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This Week in Canada: Make North America Great Again
The prime minister tries a new sales pitch; why it took five years to tell the truth about mass graves of indigenous children; our recession-proof…
Rupa Subramanya
What People Who Choose Assisted Death Actually Say
Rupa Subramanya spent years interviewing Canadians before their assisted deaths. What she found in Canada’s medical assistance in dying program should…
Coleman Hughes
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This Week in Canada: Your Anti-Racism Is Not Anti-Racist Enough
Guess why a white male professor didn’t get the job, the Trump administration wants our guy’s Gmail accounts, and more.
Rupa Subramanya
This Week in Canada: A Scandal in Alberta’s Separatist Movement
Freeing the oil-rich province from Canada just got more complicated, Carney is the king of cowboy country, and more.
Rupa Subramanya
This Week in Canada: Like It or Not, We Still Need the U.S.
Bluster about trade talks won’t change economic reality, nurses need help that they won’t get, and more.
Rupa Subramanya
This Week in Canada: Carney Sweet-Talks Disappearing Investors
The MAID machine goes after its watchdogs, fangirling over the prime minister, the youth unemployment crisis, and more.
Rupa Subramanya
This Week in Canada: So Many Americans Wish They Were Canadian
A surge in citizenship interest from south of the border, King Charles III foils the '51st state,' Canada helps Iran get a win, and more.
Rupa Subramanya
This Week in Canada: Islamic Schools Multiply with Public Funding
More Muslims turn to schools that require the hijab; the expanding definition of hate crimes; a left-wing party trips over its own equity rules; and…
Rupa Subramanya
She Was Offered Euthanasia. She Said ‘No Thanks!’
Plus: In defense of the spring breaker who’s never heard of the ayatollah. Two drinks with Emily Austin. Sascha Seinfeld on the 20th birthday of ‘Hannah…
The Free Press
Never Kill Yourself
When I went to the doctor in Vancouver with back pain, she offered me assisted suicide; instead, I recovered—and went to Cuba!
Miriam Lancaster
What Will Follow the ‘Polite Pogrom’ in Canada?
Antisemitism is surging across the West, with politicians offering platitudes but no solutions.
The Editors
This Week in Canada: The Teachers’ Union Has an Israel Policy Now
Teachers push to boycott Israel as Jewish students get harassed; a pitch for U.S. doctors who don’t mind low salaries; paying for free speech
Rupa Subramanya
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