With the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump actively pledging to annex Greenland from Denmark, it would be an understandable question to ask why Greenland is Danish in the first place. Scandinavia was never known for its colonial empire, which never amounted to much more than a handful of trading posts or tropical islands. And yet, one of the world's largest islands remains in the hands of a tiny European nation of just six million people.  Read More

If you're one of the millions of daily Wordle players and sometimes have trouble figuring out the correct five-letter answer, or maybe even have to ask for help, you should know you're not alone. Read More

I’m not sure what I expected from the Ottawa crowd this week when François Legault announced he would step down as premier of Quebec, as the first and only leader of the Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ), and as the most socially corrosive premier of any province in modern Canadian history. I would have expected to find federal politicians’ reactions, shall we say, excessively polite. But I did not expect the seemingly co-ordinated encomiums that gushed forth from senior Liberals. Read More

The eyes of the world are on Iran, wondering if 2026 might be the Persian equivalent of the Slavic 1989, when the nations of eastern Europe — first Poland and then its neighbours — threw off the Soviet empire and tore down the Berlin Wall. Read More

Canada and China have had a difficult relationship for years. Many Canadians have a real lack of faith and trust when it comes to China’s role as an honest broker and reliable trade partner — and understandably so. Read More

Iran has entered yet another wave of nationwide protests. To outside observers, the images may seem familiar: crowds in the streets, security forces deployed, warnings issued by the state. But these similarities risk obscuring what is genuinely new about this moment. Read More

Re: The Arctic cold war depends on Greenland — and Trump knows it — Jesse Kline, Jan. 8; and Mark Carney's dalliance with dictators — Jesse Kline, Jan. 14 Read More

President Donald Trump announced a 10% tariff on goods from European countries rallying to Denmark’s side in his pursuit of Greenland, a dramatic escalation in the standoff that will further strain U.S. ties with many of its closest allies. Read More

OTTAWA — Starting Monday, gun owners will have until the end of March to declare their intention to participate in the federal program compensating individuals for turning over one of their government-banned guns, should they want the chance at money.  Read More

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday said “several thousand people” died in this month’s anti-government demonstrations, his first acknowledgment of the deadly scale of the unrest. Read More

Thousands of people took to the streets across Denmark to protest U.S. President Donald Trump’s ambitions to take control of Greenland, underscoring the deep unease over the future of the Arctic island. Read More

The Canadian government is drafting a new automotive strategy that will give better market access to companies that build vehicles in the country, a move that fires back at the Trump administration’s attempts to get automakers to move factories to the U.S. from Canada. Read More

NASA began rolling out a costly rocket to the launchpad at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday, a milestone in a lunar space race between the US and China. Read More

The lovable loser character can be invaluable on a television comedy. When storylines wear thin, you can often get a laugh at the expense of someone who’s socially awkward, romantically impaired, clumsy or, let’s say, a couple channels short of a cable subscription. Read More

Parenthood and pet ownership should not be conflated, says an Alberta judge about a case involving a bad breakup between a former couple and their fight over four cats they once owned together. Read More

Chinese-made electric vehicles are almost invisible in Canada and the United States, but elsewhere around the globe they are a huge hit, dominating international production and sales for battery-powered cars. Read More

The last 20 days in Iran have been deadly, violent, and unbearable to witness. The authoritarian regime in Tehran has indiscriminately targeted peaceful protesters with guns and live ammunition, cut off internet access, and imprisoned thousands. Read More

This week a judge of the B.C. Supreme Court (reminder: that’s a superior trial court, not an appellate court) heard a case that has the potential to further expand the Canadian empire of assisted suicide. The new battleground is “institutional religious objections,” or IROs, which is what the pro-euthanasia forces call them because they love acronyms so much. Most Catholic hospitals (and some hospices) have rules against administering euthanasia on the premises, which sometimes leads to very sick people undergoing what Dying with Dignity calls “forced transfers” to other facilities at the eleventh hour. The parents of one such patient are now suing B.C.’s Providence Health Care, the umbrella agency that operates the province’s legacy Catholic health institutions. Read More

Canadians have not heard much about why negotiations with the United States seem to have gone nowhere. One has to ask: was Mark Carney really the best choice to negotiate with Donald Trump? All signs point to "absolutely not." Read More

The violent cavalcade of events in Iran is starting to reveal the new range of aggressive-responsive policy options that U.S. President Donald Trump has developed to replace the obsolete concept of most of his recent predecessors. For 80 years from 1941 the basic framework was defined by Franklin D. Roosevelt in two addresses he gave at the beginning and end of that year in the Congress. In the State of the Union message in January, he warned against those who, “With sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal would preach the 'ism' of appeasement.” Read More

On Friday, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced a three-year China deal that will relax tariffs on canola, peas and seafood in exchange for allowing the import of 49,000 Chinese-made electric vehicles per year. Before announcing it, Carney said that this new friendship “sets us up well for the new world order.” Read More

If La Belle Province votes for independence, 58 per cent of Quebecers believe they should be allowed to retain their Canadian citizenship, according to a new poll. Read More

Using the common painkiller acetaminophen during pregnancy is not linked to neurodevelopmental disorders in children, according to a study published in the Lancet on Friday. Read More

BEIJING AND OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney will accept a role on U.S. President Donald Trump's newly formed Gaza "Board of Peace," according to a senior Canadian government official. Read More