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According to a poll released last week by the Angus Reid Institute, Quebec Premier François Legault is by far the least appreciated of the 10 premiers in their respective provinces, with only 22 per cent of Quebecers approving of his performance. Considering that five years ago, at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Legault’s appreciation score was close to four times that (77 per cent), his downfall is nothing but spectacular.  Read More

In his provocative new book The CBC: How Canada’s Public Broadcaster Lost Its Voice (And How to Get It Back) — released with Sutherland House Books on Sept. 16, 2025 — veteran producer and broadcaster David Cayley examines the decline of the institution he served for more than four decades. He argues that the CBC has abandoned its duty to serve as an open forum for the whole country, narrowing instead into a partisan voice that polices dissent. In this excerpt, Cayley revisits the broadcaster’s early coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic, showing how its suppression of credible but divergent views revealed a troubling willingness to act as a mouthpiece for government rather than as a true public forum. Read More

OTTAWA — Calgarian Christopher Buckley didn't think twice when he sent the Canada Revenue Agency a three-page, nil income tax filing by paper for his inactive film production company earlier this year. He'd done it for years and never had an issue.   Read More

LONDON, England -- After the royal hospitality and pageantry, U.S. President Donald Trump's unprecedented second state visit to the U.K. takes a serious turn on Thursday when he is hosted by Prime Minister Keir Starmer for wide-ranging talks. Read More

LOS ANGELES — Jimmy Kimmel's late-night television show has been taken off the air "indefinitely" after the host was criticized for comments about the motives behind the killing of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk, U.S. network ABC said. Read More

OTTAWA — There should be limits on the use of the notwithstanding clause that is being increasingly invoked by provinces to curtail people’s Charter rights, the federal government argued in the challenge of Quebec’s secularism law at the Supreme Court. Read More

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre offered Prime Minister Mark Carney a backhanded compliment while grilling him on the size of the deficit in the upcoming budget — which led to Carney boasting about his economic expertise. Read More

A law professor at the University of Alberta has been placed on non-disciplinary leave while the university conducts a review of online comments made in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder. Read More

OTTAWA — The federal Liberal government is planning to make it a crime to intentionally promote hate against an identifiable group by displaying designated terror and hate symbols in public, National Post has learned. Read More

President Donald Trump and his gang have always appealed much more to the authoritarian wing of the American conservative coalition than to the libertarian wing. He talks as good a game on “freedom” as any other Republican — freedom of speech on university campuses has been a major preoccupation, for example — but many doctrinaire libertarians can’t stand the sight of him. His obvious affinity for “strong man” leaders like Vladimir Putin and the most generous Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani Al-Thani understandably rankles. Read More

When she first saw photos U.S. law enforcement released of Charlie Kirk’s suspected shooter the day after his killing on a Utah Valley University (UVU) quad on Sept. 10, Tyler Robinson’s mother told police that she immediately thought the person resembled her son. Read More

The pressure is building on Mark Carney from the progressive wing of his own party as he pursues his “grand bargain” with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith on the development of Canada’s resources. Read More

OTTAWA — Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet says he's willing to meet with leaders of Alberta's growing pro-independence movement, following provincial counterpart Paul St-Pierre Plamondon's whirlwind Calgary visit last week. Read More

A vigil was held for Charlie Kirk in Winnipeg on Tuesday, with a crowd of more than a thousand people "full of kindness," says one woman who attended. Read More

The Alberta Court of Appeal has upped the sentence of a child pornographer and child abuser, saying the trial judge made a mistake when refusing to accept a joint sentence submission from the defence and the Crown and declining to view the images made by the accused pedophile. Read More

"Kissing bug" disease, also known as Chagas disease, is now considered an endemic illness in the United States, according to research in an infectious-disease journal published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this month. Read More

A vicious organism so “armed to the teeth” it can dodge most drugs thrown at it and a fungus with a kill rate of up to 60 percent lead a new list of pathogens federal health officials say pose the greatest threats to Canadians.  Read More

OTTAWA — As Justice Minister Sean Fraser prepares to table his bill to legislate against the obstruction of places of worship, schools, and community centres, he says he wants to see it passed quickly.  Read More

A teacher in British Columbia who had exchanged hundreds of "increasingly personal and intimate messages" with a student has been banned from the job for 15 years. Between the two, more than 1,000 calls were made over the phone, according to a summary of the consent resolution agreement published Tuesday. Read More

A U.S. immigration lawyer says warnings about the revocation of visas of foreign visitors who celebrate the death of Charlie Kirk could have a “chilling effect” on Canadians entering or already in the U.S., though she said it’s unlikely anyone will be deported. Read More