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Shift change
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In a country as large and diverse as Canada, we need healthy traditions to hold us together.
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6 Votes
Quality control
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The educators in affluent Mount Olive are doing this by getting rid of the letter D. Instead, students will have to get an A, B or C -- or fail. In other words, students in high and middle schools won't be able to just "scrape by."
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8 Votes
Lessons of the spill
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Long before BP plugged the flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, people living along the gulf wanted to know what could have been done to avoid the largest spill in U.S. history. Canadians should pay close attention to those questions, because Canada has the makings of an oil rush of its own.
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12 Votes
Buses to nowhere
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Rapid-bus advocates are quick to argue that one great feature of such transit systems is flexibility.
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14 Votes
We failed them
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That serial killer Robert Pickton will spend the next 25 years in prison is little comfort to the families of women whose deaths he will never answer for. The prosecution's decision not to pursue 20 outstanding murder charges against Pickton is understandably upsetting for everyone who knew and loved th
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10 Votes
Bad for our health
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As recently as a few years ago, anyone who proposed substantive changes to Canada's health-care system was accused of abandoning core Canadian values.
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13 Votes
A complex family
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In a country occupying such a huge geography, there are major cultural differences, regional idiosyncrasies and economic disparities. The genius of Canada is that citizens across this vast land can join together to support a central or federal government to address national responsibilities such as defe
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12 Votes
Deadly summer
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Even as family and friends mourned the death of two-year-old Jérémie Audette, who drowned in the backyard pool of an Orléans home daycare, the grim toll in Ontario's summer of drownings continued to climb.
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