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Amid measles outbreak in Ontario, RFK Jr.’s advice has Canadian experts alarmed

Measles cases are rising in Canada, the country's chief public health officer is urging people to get vaccinated, and Ontario is dealing with an ongoing "multi-jurisdictional outbreak." As of March 12, a total of 372 cases (277 confirmed, 95 probable) from 11 public health units have been reported in Ontario that are associated with an outbreak that began last October. Thirty-one people required hospitalization. Thirty were unvaccinated, 27 of whom were children, including one child who needed intensive care, Public Health Ontario reported Thursday. Read More
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Terry Newman: Mark Carney’s cabinet-shrinking ruse

Friday morning in Ottawa, long-Liberal-wooed Mark Carney was finally sworn in as prime minister. Before the ceremony began, his X account posted: "Today, we’re building a government that meets the moment. Canadians expect action — and that’s what this team will deliver. A smaller, experienced cabinet that moves faster, secures our economy, and protects Canada’s future." Read More
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Chris Selley: Mark Carney’s cabinet is more of the same, only weirder

Mark Carney is prime minister of Canada. If newspapers ran emojis, I would insert the “man shrugging” one here. Nothing else makes much sense nowadays, so why not? But thus far, and it’s admittedly early hours — hours that everyone will likely forget once the election campaign begins anyway — the Mark Carney era is a baffling mixture of constancy and inscrutable change. Read More
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Freeland’s in, Gould is out: Here’s the complete list of PM Mark Carney’s first cabinet

Mark Carney is officially Canada’s 24th prime minister. About an hour after Justin Trudeau officially resigned on Friday, Carney's first cabinet was sworn in alongside him at a ceremony at Rideau Hall. The new Liberal government has 24 ministers — 13 men and 11 women, including Carney — and no deputy prime minister. It maintains Trudeau's core team that has been dealing with the trade war with U.S. President Donald Trump, but drops 18 members of the former prime minister's cabinet. Read More
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Avi Benlolo: Terrorist-backed Al-Quds Day demonstrations have no place in Canada

The event’s organizers openly state that "Palestine resists; Zionism ceases to exist" — a blatant call for the eradication of Israel and, by extension, the Jewish people’s national homeland. According to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism, which Canada has adopted, denying Israel’s right to exist is inherently antisemitic. Read More
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Chris Selley: Keep Canadians’ pensions out of the Trump wars

“'Buy Canada' pressure builds on US$1.6 trillion in pension pot,” was the chilling headline to a Bloomberg News article this week, detailing the push to demand our public pension plans invest more in Canadian projects simply because they’re Canadian. That’s not a new argument by any means, and it doesn’t spell certain doom. Quebec’s Caisse de Dépôt has a mandate to invest in Quebec, and in the long term its returns reliably beat the “benchmark portfolio” — i.e., an index fund. (That said, in 2024 the Caisse lost more than $10 billion relative to that benchmark portfolio.) Read More
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Mystery author’s book signing was dangerously close to wildfires, and fans still showed up

Los Angeles was still under assault from wildfires the week that an eagerly awaited new thriller from Robert Crais saw publication. The Big Empty was the 20th novel featuring the exploits of wisecracking L.A. private eye Elvis Cole and his formidable but introspective partner Joe Pike — but there would be no big sendoff, no big book-signing tour. The real world was now intruding horrifically. Read More
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Terry Glavin: Who is this Mark Carney guy, anyway?

It’s heartening that Canadians across the spectrum have summoned from themselves a stout pride in their country and a like-minded fury about the mania for trade-relations vandalism and sabotage that has gripped the degenerate belligerent in the White House. Necessarily throwing ourselves into a federal election in the middle of the crippling trade war Donald Trump has decided to wage against us is just whatever the opposite of serendipity is. Read More
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Brazil is building a highway in the rainforest to service a climate conference

The next instalment in a series of United Nations climate change conferences will be COP30, taking place in Bélem, Brazil, in November. The city of 1.3 million people, known as the gateway to the Amazon River, is building a new central square that includes a metal walkway with a lookout, kiosks, rain gardens, a picnic area, an event space, a pet space, a playground and an outdoor gym. Read More
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