Ottawa's Edith René wins CBC's First Page student writing award

If you’ve noticed more national flags adorning Canadian streets, even in Montreal where the fleur-de-lys is far more common, you’re not alone. Every day is Canada day. Annexationist rhetoric will do that to a country. Since taking office, United States president Donald Trump has repeatedly mused about making Canada the country’s “cherished” fifty-first state, claiming Canada is not economically or militarily viable without the US. The economics underlying the president’s argument were fabricated and fantastical, but this was the world’s most powerful country, helmed by an unpredictable...