Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre is very concerned about financial conflicts of interest that new Liberal leader (and our next prime minister) Mark Carney may be hiding. But I’m far more concerned about the one out in the open: Carney is now supposed to act for the good of the country after lobbying to defund and drive out of existence Canada’s oil and gas companies, steel companies, car companies and any other sector dependent on fossil fuels. He’s done this through the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ), which he founded in 2021. Read More

Canada faces a seismic shift in world affairs where the U.S., under Donald Trump, is no longer a reliable alliance or trade partner, prompting disarray in the West and posing an existential threat to Canada’s well-being. Stock markets have plunged, inflation is ticking up, and consumer confidence is sagging in the U.S. There is even talk of recession — not the change Trump promised for America. Read More

Jon Watson has about 16,000 cases of wine sitting in an Alberta warehouse. Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump vowed to have an impact on the economy, and he’s certainly living up to his promises. With a double whammy of high tariffs and uncertainty about the administration’s policies and intentions, the Trump administration is hammering trade relations between the U.S. and its neighbours to the north and south, as well as across the world. Recently imposed 25 per cent tariffs on steel and aluminum are bound to make everybody a little poorer. The only good that could possibly come out of it is a reminder that we all benefit from free trade, even if it’s unilateral. Read More

Dr. Chris Loreto, an emergency room physician at the Timmins and District Hospital in Timmins, Ont., had an "aha" moment while helping a man who was suffering from a massive heart attack. It turned out the doctor had the same condition as the patient. Read More

Despite the federal government’s pledge to decrease immigration targets in the coming years, most Canadians still feel too many newcomers are arriving, a new national poll has found. Read More

OTTAWA — Jason Kenney says he felt compelled to return to his mostly dormant X account this month, after he got tired of seeing U.S. President Donald Trump denigrate both Canada and the bedrock conservative principles he's spent most of his adult life defending. Read More

LA MALBAIE, QUE. -- Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly is welcoming her counterparts from some of the world's most powerful countries to Quebec this week, as Ottawa works to maintain unity between Washington and its Group of Seven partners and pushes back on U.S. tariffs. Read More

KYIV, Ukraine -- U.S. arms deliveries to Ukraine resumed Wednesday, officials said, a day after the Trump administration lifted its suspension of military aid for Kyiv in its fight against Russia's invasion, and officials awaited the Kremlin's response to a proposed 30-day ceasefire endorsed by Ukraine. Read More

Ontario Premier Doug Ford and federal Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc are set to meet Thursday in Washington, D.C., with U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, who invited Ford to put an end to an escalation of the trade war between Canada and the United States. Read More

Mark Carney will be sworn in as Canada’s prime minister on Friday and there’s now a massive test that awaits him. Read More

Ontario Premier Doug Ford and federal Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc suggested Wednesday they want to come out of a meeting with a top U.S. official with a “coherent plan” for the tariff road ahead. Read More

OTTAWA — Justin Trudeau's last day as prime minister will be Thursday as Mark Carney and a new cabinet will be sworn in by Governor General Mary Simon on Friday morning. Read More

Shortly after an American Airlines flight left Savannah, Georgia, it turned back due to chaos caused by a passenger who thought a Satanic spirit had entered the cabin. Read More

Medical experts are urging Canadians to ensure they are vaccinated for the measles virus, especially if they intend to travel for March break. Read More

An FBI task force probing an enormous network smuggling cocaine, fentanyl, methamphetamine and heroin from Mexico into the United States and then hauling it north by truck to Canada was secretly watching a suspect’s home in Inglewood, a suburb of Los Angeles. Read More

Canadians planning to travel to the U.S. for more than 30 days will no longer have to be fingerprinted, after a change to an upcoming policy. Read More

Amid an ongoing trade war between Canada and the United States, this country's airlines are dealing with customers who are making the decision not to fly to America. Some of those pivots are cheekier than others. Read More

Pakistan's neglected southwestern province of Balochistan has been the scene of a yearslong insurgency, with a dramatic uptick in attacks in recent years underscoring the struggles the government in Islamabad faces in dealing with myriad security threats. Read More

A handful of Alaskan state-level politicians are opposing Donald Trump's "restrictive trade measures that would harm the unique Canada-U.S. relationship" with recent joint resolutions. Read More

Of all of Canada’s leaders, Ontario Premier Doug Ford has proven to be the best at hitting back against the United States’ increasingly enamoured views on annexation. Indeed, he’s like a father who accompanies his daughter to the car dealership to fend off the scams and slights of greedy salesmen. Read More

Pakistani forces were in a tense standoff Wednesday with hundreds of militants holding about 250 people hostage on a train they had hijacked in the remote southwest the day before, officials said. The security forces held off from full-out battles as militants wearing vests loaded with explosives had barricaded themselves inside the train with the hostages. Read More

It is often said that courage is contagious. So too, alas, is governmental economic stupidity, from which the United States and Canada now suffer in abundance, especially in the form of tariffs, which good economists have denounced as idiotic for approximately 250 years. Read More

OTTAWA — Canada will be imposing 25 per cent reciprocal tariffs on $29.8 billion of American imports after U.S. levies on all foreign imports of steel and aluminum went into effect early Wednesday.  Read More

The Bank of Canada lowered its benchmark interest rate by a quarter point on Wednesday as the tariff battle with the United States starts to weigh on the Canadian economy. Read More

A party that favors a gradual path to Greenland's independence from Denmark won a surprise victory in parliamentary elections, held in the shadow of U.S. President Donald Trump's stated goal of taking control of the island one way or another. Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump’s back-and-forth tariff threats are galvanizing an “invest in Canada” movement that’s prodding pensions to keep more of their cash at home. Read More

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Novelties test the stability and adaptability of institutions. Thus it will be this week with a new prime minister, for the first time never having held elected office. Not for the first time, the new PM is not an MP and, while anomalous, that is not at all a problem. There will be extra work at Rideau Hall this week, but not a whit of uncertainty about what to do. Read More

"We are fiercely opposed to any type of transport on Quebec territory of hydrocarbons from Western Canada to any market whatsoever. It does not serve Quebec." Read More

If you have an upcoming surgery and are able to book the date yourself, a new study suggests that Monday might be a better choice than Friday. Read More

World leaders from New Delhi to Brussels facing tariffs from President Donald Trump’s administration are watching Canada to get a preview of what happens when you hit back. Read More

MANILA, Philippines -- Philippine police arrested former President Rodrigo Duterte in Manila on Tuesday and sent him by plane to the Netherlands to face charges of crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court, President Ferdinand Marcos said. Read More

Lost somewhat amid the aftermath of Ontario’s Feb. 27 election was the Supreme Court of Canada’s March 7 decision declaring unconstitutional the third-party fundraising rules under which that election, and indeed the one before it, were held. Whoops! Read More

Even in Canada’s smaller communities, the cost of constantly policing anti-Israel demonstrations continues to take seven-figure sums from local police budgets. Read More

A college in Tennessee is set to become the first historically Black institution to ice an NCAA Division 1 hockey team. Read More

There was a narrow window for detente between the monomaniacal Captain Ahab at the helm of the U.S. federal government and the new prime minister-designate of Canada. Read More

OTTAWA — Incoming prime minister Mark Carney says he has put all his assets other than his “personal real estate” into a blind trust after months of Conservative questions about his potential conflicts of interest. Read More

OTTAWA — Mark Carney's victory in the Liberal leadership race puts the final nail in the coffin of Ottawa's controversial plan to hike the inclusion rate on capital gains. Read More

It’s official: Mark Carney has won the prize of prime minister. Now, he must figure out how to keep it. Carney comes to the job with a lot of pluses, chiefly his steady demeanour and economic experience, but also a pile of vulnerabilities. Already the Conservatives are gleefully exploiting them, branding him a liar, sellout, and globalist. They are saturating social media with memes and clever ads, trying to define him before he calls an election, which is likely imminent, considering the latest Nanos poll puts them a mere percentage point ahead of the Liberals.  Read More