Canada’s leaders must prioritize the one issue we’ve entirely neglected, and which is known to cause population-level harms
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Editorial: Crossing the floor, crossing the line
Three-quarters of Canadians think floor crossing MPs should not automatically keep their seats. Parliament should listen
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Editorial: The four surprising factors behind a generation in crisis
Nearly half of young adults globally suffer serious mental health challenges. A new report offers a surprising roadmap for change
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Editorial: A fast track to 50 years of losses
If a high-speed rail network is a ‘nation-building’ project, why does it leave most of the nation out?
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Editorial: Signals aren’t enough for scarred investors
The Major Projects Office and Memorandum of Understanding are rightly not enough to change companies’ investment calculus
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Editorial: The ‘death knell’ for reconciliation
A court ruling that puts Indigenous interests in direct conflict with non-Indigenous interests is not a basis for repairing relationships
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Editorial: The GST credit helps today, but who pays tomorrow?
The new GST credit suggests Prime Minister Carney has learned from some of his predecessor’s mistakes — while continuing with other ones
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Editorial: Canada’s galling failure to protect our kids
Canada is considering banning youth under 14 from accessing social media. Why has it taken our governments so long to do so little?
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Editorial: Canadians’ pocketbook concerns trump Trump
A new poll shows Canadians remain most concerned about domestic issues in turbulent times. What do Ottawa’s leaders plan to do about it?
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Editorial: What doomed drug decriminalization in B.C.
If you look at what decriminalization can and should look like, it is easy to understand why B.C.’s pilot project failed