“We are in a time of war. It may not be a shooting war, but it's an economic war,” says Kory Teneycke, Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s re-election campaign director. “It's a trade war, and those are as big a threat to your sovereignty as the other kind.” Read More

A Grande Prairie trucker who repeatedly extorted and harassed a prostitute to get free sex has been sentenced to 12 months in jail and a year's probation. Read More

OTTAWA — Liberal party members will crown a new leader and prime minister on Sunday while the country finds itself embroiled in a trade war with its closest ally and neighbour. Read More

Daylight savings time will make Justin Trudeau’s last day as Liberal party leader an hour shorter; his desired tenure has been abbreviated by much more than that. Once upon a time it was sunny ways. A delayed sunset is a fitting end for a prime minister who lingered in the spotlight too long. Read More

The state’s job isn’t to manage the public perception of any one religious group. At least, that’s what is generally believed in Canada. But on Monday, that’s what the government did with the publication of “The Canadian Guide to Understanding and Combatting Islamophobia.” Read More

Re: 'A long the line!': The time Canadians fought off an American invasion — Tyler Dawson, March 5 Read More

Tehran will not be bullied by the United States over its nuclear program, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said on Saturday, a day after President Donald Trump said he sent a letter to the Iranians asking to negotiate a deal. Read More

The federal government has unveiled two major domestic shipbuilding contracts for new polar icebreakers for the Canadian Coast Guard to use in the Arctic. Read More

Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow says she is “deeply troubled” by a mass shooting in the city’s east end that left 12 people injured, half of them with serious injuries. Read More

BEIJING — China has announced retaliatory tariffs on some Canadian farm and food imports, after Canada imposed duties on Chinese-made electric vehicles and steel and aluminum products in October. Read More

Hockey great Wayne Gretzky has spent most of his life as the one person every Canadian could agree upon. Read More

While eight in ten Canadian women believe it's "easier" for women today than for women of past generations, more than one quarter (27 per cent) regularly experience gender-based discrimination, finds a new poll marking International Women's Day. Read More

For months, the Canadian commentariat has been seized with Pierre Poilievre’s chances in a Donald Trump world. Would a second Trump presidency hurt the Conservative leader, because people would see him Poilievre as an unwanted Trump-ian figure? Or might it actually benefit Poilievre, as Canadians tested the Liberals’ pathetically lazy framing of him as “Maple MAGA” against what he actually says and does, and realized how very stupid that framing is? Read More

One June day in 1996, three years after he became prime minister, Jean Chrétien made his way to a recreation centre in Fort McMurray, now the gritty northern Alberta heart of the oil sector, sitting atop the world's third-largest oil reserves. Read More

Mark Carney, heir to the Canadian throne, such as it is, is indeed wrestling with a difficult problem in his 2021 book Value(s)  — or even a difficult set of problems. The title indicates as much (or, more accurately, the presumptuous subtitle): “Building a Better World for All.” We should first note in evaluating the quality of Carney’s thought (as we should, given his desire and likely opportunity to lead our fair land), that this is a very difficult set of nuts to crack: “building,” “better,” and “for all,” and that success in such a venture is tantamount to the actions of a veritable world redeemer or saviour. The question that then arises should then clearly be “is Mr. Carney up to such a task?” Our initial position with regard to that question should be one of extreme doubt and skepticism, given that very few, if any, have ever demonstrated such truly awe-inspiring ability. Read More

OTTAWA — All eyes will be on Mark Carney on Sunday as the Liberal Party of Canada announces who will succeed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Read More

Far be it from me to contradict our new De Facto Prime Minister at a time of national crisis, but why is Ontario Premier Doug Ford snivelling woundedly about polite Canadian demonstrations against the anthem of the United States? Honestly, it makes me want to buy a hockey ticket just for the opportunity to boo. Read More

Canada’s Arctic waters are particularly vulnerable to international trespassing for two major reasons. One: the ice is melting, opening up desirable lanes to the world. Two: Canada’s sovereignty over the region’s waterways is not respected on the global stage. We view the Northwest Passage as a Canadian seaway, while our neighbours — even the friendly ones, including the Bush and Obama administrations in the U.S. — view the passage as an international waterway. Read More

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- A South Carolina man who killed his ex-girlfriend's parents with a baseball bat was executed by firing squad Friday, the first U.S. prisoner in 15 years to die by that method, which he saw as preferable to the electric chair or lethal injection. Read More

The Supreme Court of Canada has found an Ontario law that limits spending on third-party election advertising violates the constitutional right to vote. Read More

An expert on insurgency says an American military incursion into Canada would be a disaster -- for the United States. Read More

SANTA FE, N.M. -- Authorities revealed Friday that actor Gene Hackman died of heart disease and showed severe signs of Alzheimer's disease a full week after his wife died of hantavirus in their home. Read More

Moosehead Breweries has just announced the "Presidential Pack" with 1,461 beers, one for each day of the Donald Trump's presidential term. Read More

Senator Patrick Brazeau has challenged Donald Trump Jr., the son of U.S. President Donald Trump, to a boxing match for charity in a social media post Thursday. Read More

(March 7, 2025 / JNS) -- U.S. President Donald Trump revealed on Friday that he sent a letter to Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, urging him to negotiate a new nuclear deal with Washington or face possible military action. Read More

In a moment of national crisis, Canadians don’t seem to be in the mood for politicians getting their elbows up on one another at home. Read More

The federal Liberals will pick a new party leader and prime minister on March 9. Former Bank of Canada and Bank of England governor Mark Carney has a significant lead over his closest rival, former deputy prime minister and finance minister Chrystia Freeland. He’s been ahead by double digits since late January. A Feb. 11 Leger poll suggested the gap was an eye-popping 54 points (68 to 14 per cent). Read More

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre debuted his sternest words yet for U.S. President Donald Trump, as the question of who is best suited to handle his threats appears to be quickly becoming the defining issue of the next election.  Read More

A darkening mood is settling in across Canada as it becomes clear that our country has come under siege by those we had previously believed to have been our closest friends and partners. We may have hoped that this would not come to be, but we are here now and we can’t pretend otherwise. Despite the appearance of randomness and incoherence, we are beginning to more clearly understand the rudimentary strategy at play behind what some have observed as “a dumb” move. Read More

For a few terrifying moments in November, Toronto’s fashionable Queen Street West turned into something more like the Wild West. Read More

OTTAWA — In the final days of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government, the Liberals have banned nearly 200 additional types of firearms and promised details on the mandatory buyback compensation this spring. Read More

King Charles III wore Canadian military honours on Tuesday, the day after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met the monarch in the United Kingdom. While many on social media took this as a positive sign that the King had decided to show his support for Canada amid U.S. President Donald Trump's threats of annexation, was it just a coincidence? Here's what we know about Trudeau's meeting with the monarch and the meaning behind King Charles' uniform. Read More

U.S. employers added solid 151,000 jobs last month, but the outlook is cloudy as President Donald threatens a trade war, purges the federal workforce and promises to deport millions of immigrants. Read More

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is promising to change the Conflict of Interest Act to force party leadership candidates to disclose financial holdings within a month of declaring their candidacy. Read More

Once again, most Americans will set their clocks forward by one hour this weekend, losing perhaps a bit of sleep but gaining more glorious sunlight in the evenings as the days warm into summer. Read More

Our cookbook of the week is Babette's Bread by Babette Kourelos, a Saint-Lazare, Que.-based artisan baker and baking instructor. Read More