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Two sides of Pierre Poilievre
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A brief history of not being great at this
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The bad landlord
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Solomon's vote
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What an election won't fix
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The leader in your mirror
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The Canadian face
A new book makes well-earned noise for the Kingston Prize, which has been fuelling a renaissance in Canadian portrait art for two decades
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Encore: Sarah Slean on Joni Mitchell
"Then you listen in your 40s and you're like, 'Oh.'"
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Midsommar
Lessons from the first half-year of Carneyism
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Encore: Timothy Garton Ash's Europe
Canada should join the EU, the great historian said, "only half in jest." We should all be careful what we wish for.
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Guest post: How to talk to reporters
From Alex Kohut's The North Poll newsletter, an interview with former PMO press secretary Alex Wellstead.
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Encore: Buzz Bissinger and the American saga
The author of Friday Night Lights came to town with a new book about Marines, football and death. Maybe the only story that could top Buzz Bissinger's…
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O beautiful
I've never known how to be Canadian without being partly American. This year has felt like an amputation.
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