President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine risks losing its key partner after the U.S. threatened to cut off support unless Kyiv agrees to a peace deal that would force it to cede territory to Russia, cap the size of its military and pledge never to join NATO. Read More

Air Canada is reviewing a complaint from a Toronto Jewish man about a flight attendant wearing a political pin on her uniform. Read More

“Now Ukraine may find itself facing a very difficult choice — either loss of dignity, or the risk of losing a key partner,” said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a somber video address this Friday. Standing in the centre of a rain-soaked Kyiv, he warned Ukrainians that they were amid “one of the most difficult moments in our history,” and that the country would have to decide between an “extremely difficult winter” or a life without freedom, dignity and justice. Read More

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Days after the Toronto Blue Jays fell to the Los Angeles Dodgers in a heartbreaking Game 7 loss, Dallas Green was processing his disappointment the best way he knew how: by writing new music. Read More

JD Vance has weighed in on Canadian politics, calling out the country for its "immigration insanity." Read More

It’s been nearly four years since Hope Muir took over as the artistic director of the National Ballet of Canada, and as the dance season gets underway it’s clear to see how her vision is setting the stage for the company. Read More

OTTAWA — Mark Carney has inherited Justin Trudeau’s nightmare. Read More

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Our cookbook of the week is Linger by Hetty Lui McKinnon. Read More

With the Christmas mailing season upon us, Canadians are once again reckoning with the bleak future of traditional mail, and familiar troubles of Canada’s most troubled Crown corporation. After Canada Post's annual meeting this week revealed it is running an operating loss of something like $5 million a day, the National Post explains where things stand in national mail delivery, and where they might be going. Read More

A network of seemingly legitimate professionals in Canada and abroad are accused of keeping a billion-dollar drug cartel afloat under the violent leadership of former Canadian Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding. Read More

Japan’s first female prime minister Sanae Takaichi, a hardline conservative, has taken a hawkish stance on China since being elected last month. In one of her first parliamentary speeches, she affirmed, in unusually explicit terms, Japan’s commitment to militarily defending Taiwan from any future Chinese invasion, instigating a diplomatic meltdown from Beijing. Read More

On October 7, Hamas murdered 1,200 innocent people in one of the most barbaric massacres on the planet in recent decades. Many of these murders were committed by military fatigue wearing terrorists with the Palestinian flag sown into the sleeve of their uniform. The beheading of young children; the burning of entire families huddled together in fear; the shooting of the elderly in the back and the heinous misogynistic rape of young girls — these crimes against humanity were all done under the flag of "Palestine." Read More

Recent polling shows that more than half of Canadians now believe immigration levels are too high — double the number from just three years ago. One-third think immigration increases crime, and six in 10 say too many newcomers fail to adopt Canadian values. These are not the views of a suddenly intolerant country. They reflect a public losing confidence in a system that no longer seems to protect their safety or the integrity of Canadian citizenship. Read More

After two years of benign neglect, Ottawa seems to have woken up to the threat to its plan to double non-U.S. exports from an obscure dispute at the Port of Prince Rupert in British Columbia. Read More

In the far northeast of Afghanistan, among the soaring mountains of Badakhshan province, a quiet transformation is taking place. Here, in a region where history runs deep through stone and soil, the New Life Trust Organization (NLTO), named this year as a Global Pluralism Award laureate by Canada’s Global Centre for Pluralism, works to find careful, culturally rooted ways to bring women together through reviving crafts that were once a proud symbol of the country’s cultural pluralism. Read More

OTTAWA — The Carney government is proposing to grant the Crown corporation behind the high-speed railway between Toronto and Quebec City sweeping new powers to accelerate the acquisition or expropriation of land for the project. Read More

OTTAWA — The federal government's plans to resume a compensation program for retailers for inventories of formerly legal guns that were subsequently banned by the Liberals have been delayed from this fall until an unspecified date. Read More

A 28-point peace plan floated by U.S. and Russian envoys would force Ukraine to cede large chunks of territory taken by Russia, cap the size of its military and lift sanctions on Moscow over time, acceding to many of President Vladimir Putin’s wartime demands. Read More

A newly announced permanent exhibit at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg is being met with heightened concern from Jewish groups. Read More

The tricky thing about boundary-pushing is that, if you unwisely take it too far, it might snap back in your face. That’s what the regulators of lawyers, doctors, psychologists and every other job gatekept by professional bodies are now facing in Alberta after their sister entities across the country started dabbling in political policing. Read More

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney’s chief of staff, Marc-André Blanchard, drew a sharp rebuke from Conservatives on Thursday when he compared Carney’s sprawling conflicts of interests to Stephen Harper’s former chief of staff Nigel Wright’s situation. Read More