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Opinion Don't wait for an outcome in the Dafonte Miller case: fix Ontario's police oversight system now
The best-case scenario here is that Ontario's system of police oversight is so dysfunctional that an off-duty cop can allegedly severely beat a man and no one is really sure who has jurisdiction. More read comments video
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Opinion Canada's review of arms sales to Saudi Arabia runs into a bit of a snag: Neil Macdonald
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Global Affairs says it is struggling to find "conclusive evidence" of the use of Canadian-made vehicles in Saudi human rights abuses. The Saudis have cleverly ensured that by banning diplomats and journalists from the area.
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Opinion Trudeau must dispel the myth there's 'always a place' for refugees in Canada: Robyn Urback
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Last week, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told a group of reporters (wrong audience, but solid effort) that illegal entry into Canada doesn’t confer any special benefits. I'd wager that desperate refugees probably weren't watching that press conference.
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Opinion Memo to Conservative party brass — there's more than one way to be a Tory: Andrew MacDougall
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To the Conservatives angry that "liberals" are offering up their ideas for renewal: stop shouting them down. Who knows, you might even learn something by listening.
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Opinion Recent displays of white supremacy are not an anomaly
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The demonstrations in Charlottesville, Va., were not indicative of a new "alt-right" trying to reclaim the United States for white people. They're part of a pattern of violent backlash that has often followed periods of greater social justice for black people, Indigenous peoples and those of other racial and religious minorities.
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Opinion Despite what we witnessed in Charlottesville, norms are still at work in U.S. society
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White supremacists tried to move their practices further into the mainstream. Instead, it elicited a broad coalition in opposition.
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Opinion Indigenous warriors find a new weapon: the cellphone
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Kamao Cappo, an Indigenous man, was thrown out of a Canadian Tire store in Regina last month after being accused of theft. We've heard this story over and over again, but something was different this time: Cellphone footage that Cappo himself took showed the accusation was unjustified.
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Opinion Donald Trump is giving Americans exactly what they voted for: Neil Macdonald
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How many times can you ask and answer the same questions? Is he a hypocrite? Does he lie? He is, and he does. Hypocrisy oozes from Trump like pus from a septic infection.
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Opinion The court case against Marineland might be over, but we can still consider this saga a 'win'
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The struggle to shut down these zoos using the power of the courts is still very much ongoing. But this case succeeded in keeping years-old investigations into Marineland's treatment of animals in the news.
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Opinion There is no moral equivalency when it comes to neo-Nazi white supremacy: Robyn Urback
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The "whataboutism" was strong in the aftermath of the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., that left three people dead and dozens more injured. Many of Trump's defenders demanded the public reserve some scorn for Black Lives Matter and Antifa. In essence: we've reached a point where people are actually attempting to contextualize neo-Nazism.
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Opinion Attacks on due process are coming from both sides of the political spectrum: Jonathan Kay
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The identity of the accused as a human being is minimized when people cast aside due process. Instead, he is presented as representative specimen of some despised class of individuals — illegal immigrants or predatory men, to name a couple of examples — with the prosecution presented as a righteous struggle to roll back the forces of evil.
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