Marcus Gee

Columnist and feature writer for the Globe and Mail, Canada's national newspaper.

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Almost a decade ago, I wrote this about Abdul El-Sayed, who just won Michigan's Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate @globeandmail https://t.co/kFPFCczMvk

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My latest from the Globe… Everyone loves a puffin. Scientists are stumped about their beaks https://t.co/TrQnmSXYuc

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A frayed public order needs enforcement https://t.co/9bfj1MlRjY

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Canada can learn lessons from asymmetric warfare https://t.co/m9YeEl3lPp

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When help means losing choice: The reality of rural mental health care - Investigative Journalism Bureau https://t.co/PaycFfedSy

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Violence can’t be allowed to destroy the best of cities https://t.co/3NptlhY1oF

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The mental health benefits of going to work https://t.co/f6Sq571EQB

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Donald Trump has (accidentally) made the world a better place https://t.co/il7YsWuQjn

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On the Russian front lines, drones are changing the dynamics of war https://t.co/D62d8b2q2x

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A crossword puzzle conundrum https://t.co/kLDceiuRcz

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My latest from the Globe… How our prime ministers became kings https://t.co/akdfePkoSU

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Knicks Give Their City Something New: Impossible Joy https://t.co/JP3VTujbSL via @NYTimes

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My latest from the Globe… Toronto’s gateway roads are an embarrassment https://t.co/HHLUnb16f2

[Nick Bryant @NickBryantNY]

This feels like a fitting moment to share my interview with Marty Baron, the former executive editor of the Washington Post, on Trump’s attacks on the media:

https://t.co/ygGT0OHRqF

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Scott Pelley: CBS News ‘Is on Fire’ https://t.co/ij6kXmpYop via @NYTimes

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

Alan Riding, a British lawyer who escaped trusts and torts to become a brilliant long-time foreign correspondent for the @nytimes, covering Latin America and Europe, has died at 82. He was an extraordinary journalist, author and colleague. RIP, Alan. https://t.co/tzyYybC3JY

[David Frum @davidfrum]

Powerful editorial in Canada's @globeandmail on the failure to speak plain about antisemitism: "The price of freedom of conscience and safety for Jews ... is set by their enemies."

https://t.co/ZpZt1z3eRO

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Canadiens’ Lane Hutson leads and learns in playoff run https://t.co/Ul2guiPuxo

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Relentless Hurricanes beat Canadiens in overtime to tie up Eastern Conference final https://t.co/a26xOv2x3i

[Meanwhile in Ukraine @MeanwhileInUA]

Putin didn't invade Ukraine because of NATO. He invaded because Ukrainians were proving democracy works.

Historian and Pulitzer Prize winner Anne Applebaum puts it plainly: Putin looked at Ukraine's democratic movement and thought, "If they can do it in Ukraine, then people could do it in Russia. So I need to crush this."

That's the real threat Ukraine posed. Not missiles. Not borders. A working democracy next door.

Applebaum frames the war as a fault line between the democratic and autocratic worlds. Russia isn't just trying to take territory. It's trying to erase Ukraine as a nation, reduce it to a colony, and send a message to every country that the post-1945 rules of Europe no longer apply.

Those rules were simple: no invasions, no wars, borders don't change by force. Russia understood exactly what it was breaking when it crossed into Ukraine.