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My essay on the McGuinty era

The former premier projected an image of a man who might lack vision and lead a boring, but competent, government. I argue in tomorrow’s Observer that Dalton McGuinty turned out to be the precise...

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19 things I will do to your copy

We editors often grumble when outside writers submit work full of  fiddly changes for us to make. We don’t mind making a sentence smoother, or writing a great headline. But removing double spaces for...

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Mark Tewksbury on Olympic boycotts – in 2007

Back in 2007, I wrote this: It’s not like the Beijing Games are a one-time screw-up. The IOC has chosen to hold the 2014 Winter Games in Russia, near Georgia and Chechnya. Presumably, this is to...

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Submission guidelines for opeds

At some point, I’ll make this a permanent feature on our website somewhere. But for now, since people do ask for them from time to time, here are our submission guidelines: * If you’d like to submit an...

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Was Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy really “banned” in Canada?

I’m a science fiction geek and a free-speech advocate with an interest in Canadian law and policy, so the tweet from Tor,com could have been designed to get my attention: Douglas Adams’ HITCHHIKERS...

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Andrew Potter on Nelson Mandela and notions of citizenship

The Citizen’s editor, Andrew Potter, wrote this column about the meaning of Nelson Mandela’s citizenship for us in 2001, when he was a professor. * The post-modern Canadian June 15, 2001 Andrew Potter...

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‘Let Canada take the lead and let the chips fall where they may’

I came across this Citizen editorial from 1986 in our archives. It’s an interesting snapshot of how Canadians saw the politics of South Africa sanctions, and the role of the Commonwealth, in the years...

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The Supreme Court makes the right ruling on prostitution

I’m so pleased that the Supreme Court has recognized the harms done by Canada’s laws, laws that make it incredibly difficult for women to protect themselves. Here’s our editorial from March 2012, after...

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The Harper Conservatives and Elections Canada

This essay of mine was first published in October, 2013 in the Citizen’s weekly Observer section. Since we’re about to get election-act reform in Canada, it seems now is a good time to repost it....

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The creation of an editorial cartoon

One of our regular cartoonists, Patrick LaMontagne, created this video of the creation of the editorial cartoon that appears in the Citizen today.    

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