You got your free Parks Canada pass. Here’s where you should go: 2017 Parks Canada Discovery Pass gives you no-charge access to 148 national parks, marine conservation areas and historic sites

WestJet – ‘LessJet’ – crams more people on flights: It’s what Canadians want: Airplanes – like the ones flown by WestJet – run upwards of $100-million each. Add to that figure things like fuel, labour, maintenance, and flying becomes exceedingly costly. Keeping costs down by jamming more people on the flight makes the operation affordable

Missing from Wynne’s remedies: housing supply: The so-called ‘Fair Housing Plan’ will at best do nothing to address the underlying supply issues affecting affordability and at worst further distort the housing market

Time for a housecleaning at Home Capital: Soloway and Morton must go: Canadians shouldn’t want to invest in a market where Home Capital’s disclosure is deemed satisfactory

Without good housing data, Ontario is fixing the wrong problem: The provincial government’s latest attempt to cool a hot housing market addresses a political issue rather than one of affordability

How to prepare for retirement during every decade of your life: Your mission should be to accomplish at least three important goals each decade

Stirring the pot legislation: A few recommendations for Canada’s incoming legal-marijuana regime

Leah McLaren: As malls die, so too does a way of life: It wasn’t so long ago that parents frowned on kids hanging out at the shopping centre. In hindsight, it now seems positively quaint

Politics briefing: Trudeau meets Italian PM: Also: BC Liberal Leader asks NDP to calm down; refugees want names fixed