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Heartfield: Conservatives' hold on suburbs does not appear unshakeable
A couple of years ago, Darrell Bricker and John Ibbitson wrote that Canada was in the midst of a “Big Shift.” Part of their argument was that the growing political strength of Ontario’s suburbs,...
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Heartfield: In Ottawa, the roots of this election go back to 1988
The day before the 1988 federal election, the Ottawa political map looked much as it does now. Tories held most of the region, except for Ottawa Centre, which was NDP, and Ottawa-Vanier, which was...
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Heartfield: The citizens' campaign
This long and hard-fought campaign may have brought out the worst in Canada, exposing fears and hatreds and the depths to which political manipulation can sink. But it has also brought out the best....
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Heartfield: How the Conservatives lost Ottawa
The Conservatives didn’t seem interested in giving Ottawa a reason to vote for them. So Ottawa didn’t. In response to concerns in the public service about the government’s lack of respect for...
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Alan Cumyn: I Know That Land, revisited
A year ago, late in the evening of October 22, I tried to respond to an email from a cousin in Mississauga. Were we all right? Had I been caught downtown when the bullets were flying, when fear and...
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Heartfield: No, the Conservatives don't need sunny ways to win
We are telling ourselves a story, as we humans do, to make meaning of the world. The story goes like this: The Conservatives lost the election because Canadians disliked their negative, tightly...
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Heartfield: The feminist cabinet-maker
When Justin Trudeau announces his cabinet on Wednesday, half will be women and half will be men. This will be a first for a federal cabinet in Canada, and is highly unusual in the world. Gender parity...
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Heartfield: Canada needs a "gap year" culture
My reaction to the mattress store was my first clue that I had returned to North America a different person than I left it. How alien it seemed: stores the size of city blocks devoted to mattresses!...
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Heartfield: Enough empty talk about violence against women
On the federal government’s website, you can take a pledge to “#endviolence” against women and girls. “We are all part of the solution!” it chirps. The Ontario government has launched a campaign of TV...
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In the early 1990s, there was a place called Ottawa where the smoke was so thick in the government cafeteria that the plastic wrap on my egg-salad sandwich reeked of it. In that Ottawa, the military...
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