The Government of Canada’s Indigenous Justice Strategy, released in March, promises to build a parallel criminal justice system for Indigenous people while reforming the rest of Canadian law to “address systemic discrimination.” It’s hardly necessary, considering how Indigenous people might even fare better in the criminal justice system than their white counterparts. Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump announced earlier this week that Russia and Ukraine will “immediately” begin ceasefire talks after he had an “excellent” two-hour phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin. This is not a positive development: Putin is playing Trump for a fool and has no interest in these Potemkin negotiations beyond undermining European-led sanctions. Read More

President Donald Trump’s preferred communications strategy — of which he has been a master for decades — is the omnipresent, ceaseless commentary on himself and his projects. So when he delivers instead a major foreign policy address, rather than observations on the passing scene from the Oval Office, it bears attention. He did so last week in Saudi Arabia. It was a remarkable contrast to the major foreign policy address he gave early in his first term. Read More

OTTAWA — Currently seatless Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is eyeing an easy win in a not-yet-called byelection in rural Alberta, but locals say he could be caught in the middle of a growing firestorm over Alberta separation. Read More

NEW YORK — The recommended reading list contained some works of fiction. It also contained some works that were, in fact, actually fictional. Read More

PARIS — Police have found a bust of Jim Morrison that was stolen nearly four decades ago from the Paris grave that has long been a place of pilgrimage for fans of the legendary Doors singer and poet. Read More

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has tapped more than half of his MPs to serve in critic roles when Parliament reopens next week, drawing largely from more experienced caucus members rather than promoting fresh faces.  Read More

QUEBEC — The Quebec government has tabled a bill to force streaming giants such as Netflix and Spotify to boost access to French-language content. Read More

Former prime minister Justin Trudeau will be eligible for more than $8 million in pensions and severance, according to calculations from the Canadian Taxpayers Federation. Read More

OTTAWA — The federal government has summoned Israel’s ambassador to Canada to explain why Israeli soldiers shot in the vicinity of a delegation of diplomats — including four Canadian representatives — touring the West Bank Wednesday. Read More

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney said Canada is looking at participating in U.S. President Donald Trump's new “Golden Dome” missile defence program. Read More

Of all the problems Canada faces in 2025, the prospect of Alberta sovereigntists winning a referendum and plunging the country into constitutional hell does not appear to be one of them. A Postmedia-Leger poll released last week, found just 29 per cent of Albertans supported the province “becoming a country independent of Canada,” which is what the straightforward referendum question recently proposed by the separatist Alberta Prosperity Project (APP) would ask. That’s even fewer than the 36 per cent of Quebecers who would vote Yes in their own sovereignty referendum, according to a Leger poll released before last month’s federal election. Read More

Inside the Oval Office on Tuesday, U.S. President Donald Trump told the world he’d decided on a design for the Golden Dome, a multilayered missile defence program to counter threats to America, even those coming from foreign-controlled satellites. Read More

OTTAWA — Liberal MPs are considering adopting for the first time Reform Act rules that would give them the power to trigger a leadership review of their new leader Mark Carney. Read More

Canada Post has been notified of a possible strike on Friday after negotiations between the corporation and its workers have proven to be unsuccessful. Read More

A Toronto man who stabbed his mother to death nearly a dozen years ago because "he thought she was a zombie" has been granted an absolute discharge by the Ontario Review Board. Read More

The Canada Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) said it was on its way to receive proposals from Canada Post on Wednesday, days after it notified the corporation of a possible strike at the end of the week. Read More

Canada Goose Holdings Inc. said US tariffs have only made a minimal impact on the maker of high-end coats and winter gear, due to its Canada-based supply chain. Read More

It’s not déjà-vu, Canada Post might indeed go back on strike as early as this week. Canadians will remember with much anxiety that Canada Post workers recently went on strike in November, right as the holiday season was in full swing. That strike was perfectly timed to wreak as much havoc as possible in order to strengthen their bargaining power, destroying the most profitable time of year for charities and small business in Canada. Since the postal union and Canada Post ultimately could not reach an agreement, they were forced back to work by the Canada Industrial Relations Board (CIRB), but not without securing a five per cent raise from Canada Post first. Read More

Thousands of Canadians were offline Wednesday morning due to a widespread Bell internet outage. Read More

Japan's agriculture minister was forced to resign Wednesday because of political fallout over his recent comments that he "never had to buy rice" because he got it from supporters as a gift. The resignation comes as the public struggles with record high prices of the country's traditional staple food. Read More

Canada Post needs to end door-to-door mail delivery, according to a recent report by the Industrial Inquiry Commission (IIC). Read More

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The election result was a personal triumph for Prime Minister Mark Carney with generous assistance from Donald Trump. Instead of being a verdict on the dismal Liberal decade of slow growth, low productivity and investment, and declining competitiveness, it quickly became a referendum on who would be the best leader to withstand the tariff attacks and disrespectful challenges against Canada’s independence by America’s mercurial president. During the campaign, Carney was resolute, assuring Canadians that he would not yield to bombast. In his first meeting with the president after the election, he demonstrated resolve and tact. His use of a real estate analogy, along with a smile, to dispel any notion of Canada becoming the 51st state was a master stroke of diplomacy. There is still much at risk with the U.S., but at least the mood is different. Read More

On April 7, four professors at the University of British Columbia filed a petition in the B.C. Supreme Court seeking a determination that the university has become politicized and is in violation of Section 66(1) of the province’s University Act requiring it to be non-political. This petition, co-signed by a former graduate student, brings to mind the University of Chicago’s 1967 Kalven Report, which insisted that universities must remain neutral on political issues. This neutrality “arises out of respect for free inquiry and the obligation to cherish a variety of viewpoints. And this neutrality as an institution has its complement in the fullest freedom for its faculty and students as individuals to participate in political action and social protest. It provides its complement, too, in the obligation of the university to provide a forum for the most searching and candid discussion of public issues.” Read More

A farmer in B.C. is pleading for the lives of over 300 of what she calls healthy ostriches, which the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) claims must be destroyed. But it's unclear whether that's true, or whether both the federal court and CFIA are simply refusing to accept new evidence. Read More

If you find yourself in Canada’s capital next week, there are a handful of opportunities to see King Charles III and Queen Camilla. Read More

It goes without saying that the recent federal election did not end as I had hoped for, but instead of looking in the rear-view mirror, one must appreciate the silver linings that have emerged. Read More

NEW YORK — George Wendt, an actor with an Everyman charm who played the affable, beer-loving barfly Norm on the hit 1980s TV comedy Cheers and later crafted a stage career that took him to Broadway in Art, Hairspray and Elf, has died. He was 76. Read More

HALIFAX — The Nova Scotia government argued in court on Tuesday that Ottawa is solely responsible for infrastructure that protects the low-lying strip of land that links the province with New Brunswick. Read More

OTTAWA — The federal government has told the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal that negotiations with the Assembly of First Nations on reforming the child welfare system are stalled and the AFN's requests are "unreasonable." Read More

One of five hockey players accused of sexually assaulting a woman inside a London, Ont., hotel room asked some of his teammates for advice before heading toward the bathroom with her, another player testified Tuesday. Read More

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump announced Tuesday aspects of his plan for a "Golden Dome" missile defence shield and said "it automatically makes sense" for Canada to be involved. Read More

WASHINGTON — Elon Musk, the richest person in the world and a key financial supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump, said Tuesday that he'll be spending "a lot less" on political campaigns, a reversal that could be a setback for Republicans ahead of next year's midterm elections. Read More

If you want to be a millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a cannabis production company in Canada. Read More