Dementia is a “qualifying, stand-alone diagnosis” for euthanasia in Canada, provided people have the capacity to make a reasoned decision and don’t lose capacity before they want their lives ended, according to Canada’s medical assistance in dying (MAID) providers. Read More

You may remember Evel Knievel and his death-defying motorcycle stunts in the '70s, but do you recall Canada’s very own stuntman, Ken Carter, who was often referred to as 'The Mad Canadian'? Read More

It’s time to play the music! It’s time to light the lights! Life sure can feel much brighter with the Muppets back in sight. Read More

A late-night talk show hosted by comedian Jimmy Kimmel has been taken off the air after comments he made about Charlie Kirk. Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump congratulated ABC for “finally having the courage to do what had to be done" and called on NBC to follow suit after Jimmy Kimmel Show was indefinitely shelved for comments he made regarding the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Read More

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that claims the Jewish state was involved in the murder of American conservative activist Charlie Kirk were a “monstrous big lie.” Read More

A dismembered corpse found rotting in an impounded Tesla registered to rising American rap star D4vd was that of a teenage girl, a U.S. medical examiner has said. Read More

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The B.C. government’s secretive and exclusionary approach to "reconciliation" took a sordid turn recently, with the ministers of Indigenous relations and forests both caught in blatant and readily disprovable attempts to mislead the public. Meanwhile, British Columbians have yet again been left on the outside as huge tracts of land are signed away, one-sided "consultations" are held in secret and the public interest is ignored. Read More

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According to a poll released last week by the Angus Reid Institute, Quebec Premier François Legault is by far the least appreciated of the 10 premiers in their respective provinces, with only 22 per cent of Quebecers approving of his performance. Considering that five years ago, at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Legault’s appreciation score was close to four times that (77 per cent), his downfall is nothing but spectacular.  Read More

In his provocative new book The CBC: How Canada’s Public Broadcaster Lost Its Voice (And How to Get It Back) — released with Sutherland House Books on Sept. 16, 2025 — veteran producer and broadcaster David Cayley examines the decline of the institution he served for more than four decades. He argues that the CBC has abandoned its duty to serve as an open forum for the whole country, narrowing instead into a partisan voice that polices dissent. In this excerpt, Cayley revisits the broadcaster’s early coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic, showing how its suppression of credible but divergent views revealed a troubling willingness to act as a mouthpiece for government rather than as a true public forum. Read More

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OTTAWA — Calgarian Christopher Buckley didn't think twice when he sent the Canada Revenue Agency a three-page, nil income tax filing by paper for his inactive film production company earlier this year. He'd done it for years and never had an issue.   Read More

LONDON, England -- After the royal hospitality and pageantry, U.S. President Donald Trump's unprecedented second state visit to the U.K. takes a serious turn on Thursday when he is hosted by Prime Minister Keir Starmer for wide-ranging talks. Read More

LOS ANGELES — Jimmy Kimmel's late-night television show has been taken off the air "indefinitely" after the host was criticized for comments about the motives behind the killing of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk, U.S. network ABC said. Read More

OTTAWA — There should be limits on the use of the notwithstanding clause that is being increasingly invoked by provinces to curtail people’s Charter rights, the federal government argued in the challenge of Quebec’s secularism law at the Supreme Court. Read More

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre offered Prime Minister Mark Carney a backhanded compliment while grilling him on the size of the deficit in the upcoming budget — which led to Carney boasting about his economic expertise. Read More

A law professor at the University of Alberta has been placed on non-disciplinary leave while the university conducts a review of online comments made in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder. Read More

OTTAWA — The federal Liberal government is planning to make it a crime to intentionally promote hate against an identifiable group by displaying designated terror and hate symbols in public, National Post has learned. Read More

President Donald Trump and his gang have always appealed much more to the authoritarian wing of the American conservative coalition than to the libertarian wing. He talks as good a game on “freedom” as any other Republican — freedom of speech on university campuses has been a major preoccupation, for example — but many doctrinaire libertarians can’t stand the sight of him. His obvious affinity for “strong man” leaders like Vladimir Putin and the most generous Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani Al-Thani understandably rankles. Read More

When she first saw photos U.S. law enforcement released of Charlie Kirk’s suspected shooter the day after his killing on a Utah Valley University (UVU) quad on Sept. 10, Tyler Robinson’s mother told police that she immediately thought the person resembled her son. Read More

The pressure is building on Mark Carney from the progressive wing of his own party as he pursues his “grand bargain” with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith on the development of Canada’s resources. Read More