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The stubborn, scaly, fork-tongued menace plaguing America. (No, the other one.)

How white guilt and white atonement strips BIPOC of their agency

The Trudeau government’s foreign policy is perfect—for the 1990s

Conservative Party policy can be anti-racist—a blueprint

They Were Loved: Remembering Canadians who died of COVID-19

The Canada Student Service Grant’s unusual cabinet ride

Justin Trudeau must ban Huawei from building Canada’s 5G network

Terry Fox’s marathon of grace

Reopening schools safely is now Canada’s most urgent task

How going maskless became socially unacceptable

The push for a new kind of (virtual) Parliament

Canada pre-purchases COVID-19 vaccines, but won’t say exactly how many

‘As a First Nations MPP in Ontario…I cannot deny my loneliness.’

How Canada became an environmental outlier

Out-of-office is the new office. Can the work-from-home boom last?

338Canada: How polls keep underestimating the Conservative vote

The loneliest deer in Niagara Falls

Theresa Tam: The buzzkill Canada needs

Is the NHL’s ice age of racial non-progress finally ending?

COVID-19 has drastically affected Canadian travel spending

Try to see WE from 35,000 feet

What happened to the old Doug Ford?

‘As a queer, trans and Afro-Indigenous woman, I believed that I could never be a representative of Black liberation’

The Trudeau WE testimony: What, you wanted a micromanager?

‘We’re trying to build a new kind of society that has never existed before’

Three key takeaways from Justin Trudeau’s testimony

The WE scandal and Justin Trudeau’s testimony: A primer

Prime Minister, how much broccoli did your family eat? In detail!

Can we please pass on the slaughter this year?

What Americans tend to get wrong about racism in Canada

Justin Trudeau testifies over WE Charity controversy: Live video

A literally explosive day on Parliament Hill (due to construction)

‘I don’t care whether All Lives Matter is said in ignorance—it’s just another example of racism’

The obvious lessons Justin Trudeau keeps failing to learn

Netflix Canada in August 2020: What’s new this month

Canadian universities must collect race-based data

WE all fall down: the Kielburgers and Liberal ‘whataboutism’

Every important number in the WE drama that’s consuming Ottawa

The Nova Scotia inquiry: Maybe next time, listen first

Five takeaways from the Kielburgers’ testimony

Disney Plus in August 2020: What’s new

WE Charity founders Marc and Craig Kielburger appear before House committee: Live video

It’s a different kind of WE Day on Parliament Hill

‘I think that my father murdered my mother.’

Will Canada stand with Uyghurs—and against ‘modern slavery?’

338Canada: The end of the Liberals’ pandemic bump

Aliens in 2020: Why not?

Q A: Dr. Kevin Smith on the fight against COVID-19

The Nova Scotia shooting ‘review’ and the deafness of government

‘To the football fans cheering the Edmonton team for decades: there was a time when society allowed this to happen. That time is over now.’

Bill Morneau’s very bad day

The unsafe country to our south

In the Nova Scotia shooting case, families want answers. ‘The truth needs to come out.’

The end of Toronto’s first strip mall

Julie Payette’s latest round of bad press refreshes harassment allegations

The Maid of the Mist, coronavirus and America’s ship of fools

How anti-vaxxers could disrupt the cure for the COVID-19 pandemic

Q A: Dr. Kevin Smith on the fight against COVID-19

Trump’s impromptu security force gives a scary glimpse of things to come

In defence of WE

Dear sister: ‘I wonder if my silence played a hand in your suffering’

A continent divided by the pandemic

How Washington works: Inside an annual field trip for Canada’s senior bureaucrats

When we’re allowed to hug again

There won’t be a seasonal second wave of coronavirus, there will be a behavioural one

The unmasking of Donald Trump

An open letter to work attire

Barbados is welcoming telecommuters, why can’t we?

The Nova Scotia shooting inquiry: Three months later, there isn’t one

A parliamentary committee hopes to demystify the WE deal

Every U.S. state is accumulating new virus cases at a faster clip than Canada. Yep, all 50.

The pandemic has disrupted death and mourning in ways we don’t yet understand

The case for dining out in the middle of a pandemic

Peter MacKay: The Tories’ avatar of unity, hope and renewal—but also of unforced errors

The real reason authoritarian populism is on the rise: it’s simple

A Baltimore oriole was my gateway to birding. I’ll never need another hobby.

Will Justin Trudeau sit down for some midsummer parliamentary testimony?

Canadian leaders botched mandatory masking. Here’s how to fix it.

Canada is not the regionally divided country it’s made out to be

Listen to Donovan Bailey

What Jason Kenney can glean from past premiers on saving Alberta’s economy

Who really is Erin O’Toole?

After Justin Trudeau’s apology, are WE out of the woods yet?

60 MPs urge sanctions against Chinese officials

Western separatism has been cooling despite Trudeau’s re-election: poll

The science of denial

Is the electric car right for you? Everything you should know before switching gears

The B.C. river where salmon are whisked to safety in a giant pressurized tube

Who makes the decisions in Justin Trudeau’s Ottawa?

Love in the time of COVID

‘I don’t hide who I am’: Leslyn Lewis’s pitch to conservative voters

The look on Donald Trump’s face when he’s been proven wrong

United WE stood, divided WE falls

It’s time for Liberals to learn a lesson

‘If we had to go back to school I’d be furious’: Kids on pandemic life

A glimpse at what school might look like next fall for Canadian students

The Nova Scotia murders: End the farce. Call the inquiry.

‘It’s like developing feelings for a video of someone instead of the real person’: Dating during the coronavirus

They Were Loved: Honouring Canada’s COVID-19 victims

The RCMP is broken

A $343-billion midsummer news bonanza hits Ottawa. But wait, there’s more.

Has enthusiasm for the CERB paved the way for a universal basic income?

All the bad news, half the bad press

A pandemic-era economic and fiscal snapshot or patting their own backs?

Medicine’s bigotry and bullying problem

There’s no putting a shine on Canada’s fiscal picture

Lost deportees, lapsed loans, late army rations: highlights from the auditor general reports

Rule #1 for travelling politicians: Follow local mask rules

The rise of America’s NDP

Pick our fruit, get COVID-19

‘We have nothing to lose but our chains’: Desmond Cole’s conversation with four Black Canadians

Amazon Prime Video, Apple+ and CBC Gem in July 2020: What’s new

The tale of Toronto’s boardwalk foxes

Bob Rae’s four-decade run reaches its logical conclusion in New York City

Meet Bob Rae’s new UN colleagues

Her hands to larger service for her club, her community and her country

The armour-plated blue line in Brandon, Man.

$912 million, WE hardly knew thee

338Canada Quebec edition: Legault holds a jaw-dropping lead as the lockdown lifts

Texas governor Greg Abbott, look at this picture

A military man breaches the gates at Rideau Hall

Justin Trudeau vs. the old boys

Vladimir Putin: Russia’s weak strongman

Portraits of B.C.’s frontline health care workers as the province flattened the curve

Happy Canada(-U.S.-Mexico Trade Agreement) Day!

Ontario’s back-to-school plan ignores a glaringly obvious problem

Jagmeet Singh calls MP ‘racist’, but has he forgotten about Bill 21?

Disney+ in July 2020: What’s new

The hidden racist history of ‘O Canada’

Netflix Canada in July 2020: What’s new this month

How the ‘Normal People’ TV series redeemed the novel for me

America is woefully unprepared for mail-in voting. The result will be messy and divisive.

After a Quebec heritage house is set on fire, what can emerge from the ashes?

Take a bow, Rideau Cottage. You were the backdrop for billion-dollar breathers.

Jason Kenney reaches for economic heights with a race to the bottom

‘Don’t ever wish our country to be a world power’

A neighbour regrets a pandemic-era scolding: ‘I looked for you, but you’d vanished’

The sad politicization of Pride

Saving the right whales

This Canada Day, the country must reflect on its history to write its future

The feds want to dole out millions to students. WE got the gig.

Industry leaders call for bold green recovery in open letter

The biggest divide in Canadian politics? Men vs. Women.

Contact tracers are the new front line against COVID-19

A new message to Trudeau: There must be no ‘acceding to the demands of hostage-takers’

How armed police officers on campus have become a ubiquitous part of American college life

Inside the Canadian establishment’s fight with Trudeau over China

338Canada U.S. presidential race: Biden leads but Trump is within striking distance

Dr. Catherine Hankins and Dr. David Naylor in conversation with Paul Wells: Maclean’s Live

Fort McMurray, the city that battles back

How the Anti-Saloon League, responsible for Prohibition, shaped modern racist policing

‘By the time I started pitching BodyBreak, I’d already experienced incidents of racism for 31 years’

You’ve been breathing all wrong

Donald: Give us your wired masses, yearning to breathe free

The summer student takes the fall for an escalating political drama

Has Jason Kenney convinced Erin O’Toole that oil and gas subsidies don’t exist?

Canada needs a plan to rebuild itself. Let the transformation begin.

While Trump eyes tariffs, Americans really want more Canada

When the coronavirus pandemic is over, will we erect our own tsunami stones?

Meet Buckwheat, the donkey people are hiring to crash video meetings

CERB extension delays tough questions for workers hurt by COVID-19

What’s a Tory leadership race without the Mounties?

Dominique Anglade’s under-the-radar accession

What Americans don’t know… should worry us

Don’t like classical music crowds? This one will grow on you.

Well, at least the coronavirus reignited our love for the great outdoors

‘Black police officers who complain about anti-Black racism endure punishment’

Time for real answers on the Nova Scotia mass murder

The Nova Scotia shooter case has hallmarks of an undercover operation

Jagmeet Singh, the ‘racist’ label and what Parliament won’t abide

Brenda Lucki must go

Kevin Loring in conversation with Paul Wells: Maclean’s Live

Buy Alberta? Prepare for a civil war? What Americans think in the age of Trump.

How to fix a national embarrassment

Bill Blair’s long list of priorities keeps getting interrupted by crises—and his own past

Jagmeet Singh gets the boot, but doesn’t back down

The Conservative Party leadership French debate: Mon dieu

The ground is shifting beneath Alberta’s feet, and Kenney still wants to build walls

Why Canada fails time and again on the world stage

The UN Security Council rout: Canada’s (at the) back!

The Nova Scotia killer had ties to criminals and withdrew a huge sum of cash before the shooting

In pandemic-ravaged Brooklyn, surviving is striving

How to train for your dream job by being in two places at once

Why learning from home is an unlikely training ground for a post-pandemic world

A guide to pandemic picnic etiquette

It’s voting day at the United Nations

The guilty pleasures of pandemic travel

Hours from death, these birds survived a tarry encounter with Alberta’s oil sands

One Canadian swimmer’s journey to the Tokyo Olympics through the film Nadia, Butterfly

Chuba Hubbard, football phenom from Canada, gets results on race

Coronavirus has highlighted Canada’s biggest urban design challenge—elevators

Should Brenda Lucki keep her job?

How a Canadian Depression-era recipe went viral during the 2020 pandemic

338Canada, Alberta edition: The UCP is comfortably ahead

Andray Domise, Esi Edugyan, Rinaldo Walcott and Ian Williams join Paul Wells on Maclean’s Live

Waiting for China to change its behaviour is to wait for the worst yet to come

Liberals are dreaming big, but dreaming is the easy part

Doug Ford’s June 15 Ontario coronavirus update: Live video

338Canada federal projection: Liberal gains at the Conservatives’ expense

Ottawa keeps talking about how to define systemic racism

Who the real extremists are in America

What Prohibition teaches us about race relations in the U.S.

Carol Anderson and Kevin Young in conversation with Paul Wells: Maclean’s Live

What will shopping in Canada look like in the aftermath of coronavirus?

The COVID-19 pandemic is remapping childhood—and the effects may linger

The Liberals had no dance partners after all

How Patty Hajdu confronted a global pandemic, and what she thinks will happen next

The perplexing sight of cops saluting George Floyd’s casket

Here come the murder hornets, the Western honeybee’s worst nightmare

How can the U.S. hold a free and fair election?

19 books you should read this summer

Amazon Prime Video, Apple+ and HBO Max in June 2020: What’s new

Disney+ in June 2020: What’s new

The best type of COVID-19 surveillance is the sort that’s right in your face

Has Ontario learned anything from SARS?

What will it take to save the ocean from unrelenting human harm?

The rising popularity of Doug Ford

Good riddance Edward Colston

Watch eight Canadian musicians perform in a free concert

How First Nations are finding ways to keep COVID-19—and outsiders—at bay

Maserati shows off new Trofeo models, including a turbo V8 Ghibli - Roadshow

Maserati shows off new Trofeo models, including a turbo V8 Ghibli - Roadshow

Experts raise alarm about proposed $200M private orthopedic surgical facility in Alberta

Experts raise alarm about proposed $200M private orthopedic surgical facility in Alberta

La Ronge, Sask., teen becomes first Youth Writing Experience participant with sight loss

La Ronge, Sask., teen becomes first Youth Writing Experience participant with sight loss

- globalnews.ca

Summer heat leading to increased water consumption in N.B.

Summer heat leading to increased water consumption in N.B.

Cops seeking suspects in two separate TTC assaults

Cops seeking suspects in two separate TTC assaults

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Quarantine Envy Got You Down? You’re Not Alone

Quarantine Envy Got You Down? You’re Not Alone

Hiker rescued 6,200 feet up mountain after 6-foot boulder rolled onto him

Hiker rescued 6,200 feet up mountain after 6-foot boulder rolled onto him

Company s stock surges on deal for truck that no one s seen publicly

Company s stock surges on deal for truck that no one s seen publicly

Century-old photographs digitized by Saint John’s Loyalist House

Century-old photographs digitized by Saint John’s Loyalist House

- globalnews.ca

Transgender man forced to use girls’ bathroom in high school wins U.S. federal appeal

Transgender man forced to use girls’ bathroom in high school wins U.S. federal appeal

- globalnews.ca

Johnson announces £300m for NHS upgrades to cope with winter pressures

Johnson announces £300m for NHS upgrades to cope with winter pressures

Trump abruptly leaves podium after starting coronavirus briefing

Trump abruptly leaves podium after starting coronavirus briefing

Trump abruptly escorted out of briefing room after security incident outside

Trump abruptly escorted out of briefing room after security incident outside

4 orcas give kayakers a show off the B.C. coast

4 orcas give kayakers a show off the B.C. coast

- globalnews.ca

Trump unexpectedly escorted from White House briefing by Secret Service

Trump unexpectedly escorted from White House briefing by Secret Service

- globalnews.ca

Stimulus, Border Rule, Conventions: Your Monday Evening Briefing

Stimulus, Border Rule, Conventions: Your Monday Evening Briefing

‘I’m just hoping for some peace’: 2 victims of Michael McNutt’s victims speak

‘I’m just hoping for some peace’: 2 victims of Michael McNutt’s victims speak

- globalnews.ca

Trump abruptly escorted from briefing after shooting near WH

Trump abruptly escorted from briefing after shooting near WH

‘The Guy in Front of Me Called a Name, and the Other Guy Turned’

‘The Guy in Front of Me Called a Name, and the Other Guy Turned’

Stephen Curry Has ‘Major FOMO’ in Life Outside the N.B.A. Bubble

Stephen Curry Has ‘Major FOMO’ in Life Outside the N.B.A. Bubble

Trump abruptly escorted from White House briefing

Trump abruptly escorted from White House briefing

7-year-old stung by Portuguese man o’ war on Lawrencetown Beach

7-year-old stung by Portuguese man o’ war on Lawrencetown Beach

- globalnews.ca

Shots fired outside White House, Trump says

Shots fired outside White House, Trump says

Trump abruptly escorted from briefing after shooting near White House

Trump abruptly escorted from briefing after shooting near White House

Toronto District School Board releases back-to-school plan. Here s what you need to know

Toronto District School Board releases back-to-school plan. Here s what you need to know

Toronto neighbours help racialized families receive meals through Uplift Kitchen

Toronto neighbours help racialized families receive meals through Uplift Kitchen

Thousands of branded masks will be provided to new Western students

Thousands of branded masks will be provided to new Western students

Bid corporation pitches ‘legacy’ of affordable housing should Hamilton host Commonwealth Games

Bid corporation pitches ‘legacy’ of affordable housing should Hamilton host Commonwealth Games

- globalnews.ca

A Push to Return U.K.’s ‘Motor City’ to Its Cycling Roots

A Push to Return U.K.’s ‘Motor City’ to Its Cycling Roots

Algerian Journalist Khaled Drareni Sentenced to Prison

Algerian Journalist Khaled Drareni Sentenced to Prison

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