive capitalist economy? Choose big government

Oct. 18: ‘Barack Obama should not be endorsing Justin Trudeau.’ Plus other letters to the editor

What we can actually do about climate change

October 17 Updated

Scheer overturns a longstanding Conservative belief: Foreign aid is in our national interest

Like Quebec three decades ago, Catalonia has driven Spain to the brink

Konrad Yakabuski

Konrad Yakabuski

For Syrians, Turkey’s incursion evokes the dark ghosts of the Ottoman Empire

October 17 Updated

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Why Jason Kenney is afraid of Greta Thunberg

On energy and environment, Canadian voters aren’t as divided as you may think

Monica Gattinger and Nik Nanos

When Trump vilifies news media, there are real-world consequences

Denise Balkissoon

Denise Balkissoon

Talk of a Canadian coalition is all sound and fury, signifying nothing

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Oct. 17: ‘It seems he wishes it was still 1993.’ What readers really think of Preston Manning. Plus other letters to the editor

October 17 Updated

Barack Obama’s endorsement of Justin Trudeau is an unjustifiable American intrusion – and a gift to the Liberals

Lawrence Martin

October 16 Updated

Lawrence Martin

On immigration, Liberals and Conservatives border on the same ideas

Let’s be clear: This is what happens if Canada elects something other than a majority

October 16 Updated

Will the world accept Trump’s shameless betrayal of the Kurds?

Bernard-Henri Lévy

This is the federal election campaign that decency forgot

Oct. 16: ‘They stand to govern a severely broken confederation.’ What readers think of anti-oil rhetoric, plus other letters to the editor

The future of Indigenous Canada is more than an argument over pipelines

It may not be the majority opinion, but minority mandates only bring government gridlock

Why didn’t Trudeau play the Trump card?

Lawrence Martin

Lawrence Martin

The NBA’s China crisis is proof that economic diplomacy is no slam dunk

Trudeau’s bulletproof vest is nothing new – PMs have always been under threat

We must recognize and honour the teachers who shape a new generation of thoughtful young people

Oct. 15: ‘This is not fair!’ Solo seniors speak out on tax discrimination. Plus other letters to the editor

First and foremost, the homeless need housing

Without a bottom line, this federal election has devolved into fiscal debauchery