OTTAWA — During the Liberals’ Dec. 11 Christmas party just hours after Conservative MP Michael Ma crossed the floor to the government, soirée hosts James Maloney and Mona Fortier joked to ecstatic attendees that their favourite number was “172”. Read More

OTTAWA — If emotions over U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs and his comments about coveting Canada as a "51st state" defined the posture of political leaders towards the cross-border relationship in 2025, business leaders are urging that cool heads prevail in the new year. Read More

Bank of America Corp. Chief Executive Officer Brian Moynihan said he expects the Trump administration to de-escalate trade tensions next year after tariffs sent shockwaves through the U.S. economy in 2025. Read More

People gathered in several towns in the breakaway region of Somaliland on Sunday to celebrate its recognition by Israel — a decision condemned by the Somali president as a "threat" to stability in the Horn of Africa. Read More

President Donald Trump said he had a “good and very productive” phone call with Russian leader Vladimir Putin just before he began a face-to-face meeting with Ukraine’s president. Read More

Australia’s most populous state will tighten security across Sydney following a deadly attack at Bondi Beach this month, with authorities leaving open the possibility of military support as the country reassesses its counterterrorism posture. Read More

She was the ultimate sex symbol whose voluptuous figure and libertine lifestyle sent tremors through the straitlaced 1950s, but Brigitte Bardot soon tired of the male gaze and walked away from it all to care for animals. Read More

As Canada closes out 2025, the Conservatives are suddenly polling higher than at any point since the swearing-in of Mark Carney as prime minister. Read More

No wonder hope seems so much harder to conjure up than despair when one reads the daily news. Read More

If it's Dec. 30 and you're still contemplating Christmas leftovers, it's time to move on. When properly handled, leftovers last for four days in the refrigerator, says Lawrence Goodridge, a professor in the Department of Food Science and the director of the Canadian Research Institute for Food Safety at the University of Guelph. Read More

David Eby’s government in British Columbia is reeling after two recent court decisions put private property rights in jeopardy. Read More

Provincial student assessment is approaching a moment of reckoning. Canada’s flagship agency, the Ontario Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO), is now under review. Thirty years after its creation, Education Minister Paul Calandra announced a fresh review of the independent student testing agency earlier this month, triggered by another round of disappointing provincial test results. It’s time to bolster EQAO and encourage other provinces to build upon the lessons. Read More

Israeli security forces have imposed a “complete siege and cordon” on the Palestinian city of Qabatiya in northern Samaria, from where a terrorist set out on his killing spree in northern Israel the previous day, Defence Minister Israel Katz stated on Saturday evening. Read More

On Boxing Day, a pro-Palestinian mob took over the Eaton Centre, one of Canada’s busiest and most iconic public spaces, chanting for “intifada” in the heart of Toronto. Not on the fringes. Not quietly. In the middle of a mall filled with families, workers, tourists, and holiday shoppers. Read More

The U.K. will launch a military "gap year" scheme, as part of efforts to boost recruitment and reconnect young people with defence, the government said Saturday. Read More

Immediately following surprise U.S. strikes targeting militants in Nigeria, it remained unclear who or what was actually hit as Washington and Abuja told slightly different stories. Read More

Russia pummelled Ukraine's capital with drones and missiles on Saturday, killing a woman and cutting power to hundreds of thousands, ahead of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's latest talks with U.S. leader Donald Trump. Read More

Prime Minister Mark Carney announced more financial aid for Ukraine ahead of a meeting with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Halifax on Saturday. Read More

OTTAWA — Canada’s largest public-sector union blasted the top government department as “hypocritical” for refusing to say how many of its employees received notice of a potential layoff weeks ago. Read More

After the October 7 attacks in Israel, Aviva Klompas noticed that rather than sympathy and support, what surfaced was a "disturbing undercurrent of Jew hatred that was apparently lying dormant in Canada." Read More

Iconic American intellectual Norman Podhoretz died earlier this month, peacefully at 95. Reading this news, I recalled a luncheon conversation with my then colleague George Jonas, whose brilliance and wit graced these pages from 2001 until his death in 2016, during which he asked me to rank the formative intellectual influences that had steered me towards conservatism as my default mindset. I named several writers, but Podhoretz led the pack.  Read More

In 2024, Colorado passed legislation to, supposedly, protect consumers from discrimination by artificial intelligence (AI). Arguably, the law does more to require the incorporation of diversity, equity, and inclusion ideology (DEI) into the growing technology than to protect people from anything. That has the White House worried that state and local micromanagers will cripple innovation with politicized mandates. In response, U.S. President Donald Trump issued an executive order to standardize and limit AI regulation across the country. It’s a promising approach, but it needs firmer support from congressional action. Read More

“Bondi was a warning shot,” cautions Cary Kogan, professor of psychology at the University of Ottawa. “If Western governments aren’t going to deal with the issue (of antisemitism), this is what we’re going to end up with. And I worry; the intelligence community has told us very clearly that there are bad actors here in Canada, and you know, the government needs to listen.” Read More

In the early 1960s, Andy Warhol produced a series of 32 paintings that glamorized the simple Campbell’s soup can. Now, in the mid 2020s, a new movement is elevating food packaging to a means for creative expression. Read More