How doubly tragic it would be if Canada does not learn the lessons of the understandable outrage over the case of Colten Boushie.
By rejecting Patrick Brown’s proposal to raise new revenue through a carbon tax without suggesting an alternative, his potential successors have essentially abandoned a platform that sought to put the ‘progressive’ back in Progressive Conservative.
The new ethics commissioner, Mario Dion, has suggested he would like to prevent MPs from informing the media when they have filed a complaint with his office and stop the media from reporting on an investigation. He should drop those ideas immediately.
New figures will be available in September, before the October election. But they aren’t slated to be released until January 2019. Voters should know the costs before they go to the ballot box.
In the case of the popular pot bill and the unelected senators trying to block it, democracy and efficiency would both be well served by a heavier government hand in the Senate.
Going ahead with the sale of military helicopters in the face of all the evidence about the reckless behaviour of the current Philippine government would be beneath the dignity of Canada.
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Inequality, precarious work and market bubbles threaten to derail the economy, writes Thomas Walkom.
“Invasive inquiry, aggressive reference checking, and even difficult final interviews will become standard,” writes Robin Sears. “Candidates for political office may be required to sign a statement attesting to the truth of their assertions about their history. Undated resignation letters may become the norm.”
"I do not believe there is malicious intent by Toronto Police," writes Jaime Watt, but a vulnerable community, that has been targeted by a serial killer, desperately needs protection.
While we study and celebrate Black history let’s take a closer look at both the present and the future we want to create, writes Tiffany Gooch.
The government knows the problems and it need not study solutions any longer, writes Tim Harper.
Why is it that Friday night’s not guilty verdict in the young man’s death, which is a moment of national shame, does not shake you to your core, asks Shree Paradkar.
The Ontario Conservative leadership candidate, the first-born among four siblings, grew up with two political pros as parents. Brian once said she was the one most like him “in her mindset,” Jim Coyle writes.
Declaring his candidacy last month, Ford demanded an end to the carbon tax at a time when his rivals were both trying to have it both ways — a carbon tax if necessary, but not necessarily a carbon tax, writes Martin Regg Cohn.
U.S. protectionism, not species at risk protection, is what we all should be worried about when it comes to dwindling forestry jobs in Northern Ontario.
First Nation people are incarcerated at some of the highest rates in the country but, in many cases, have little chance of being tried by a jury of their peers.
‘When lives are at stake, the whole-hearted embrace of yet-to-be-perfected technology should be resisted. Driverless cars are no different.’
Far too many products on store shelves are giving us lots of calories but little nutrition
Hopefully, this Hollywood mega-production steeped in a specific sense of Black thematics and esthetics will become one of the highest-grossing films of this year, thus showing the great error of limiting the budget of Black-led releases.
Global businesses, such as Amazon, don’t see municipal boundaries. Rather, they look to assets across an entire region to support their activities.
Corrections are complex business these days when news organizations deliver information via print, on web and mobile apps, social media, video, newsletters, push notifications and voice personal assistants, writes Public Editor Kathy English.
Children in the news always require special consideration, writes public editor Kathy English.
Star readers were aligned with newsroom judgments in 7 of 16 “You be the Editor” questions, writes Kathy English. Full results can be found online.
We regret the errors, writes public editor Kathy English about the Star's whale of a year in corrections.
Star editors make thousands of decisions every year. How would you have dealt with these?
Drawing a line between news and opinion has long been a Star principle. A new labelling system seeks to make that distinction clearer for readers, writes Kathy English, the Star’s public editor.
Analysts say the leader is shoring up support and sticking to ridings where the NDP has a chance of winning.