ADAMS: The right to life is not the right to someone else's body
Why political factions and conservative activists cannot use the "right to life" to draft citizens' bodies into involuntary service.
Social Issues
Coverage on the issues shaping Canadian identity. From LGBTQ rights and Indigenous reconciliation to the evolving debates over free expression and cultural policy, we examine the societal shifts defining our country today.
EDITORIAL: Equality before the law is not optional
Free Trade is not appeasement, and CUSMA is no longer a Free Trade deal
FACT CHECK: Brian Lilley’s column gets residential schools wrong
Brian Lilley frames himself as defending open discussion, but what he's really defending is conjecture, selective storytelling, and minimization of Indigenous trauma.
ADAMS: Jamil Jivani's narrow politics of young men
Blaming DEI is easy. Fixing what's really hurting young men is harder.
Reality Isn’t Declared by Press Release
Danielle Smith says she’s “protecting women and girls.” Brian Lilley says, “If you disagree, you disagree with reality.” And with that, the Alberta government…
ADAMS: Is federal politics still the right fit for Nate Erskine-Smith?
His honesty about housing, party discipline, and leadership makes one direction feel increasingly likely: back to Ontario.
ADAMS: I went to an Yves Engler rally. Here’s what surprised me.
Yves Engler's rally was honest. And that's exactly the problem
ADAMS: Pierre Poilievre's figure skating panic
There is no crisis in women's figure skating, but there is one in Conservative political judgment.
ADAMS: Alberta's anti-Trans bills and the cost to at-risk youth
The government's insistence on ‘parental rights’ ignores the Charter rights of children and exposes those most at risk to real harm.
EDITORIAL: The dangerous revisionism of OneBC’s documentary
When political storytelling replaces evidence and Indigenous trauma becomes collateral damage
ADAMS: When everything Is a grievance, everyone becomes a target.
When special treatment replaces standards, no group remains protected for long
ADAMS: NDP leadership race crashes and burns in Montreal
Billed as a majority French-language debate, the Montreal event delivered barely any French, banned its only French socialist candidate, and proved the NDP is more interested in optics than fixing its historic collapse.