Mayer Lawee, an 86-year-old Montreal man, remembers a childhood in his family’s elegant mansion, built by his father and uncle in the heart of Baghdad, Iraq’s quixotic capital, especially family weddings in the walled gardens with its tiered fountains, palm trees and statues. Read More

This week, John Ivison talked to Canadian Forces veteran James Challice about his repeated trips to Ukraine to fight against the Russian invasion. Read More

The modern digital era, a "new era of human commodification," violates fundamental human rights, warned BlackBerry founder Jim Balsillie in a speech on Sunday evening. Read More

When a foreign trucker killed three people in Florida in August with a careless, illegal U-turn on a highway, I was not shocked. We Canadians hear about news stories like this on a regular enough basis. Read More

Just 10 months into President Donald Trump’s second term, key Democrats are already starting to look ahead to the race to replace him in 2028. Read More

French authorities have arrested several suspects after a frantic manhunt for the men who staged a spectacular daytime heist at the Louvre museum that gripped the world and embarrassed the government in Paris. Read More

There could be drastically fewer retired Canadians flocking south to southern U.S. states like Florida and Arizona to escape the winter this year, according to a new survey. Read More

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government appeared to distance itself from the Ontario premier’s interventions on trade following U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to increase tariffs because of an Ontario government television ad. Read More

Russia's President Vladimir Putin announced Sunday a successful final test of a new nuclear-powered cruise missile, the Burevestnik, amid Moscow's ongoing Ukraine offensive and uncertainty over a new summit with U.S. leader Donald Trump. Read More

Justin Trudeau and Katy Perry made it officially official on Saturday night, stepping out for date night in Paris. Read More

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney offered a terse response to President Donald Trump’s promise to further hike tariffs on Canadian goods, saying just that his government is prepared to resume trade talks with the U.S. at any time. Read More

On October 7, Ontario Court Justice Heather Perkins-McVey handed down conditional sentences to Tamara Lich and Chris Barber for their roles in the 2022 Freedom Convoy. Both Lich and Barber were found guilty of mischief, a criminal charge. While neither faces further jail time, their conditional sentences impose a year of house arrest, followed by six months under a curfew. Read More

Who raises our children in B.C.? Parents, or schoolteachers and administrators? The latter two seem to think it’s their right. Examples abound. Read More

The World Series has always been a bit of United States pretension. Major League Baseball has an “American League” and a “National League,” with no doubt as to which nation is the referent of the latter adjective. This World Series will be a touch more “worldly” than most, including teams from two (!) countries. Read More

Re: You can't build Canada without a pipeline — Danielle Smith, Oct. 6 Read More

President Donald Trump said he’s increasing U.S. tariffs on Canada by 10% in response to an anti-tariff advertisement by the province of Ontario that is roiling one of the world’s biggest bilateral trade relationships. Read More

Did the dustup over Ontario’s $75 million Ronald Reagan ad — the one telling Americans that even the Gipper believed that, “over the long run, such trade barriers (tariffs) hurt every American worker and consumer” — expose two truths and a lie? Read More

This Sunday marks the final "Run for Their Lives" walk in Thornhill, Ontario, a weekly event held in a local mall for the last two years. It was organized by Toronto resident, Michelle Factor, as one of approximately 250 weekly walks around the world bringing together Jewish and non‑Jewish allies every Sunday to demand the safe return of hostages held by Hamas. Read More

This past Tuesday I attended a discussion between former prime ministers Jean Chrétien and Stephen Harper sponsored by the C.D. Howe Institute in the annual Aaron Regent dinner, and moderated by its affable and well-informed president, Bill Robson. The issue was national unity. In the contemporary manner, guests were invited to indicate the level of their concern on that subject before the discussion started and after it had ended. The majority remained at least partially concerned at the end of the exchange but less so than at the beginning, so they found the words of these two men who between them were prime minister for nearly 20 years, somewhat encouraging. Read More

In the face of economic uncertainty, Canada and Canadian premiers need to focus on what they control. Since U.S. Donald Trump’s 51st State tweets back in February, Prime Minister Carney and the premiers have done their best to chest thump and keep their “elbows up” to show Canadians that we got this. Well, we don’t got this and we have so far done nothing. At best, things are no better, and they might be getting worse.  Read More

OTTAWA — Pierre Poilievre used to share a piece of advice when it came to political campaigning. Read More

Christopher Jung, a 73-year-old Toronto taxi driver originally from Poland, was “the happiest he’d been in a long time” in October 2021 — the COVID lockdowns had eased, and could finally return to work. He wouldn’t live to see November. On an evening shift Oct. 24, a teen he had driven to Scarborough would reach under the plexiglass divider with his handgun and fire a fatal seven shots into his body. Read More

A near-majority of Canadians support the development of a new oil pipeline to meet international demands for energy, and economic demands at home, while nearly three-quarters say pipelines are important to Canada's economic future, new polling from Leger shows. Read More