A billboard placed in Copenhagen by environmental groups shows Prime Minister Stephen Harper saying in 2020: ‘I'm sorry. We could have stopped catastrophic climate change ... we didn’t.’ Christian Aslund/AFP/Getty Images
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U.S. initiative, Canadian passivity

Better news is coming out of Copenhagen as world leaders prepare for the climate change summit's last day. No thanks, unfortunately, to Canada

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Dec. 29: Letters to the editor

Today's topics: airport chaos, a Korean victory, the big Afghan picture, 'slackers,' why we scream, a Mr. Dressup moment ... and more

The Fifth Column

'No one is putting a gun to your head to eat them'

Editors pick readers' most insightful online comments

Season's Nestlings

Yule be sorry

Warren Clements investigates the dangers of Christmas carol overload

Today's editorial cartoon

What nightmare?

Browse cartoons by Brian Gable and Anthony Jenkins

Preston Manning

Honesty is the best policy

Stephen Harper's visits to China and Copenhagen did not display the hypocrisy-tainted policies of the past

Jeffrey Simpson

The no-go zone of Canadian discourse

There is an inability or unwillingness to debate seriously, let alone try to tackle, major social and economic challenges

Frank Ching

Plus ça change in Liu Xiaobo's China

Two trials, 72 years apart, tell the tale of progress in human rights

Michael LeGault

Today's real energy crisis

Here's the kicker: Not only did your dad not get a nap, he kept on ticking

Lionel Tiger

Forever in touch: our giant step back

We've reprimated ourselves with an electric tsunami of communication. Now what?

Patricia Dawn Robertson

Little slum on the Prairie

You don't want to be a renter in boomtown Regina

Todd Hirsch

Slippery road ahead after a decade of fear

Will our memories be too short to learn the sobriety we need?

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Anthony Jenkins

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Brian Gable
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Who will pay to end the looming pension crisis?

An expanded CPP could rescue a nation of inadequate savers from themselves – but at a cost. That's why it's emerging as the next major battle over Canadian social policy

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