Hundreds of delegates at a Francophonie conference hosted by Canada’s parliament in Montreal last spring went home with “musical spoons” ordered from Amazon at a cost of more than $1,300, according to federal financial reports. Read More

“Diddlers,” as Ontario Premier Doug Ford called child-molesters in a news conference this week, have been big in the news lately. Earlier in the month, Ford joined Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre in demanding the federal government invoke the notwithstanding clause to protect the one-year mandatory minimum sentence for accessing or possessing child pornography. This after the Supreme Court narrowly struck it down. (The feds say they can address the bare majority’s concerns without resorting to the clause.) Read More

A Canadian Jewish advocacy group is demanding answers after an anti-Israel tribunal was held at the Senate of Canada over the weekend. Read More

OTTAWA — Ottawa’s fiscal watchdog says there’s a “low probability” that the Carney government will reach any of the three targets that it has referred to as its fiscal anchors, just months after establishing those key long-term benchmarks. Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday evoked the death penalty for Democratic lawmakers who urged the military to refuse illegal orders, calling them traitors and accusing them of sedition. Read More

Dick Cheney, celebrated as a master Republican strategist, but defined by the darkest chapters of America's "War on Terror," was honoured Thursday in a funeral attended by Washington's elite. It pointedly left out President Donald Trump. Read More

Recently resigned federal Liberal cabinet minister and former deputy prime minister Chrystia Freeland will be the next Warden of Rhodes House and CEO of the Rhodes Trust, the U.K.-based global educational charity’s trustees has announced. Read More

Pete Hoekstra, the U.S. ambassador to Canada, told an audience in Ottawa that he thinks Canada has recently meddled in American politics, but that he also doesn't understand why Canadians are angry about comments regarding this country becoming his nation's 51st state. Read More

The White House doubled down Wednesday after two incidents in which President Donald Trump angrily confronted female reporters from US news outlets. Read More

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When I first wrote about Sydney Sweeney in March 2024, it was because a blaring culture war discourse was forming around the topic of the young actress’ Saturday Night Live appearance. It happened again this summer, with her infamous American Eagle “good jeans” campaign. Read More

After U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping briefly met in South Korea late last month, analysts said the deal the two negotiated did little but restore the status quo ante, which effectively amounts to a defeat for Trump’s aggressive protectionism. Read More

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney's government is proposing to scrub the law targeting companies making environmental claims of the requirement that the evidence they present must be based on "internationally recognized" policy.  Read More

OTTAWA — A free-market think tank is warning Canadian air travellers to expect higher ticket prices if proposed changes to passenger compensation rules are implemented. Read More

Food inflation continues to top Canadians' financial concerns, according to the fall 2025 edition of the Canadian Food Sentiment Index by Dalhousie University's Agri-Food Analytics Lab (AAL), and they're adapting their diets and shopping behaviours as a result. Read More

Donald Trump and New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani are set to meet at the White House on Friday, the president said in a social media post. Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump signed legislation to compel the Department of Justice to release files on the late, disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. Read More

PORT-AU-PRINCE -- Fireworks and dancing erupted across Haiti in a reprieve from gang violence as people came together to celebrate their national team punching its ticket to the 2026 World Cup. Read More

Canada and its 13 provinces and territories agreed to knock down more hurdles to trading internally, as the country tries to reduce its reliance on the U.S. amid a punishing trade war. Read More

BELEM, Brazil -- A row over the definition of gender risks complicating the outcome of COP30 climate talks in Brazil, after six governments moved to attach their own interpretations as footnotes to a key text. Read More

OTTAWA — The clerk of the Privy Council, Michael Sabia, who is one of two senior aides managing Prime Minister Mark Carney’s extensive conflict-of-interest screen, was informed by the ethics commissioner weeks into his new job in Ottawa he had investments in Brookfield Corporation. Read More

The respective opposition leaders had a straightforward task at Monday’s budget vote. See to it that the government did not fall, as no opposition party was confident that a snap election would be to its advantage, but not appear too accommodating, lest they be thought weak. They pulled it off admirably, with exacting precision, allowing the budget to pass by the narrowest of margins, 170-168. Elegant execution, but risky, as it left no margin for error. Read More