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Last weekend, my wife and I visited our hometown of Leamington, to watch one of our granddaughters play in a hockey tournament.

What if the answer to something complicated really is pretty straightforward, simple and relies on some rather basic common sense?

If your social media chambers resonate with any echoes overlapping mine, odds are you've been hearing a lot about Nex Benedict, the 16-year-old Oklahoma student who died after a fight in a school bathroom.

Neutrality used to be a European thing, but it is now in steep decline. If it were an animal, we’d have to declare it an endangered species.

Gordon McBean, a leading climate expert, says Canada is warming at a fast rate and urgent action is needed to cut greenhouse gas emissions

It was a pledge made almost a quarter-century ago and its lack of fulfillment marks one of Canada's greatest political and economic failures.

Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist based in London, England. Read More

On Feb. 6, the alarming news rippled across social media. Outside a church in downtown Belleville, emergency officials had responded to 13 overdose incidents in less than an hour. Police asked the public to "avoid unnecessary travel to the downtown core" and give emergency personnel space to do their jobs.

H. Damon Matthews, Concordia University and Mitchell Dickau, Concordia University Read More

Early last September, a friend invited me to a media conference designed to highlight a new support program for the London region's Muslim community. Then, within 24 hours, she cancelled it, the public portion, anyway. Read More

Mathew Iantorno, University of Toronto Read More

In a new report from Canada's first federal housing advocate, there's a phrase that sticks with me. Two years into her new job, Marie-Josee Houle has completed a detailed review of homeless encampments across the country. Teeing up her final report, released Tuesday, the advocate describes our obligation to "people