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MARGARET WENTE

Meltdown? The horror! The honey!

Blame it on the bees or the Bee Boyz, but this summer's harvest was dismal. It's just one more thing we can't control


Jeffrey Simpson

Economic illiteracy and the policies of harm

The financial downdraft is mocking politicians' rhetoric


Rex Murphy

We're shocked - and voting

It was a politicians' election until the financial roller coaster began


Marcus Gee

China should save less, spend more

While Chinese saved for tomorrow, Americans spent like there wasn't one

globeeditorials

Their own worst enemies

When Dion flubbed a TV interview, the Conservatives should have resisted their worst political instincts and left well enough alone


Laissez-faire justice

Abduction case raises raises questions about whether Canada's liberal approach to sex offenders is working


Smashing the ceiling

It's Tina Fey who is benefiting from this presidential campaign

 

Canadian election 

Globe editorial: Harper is growing into the job

On balance, the Tory Leader remains the best man for the job in the tough times now upon us.

Jeffrey Simpson: There's a shift in the Dion narrative, but 'turned things around'?

A slight upward tick in the Liberals' polling results has produced an amended media narrative

Commentary: The rise and fall of the Harper majority

What happened to the Conservatives' sure thing?

Rick Salutin: The blowback from Afghanistan

Military spending is a superb way to tilt an economy away from social goals

Margaret Wente: Mr. Harper's empathy deficit

Guess who hasn't met the test of leadership

Jeffrey Simpson: Why Canadian politics will never be the same

The days of two strong national parties are over

Lawrence Martin: And the winner is ... the party that cuts a deal

Are we moving into an era of coalition politics?

Roy MacGregor: Revenge of the nerd: Dion's sudden comeback

Overnight, it seems, the Liberal Leader changed from the lost backpacker to the man with a plan

The election and the crisis: equally unprepared

None of Canada's party leaders were ready for the present predicament

Jeffrey Simpson: Voters are unhappy, unhappy, very unhappy

And they will take it out on both Conservatives and Liberals


More Globe editorials 

The people are not hanging judges

On the faint-hope clause, the public has a say, and has demonstrated that it prefers flexibility

Rate cuts – as after Sept. 11

The subprime mortgage fiasco has grown into a global assault on the economic health of nations and individuals

Timothy Garton Ash: Ending the culture war

The world needs America to leave red and blue politics behind

A loss for Canadian English

The closing of the four-person department that has produced the first two editions of the Canadian Oxford Dictionary is regrettable

Genuine accountability for Manitoba's police

Independent civilian unit set a strong example

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.

Gossip and vigilantism

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


More Commentary 

Rami Khouri: Arab world's incompetent governance

When oil income and bad economic management meet

Commentary: Beijing still wants to control this milk delivery

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

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 

Globe essay: A time when the gods changed

Wall Street's wild tribe displayed a fearful arrogance that knew no bounds. But capitalism takes a lot of killing.

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.

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