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Harry Rakowski: Is the media living up to its promises?

Anyone comparing CNN and Fox News will find it hard to believe they are evaluating the same facts to come up with polar opposites of the truth

Harry Rakowski - Posted on April 16, 2021
A family photograph during the G7 leaders summit in La Malbaie, Quebec. Justin Tang/The Canadian Press
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Sean Speer: The four spectacular elite failures shaping modern politics

Back in the immediacy of the populist moment in 2016, there was a brief window when academic, business, media and political elites seemed to recognize that they had drifted too far from ordinary citizens in their societies. These early developments, however, failed to sustain themselves

Sean Speer - Posted on April 16, 2021
Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian is locked in a heated battle with the governor of Georgia over a voting rights bill. A full 65 percent of people agreed that CEOs “should step in when government does not fix societal problems.” Graham Hughes/The Canadian Press
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Ray Pennings: Trust is our core currency

Yes, trust is on the decline but business and commerce can’t fix what is broken

Ray Pennings - Posted on April 16, 2021
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey speaks during a hearing on Capitol Hill. Greg Nash/AP photo
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Joanna Baron: Blame Big Tech all you like, but polarization is in our nature

Big tech platforms serve as an etheric parrot that collects information on our impulses and mirrors back the content we find tantalizing

Joanna Baron - Posted on April 15, 2021
From left, Britain's Prince Harry, Prince William, Meghan Duchess of Sussex and Kate, Duchess of Cambridge leave the annual Commonwealth Service at Westminster Abbey in London. AP photo.
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Ben Woodfinden: Markle and Payette show us why institutions matter

Perhaps one reason the Queen is so admired is she feels like an increasingly rare figure

Ben Woodfinden - Posted on April 15, 2021
Pro-democracy activist Lee Cheuk-yan holds placards as he arrives at a court in Hong Kong this month. Vincent Yu/AP Photo
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Caroline Elliott: Let’s harness dissent, not hide it

Tocqueville was writing 200 years before social media and cancel culture became features of our own political conversations

Caroline Elliott - Posted on April 14, 2021
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets then-U.S. President Donald Trump in December 2019. Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press
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Howard Anglin: Cheer up, Canada. There’s nothing we can do

We are yoked to a stagnant American civilization and infected by its pathologies

Howard Anglin - Posted on April 14, 2021
People take part in a demonstration in Montreal opposing the Quebec government's measures to curb the spread of Covid-19. Graham Hughes/The Canadian Press
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Rudyard Griffiths: The pandemic is tearing up our social contract

It is becoming starkly evident that we have failed every major test of the pandemic

Rudyard Griffiths - Posted on April 13, 2021
For progressives, the commitment to universal, government-run childcare is never strong enough, writes Ginny Roth. Ted S. Warren/AP Photo
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Ginny Roth: A conservative feminism would go beyond the labour force

Conservatives have the opportunity to articulate their own feminism informed by choice, dignity and the pursuit of a good life

Ginny Roth - Posted on April 13, 2021
The radically different responses to the pandemic by Donald Trump and Doug Ford illustrate that pushback against credentialism doesn’t have to mean pushback against expertise. Francisco Seco/AP Photo
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Janet Bufton: Populism rages around the globe, while Canada waits

The beliefs of voters haven’t changed. They’re just facing a new calculation

Janet Bufton - Posted on April 12, 2021

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