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John Ibbitson

@johnibbitson.bsky.social
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Writer and journalist: The Duel, Stephen Harper, The Landing. With Darrell Bricker: Breaking Point (this Oct.), Empty Planet, The Big Shift.

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John Ibbitson @johnibbitson.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
From me: www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
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Opinion: New LGBTQ monument a reminder to keep standing up to wrongs
The Thunderhead commemorates Canadians who suffered oppression for who they loved, sometimes at the hands of their own government
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John Ibbitson @johnibbitson.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
From me: www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
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Opinion: The Senate’s grievous underrepresentation of the West is harming Canadian unity
The premiers should take on the process of Senate reform to help tamp down regional grievances
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John Ibbitson @johnibbitson.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
On The Big Story Podcast, I talk about the future of the Liberal Party at the provincial level. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/c...
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Can provincial Liberals make a come back?
Podcast Episode · The Big Story · June 3 · 21m
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John Ibbitson @johnibbitson.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
From me: www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
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Opinion: Central Canadian elites are as much to blame for Alberta’s separatist movement as anyone else
Western alienation is being treated with condescension, despite decades of decision-making that stoked anger in the Prairies
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John Ibbitson @johnibbitson.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Please read Empty Planet, by Darrell Bricker and me, to understand how wrong this man was about everything. Paul R. Ehrlich, Who Alarmed the World With ‘The Population Bomb,’ Dies at 93 www.nytimes.com/2026/03/15/b...
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Paul R. Ehrlich, Who Alarmed the World With ‘The Population Bomb,’ Dies at 93
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John Ibbitson @johnibbitson.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
From me: www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
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Opinion: Floor-crossings are part of a Canadian tradition – and fair play in our politics
In Canada’s system, we vote for candidates in local ridings, not for parties or prime ministers. And as the golden age of floor-crossings showed us, that empowers MPs to switch parties
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John Ibbitson @johnibbitson.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
My new bike arrived today. It’s a Norco Scene VLT e-bike. Thanks to the good folk at Full Cycle in Ottawa for helping to make it happen. And to Grant, of course. Now Spring, hurry up and get here!
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John Ibbitson @johnibbitson.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
I greatly enjoyed talking about The Duel last week on behalf of the Canadian Institute for Historical Education. The deeply knowledgeable audience gently corrected me once or twice. A rich exchange, at least for me. cihe.ca/2026/01/21/j...
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Wednesday January 21, 2026, John Ibbitson - "The Duel: Diefenbaker, Pearson and the Making of Modern Canada" - CIHE
On Wednesday January 21, 2026 CIHE hosts John Ibbitson to discuss his national-bestselling history of the Diefenbaker–Pearson rivalry and how it forged modern Canada—rights, immigration, the flag, and...
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John Ibbitson @johnibbitson.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
From me: www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/book...
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Fixing what ails Canadian publishing: The glory days never existed, but the industry’s future needs a boost
A new book by Richard Stursberg argues that the industry has been weakened by the encroachment of foreign-owned firms and a national identity crisis
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John Ibbitson @johnibbitson.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
From me : www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
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Opinion: The Conservative and Liberal responses to Venezuela reflect vastly different foreign-policy outlooks
Mark Carney must still approach these matters softly as Canada faces the USMCA renegotiations
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John Ibbitson @johnibbitson.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
2023: The Duel. 2024: A Nation’s Paper. 2025: Breaking Point. Three good years.
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John Ibbitson @johnibbitson.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Martha Hall Findley reviews Breaking Point l. “Whether one agrees with their conclusions or not, Breaking Point demands serious engagement with fundamental questions about Canada’s future.” x.com/johnibbitson...
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John Ibbitson on X: "Martha Hall Findlay reviews Breaking Point. “Whether one agrees with their conclusions or not, Breaking Point demands serious engagement with fundamental questions about Canada’s future.” https://t.co/fLFhrPFd3R" / X
Martha Hall Findlay reviews Breaking Point. “Whether one agrees with their conclusions or not, Breaking Point demands serious engagement with fundamental questions about Canada’s future.” https://t.co/fLFhrPFd3R
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John Ibbitson @johnibbitson.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
An excerpt from Breaking Point is in The Hub today. thehub.ca/2025/11/15/c...
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Canada is at a breaking point—the growing generational gap is a big reason why
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Steve Paikin @spaikin.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
🚨🎙️NEW episode: Darrell Bricker and @johnibbitson.bsky.social on "Breaking Point." ➡️Trudeau’s failures ➡️Immigration ➡️Angry young people ➡️Tensions in Quebec and the Prairies ➡️How to fix it YouTube: youtu.be/7WJ0y7s_BZ8 Apple: apple.co/4nzNt4c All the others: linktr.ee/thepaikinpod...
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Is Canada at a Breaking Point?
YouTube video by The Paikin Podcast
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John Ibbitson @johnibbitson.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Junius calls on Canada to stiffen its spine. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...
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Globe editorial: Canada must be prepared to stand on its own
A key part of success in negotiations with the United States depends on being ready for their failure
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John Ibbitson @johnibbitson.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
On CBC’s Sunday Magazine in a few minutes with Darrell Bricker to talk about Breaking Point.
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John Ibbitson @johnibbitson.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
From Darrell Bricker and me: Canada is at a breaking point. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
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Opinion: There are divisions in every part of the country. Is Canada at the breaking point?
The question remains whether the Liberals, the Conservatives or any Canadian political party address the country’s disharmony
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John Ibbitson @johnibbitson.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
The weekend political panel, on trade and the border. na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
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CBC News Network speaks to the Saturday Political Panel on the week's events
CBC News Network speaks to the Saturday Political Panel on the week's events
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John Ibbitson @johnibbitson.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
So this just arrived. On sale October 28.
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John Ibbitson @johnibbitson.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
In this week's political panel, we talk about Canada Post, Mark Carney's travels and the travails of Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree. na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=http%3A%...
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CBC's Natasha Fatah breaks down the week in politics with Saturday Political Panel
Get the latest on CBCNews.ca, the CBC News App, and CBC News Network for breaking news and analysis.
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John Ibbitson @johnibbitson.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Here is today’s political panel on the hurt feelings of the American ambassador na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
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CBC News Network speaks to the Saturday Political Panel about the week in politics
Get the latest on CBCNews.ca, the CBC News App, and CBC News Network for breaking news and analysis.
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John Ibbitson @johnibbitson.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Concerning the Russian drone incursion into Polish airspace, we will need to watch very carefully what happens next in the Baltics. Canada leads a multinational NATO brigade in Latvia. These are dangerous times.
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John Ibbitson @johnibbitson.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
From me: www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
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Opinion: Canada and America can’t break up –⁠ but we do need a trial separation
We cannot avoid trade with the massive economy next door –⁠ but as its democracy backslides, Canada will need alternatives
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John Ibbitson @johnibbitson.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
From me: www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/article...
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Jimmy Coutts’s diaries are for students of Canadian political history
Author and journalist Ron Graham was given advanced access to the diaries, and from them has assembled this account
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John Ibbitson @johnibbitson.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
How I wish someone had taken a picture of the poker group when we first started playing together in university. Thirty-eight years later. Never missed a year. A life blessing.
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John Ibbitson @johnibbitson.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
When I was a kid, people called the first cool nights in August “Ex weather” because they coincided with the arrival of the Canadian National Exhibition. No more need for kids to sleep outdoors on hot, humid nights. Last night in Ottawa was classic Ex weather, with more to come.
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John Ibbitson @johnibbitson.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
From me: www.fraserinstitute.org/commentary/c...
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Carney can rescue health care by loosening restrictions of the Canada Health Act
The median wait time between referral by a family doctor to treatment by a specialist in 2024 reached 30 weeks.
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John Ibbitson @johnibbitson.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
I really enjoy doing this panel Saturday at noon ET with Natasha Fatah, Rob Breakenridge and Marty Patriquin. Today’s episode was particularly lively. na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
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CBC News Network speaks to a political panel on Trump's tariff war and more
Get the latest on CBCNews.ca, the CBC News App, and CBC News Network for breaking news and analysis.
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John Ibbitson @johnibbitson.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
@darrellbricker and I wrote Breaking Point over six frantic months, through Freeland & Trudeau & Trump and Carney & the election. It's all in the book, but the forces threatening Canada stretch much farther back. Pub date is Oct. 28. You can pre-order now. www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/801993...
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Breaking Point by Darrell Bricker and John Ibbitson | Penguin Random House Canada
From the authors of The Big Shift and Empty Planet, a timely and provocative exploration of the seismic forces reshaping Canada’s political, cultural, and economic landscape.
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John Ibbitson @johnibbitson.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
I am honoured that Jane Philpott named The Duel as her recommended summer reading. Thank you Dr. Philpott. na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
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Tidewater Books & Browsery @tidewaterbooks.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Today's Featured #CanLit in-store is 'A Nation's Paper: The Globe and Mail in the Life of Canada' by @johnibbitson.bsky.social 💕🇨🇦📚 tidewaterbooks.ca 💕🇨🇦📚 #IndieBookstoreCA #ShopSmall #ThankYouForShopingLocal #Fallinlovewithlocal #SmallBusinessEveryDay #IndieBookstores
book: 'A Nation's Paper: The Globe and Mail in the Life of Canada' by John Ibbitson, Tidewater Books bookmark, Canadian Maple Leaf
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John Ibbitson @johnibbitson.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
What an honour and pleasure it was to join ⁦‪@spaikin‬⁩ on set as part of a panel on Canada’s future. This is The Agenda’s final month. The panel airs on TVOntario at 8 and 11 pm tonight. And yes, he is the best interviewer in the country. And my friend.
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John Ibbitson @johnibbitson.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
From me: thehub.ca/2025/05/02/j...
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John Ibbitson: The Laurentian elite strikes back
Was this federal election the last gasp of the Laurentian elite?
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John Ibbitson @johnibbitson.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Several takes on the election. thehub.ca/2025/04/30/w...
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‘We’ve given Trump just what he wanted’: The Hub reacts to a dramatic Canadian federal election
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John Ibbitson @johnibbitson.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
From me on election day: thehub.ca/2025/04/28/j...
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John Ibbitson: The forked road Canadian voters face on election day
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John Ibbitson @johnibbitson.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
From me: www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
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Opinion: The Liberals and Tories are so similar, they look like Tweedledum and Tweedledee
There is a vanishingly small policy gap distinguishing the two federal parties leading the election campaign
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Robin MacNab @robinmacnab.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
From @JohnIbbitson.bsky.social: the two national governing parties would take much the same approach in responding to the challenges we face. For better or worse, the Grits and the Tories truly have become Tweedledum and Tweedledee. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
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Opinion: The Liberals and Tories are so similar, they look like Tweedledum and Tweedledee
There is a vanishingly small policy gap distinguishing the two federal parties leading the election campaign
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Robin MacNab @robinmacnab.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
The Hub’s @JohnIbbitson.bsky.social on the debate : it’s hard to see how it advantaged Carney. It’s never a good night when you spend much of the time trying to convince people you are not Justin Trudeau. thehub.ca/2025/04/17/j...
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John Ibbitson: Pierre Poilievre didn’t decisively win the leaders’ debate—but Mark Carney likely lost it
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John Ibbitson @johnibbitson.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
I join those celebrating this brilliant column. Much is going to be lost. If you want that which you love to survive, you must do. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/o... via @NYTOpinion
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Opinion | An Age of Extinction Is Coming. Here’s How to Survive.
Everything is under threat. What you care about can make it to the other side.
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John Ibbitson @johnibbitson.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
From me, on the debate. thehub.ca/2025/04/17/j...
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John Ibbitson: Pierre Poilievre didn’t decisively win the leaders’ debate—but Mark Carney likely lost it
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John Ibbitson @johnibbitson.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
From University of Waterloo psychologist (and close friend) Christine Purdon, on how to cope with the stress of our times. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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The news has stress levels soaring. I have strategies to keep you grounded
We have deep reserves of strength and resilience. Now is the time to ensure we tap into them by focusing on the here and now, taking action, and living our
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John Ibbitson @johnibbitson.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
From me: thehub.ca/2025/04/05/j...
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John Ibbitson: Poilievre’s critics are dead wrong. We do, in fact, need to talk about family fertility
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John Ibbitson @johnibbitson.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
A column from me on fixing Canada’s broken immigration system. www.fraserinstitute.org/commentary/f...
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Fixing Canada’s immigration system should be next government’s top priority
Ottawa loosened restrictions on temporary foreign worker permits and the admission of foreign students to colleges and universities.
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John Ibbitson @johnibbitson.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Whoever wins the April 28 election, the prime minister’s first international trip should be to Nuuk.
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John Ibbitson @johnibbitson.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
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CBC News Network's Natasha Fatah speaks with Writer and Journalist John Ibbitson
Get the latest on CBCNews.ca, the CBC News App, and CBC News Network for breaking news and analysis.
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John Ibbitson @johnibbitson.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
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John Ibbitson: Making the election all about Donald Trump would be a mistake
Focus on Trump will dominate the upcoming election, but there’s a better ballot question for Poilievre and Carney to answer
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John Ibbitson @johnibbitson.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
This might be a good time to pick up “A Nation’s Paper: The Globe and Mail in the Life of Canada,” published last year to mark the paper’s 180th year of publication. penguinrandomhouse.com/books/726367/a…
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A Nation's Paper: 9780771006289 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
From Canada's newspaper of record for 180 years, here are thirty-one brilliant and provocative essays by a diverse selection of their writers on how The Globe and Mail covered and influenced major eve...
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John Ibbitson @johnibbitson.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
“What he wants is to see a total collapse of the Canadian economy, because that'll make it easier to annex us." This is the most extraordinary statement by a Canadian prime minister in the history of this country. The Trump administration is at war with Canada.
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John Ibbitson @johnibbitson.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
From me, on a proposal to bring greater autonomy to First Nations by transferring taxing powers to reserves. www.fraserinstitute.org/commentary/h...
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Here’s how First Nations can access a reliable source of revenue
A First Nations Resource Charge could speed the approval of resource-related projects on indigenous lands, and it could provide First Nations with stable and autonomous funding.
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John Ibbitson @johnibbitson.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
From me: www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
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Opinion: With Trump spurring sponsors to ditch Pride Toronto, Canadian companies should step up
We all need to wake up to the reality that what is happening in the United States right now threatens not only our livelihoods, but our values
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