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The return of the rug

7 mars 2026 à 00:08
Even Carrie Bradshaw discovered the value of a rug. In season 3, Episode 5, of the HBO series And Just Like That..., our heroine indulged her fondness for clomping about her new, undecorated townhouse in fancy, expensive shoes. Read More

Chris Selley: Carney sows the seeds of his eventual defeat

6 mars 2026 à 22:28
It would be foolish to suggest Prime Minister Mark Carney is in anything like trouble as the one-year anniversary of his taking office approaches a few days from now. The latest Postmedia-Leger poll this week pegs the Liberals at 49 per cent support nationwide, the Conservatives at 35 per cent and — crucially for the Conservatives, who rely on vote-splitting off their port side — the NDP at a catastrophic and well-deserved five per cent. Read More

Jamie Sarkonak: Chief justice says existence of Canada’s border is discrimination

6 mars 2026 à 21:51
Anyone in the world who shows up in Canada and makes an asylum claim is entitled to free subsidized daycare if citizens get it too, said all but one judge of the Supreme Court on Friday. They framed their decision as a matter of social justice — seemingly ignorant that their words degraded the value of Canadian citizenship by extending our social safety net, which we pay for, to unvetted foreigners. Read More

Colby Cosh: The Canadian pediatric medicine researchers who ‘made it up’

6 mars 2026 à 12:00
On Tuesday morning, a fresh shockwave passed over Canadian pediatric medicine, which has had a difficult start to the year 2026. In January, the New Yorker published an investigative piece by Pulitzer-winning feature writer Ben Taub. Taub’s article describes a long-running feud between the disgraced doctor Gideon Koren, founder of the ill-fated Motherisk lab at Toronto Sick Kids, and his former colleague and co-author David Juurlink, a Sunnybrook Hospital and U of Toronto pharmacologist. Read More
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