British Columbia Premier David Eby says it's not him standing in the way of Alberta counterpart Danielle Smith's longed-for oil pipeline from Alberta to B.C.'s north coast -- it's that there's no proponent, no money and "no project right now." Read More

MONTREAL -- A government push to steer Canada Post and the union representing 55,000 mail workers toward common ground hit a big pothole Monday. Read More

OTTAWA — The Liberal government is mulling arming the Canadian Coast Guard as it launches a significant reform of the civilian maritime agency to give it a bigger role in the country’s security apparatus. Read More

Canada's plan to add more than $9 billion to defence spending this year was praised by military watchers Monday, but they cautioned that the country is shooting at a moving target. Read More

NEW YORK -- Sly Stone, the revolutionary musician and dynamic showman whose Sly and the Family Stone transformed popular music in the 1960s and '70s and beyond with such hits as "Everyday People," "Stand!" and "Family Affair," died Monday at age 82. Read More

In an ever-more insecure world, Canada’s federal government has announced it will spend two per cent of its GDP on military spending. That’s the standard that members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization all agreed to back in 2006, but Canada has long been a laggard, to the extent that other governments, particularly the United States, have browbeaten the country for its meagre military spending. Read More

Justin Trudeau went to Washington for last year’s NATO summit and unveiled what he called a “credible, verifiable path” to spending two per cent of Canada’s GDP on defence … by 2032. Read More

The RCMP's “structural investigation” into whether Canadian citizens serving with the Israel Defense Forces in Gaza may have committed war crimes has sparked outrage in the Jewish community and its leaders, who accuse Ottawa of political targeting. Read More

Before the Ottawa Police Service confirmed that graffiti found at the National Holocaust Monument on Monday morning would be investigated as a hate crime, the vandalism had already drawn condemnation as an antisemitic attack. Read More

Prime Minister Mark Carney is to be applauded for laying out a bold and ambitious vision for Canada’s military. Read More

Canada's competition watchdog is suing DoorDash Inc. and its Canadian subsidiary, accusing it of marketing its online delivery services at a lower price than what consumers actually wind up paying. Read More

OTTAWA — Steven Guilbeault may no longer be federal environment minister, but Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she still sees him as a threat to the province's oil and gas industry. Read More

OTTAWA — A group of Canadian Sikh organizations is calling on members of Parliament to denounce Prime Minister Mark Carney's invitation to India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the G7 leaders' summit and plan to directly make that case when they meet with parliamentarians this week.   Read More

For generations, children have read the story of Hansel and Gretel, where choices have consequences, whether motivated by selfishness or kindness. Today, a new story unfolds on the Mediterranean Sea. But it is no fairy tale. It is real, dangerous, and wickedly told by those who claim to champion truth and justice. Read More

As tensions boiled over for a third-straight day in Los Angeles, an Australian television reporter covering the unrest was hit with a rubber bullet during a live broadcast on Sunday. Read More

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney is pledging that Canada will achieve NATO's spending target of two per cent of GDP on defence this year — five years ahead of his prior commitment which promised to meet the mark by 2030. Read More

Don’t call it a done deal until it’s done, but America’s ambassador to Canada, Pete Hoekstra, tells Brian this week that negotiations between Ottawa and President Donald Trump’s administration are making progress. He explains why he believes things are moving quickly in the right direction to settle the trade war between our two countries. Hoekstra also talks about why he’s looking forward to the next phase of the longstanding bilateral relationship, when he thinks Canada and the U.S. will work harmoniously and productively again, allied in eliminating the fentanyl scourge from both countries and building the two strongest economies in the industrialized world — although he still thinks Canada will be eating America’s dust. (Recorded June 6, 2025) Read More

Ontario's chief medical officer of health says six infants have been born with congenital measles since an outbreak began last fall, adding they were infected in the womb through mothers who were not vaccinated. Read More

Israeli naval forces on Monday intercepted the vessel carrying Swedish national Greta Thunberg and other activists to the Gaza Strip. Read More

California Governor Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, told MSNBC that he plans to file suit Monday against the Trump administration to roll back the National Guard deployment, which he called “an illegal act, an immoral act, an unconstitutional act.” This appears to be the first time in decades that a state’s National Guard was activated without a request from its governor. Read More

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Open any book on politics and you will find that, in Canada, the NDP stands for the New Democratic Party. In British Columbia under David Eby, the acronym needs to be updated to — Not Delivering Prosperity. Read More

“A lot more people are going to die.” Read More

Canada may have severed its feudal ties less violently, but like America, it experienced far less sustained aristocratic domination than either of its two mother countries, France and Great Britain. But now, particularly with the rise of the ultimate establishmentarian, Mark Carney, as prime minister, Canada’s feudal future seems increasingly assured. Read More

The group that was attacked last weekend in Boulder, Colorado, while calling for Hamas to release Israeli hostages, will be a central focus of the Boulder Jewish Festival, which kicked off Sunday morning in the same location where the firebombing took place. Read More

The federal government is deploying members of the Canadian Armed Forces to help evacuate a northwestern Ontario First Nation as wildfires rapidly spread in the region, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Sunday. Read More

A strike and lockout that kicked off at DHL Canada Express on Sunday will barely tap the brakes on its parcel delivery service, the company says, as the union accuses it of deploying replacement workers. Read More

With an uncharacteristically feistiness, Speaker Mike Johnson took clear sides Sunday in President Donald Trump's breakup with mega-billionaire Elon Musk. Read More

Members of the National Guard faced off with protesters in Los Angeles on Sunday, and tear gas was fired at a growing crowd that gathered outside a federal complex hours after the federal troops arrived in the city on President Donald Trump’s orders. Read More

The American ambassador to Canada is closely watching as Ottawa shapes its defence budget, but says the U.S. will not dictate what the Canadian government must spend. Read More

Vegetable likenesses of U.S. President Donald Trump and singer Dolly Parton and a papal "Cornclave" went on display Saturday at the Lambeth Country Show, an urban take on a country fair held annually in London's Brockwell Park. Read More

Anita Hagh couldn't stop pressing the corner of her phone screen where the Facebook app used to be. Read More

Victoria B.C.'s Pandora Avenue is living up to its name. Greek mythology tells the story of Pandora’s Box being opened, unleashing untold misery on the world. Only one thing remained in the Box. Read More

As police in Ontario increasingly investigate killings of women and girls as femicides, advocates say a firm definition of the term must be embedded in the Criminal Code. Read More

Some of the world's biggest streaming companies will argue in court on Monday that they shouldn't have to make CRTC-ordered financial contributions to Canadian content and news. Read More

President Donald Trump is deploying 2,000 California National Guard troops to Los Angeles over the objections of Gov. Gavin Newsom after a second day of clashes between hundreds of protesters and federal immigration authorities in riot gear. Read More

Jewish groups are praising a small-town Nova Scotia police force after a man who allegedly called for "death to all Zios" and said "we are going to ruin Zio Joo lives" was charged with hate crimes. Read More

The "Buy Canadian" movement is stronger than ever. Seven in ten seek homegrown products when they shop (68 per cent, up five points from February), and more than half look at labels to avoid items made in the United States, according to a Narrative Research poll. Read More

Sean Fraser —  the federal Liberals’ supposed master communicator who did a bad job as immigration minister, and then a bad job as housing minister, and then said he wasn’t running again to spend time with his family, and then opportunistically changed his mind and was rewarded with the justice and attorney general portfolio — laid his first dog’s egg of the Mark Carney era this week. Read More