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“I WRITE MY OWN TALKING POINTS, THANK YOU VERY MUCH ”

Thursday night’s first and only English-language federal leaders’ debate was a chance for parties to clarify their positions on the issues that matter most to Canadia—oh, come on, who are we kidding? It was a smackdown, with each candidate looking to land as many blows as possible. Unsurprisingly, the most mud was slung at current prime minister and frontrunner Mark Carney, but Pierre Poilievre, Jagmeet Singh and Yves Blanchet didn’t exactly come out clean. Here, the night’s most notable dunks and disses.

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“SUCCESS IS RANDOM”

Arkells frontman Max Kerman doesn’t see himself as a rock star. Instead, as he writes in his new book, Try Hard, he’s just a guy with a few skills and the will to keep refining them. It’s the kind of humility that pervades his memoir on work, writing and music. We spoke to him all about it.

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GREAT SPACES

After fleeing Republican-run Iowa, US transplants Laura Federico and Ariel Rubin decorated their new Canadian home with a Masonic temple star, hand-painted walls and oodles of knick-knacks. Below, a tour of their east-end funhouse.

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