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For all the talk of a nation divided by President Trump’s anti-Canadian rhetoric and a certain premier who won’t put the national economy before her province’s, on the question of tariffs, Canada’s message to Trump’s Washington is very united indeed. It’s so united, in fact, that this week Prime Minister Justin Trudeau seemed to channel Ezra Levant circa 2010. Read More

In the wake of the October 7, 2023 Hamas terrorist attack on Israeli soil, the discourse surrounding Israel in my progressive circles has become overwhelmingly negative wrought with invective. As I’ve sought to educate myself about Israel and its ongoing war with Hamas, mainstream media and influencers on the progressive left have glossed over the complexities and nuances of this war in a deliberate fashion. Read More

Elon Musk, one of the world’s wealthiest and most successful entrepreneurs, is an enthusiastic supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump. He’s part of the second Trump presidential administration, serving as administrator for the newly created Department of Government Efficiency. Read More

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OTTAWA -- Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said Wednesday he is only aware of two genders -- male and female -- and that the government should leave questions of gender identity alone. Read More

OTTAWA — Former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney is expected to be lining up more key endorsements from Quebec federal ministers for his leadership bid in the coming days. Read More

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump threatened on Wednesday to impose stiff taxes, tariffs and sanctions on Russia if an agreement isn't reached to end the war in Ukraine, a warning that is likely fall on deaf ears in the Kremlin. The United States already prohibits the import of virtually all Russian products, and Russia has faced a multitude of U.S. and European sanctions since the invasion began almost three years ago. Read More

OTTAWA — The Conservative party added more detail Wednesday to its leader's plan to shrink the federal public service, saying the bureaucracy could be cut by 17,000 jobs a year just by not replacing employees who leave their jobs. Read More

Canadians breathed a sigh of relief for a couple hours on Monday. Read More

OTTAWA — Quebec Premier François Legault says his government will be "very, very careful" with the border because it does not want to "end up with a new Roxham" after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to expel migrants. Read More

Much has been made of the U.S. presidential tool known as an executive order in recent days. Read More

OTTAWA — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has two increasingly vocal allies among Canadian premiers in her push to ratchet down the response to President Donald Trump's threatened 25 per cent tariff on all Canadian goods. Read More

A former Haitian soldier Canada's immigration minister believes was involved in an attempted coup on the troubled Caribbean island has won another chance to stay here as a refugee. Read More

In the new world order inaugurated in Washington this week, the unthinkable is suddenly plausible. Read More

Brad Neufeld, the vice-president of a Toronto-based health-care firm, was in Tel Aviv when the first sirens went off on Oct. 7, 2023. It was early Saturday morning, and Hamas terrorists had hit Israel with everything they had, murdering, raping and kidnapping civilians. Read More

Internet culture may be useful when it comes to education. Read More

The Canadian Armed Forces is no longer automatically disqualifying applicants with certain medical conditions such as allergies and ADHD, as it works to improve its numbers and grow the size of Canada's military. Read More

From inside a Canadian immigration detention facility in British Columbia, Antony Vo, an Indiana man and ardent Donald Trump supporter, was able to watch as the newly inaugurated U.S. president announced and then signed an executive order to pardon over 1,500 Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot convicts. Read More

However you interpret the American president’s threats to cripple the Canadian economy for whichever of the illogical reasons he cites, and whatever anyone makes of Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, he’s dead right about this: Canada needs to quickly develop a plan for retaliatory tariffs, and that means Parliament has to be immediately reconvened. Read More

LONDON — Prince Harry claimed a monumental victory Wednesday as Rupert Murdoch's U.K. tabloids made an unprecedented apology for intruding in his life over decades and agreed to pay substantial damages to settle his privacy invasion lawsuit. Read More

MONTREAL -- A Quebec coroner says a 44-year-old Haitian man who was found dead in 2023 after trying to cross into the United States likely experienced hypothermia before drowning in shallow water. Read More

In the fifteen months since October 7, an absence of leadership has turned Toronto into a city that many don’t recognize. Even more upsetting, for some it has turned into a city where they don’t feel safe. Read More