The snowmobile club in Wasaga Beach, Ont., is calling on Ontario snowmobilers who want to help set a Guinness World Record on Feb. 15. Read More

Has Canada inadvertently helped to strike a blow against the cause of assisted suicide in England and Wales? Early on Thursday, BBC News reported that the euthanasia bill passed by the original classic House of Commons in June is now unlikely to pass the Lords before the end of the current session. The upper house is taking its time juggling with the bill in committee, with over 1,000 amendments submitted for debate. Read More

Stephen Harper’s ten years as prime minister began on Feb. 6, 2006. Twenty years later is a good time to assess his achievements in office and the legacy he left behind. I worked closely with Harper when he was leader of the Opposition, but not when he was in government, so this is a view from the outside. Read More

A judge has sentenced a Markham, Ont., woman to two years in jail for driving through a red light three years ago at 80 kilometres an hour and causing the crash that killed a 75-year-old woman. Read More

Since my reference to it last week, Prime Minister Mark Carney's address in Davos seems to have been both intended and received as a policy manifesto for Canada and also for other countries that feel short-shrifted by what have traditionally been known as the "great powers." The prime minister quoted the Czech president and former dissident Václav Havel that the communist system sustained itself by adopting the habit initiated by a greengrocer, of placing in his window the Marxist tocsin “Workers of the world, unite!”  (The 300 divisions of Stalin’s Red Army had more to do with it.) This gesture to the regime was widely taken up in the Soviet bloc, in what  Havel described as “living within a lie.” Carney considers this analogous to the adherence of Canada and other countries to “what we called the rules-based international order” (a clangorous platitude that reminds me of my bossy Grade 1 public school teacher). Read More

In the past 20 years, Canada has been governed by two economists: Stephen Harper and Mark Carney. Only one, however, managed to leverage his expertise for the good of Canada in his first eight months of government.  Read More

It takes a special kind of hubris to stand in Davos, surrounded by the global elite, and lecture the world on the virtues of "living in truth." Yet there was Prime Minister Mark Carney, channelling the dissident spirit of Václav Havel to chastise the international community for clinging to a "rules-based order" that no longer exists. Carney invoked Havel’s famous parable of the greengrocer — the shopkeeper who puts a sign in his window reading "Workers of the World, Unite!", not because he believes it, but because "it has been done that way for years" and it buys him a quiet life. Read More

In the House of Commons Foyer in the West Block of Canada's Parliament hang 21 portraits. They are 21 of the 24 Canadians who have held the office of prime minister since the country began. Read More

Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin will pause tourist flights to space for “no less than two years” in order to shift resources to accelerating the development of its moon lander and other lunar technologies, the company announced. Read More

Paul Calandra, Ontario’s education minister, was in London this past week for an international conference. Its mission: “to change the game for education worldwide by equipping education institutions and governments with the knowledge and tools they need to be effective users and buyers of technology.” I’m not sure what that means, to be honest. But by far the most interesting part of Calandra’s junket, from an Ontario parent’s point of view, was certainly his visit to London's Michaela Community School. Read More

CALGARY — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre urged party delegates to have hope in a speech delivered before they voted on his leadership Friday, which also sought to confront rising separatism in Alberta and Quebec by blaming it on the Liberals. Read More

OTTAWA — British Columbia Premier David Eby sparked a firestorm of legal speculation about the foreign outreach of Alberta separatists on Thursday when he called the activities "treason" ahead of a first ministers' meeting in Ottawa. Read More

Canadian-American actress Catherine O'Hara has died at 71, according to multiple reports. Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — “‘Tariffs’ is the most beautiful word to me in the dictionary,” President Donald Trump liked to say early last year, calling it his favourite word and promising they would help usher in a new “golden age” for America. Read More

The hottest Olympic merchandise isn't from the Team Canada collection, but a fleece jacket sported by fictional hockey player Shane Hollander in Heated Rivalry. Prime Minister Mark Carney even got in on the action, posing in the original fleece with star Hudson Williams (Hollander) on the red carpet at the Canadian Media Producers Association's annual Prime Time conference in Ottawa on Jan. 29. Read More

A payments director at the Minneapolis-based retail giant Target Corp. said her fast-track credentials for airport security were revoked following an interaction with a federal border patrol agent who claimed he had facial recognition and was recording with a “body cam.” Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump announced Friday that he is nominating Kevin Warsh, a former Federal Reserve governor, to be the next U.S. central bank chief. Read More

A grieving Toronto-area mother is pushing for answers after her 26-year-old diabetic son, who was struggling with vision loss and depression, was granted a doctor-assisted death in British Columbia in December after his family says he was deemed ineligible for euthanasia in his own province. Read More

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said she ordered the arrest of former CNN anchor Don Lemon in connection with a protest against federal immigration enforcement activities in Minnesota, escalating the Trump administration’s clash with the press and protesters. Read More

Hospitals are no longer places of safety as Iran's crackdown on anti-government protests impacts all aspects of life, rights groups say, with authorities arresting wounded protesters and even the medics who treat them. Read More

After a striking speech at Davos, Mark Carney opted for a different tone as he supported the Canadian film industry in Ottawa. Read More

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Mark Carney received worldwide praise for his speech at Davos, in which he threw down the gauntlet against Donald J. Trump’s destructive politics. His speech, a couple days later on Canadian unity at the Plains of Abraham will not receive such international attention, but it is far more revealing of the fundamental flaw of Carney as a politician. For all his intelligence and credentials, Carney simply doesn’t know much about the country he governs. Read More

Our cookbook of the week is Rome: A Culinary History, Cookbook, and Field Guide to the Flavors that Built a City by Katie Parla. Read More