This year’s Canada Games offer lessons for us all

Participants and volunteers in the 2025 Canada Games gave us a great example of what a motivated civil society does for and with each other when things get tough.

These games represented the best of Canada, not only because of what happened on the pitches, in the pool, or at the track, but because of how competitors from all across the country came together to help each other, writes Tim Powers.Photograph courtesy of Pexels

Opinion

BY TIM POWERS

August 27, 2025

OTTAWA—We could do yet another deep dive into what Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has learned in his summer of seeking re-election to Parliament. But we’ll hold off on that for now. Or we could dive into Prime Minister Mark Carney’s recent decision to pull down a...

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