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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

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Another Holocaust Remembrance Day came and went as the world continues to tear itself apart. If anything, October 7 proved to be a continuum of the violent antisemitism of past centuries — the Inquisition, Crusades, pogroms — all paving the way to the genocide of six-million Jews. Around two-thirds of European Jews were murdered in gas chambers, by bullets in killing fields and by their own non-Jewish neighbours. Read More

Pierre Poilievre took an economy class flight to Calgary for this weekend's Conservative Party of Canada Convention, and his fans went wild, sharing photos taken by other passengers and praising the move online. His detractors have, of course, refered to Poilievre’s cabin choice as nothing more than a successful public relations stunt. Read More

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CALGARY— More than 2,500 delegates will answer the question today that Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has been waiting months to hear.  Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump and Senate Democrats have reached a tentative deal to avert a disruptive U.S. government shutdown as the White House continues to negotiate with Democrats on placing new limits on immigration raids that have provoked a national outcry. Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump said he would charge a 50 per cent tariff on aircraft from Canada sold in the U.S., and decertify all planes made in Canada until Ottawa agreed to approve certain jets made by Gulfstream Aerospace Corp., an American firm. Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump said Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin agreed to halt attacks on Kyiv and other cities for a week, as Moscow's strikes leave Ukraine facing its toughest winter since the start of the war. Read More

CALGARY — While Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre awaits his fate from delegates in the party's heartland, it will be his newest additions to caucus that will be given the spotlight at convention. Read More

The mayor of Greenland's capital on Thursday called on media professionals and content creators to act responsibly after a failed attempt by a German comedian to hoist the U.S. flag. Read More

Federal Conservatives are gathering for a three-day convention in Calgary, with opening day set for Thursday, Jan. 29. It will feature the first federal Conservative leadership review since the party confirmed former leader and prime minister, Stephen Harper, following a defeat in 2004. Read More

Ontario's home-building industry is in crisis, but there's reason to hope that Premier Doug Ford will come to the rescue. Read More

In the spring of 2001, a group of MPs resigned from the official Opposition Canadian Alliance caucus, in protest at the faltering leadership of Stockwell Day, to form the so-called “Rebel Alliance.” Read More

The lawyer for Ryan Wedding, the accused transnational drug lord who once was a Canadian Olympic athlete, says he is seeking U.S. court intervention over his mysterious and allegedly extrajudicial arrest. Read More

Former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura, a vocal critic of U.S. President Donald Trump, says the state should start looking into ways to “join Canada.” Read More

Denmark's foreign minister said Thursday he was "more optimistic" after technical talks kicked off with the United States over Greenland. Read More

A U.S. plan to step up scrutiny of foreign visitors' social media use threatens to cut tourist spending by up to $15.7 billion this year as people decide to stay away, an industry group said Thursday. Read More

Four years ago — on the 40th anniversary of Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms — I wrote in National Post that the Charter was one of the worst bargains ever struck in the history of Canadian federalism. I argued that it had become little more than a disguised version of the old, discredited federal power of disallowance, a federal veto over provincial policies, now exercised by the Supreme Court rather than by Cabinet. The result: a steady erosion of provincial jurisdictions.  Read More

Alberta's separatist movement is busy collecting signatures across the province, in hopes of reaching the 177,000 needed to request a referendum on quitting Canada. Read More

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OTTAWA — British Columbia Premier David Eby called reported meetings between Alberta separatists and the U.S. administration "treason" on Thursday, as premiers and Prime Minister Mark Carney met in Ottawa to discuss the Canada-U.S. trade relationship. Read More