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Jeffrey Simpson

Quebec's young Liberals are being thrown to the wolves

How can any candidate win with almost no help from the national party?


Commentary

Beijing still wants to control this milk delivery

Government efforts to contain the fallout from the melamine scandal are far from convincing


Margaret Wente

I could use a liquidity injection

Must our Prime Minister be so comatose about the financial situation?


Commentary

How conservative are Canadians?

Our political orientation is fiscally prudent and socially liberal


Margaret Atwood

Anything but a Harper majority

Margaret Atwood explains why she's prepared to support even Gilles Duceppe if it means denying the Conservatives full control

globeeditorials

Victory in Afghanistan need not be total

The reported remarks of Britain's top commander in Afghanistan should not be taken as defeatism


It's the economy, now

The election and the financial crisis


The masses like the arts

Cuts to cultural grants not playing well among ‘ordinary working people'


Military complaint warrants a hearing

Decision to investigate complaints involving high-ranking Canadian officers and torture of detainees is a good one.

 

Canadian election 

Lawrence Martin: Giving the Tories a free pass on sleaze and low ethics

Given the developments in this election, the descent of our politics into the ethical dungeon is likely to accelerate.

Preston Manning: Put Harper at the helm of the ship of state

It's the best possible way to deal with stormy economic seas.

Lysiane Gagnon: Taking Quebec's temperature

Don't believe all the polls you read. Some are done correctly and reflect reality. Others are based on too small a sample.

Konrad Yakabuski: Duceppe's game plan is a chip off the old Bloc - and it's working

Bloc Quebecois Leader excels at painting the Conservatives as outsiders who would threaten ‘the Quebec way' of doing things

Murray Campbell: Harper's silence on Ontario hurting Tories' chances

Refusal to engage in discussion about future of country's most populous province puzzles senior PC members

Analysis: Harper at risk of faltering (again) at 11th hour

His campaign stalled in 2004 and 2006. This time, Tory Leader's electoral momentum is threatened by his response to the economy

Globe editorial: The Tories' in-your-face plan for youth justice

When the Supreme Court made it tougher to sentence a young person as an adult, the Conservatives came up with a clever solution

Jeffrey Simpson: Will Harper win Quebec's heartland?

Like the federal Liberals before them, the Conservatives fail to break the triangulation francophone Quebeckers use to assess their interests

Rex Murphy: It was Them versus Him. Ho-hum

The federal leaders debate was reduced to a very odd endurance contest

Globe editorial: This is not leadership

Party leaders are saying precious little at all about the deteriorating economic situation and what they are saying has been of precious little value


U.S. election 

Bob Levin: It's the culture war, stupid

The Republicans will try to work their manipulative magic yet again

Marcus Gee: Let's not consign the United States to the dustbin

It will take more than a panic on Wall Street to ring down the curtain on American predominance

Margaret Wente: What's wrong with bashing Sarah Palin?

There are many, many ways of dissing Sarah Palin. But Heather Mallick's naughty, coarse puerility is not among them


More Globe editorials 

Gossip and vigilantism

We also need to punish those who make false accusations and those who egg on vigilantes.

Siege diplomacy

Security concerns can be addressed within attractive and accessible U.S. embassies.

No body, no library

Conspiracy theorists believe Steve Fossett faked his own death, but why would he want to do so?

The hockey owner to be longed for

The NHL should be over the moon to have Jim Balsillie

Buffett should play on a bigger stage

The chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. should be prevailed upon by the President and Congress of the United States to step in and take charge of emergency economic stabilization

More than just mistakes

Coming to grips with terrible wrongs means not just fixing the system, but holding the people in charge responsible


More Commentary 

Daniel P. Fata: Why Afghanistan matters to Canada

We have resumed an active leadership role and improved the lives of those living half a world away

Margaret Wente: America's house of cards - make that, credit cards

The problems in the economy and the banking system are far beyond what the bailout package can fix

Margaret Wente: Where did all my money go?

Whenever I start gloating over my piggy bank, the end is nigh

John Gray: America's global fall from grace

The financial crisis has seen an entire model of government and the economy collapse


Globe Essay 

Edward Alden: The Great Wall of the United States

Sept. 11, 2001, led at first to fresh thinking about the Canada-U.S. border. The 'smart border' concept is the way forward, but it will not soon be a reality

Heather Scoffield: Politicians and their costly promises

Why do we always teeter on the brink of new deficits? Our allergy to red ink and our anchorless policy-making.

Shira Herzog: Gap between words and deeds in the Mideast

Israel's leaders are judged by their ability to wage war and make peace

John Duffy: The first North American election?

Race and region have given way to a new rural-urban conflict in both the United States and Canada

David Shribman: U.S. hunting season, political style

The historical significance of this contest may be who selects the winner

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