I own a daycare, and the government’s $10-a-day plan is threatening my business
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by Sarah Hunter
9M ago
Sarah Hunter’s daycare, the Imagination Tree, is struggling under the federal $10-a-day childcare program. (Photography by Leah Hennel) My mother started Riverbend Daycare in Calgary in 1987, and I started working there soon after it opened. I was 18, and I quickly learned that childcare isn’t a typical nine-to-five job: you become part of families’ lives. Over the years, I got to know their stories, shared in their hardships and celebrated their milestones. Occasionally, my mother and I even opened our homes to host children when their parents had family emergencies, and we offered advice a ..read more
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The Incel Terrorist
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by Lana Hall
9M ago
(Photo illustrations by Anna Minzhulina) The morning of February 24, 2020, began like any other at Crown Spa. The first clients of the day began coming and going for sessions, and J.C., the manager, was upstairs in the apartment where she lived. J.C., whose full name is under a publication ban, had managed the spa for about five years, and it wasn’t unusual for her to work seven days a week, greeting clients at her desk and scheduling sessions. That day, she had a dentist appointment, and a newly hired receptionist had failed to show up for work. J.C. texted a friend, 24-year-old Ashley Noel ..read more
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Quebec’s New French Revolution
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by Mark Mann
9M ago
(Photo courtesy of iStock) When François Legault is in downtown Montreal, he doesn’t like what he hears. Quebec’s premier works from an office on Sherbrooke Street, right in the heart of the city, only a few blocks from the mountain that gives Montreal its name and directly across the street from the Roddick Gates, the grand, columned entrance to McGill, Quebec’s most prestigious university. And it is the sound of English, not French, that often dominates here. To the northeast is Milton Park, a neighbourhood packed with McGill students. To the west is Concordia, the province’s biggest Engli ..read more
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Michelle O’Bonsawin: “I’m not a token Indigenous judge”
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by Katie Underwood
9M ago
In a world of Amy Coney Barretts and Brett Kavanaughs, Michelle O’Bonsawin was intent on keeping a low profile. Then in September, O’Bonsawin, a 48-year-old mother of two, was appointed the first Indigenous judge to sit on the Supreme Court of Canada in its nearly 150-year history—and with that came backlash. Critics picked apart O’Bonsawin’s credentials, which include a past stint at the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, plus a recent Ph.D. thesis (now embargoed) with a focus on Indigenous law. O’Bonsawin’s lived experience as an Abenaki member of Quebec’s Odanak First Nation has n ..read more
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Unifor’s Lana Payne is taking on the fight for workers
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by Katie Underwood
9M ago
Canada’s labour movement is ripe for a resurgence after decades of stagnant wages—not to mention the health-and-safety nightmare that was the pandemic. Leading the charge is Unifor, the country’s largest private-sector union, which represents more than 315,000 employees. Recently, Unifor made headlines for its own internal conflict: in March, former president Jerry Dias was charged with a breach of Unifor’s code of ethics after he allegedly accepted $50,000 from a Canadian supplier of COVID-19 rapid test kits and promoted the product to union employers. (Dias denies the allegations.) Restoring ..read more
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Wab Kinew, Manitoba’s first First Nations premier, wants to start with a clean slate
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by Katie Underwood
1y ago
(Photography by Aaron Vincent Elkaim) In early October, Manitoba chose Wab Kinew. The leader of the NDP and the son of an Anishinaabe chief, Kinew became the first First Nations premier in the province’s history—breaking a chain of conservative counterparts that, hours before, had stretched from Alberta to P.E.I. On the campaign trail, Kinew made the usual big-tent promises (balancing the budget and slashing the health-care queue), but many Manitobans also saw him as the rare politician who’d deliver. Progress is a satisfying campaign buzz-word, but it’s a lot harder in practice, which is so ..read more
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We’re getting married in India, but diplomatic tensions could jeopardize our wedding plans
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by Paluck Kohli
1y ago
(Photograph courtesy of Paluck Kohli) Paluck Kohli, a Toronto-based impact evaluation specialist, and her fiancé Ro, a financial data analyst, are both from India. When Ro received his Canadian citizenship in August, he also lost something—India doesn’t allow dual citizenship. When they go back to India in December for their wedding with over 600 guests, Ro will have to apply for a visitor’s visa. But recently, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accused the Indian government of being connected to the killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a Sikh separatist leader who lived in British Columbia. On Septe ..read more
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This student is stuck in the middle of Canada’s gender policy debate
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by Stephanie Bai
1y ago
Ollie Mead-Ramayya (far left), with his brother Owen (centre) and mom, Teresa This past May, New Brunswick’s Progressive Conservative government sparked a national furor when it announced changes to a previously obscure piece of provincial education legislation. Adopted in 2020, Policy 713 required school personnel to use students’ preferred names and pronouns and to ask students for permission before telling their parents about name and pronoun changes. It was intended to protect LGBTQ+ students who could face abusive or dangerous situations at home. The revised policy hinged instead on par ..read more
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The Unsteady Reign of Danielle Smith
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by Luc Rinaldi
1y ago
On a sunny Saturday morning this past April, one month before Alberta’s provincial election, about 200 boisterous supporters of the governing United Conservative Party descended on a parking lot in suburban Calgary. The throng—seniors, families, bearded guys in cowboy hats, bearded guys in UCP-blue turbans—were there for a campaign-launch rally, steeling themselves for a long day of door-to-door canvassing. The atmosphere was electric: polls showed a dead heat between the UCP and the NDP. The former was expected to handily win rural ridings, the latter to sweep Edmonton. It was here, in Calgar ..read more
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Stopping immigration won’t fix Canada’s housing crisis
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by Jacob Sheen
1y ago
(Photograph by iStock) As the country’s housing crisis intensifies, there’s been a lot of finger-pointing: at foreign investors snapping up residential real estate, at municipal governments and prohibitive zoning by-laws, and now, at immigrants and international students, the latest group thrust into the spotlight for exacerbating the crunch. Canada is, by far, the fastest-growing country in the G7. We passed the 40 million mark in June, after the population surged by over a million in 2022. Nearly all of those new Canadians were temporary and permanent immigrants. The international student ..read more
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