Ottawa’s proposed legislation could be good for children and adults. But the harder work rests with civil society and individuals
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Editorial: Canada’s extraordinary new citizenship rules
Canadian citizenship is an extraordinary privilege. It is reasonable to require a meaningful connection to Canada to get it
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Editorial: The real error in Smith’s ways
Premier Smith’s mistake wasn’t her proposed referendum question. It was making it far too easy for a small group to force one
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Editorial: Carney should lead a united response to China
The IMF has called for a coordinated response to ‘excessive’ Chinese trade surpluses. Carney should lead it
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Editorial: Canada’s election blind spots
MP Nathaniel Erskine-Smith’s narrow loss in an Ontario Liberal race points to two major blind spots in Canada’s democratic processes
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Editorial: Five lessons from covering the world’s top health-care system
We’ve spent weeks learning about the world’s best performing health-care system. Here are our key takeaways
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Editorial: How Ottawa could revive charitable giving
By revisiting how donations are taxed, Ottawa could help reverse a decades-long decline in charitable giving
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Editorial: Carney’s credentials don’t put him above scrutiny
Monetary and fiscal policies stabilized economies. But did they also sow the seeds of higher prices and household strain?
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Editorial: Make floor crossers prove they retain voters’ support
A precedent from New Brunswick shows there is a simple fix to Parliament’s floor-crossing problem
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Editorial: The social program that should be a scandal
Canadians would not tolerate in other social programs the inequities that exist in subsidized child care. There is a fix to this problem