U.S. election may be over, but anxieties will linger

And that’s no good for Canada. We need an enabled, not disabled, America.

In Barack Obama’s hometown last weekend, Tim Powers writes that he didn't hear from Chicago residents as many positive comments about a Hillary Clinton win as he thought he would. She is pictured this month in Arizona.Photograph courtesy of Gage Skidmore

Opinion

BY TIM POWERS

November 9, 2016

OTTAWA—By the time you read this column the United States will likely have picked a new president, and this long, torturous election season will be over. That at least would be a small mercy but perhaps that is too optimistic. This past weekend I spent in Chicago, Ill. normally a hotbed of all th...

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