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Don’t celebrate Canada’s falling unemployment rate just yet
The January unemployment rate fell because the workforce is shrinking, not because it’s easier to find work
Alberta’s Bill 11 opens door to private health care across Canada
Two-tier health care is expanding in Alberta. Bill 11 allows private health insurance for services traditionally covered by the public system
Alberta’s health-care spending is unsustainable
Without decisive reform, health-care costs will continue squeezing out other public service priorities
Hiring more teachers isn’t the answer to fixing class challenges
Before spending more on teachers, it’s worth asking what really makes classrooms harder to teach
Business
Consumer boycott of U.S. products exposes a bigger homegrown problem
Shoppers are dropping U.S. goods, but interprovincial trade barriers are still preventing Canadian firms from competing at scale
Careers
National
Why trying too hard hurts your odds of landing a job
Desperation kills any chance of being taken seriously
Science/Tech
We can’t keep pretending social media is safe for kids
Social media companies failed to protect our children, so governments are right to impose limits
Your Money
Is Carney’s GST credit boost just political theatre?
The expanded GST credit offers short-term relief but not lasting food affordability
Editor's Picks
The Grenada invasion could have broken the Reagan-Thatcher relationship. It didn’t
Reagan sidelined Thatcher by invading Grenada without consulting her but the relationship survived anyway
Interviews
It is time to tame Canada’s ballooning bureaucracy
Preston Manning tells us how we can rein it in
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Book warns the decline in marriage comes at a high cost
Andrea Mrozek and Peter Jon Mitchell, in their book I... Do?, write that the fading value of marriage is a threat to social stability
Buffalo Bill and the making of the Wild West legend
Buffalo Bill turned frontier grit into global showmanship
Private health care providers are cashing in as Ontario hospitals fall further behind
Ontario is expanding private surgical care while hospitals struggle with staffing levels and patient loads
Love wasn’t always in the air on Valentine’s Day
The romantic version came much later. The origin story is far less sentimental
Germany sabotaged its own success
Once Europe’s economic engine, Germany’s ideologically driven energy and immigration decisions set it on a path of decline
The CFL’s rule changes will make the sport stronger
The rule changes update the game without turning it into NFL Lite
A beaver dam cut our 2017 Agawa Canyon train ride short
This year, we finally made it all the way
Lincoln Navigator L defines full-size luxury SUV
Lincoln dropped its sedans after the 2020 model year but refused to shrink its idea of luxury
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