OTTAWA — With only days before the first round of tariffs take effect, Canada's allies in Washington, D.C. are pushing for U.S. President Donald Trump to permanently rescind the measures, arguing a trade war would cause economic harm on both sides of the border. Read More

Key U.S. agencies, including the FBI, State Department and the Pentagon, have instructed their employees not to comply with cost-cutting chief Elon Musk's latest demand that federal workers explain what they accomplished last week — or risk losing their jobs. Read More

Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford offered little clarity Sunday on how he would pay for billions of dollars in promises if re-elected, as looming tariffs from the U.S. continue to keep economic stability at the forefront of the election campaign. Read More

German opposition leader Friedrich Merz’s conservatives were on course for a lacklustre victory in a national election Sunday, while Alternative for Germany nearly doubled its support, the strongest showing for a far-right party since World War II, projections showed. Read More

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is to be in Kyiv on Monday along with a dozen other world leaders as Ukraine marks the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion of that country. Read More

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday he would be ready to give up the presidency if doing so would achieve a lasting peace for his country under the security umbrella of the NATO military alliance. Read More

Thousands of people have electronically signed a parliamentary petition calling for the revocation of Elon Musk's Canadian citizenship over his role in the Trump administration, which is pointedly threatening Canada's sovereignty. Read More

With Canadians — and even Quebecers — rallying around the flag in the face of threats from the Trump administration, the sovereigntist Parti Quebecois is struggling to find its footing. Read More

Presumed Liberal leadership front-runner Mark Carney faces a major test Monday in Montreal, when he and his rivals square off in person for the first time in a French-language debate. Read More

Pope Francis remained in critical condition Sunday and blood tests show early kidney failure but he remains alert and “well-oriented,” and attended Mass, the Vatican said, as the 88-year-old pontiff battles pneumonia and a complex lung infection. Read More

Liberals are magicians. Through sleights of hand and by proroguing Parliament, the Liberals could yet win another election with a new leader. Read More

During his lifetime, Philip Holland was known as a dedicated Crown prosecutor who put the bad guys behind bars. Read More

On Thursday morning, the federal heritage minister, Pascale St-Onge, gave forth the outlines of her plan to reform the CBC and adapt it to the future. You might think such an exercise would involve asking questions about the CBC’s prior performance, or whether a state broadcaster is really necessary in the 21st century, or exactly what parts of it are essential. Read More

Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has said that, were he to form government, he would impose harsh imprisonment for fentanyl trafficking, including mandatory life sentences for major dealers. This is a laudable idea, even if his proposed legal mechanism for enacting these reforms is questionable. Read More

A Vancouver theology school has cancelled a public lecture that was slated for next month by a renowned British historian over his views on Indian Residential Schools and colonialism. Read More

The election of Donald Trump has the risk of upending Canada’s historic friendship with the United States. As Pierre Poilievre said the “unprovoked attack on Canada’s economy” could “turn a loyal friend into a resentful neighbour”. Read More

I remember the first time I heard a statement at a public event along the lines of, “This building is located on traditional unceded Aboriginal land.” It was in Australia, and it struck me as disingenuous, simplistic and patronizing. If the people making this statement really felt that badly about the land they (and possibly their forebearers) lived and worked on for generations and ostensibly stole, then they would reasonably choose to give the land back along with all they had built upon it. Read More

Re: Tumultuous times with Trump — Derek H. Burney, Feb. 19; and Trump waved a 1908 treaty as ammo in his disputes with Canada — Adrian Humphreys, Feb. 17 Read More

Preparations are underway for a face-to-face meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, Russia’s deputy foreign minister said Saturday. It marked a clear departure from Western efforts to isolate Moscow over its war in Ukraine. Read More

HALIFAX — A number of business sectors in Nova Scotia are welcoming Premier Tim Houston’s national call to reduce interprovincial trade barriers, as a new poll suggests broad public support for the idea across Atlantic Canada. Read More

The 88-year-old pope, who remains conscious, received “high flows” of oxygen to help him breathe. He also received blood transfusions after tests showed low counts of platelets, which are needed for clotting, the Vatican said in a late update. Read More

Decolonization is one idea that has fuelled, and now, doomed the left. The prospect of dismantling western states and ceding ground to new, morally just, decolonized successors excited its members and inspired a certain revolutionary excitement; the pleasure from blaming the world’s problems on nebulous racial forces was all-consuming. Read More

Hamas released Mengistu and Shoham during a propaganda ceremony in southern Gaza’s Rafah, while Cohen, Shem Tov and Wenkert were freed in a similar exchange in Nuseirat in the Palestinian enclave’s center. Al-Sayed was handed over in Gaza City. Read More

Thursday night saw Canada secure victory in Boston in the 4 Nations Face-Off, an NHL exhibition tournament that pitted teams of Finnish, Swedish, U.S. and Canadian players against one another. Canada's victory became a point of national pride as it occurred amidst threats of trade war and annexation from U.S. President Donald Trump. Read More

According to a newly leaked draft contract, the Trump administration wants to confiscate large swathes of Ukraine’s resources, in perpetuity, as “payback” for American military support. This deal, which would functionally turn Ukraine into an economic colony of the United States, should frighten Canada and other allies who rely on Washington for security support. Read More

Last Saturday in Ottawa, Pierre Poilievre delivered what many described as the most important speech of his life. For weeks, the Liberals have rapidly regained ground in the polls following Justin Trudeau’s announcement that he was leaving politics. Read More

The NHL's “4 Nations Face-Off” was only a facsimile of the Canada Cups of the 1980s, let alone the Olympics or the 1972 Soviet-Canada series. Yet Canadians instantly recognized that Connor McDavid’s overtime winner now belongs alongside the goals of Paul Henderson in 1972, Mario Lemieux in 1987 and Sidney Crosby in 2010. Read More

Ontario is going to the polls next week with a year remaining in the Ford government’s present term; voters don't generally like premature elections unless there is a good reason for them. Counterintuitively, the country did reelect Justin Trudeau in a premature election in 2021 on the basis of his handling of the Covid pandemic, which was in fact absurdly overreactive, authoritarian, and grossly expensive. He was assisted by the fact that the official opposition’s position was that they would establish a royal commission to evaluate the official reaction to the pandemic instead of coming out slugging and making the government pay at the polls for its poorly thought-out and executed response to the public health crisis. The current Ontario election is later in the mandate than the 2021 federal election was and the reason for the election call is to give Doug Ford's Progressive Conservative government a strong mandate to deal with his province’s response to trade and related challenges arising from the United States government's threat of sharply increased tariffs. Read More

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Germany reunified for a few brief decades, only to find itself partitioned once again. This time, not by barbed wire and concrete, but by three small words: “Wir schaffen das!” (We can do this!). Read More

UNITED NATIONS -- The United States has proposed a draft UN resolution that stops far short of a European-backed statement demanding an immediate withdrawal of all of Moscow's forces from Ukraine. Read More

OTTAWA — Two Liberal leadership committees unanimously decided to disqualify former MP Ruby Dhalla in the race to become leader of the party on Friday, alleging that she breached no less than 10 violations of the rules of the race including inaccurate financial reporting. Read More

Two elderly inmates who walked away from an unfenced minimum-security prison in Ontario have been caught after just one day of freedom. Read More

OTTAWA — The federal government deemed MP Randy Boissonnault’s pandemic startup, Global Health Imports Corporation, ineligible for contracts on Friday, citing the company's “conduct.” Read More

Thursday was a special day in the life of any Canadian election campaign: the day advance polls open without any of the major parties having released a platform, costed or otherwise. (Green Party leader Mike Schreiner unveiled his last week.) Read More

Ontario’s NDP and Liberals are both pledging tens of billions of dollars in new spending to pay for their campaign promises, but are taking different approaches to the other side of the ledger, with the NDP proposing wealth taxes and the Liberals eyeing “efficiencies.” Read More

President Donald Trump is expected to sign a memorandum Friday that opens the door to levies in response to digital services taxes some countries impose on U.S. tech giants, people familiar with the plans said, the latest step to expand a tariff war aimed at addressing imbalances in global trade. Read More

U.S. tariffs and Canada's retaliation to them would have a devastating effect on the economy, pulling growth down while reigniting inflation, said Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem. Read More

Amid the threat of a tariff war, an overwhelming majority of Canadians (85 per cent) say they plan to — or already do — replace American products when shopping, according to a new poll from the Angus Reid Institute. Read More