Alberta independence means becoming the Mongolia of North America, sandwiched between two greater powers and cut off from the global market. A conservative party that aims for that goal is likely to experience breakup and election loss. This is why it’s such a relief that the United Conservative Party membership didn’t vote to load their board with separatists this weekend. Read More

U.S. and Ukrainian negotiators said they had productive discussions about a framework for a peace deal, but there was no final breakthrough as President Donald Trump continues to push for a truce with Russia. Read More

The White House launched a page on its website Friday devoted to naming and shaming media outlets and reporters that publish stories it disagrees with. Read More

U.S. officials are meeting with a Ukrainian delegation in south Florida as the White House continues its drive toward an agreement on ending the Kremlin’s almost four-year war on Ukraine. Read More

A Dubai restaurant has opened that prides itself on having the world's "first AI chef", the latest ostentatious dive into new technology in a city obsessed with being on the cutting edge of the future. Read More

U.S. authorities believe the shooter suspected of killing one National Guard member and seriously wounding another in Washington, D.C., was radicalized while in the U.S., Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said. Read More

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu submitted a formal request for a pardon to President Isaac Herzog, the head of state said Sunday. Read More

A leading Jewish group is continuing its legal battle against the University of Windsor's boycott of Israel, enacted as part of an agreement with protesters to end anti-Israel encampments on campus last year. Read More

Amid the economic uncertainty of the trade war between the United States and Canada are some silver linings. Companies are choosing to leave the U.S. for a new home north of the border, thanks to changes in trading policies, immigration practices and even energy regulations under the Trump administration. Read More

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s government has introduced new legislation that would allow patients to pay for medical care themselves, directly or with personal insurance. This may sound like private care, but it’s not what people might assume — or hope for. Read More

I didn’t suspect, when I became a nurse, that I was entering a profession wherein I would be unable to express my political views, in my private life, without being fired and put through interminable legal hell. But that’s what I got, in British Columbia. Read More

Talk of appeasement is in the air. Thus a word ought to be said about its patron saint, as it were, Neville Chamberlain. Actually, several words, well chosen, offered by Sir Winston Churchill, who opposed with all his might Chamberlain’s appeasement policy, and then marshalled all his formidable rhetorical powers in eulogizing him. Read More

Where diversity data collection goes, quotas often follow. That’s why it’s concerning that the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) ordered Netflix, Amazon and every other major online streamer to collect diversity data as a condition of operating here. Read More

Re: Carney inks new energy deal with Alberta, paving way to new pipeline and internal dissent — Stephanie Taylor, Catherine Lévesque and Christopher Nardi, Nov. 27 Read More

From police brutality to that supposed “genocide” in Gaza, few words are more beloved by progressives right now than “complicit.” But what if some of the deepest levels of political complicity actually centre around the highest reaches of the Democrats themselves. Read More

When it comes to the world of comic invention and linguistic pyrotechnics, few dramatists of the 20th century could match the scope and sustained success of British writer Tom Stoppard, who has died aged 88. Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump warned on Saturday that the airspace above and near Venezuela should be considered closed, the latest escalation in a standoff with leftist leader Nicolas Maduro. Read More

Hong Kong declared three days of mourning on Saturday for victims of the city’s deadliest fire in nearly eight decades. Read More

Fears of days of travel chaos across Europe and the world eased on Saturday after plane manufacturer Airbus intervened rapidly to implement a software upgrade it had said was immediately needed on some 6,000 of its stalwart A320 planes. Read More

The Rogers family, from left, Edward Jr., Edward S. Rogers III, Suzanne, Chloé and Jack. Read More

As Christmas nears again, one song can be heard over the airwaves, in department stores and at festive parties — Mariah Carey’s 1994 hit “All I Want for Christmas Is You.” Read More

In 2025, cookbooks revelled in the joy of gathering. Of celebrating heritage, togetherness — and vegetables. Some dug deep into single subjects, breaking ground in first-of-their-kind collections and making something new out of something old. Others reminded us not to forget where we came from and who we've lost. Here are 10 of the year's best. Read More

Despite the fervour of social media it is rare to see a federal politician in handcuffs and under arrest, so an old photo of Steven Guilbeault, who until Thursday was a member of cabinet, always piques curiosity, perhaps now even more because the circumstances of his resignation and of his 2001 arrest intertwine. Read More

Ontario Premier Doug Ford is absolutely right in emphasizing the importance for his province and for Canada of the Ring of Fire mining region approximately 500 kilometres northeast of Thunder Bay. It is now generally recognized throughout the western world that we have been imprudent in allowing ourselves to become excessively dependent on China as a source of strategic minerals. This not only creates a vulnerability of supply in the not unlikely case of substantial strategic disagreements with the government of that country, but also in many areas enables China to manipulate the current price of these minerals by increasing or decreasing production in a way that can make private-sector development of alternate sources commercially inadvisable. Read More