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For the federal Conservatives to win power, they must promise secular government, interesting and appealing economic ideas, an unqualified commitment to equal rights for all and a credible climate policy.
Can our assumptions about economic growth and our attachment to the systems that drive it be adapted, and where necessary, dismantled and replaced to prevent our multiple crises from worsening?
"Portraying the protest as an act of collective grieving rather than a bacchanal of vandalism and constitutional hooliganism was a choice," writes columnist Max Fawcett.
The Conservatives have turned themselves into a farm team version of American Republicans and in the process have made Premier Doug Ford look good by comparison.