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Canada's Arts World Has a Diversity Problem: Everyone Thinks Alike

Commentary A couple of years ago, Vancouver’s PuSh Festival cancelled its planned production of Christopher Morris’s “The Runner.” The issue was not that the play had suddenly become unwatchable; its repeated performances had earned lavish praise. The issue suddenly was that Morris, a Canadian playwright, had “no religious or cultural ties to the region” he […]

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Canada's Net-Zero Push Faces Scrutiny as Evidence of Economic Damage Mounts

News Analysis As Canada moves toward its net-zero climate goals, questions are growing over whether potentially overly pessimistic climate projections have caused the country to miss out on years of billion-dollar investments and rapid economic growth. Canada’s push to reach net-zero emissions by 2050 has shaped major government policy in recent years, including carbon pricing, […]

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Woman Who Had to Give up Baby Urges Ottawa to Apologize for Forced Adoptions

Christine Nayler spent only four hours with her newborn daughter at a hospital north of Newmarket, Ont., in 1982, before her baby was taken away from her. Then a 15-year-old expectant mother living in Toronto, Nayler was sent to a relative’s home north of the city to give birth. She was expected to return home without the child. While she was being repeatedly told she couldn’t keep the baby, Nayler was still hopeful that her family would change their mind. But they didn’t. “I always say that the day that I left the hospital without her was my death day because I feel like I died that day,” said Nayler, who now lives in Barrie, Ont....

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Conservatives Call for ‘Emergency Recession Debate’

The Conservatives are calling for an emergency debate in Parliament over Canada’s economic outlook after the country entered a technical recession in the first quarter of 2026. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre sent a letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney on May 31, urging the prime minister to appear before Parliament and outline his government’s plan […]

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