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    What Donald Trump’s crackdown looks like from the streets of Washington

    Since the President deployed military in the U.S. capital this month, the intervention has reached nearly every corner of the city
    Washington D.C. residents march through the Columbia Heights neighborhood in protest of President Donald Trump's seizure of local police and anti-immigration policies, on Aug. 22.

    What happens to Trump’s tariffs now that a U.S. appeals court has struck them down?

    opinion

    Donald Trump is on the brink of becoming a dictator. Can he be stopped?

    Andrew Coyne
    Andrew Coyne
    MIDDLE EAST

    Israel will halt aid into northern Gaza soon, announces remains of a hostage were recovered

    Shift comes weeks after Israel first announced plans to widen its offensive in the city, where hundreds of thousands are enduring famine
    Palestinians wait to receive food from a charity kitchen in Gaza City on Aug. 28, after a global hunger monitor said that the city and surrounding areas are officially suffering from famine that will likely spread.

    Prime minister of Yemen’s Houthi government killed in Israeli strike

    justice

    The belief in the right to self-defence – and the legal limits of a reasonable response

    The law is in the spotlight once again after an alleged incident in the small town of Lindsay, Ont.
    Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre called Canada's law on self-defence "vague and subjective" during an announcement on Friday in Brampton, Ont.

    Poilievre wants Criminal Code to define ‘reasonable’ self-defence

    book bans

    Alberta minister calls teachers union ‘manipulative’ as strike or lockout looms amid book ban

    Contract negotiations between the province’s bargaining team and teachers’ union have reached a crucial impasse
    New Minister of Education and Childcare, Demetrios Nicolaides, swears the oath of office in Calgary, Alta., Friday, May 16, 2025.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
    opinion

    As a professor of literature, I have serious concerns about the debates over books happening in Alberta

    Kit Dobson
    back to work

    Three home offices that break all of the productivity rules

    Workspaces need not be stark and minimalist, but rather as alive and dynamic as the people who use them
    Will Sorrell is photographed in front of his garden office located in his backyard in Victoria, B.C., on August 19, 2025. Chad Hipolito/The Globe and Mail �

    Q+A: Bruce Daisley on the return-to-office push

    Classic white button-up shirts are an easy choice for work or the weekend

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    Dr. Sam Starko and collaborators performing intertidal biodiversity surveys in Barkley Sound, B.C., in 2021.

    A severe marine heat wave nicknamed ‘the Blob’ has finally been explained

    cover photo for story about how much teenage boys eat by Dakshana Bascaramurty.
    Weekend Reads

    Nobody eats more than teenage boys. We asked three of them how they manage

    Adolescents are the most expensive Canadians to feed, and each one has a strategy to satisfy that hunger as their bodies develop
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    Podcast

    Why tariffs haven’t hit consumer prices hard – yetPodcast

    Business and Finance

    Luke and Lori ‘run a pretty tight ship when it comes to spending,’ says Luke, managing to pay off their mortgage and save for their children’s education.
    financial facelift

    Can Luke, 56, afford to retire soon while paying for his kids’ education?

    Carney appoints former Trans Mountain head to lead major projects office

    Dawn Farrell, the CEO of Trans Mountain before transitioning to board chair in 2024, oversaw the completion of the Tran Mountain pipeline.

    Ruby Liu’s plan for former Hudson’s Bay stores is ‘doomed to fail,’ lawyer says

    Billionaire Ruby Liu speaks with media as she arrives at court in Toronto on Friday, August 29, 2025. (Cole Burston/The Globe and Mail)
    the new economy

    The summer funk isn’t over yet for young, jobless Canadians

    Strathcona Resources plans to add to MEG stake, vote against Cenovus takeover

    Cenovus Energy logos are on display at the Global Energy Show in Calgary, Alta., Tuesday, June 7, 2022. The Calgary-based oil company says its refinery throughput for the third quarter of 2022 and the first quarter of 2023 will be weaker than expected.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh

    Opinion and analysis

    The markets will burn as Trump fiddles with the Fed

    John Rapley
    John Rapley

    Who watches those who watch our payments? The growing power of credit card giants

    Vass Bednar
    Vass Bednar

    Canada needs a critical minerals strategy that actually works

    Bentley Allan
    Coils of steel sit in a yard at Stelco's Hamilton Works in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, on June 4, 2025. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Wednesday denounced US President Donald Trump's doubling of tariffs on steel and aluminum to 50 percent, calling the levies "unjustified and illegal." (Photo by Cole BURSTON / AFP) / ALTERNATE CROP (Photo by COLE BURSTON/AFP via Getty Images)

    Donald Trump is rewriting America’s source code

    Tony Keller
    Tony Keller

    Canada must be ready to get its elbows up again to stand a chance in the post-Trump era

    Kevin Yin
    Kevin Yin

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    analysis

    Bank stocks are hot. Are they too hot to touch?

    Canadian bank stocks are great long-term investments that can be held through good times and bad. But the bad times make better buying opportunities
    David Berman

    Canada’s tariff revenue surges – but nowhere close to Ottawa’s projections

    Canada collected $3.6-billion in import tariffs during the second quarter, $2.1-billion more than it did a year ago.

    Quebec law firms that sued Big Tobacco to receive nearly $1-billion, a fee ‘unheard of in Canadian legal history’

    Justice Geoffrey Morawetz of the Ontario Superior Court in Toronto concluded that the 'astronomical' fee owed to four Quebec law firms is reasonable given the circumstances of the case.

    Canada’s economy contracts sharply in second quarter as tariffs hit exports

    Transport trucks carry cargo containers to be loaded on the Hapag-Lloyd container ship Frankfurt Express at the DP World Centerm terminal at port, in Vancouver, on Sunday, August 3, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

    A summer job at a newspaper taught TIFF’s Cameron Bailey the art of working on deadline

    Cameron Bailey

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    Ukrainian former parliamentary speaker Parubiy shot dead in LvivVideo1:12

    'Vicious compliance': Alberta Premier Smith questions Edmonton school board's banned books listVideo1:48

    Israel declares Gaza City a combat zone, launches 'initial stages' of planned offensiveVideo1:12

    Cuteness overload: Tennessee zoo welcomes 'huff-quacking' red pandasVideo0:49

    Japan uses AI-generated eruption of Mount Fuji to prepare Tokyo for worst-case scenarioVideo0:43

    Adorable snow leopard cub takes her first steps outside enclosure at UK zooVideo1:00

    Father of child killed in Minneapolis church shooting shares emotional pleaVideo1:04

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    Opinion

    As a professor of literature, I have serious concerns about the debates over books happening in Alberta

    Kit Dobson

    Two firefighters detained by ICE while responding to Washington wildfire

    Toronto band the Beaches riding a fresh wave of popularity on a mix of pop hooks, spirit and authenticity

    What Donald Trump’s crackdown looks like from the streets of Washington

    Toronto to allow larger apartment buildings around some transit stations

    Opinion

    The bitter truth is that cheaper housing means a retirement crisis for homeowners

    John Turley-Ewart

    Q+A: Bruce Daisley on the return-to-office push

    Can Luke, 56, afford to retire soon while paying for his kids’ education?

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    Ignacio Cofone
    OpenAI launched the latest version of ChatGPT in August.

    Ontario securities regulator files to force former Bridging Finance executives into bankruptcy

    David and Natasha Sharpe at the Bridging Finance Toronto offices in 2019. The husband and wife were found guilty of investment fraud last year.
    book review

    Everything is unstable in Helen Oyeyemi’s A New New Me – even the story itself

    Steven Beattie
    Helen Oyeyemi (U.K./Nigeria) was born in Nigeria in 1984 and moved to London when she was four. HANDOUT IFOA

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