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This Week in Canada: Trump Gets a Piece of Our New Bridge
Painful reminders of how much Canada’s economy depends on the U.S.; Air Canada finally lands a CEO who can speak French; and more.
Rupa Subramanya
This Week in Canada: MAID Hits a Mental-Illness Snag
Free speech officially collides with hate speech, a stink at the Calgary Stampede, trees have rights too, and more.
Rupa Subramanya
This Week in Canada: Reporting for Boyfriend Duty with Katy Perry
Justin Trudeau chooses his girlfriend over his country at the World Cup, the ‘new world order’ arrives in Ireland, and more.
Rupa Subramanya
This Week in Canada: Why Is Antisemitism Surging All Around Us?
Demographic and ideological shifts have enabled anti-Israel activism to spread faster, acquire moral legitimacy, and blur into hostility. Also, Ask Me…
Rupa Subramanya
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
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
This Week in Canada: Death Is a High-Volume Business
‘Exceptionally proficient’ at MAID; booze sales lose out to marijuana; terrifying synagogue attacks; and more.
Rupa Subramanya
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