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The lyrics of "Politician Man" were inspired by Attawapiskat First Nation's water emergency.
02/27/2020 16:01 EST
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A diaper bag is more than its contents. It’s a responsibility.
08/24/2019 08:33 EDT
She's the closest thing you'll have to a parent you can choose yourself.
05/10/2019 16:48 EDT
When men can't cry, that's the beginning of our problems.
05/19/2018 11:19 EDT
We already paid for these devices once. Why should our only option be to pay big tech companies a second time for the privilege of fixing them?
04/19/2018 09:51 EDT
Our media may not be reading off identical scripts quite yet, but we'd be fooling ourselves to think there isn't a problem.
04/05/2018 11:45 EDT
After losing two childhood homes, a house of my own feels like so much more than four walls and a roof.
03/07/2018 10:45 EST
At this point, I have to ask myself: do I want to risk my freedom, privacy or well-being — or that of a family member — to travel to Donald Trump's America?
01/13/2018 12:43 EST
Please don’t call us callous bargain-hunters. We moved here because Hamilton felt like home, not just because it made sense for our budget.
12/18/2017 13:50 EST
Whether Ajit Pai's right or wrong, there's no excuse for racism or xenophobia.
12/15/2017 14:24 EST
A new beginning: that's what our move was supposed to be. Instead, what followed was a maddening — and alarming — series of visitors.
12/08/2017 10:40 EST
Canadians have no excuses — not even bad ones.
08/23/2017 11:18 EDT
Busy celebrating the best of what Polish culture had to offer, I rarely paused to think about the darker parts of my heritage. But moving out from my childhood home and joining a Polish community during a formative time of my life brought this willful ignorance into stark relief.
04/04/2017 05:00 EDT
For those of you who grew up in a later era (or, perhaps, haven't fully caught up with the rest of Canadian society since those heady days), let me remind you why critics urged guys to burn their tight denim and labelled men who wore the style as less-than: skinny jeans were feminine, and feminine -- for guys -- means "bad." Substitute any other vaguely feminine trend, from floral prints to makeup for men, and it's the same story. But we've made so much progress since then, right?
10/03/2016 04:58 EDT
Keeping relationships within a culture can be convenient, comfortable and maybe even somewhat expected of you -- but it also makes it easy to keep one's culture alive. Our parents had a clear blueprint for passing on their traditions, something the growing number of culturally mixed couples like us simply don't have.
09/19/2016 04:58 EDT
A citizen's advocacy group has recently called Sophie Grégoire Trudeau out for accepting gifts and loans of clothing from Canadian fashion labels, deeming her "for sale" for daring to wear support for our country's industry on her sleeve. I can see how gifts and loans can make for some bad optics, even if the role of prime minister's wife has little real political oomph behind it. However, in a world where few powerful individuals direct their influence toward social good like Grégoire Trudeau does, Democracy Watch's threadbare argument seems to be more about populist-pleasing celebrity shaming than hypothetical conflicts of interests.
07/27/2016 03:34 EDT
There's a growing number of people who think ending news reporting on acts of terror will somehow #SilenceTerror. And I could not disagree more with this all-too-convenient answer to a complex issue. Proper news reporting may seem to give credence to terrorist organizations who actively court such media attention, but it will never truly further their cause -- not when reporting often counters and negates the narratives spun by extremist organizations. Amid the shouting of social media, professional reporting offers fact, reason and, most importantly, context.
07/15/2016 02:21 EDT
This Canada Day we are reminded that our country is a nation of immigrants.
07/01/2016 10:12 EDT
In the wake of the Panama Papers investigation, federal anti-money laundering agency Fintrac slapped an unnamed Canadian bank with a $1.1-million penalty for failing to report a suspicious transaction and various money transfers. Fintrac hopes the move sends a "strong message" to individuals attempting to short the country's coffers. How's that, exactly?
04/06/2016 01:16 EDT
Many legal definitions of sexual assault, including Canada's, try to balance two things: the rights of the accused to remain innocent until proven guilty, and the rights of the complainants to seek justice in a fair and balanced court of law. However, our laws are strongly biased in favour of the accused because of one little clause.
03/24/2016 02:15 EDT
