Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney agreed to resume discussions on a bilateral free trade deal, the latest sign of warming relations between the two countries. Read More

The controversial 28-point plan dropped suddenly by the Trump administration to Ukraine as a take-it-or-leave it proposition mere days ago was mostly the result of several weeks of negotiations behind the scenes between Steve Witkoff and his Russian counterpart Kirill Dmitriev that excluded not only Ukraine and its allies but even some key U.S. officials. Read More

G20 leaders gathered Sunday in South Africa hailed multilateralism — even as they struggled to adapt to a changing world order beset by go-it-alone U.S. policies, wars and deepening geopolitical rivalries. Read More

The IDF said Sunday it killed the Hezbollah terrorist group’s “chief of staff” in Beirut in a targeted airstrike, pledging to continue to act against its efforts to rebuild and rearm. Read More

Canada no longer considers its approach to global engagement a “feminist foreign policy,” Prime Minister Mark Carney said Sunday, marking a clear departure from the doctrine championed by Justin Trudeau and his former Liberal government. Read More

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said the world can make progress on a range of issues without the U.S., and that consensus reached at a Group of 20 leaders’ meeting in Johannesburg this weekend carries weight despite a boycott by President Donald Trump’s administration. Read More

Imagine teaching young people a course on the “politics of memory.” At the University of New Brunswick, there is such a course, taught by professor Donald Wright, historical biographer and past president of the Canadian Historical Association. Read More

To live in Toronto, to be subjected to its politics, is to watch the perfect lay waste to the good over and over again. So it’s tempting to side with the admirably uncynical activists and advocates who championed what passes for a recent major change in this city: Neighbourhood retail, which is to say retail in neighbourhoods, has been “legalized.” Read More

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I wrote last week of how the most significant churchman of the 20th century, St. John Paul the Great, proclaimed the beginning of the end of the Soviet empire with his June 1979 sermon at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Warsaw. The whole world knows of his impact. Read More

Canada’s young people, especially the large numbers of younger conservatives, feel more and more homeless in their own country. Read More

Re: Canada's oilsands make their comeback as U.S. shale plateaus — Robert Tuttle, Nov. 17; and Carney says it's 'wrong' to say emissions cap is preventing major energy projects — Christopher Nardi, Nov. 7 Read More

The Canadian Antisemitism Education Foundation is calling on the prime minister and minister of foreign affairs to reconsider Canada’s stance recognizing a Palestinian state. Read More

Washington -- Britain's disgraced former prince Andrew failed to respond to a request from U.S. lawmakers to be questioned about his friendship with the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, members of a U.S. Congressional committed have announced. Read More

An international climate deal emerged Saturday meant to spur more concrete plans to transition away from fossil fuels, winning grudging acceptance from nations that insisted on stronger ambition in the fight against global warming. Read More

U.S. prosecutors urged a judge to reject a request by Luigi Mangione’s lawyers to dismiss federal death-penalty charges over last year’s fatal shooting of a UnitedHealth Group Inc. executive in New York. Read More

Japanese Defence Minister Shinjiro Koizumi said Tokyo is on guard for any potential security crisis in the region, while reiterating that the government’s stance on possible conflict over Taiwan hasn’t changed. Read More

Kyiv -- Ukraine and the U.S. will soon meet in Switzerland to discuss Washington's plan for ending the war with Russia, which currently heeds to some of Russia's hardline demands, Kyiv said Saturday. Read More

Johannesburg -- A U.S.-European rift over the future of Ukraine is set to overshadow a G20 summit starting in South Africa on Saturday further marked by Donald Trump's pointed absence. Read More

Washington -- U.S. lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene, an influential right-wing figure and MAGA acolyte, announced Friday she is quitting her seat in Congress, one week after President Donald Trump pulled his support for the former staunch ally. Read More

This is from a story about the scalping of British settlers and militia by Mi’kmaq warriors in what became known as the "Dartmouth Massacre" on May 13, 1751, from John Wilson’s eyewitness account: "These Indians chain the unfortunate prisoner to a large thick tree, and bind his hands and his feet, then beginning from the middle of the craneum, they cut quite round towards the neck; this being done, they then tear off the skin, leaving the skull bare; an inflammation quickly follows, the patient fevers, and dies in the most exquisite tortures." Read More

A new study by Dalhousie University in Halifax finds that the average Canadian household throws away $761 worth of food every year based on best-before and expiration dates, but that almost a third of that is owing to confusion over what those dates actually mean. Read More

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There is room for real concern in the agitation to disseminate do-it-yourself sex assault kits, the latest front in what militant feminists hold to be a righteous counterattack on male sexual predation, and many men regard as an escalation of the arch-feminists’ campaign to emasculate and terrify Canadian men. There is now a widely supported proposal to make these kits, which facilitate taking DNA samples from relevant places in the female anatomy that can be used to strengthen allegations of sexual assault and packaging them at home by aggrieved sexual assault complainants. Read More