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ArticleTalks can resume when ‘throwing shade’ ends: PM

The conflict between the Canadian and U.S. government has evolved from a trade war into a war of words. After days of strident comments and insults directed at Canada from multiple U.S. government officials, Prime Minister Mark Carney...

CHRISTOPHER NARDI

Article‘Inclusive’ hiring hampers research: report

Canadian mandates on race-based hiring quotas in academia have done measurable damage to the country’s research productivity, according to a new report by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute. Ever since 2017, Canadian universities have...

TRISTIN HOPPER

ArticleLiving standards ‘languishing’ behind U.S.

Canada’s economic performance has fallen further behind that of the U.S. over the past quarter century, with the gap in GDP per person more than doubling and the Americans pulling ahead on incomes, employment, investment and productivity.

ELLIE HUTCHINGS

ArticleOntario paid for map that renamed its lake

Over the weekend, Ontario Premier Doug Ford stood in front of a sign declaring Lake Ontario “now and always.” Within about a day, however, Hydro One, Metrolinx, Infrastructure Ontario and the LCBO had all labelled the body of water as “Lake...

BARRY APPLETON

ArticleConsulate suspect shouldn’t be on bail

We can’t know exactly why Ontario Superior Court Justice Heather McArthur decided on Thursday to uphold bail for a man accused of shooting up the U.S. Consulate in Toronto, but her reasons can’t make much sense. Perhaps she was compelled by...

JAMIE SARKONAK

ArticleHOW NOT TO HANDLE A RATTLESNAKE.

VANCOUVER • Landen Spittal, 15, has never been afraid of snakes. Dangling the occasional garter snake in front of his mom Andrea was always good for a jump-scare. So last week, when his dad Colin picked up an interesting snake while the two were...