Our cookbook of the week is Chesnok: Cooking from My Corner of the Diaspora: Recipes from Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia by Polina Chesnakova. Read More

The U.S. has a political violence problem. Last month, conservative activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated in Utah. This month, a man armed with incendiary devices was arrested outside a Washington, D.C. cathedral prior to a mass frequented by Supreme Court justices. In separate incidents this week, a Texas man was charged for allegedly threatening the lives of conservative figures while a pardoned January 6 rioter was arrested for similar threats against Democratic House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. Reach back just a little further and you’ll find a long list of politically motivated murders, arsons, and attacks. Read More

Leadership is about having a winning mindset. It’s about being pragmatic and putting your country’s interest first, above emotion and bias. Yet, our government continues to act to the detriment of Canadian interests when it comes to its Middle East policy. Mark Carney’s recent statement affirming that he would honour the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant should Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu land on our soil is detrimental to Canada's national interests. Read More

Canada championed G7-led policies to dry up investment and public finance in fossil fuel energy around the globe. Those policies did not catalyze an energy transition, and they have ultimately hurt the poor, as a lack of investment and funding has raised energy costs for many — especially in Africa. Read More

A Muslim Pakistani-Canadian activist journalist who is critical of Islamic fundamentalism fears for her life after fielding two warnings recently that she’s in the digital crosshairs of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Read More

With the Parti Québécois threatening to defy Ottawa and write its own rules for a third referendum on Quebec independence and Alberta separatists bragging about help they claim senior Trump administration officials have quietly offered them in their plans to pull their province out of Canada, maybe British Columbia’s Conservative party just figured that overdosing on crazy pills is the fashionable thing to do nowadays. Read More

Canada’s military appeals court has ordered a new trial in the case of a former master corporal who was found guilty of sexually assaulting his then-partner and fellow soldier. Read More

They say dogs live in the moment, which is, in many ways, why they’re so popular. They always strive to make us happy and despite their faults, they rarely fail. The same can be said about Ontario Premier Doug Ford. Read More

OTTAWA — U.S. President Donald Trump says he has "terminated" trade talks with Canada, taking issue with an anti-tariff ad taken out by Ontario Premier Doug Ford's government featuring former U.S. president Ronald Reagan that the president says was "fake." Read More

Prime Minister Mark Carney hopes to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping next week as he tries to offset U.S. tariffs by easing trade tensions with the world’s second-largest economy. Read More

The Ontario government is looking to reform the way that development charges are collected from homebuilders in a bid to get more homes built faster in Canada's largest province. Read More

We are an excitable lot aren’t we? Much of the Canadian media, I mean, and a certain class of Canadians who fall for implausible nationalist distractions like “Canada first” and “buy Canadian” and “elbows up.” It wasn’t long ago that a brief Central Canadian spasm of performative patriotism saw Alberta Premier Danielle Smith widely pilloried (in certain circles) for displaying insufficient nationalist fervour in countering President Donald Trump’s tariffs. She wanted to protect Alberta’s oil-and-gas industry. Read More

Bill C-14, Justice Minister Sean Fraser’s proposed bail reform law, was marketed as a bundle of “sweeping reforms.” In reality, we’re getting no such thing. This bill is just a facade, giving only the appearance of grand change. Read More

OTTAWA — Despite Ontario Premier Doug Ford saying it is time to “fight back” against U.S. tariffs and Prime Minister Mark Carney ruling out retaliation for now, both men claim they are on the “same page” when it comes to dealing with the Trump administration. Read More

OTTAWA — NDP leadership hopeful Rob Ashton qualified his support for reversing the federal tanker ban on Wednesday night, yet still won a shout-out from Alberta Premier Danielle Smith. Read More

The lease for a whale sanctuary in Nova Scotia has been approved as the fate of 30 belugas at Marineland in Ontario is still unknown. Read More

ROME - Pope Leo XIV prayed Thursday with King Charles III and Queen Camilla under the frescoed ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, marking a first time a British monarch publicly worshipped with a sitting pontiff since Henry VIII broke with the Vatican and formed the Church of England in 1534. Read More

A new report released by the BBC has found major issues when it comes to AI agents answering questions about news and current events. Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump has pardoned one of Canada's richest businessmen, the co-founder of Binance Changpeng Zhao. Read More

Canada’s practice of Indigenous land acknowledgements, viewed by many as a pivotal component of reconciliation, is not without its critics, including some Indigenous leaders and scholars who see them as a performative token gesture. Read More

This week’s Calgary mayoral election turned into a real nail-biter. Independent candidate Jeromy Farkas won with 91,071 votes, or 26.1 per cent, finishing slightly ahead of Communities First candidate Sonya Sharp with 90,488 votes and 26 per cent. The results are still unofficial and will likely lead to a recount. Read More

A Canadian refugee claimant who is in ICE custody after accidentally entering the U.S. is prohibited from re-entering the country, the Canada Border Services Agency says. Read More

Finnair, the government-owned national airline of Finland, has grounded 10 per cent of its fleet this month over an issue with seat covers. Read More

Mark Carney announced his "ambitious goal" to double "non-U.S. exports" on Wednesday night, but he didn't mean it, and no one should take it as a serious government objective, no matter how many professorial hand gestures the prime minister makes. Read More