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To NATO's top civilian, the alliance makes no sense without Trump. Plus: a letter from the new Clerk (not to me)
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Binney: A Montreal story
At Montreal's jazz festival, music wins
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The Q&A: "It was going to be complicated and messy"
A tax expert on the departed Digital Services Tax, and the fiscal and policy holes it leaves behind
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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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June 2025

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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New world man
It's no fun heckling an optimist. But Michael Sabia's in the news again, so duty calls
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Primus sine paribus
It's Latin for "First Without Equals." Welcome to Carneyism.
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