Many Canadians will recall the prime minister’s announcement last June that Canada would reach defence investment equal to two per cent of GDP in the current fiscal year, and the subsequent commitment to meet NATO’s even more ambitious five per cent target by 2035. Even at the time, these seemed like ambitious goals. As we approach the final quarter of the year, the specifics of how the spending is happening has slipped from the headlines, but the increasing chaos around the world confirms its importance. Read More

Proclaiming America’s post-1945 grand bargain is over, Trump insists there's a price for safety and security in the world — stay tuned. Read More

In April, 1996, newly-graduated biologist Patricia Wyman was mauled to death at her “dream job,” tending captive wolves at the Haliburton Forest Wolf Centre Sanctuary. Commenting on the fact that she had entered the wolf enclosure alone, a wolf biologist rather delicately commented, “Her love of wolves perhaps made her a little more bold than she should have been.” Read More

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U.S. President Donald Trump's threat to impose crippling tariffs should Ottawa and Beijing sign a trade deal is unacceptably coercive and mimics China's behaviour. Yet, at the same time, Prime Minister Mark Carney could be navigating this situation better, and seems to be prioritizing political theatre over Canada's interests.   Read More

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney's Liberal government is pushing back against U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest threat to impose 100 per cent tariffs on all Canadian imports if Ottawa makes a trade deal with China, insisting there is no deal in the works. Read More

Federal agents shot and killed a 51-year-old man in Minneapolis on Saturday, according to the Department of Homeland Security, amid an immigration crackdown that has sparked social unrest across the state. Read More

Vegemite, the yeasty spread from Australia, gets a passing green checkmark. So does a French bottle of Chateauneuf-du-Pape. But Diet Coke, a favorite of President Donald Trump? To that, a popular new mobile app in Denmark assigns a failing red X — a message to shoppers to put that American stuff back on the shelf. Read More

Cut off from the global internet for more than two weeks, online content creator Amir spends his days scanning the few news websites available on Iran's domestic web for signs that connectivity to the world might return. Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump has sparked outrage across Europe after claiming that NATO allies shied away from the front line in Afghanistan. Read More

President Donald Trump threatened Canada with 100% tariffs against all its exports to the U.S. if it makes a trade deal with China, escalating tensions between the U.S. and its northern neighbor. Read More

On Jan. 19, 2026, the body of B.C. teen Piper James was found on K’gari, an island off the coast of Queensland. It was discovered in the early hours of the morning, surrounded by a pack of dingoes. An autopsy concluded signs of drowning, as well as extensive dingo bites inflicted after death. “Pre-mortem dingo bite marks are not likely to have caused immediate death,” the coroner told reporters. Read More

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Davos speech was greeted with fevered laudations overseas — and provoked a most welcome reaction at home. Read More

Prime Minister Mark Carney spoke purposefully at Davos this past week about adopting a more nationalistic policy for Canada. Less persuasive was his call for a league of so-called middle powers to combine to influence the superpowers to set up what he called, in the current tedious jargon, ”a rules-based international order.” He is vaguely addressing, without recognizing directly, the fact that the Western Alliance was established in 1949 to contain the Soviet Union which it successfully did until the USSR disintegrated in 1991 without exchanging a shot with any of the NATO countries. Since then there has been a gradual shift from a collective security-based to a national interest-based foreign policy on the part of the NATO countries, as well as the former blocks of so-called neutral states and the regional blocks in Latin America and Africa, none of which easily mobilized their combined influence or enjoyed much relevance to the course of international affairs. The United Nations and many of its agencies are just primal scream therapy for many of the most retrograde and primitive regimes in the world. Israel can be commended for taking the wrecker’s ball to the outlet of one of its agencies in Jerusalem. Read More

Few American politicians of the past decade have been so effective at mastering the power of racial dynamics quite like New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Highly fluent in both "intersectionality" and identity-politics, Mamdani cannily tied his platform of equity and affordability with the fate of his city’s “black and brown” masses. Read More

Set for release Jan. 27, Lament for a Literature is the new book from Richard Stursberg, in which he laments the decline of Canadian literature, for which he blames multiple factors. In this excerpt, he addresses the impact of Justin Trudeau's Liberals, arguing they took over a badly weakened cultural sector from the Harper Conservatives and threw money at it without addressing the difficult structural issues affecting it, only making things worse. The government, he said, did not understand "that as Canadian media eroded and Canadians embraced the new foreign digital platforms, they walked away from Canada itself. They no longer consumed Canadian news, laughed at Canadian comedies, read Canadian books, watched Canadian documentaries, or heard the opinions of Canadian experts on domestic social, cultural, political, economic, or historical issues. They effectively left the national conversation and moved to another amorphous, filter-bubbling virtual country." Read More

When a Jamaican-Canadian woman was tried for manslaughter — specifically, for leaving her 15-month-old son alone in a full bathtub for 10 minutes, causing him to drown — her judge had to ponder a question now standard in our country’s courtrooms: did systemic racism play a role in the crime? Read More

OTTAWA — The member of Parliament representing Canada's northernmost territory says ever since U.S. President Donald Trump began escalating his desire to control Greenland, constituents have been reaching out, concerned.  Read More

Snow and dangerously bitter cold are expanding across the U.S. Great Plains as the country’s largest winter storm prompts cascading travel disruptions and threatens widespread power outages. Read More

The nominees for the 98th Academy Awards have been announced with Ryan Coogler’s vampire drama Sinners leading the way with a record-setting 16 nominations. Read More

President Donald Trump has revived his threats to use military force against Iran’s senior leadership amid a violent crackdown on nationwide protests. Late Thursday he said an armada of U.S. Navy vessels is en route to the Middle East. Read More

A Jamaican immigrant denied permanent residency because the Canadian wife who sponsored him was 17 years his senior has won another shot at staying here. Read More

Measles is surging across the U.S. with five new states reporting cases this week, including California, Minnesota and Washington. Read More

This week Mark Carney applied for the job he really wants: leader of a new "rules-based international order" centred around "middle powers." It is pretty much the same job that every Canadian prime minister, chafing at American power, has wanted. John Diefenbaker bristled at U.S. expectations that Canada host nuclear weapons, or support its Latin America strategy, and so hoped the British Commonwealth of Nations could exist as almost a rival to the United Nations. Pierre Trudeau embarrassed Richard Nixon by normalizing relations with China first, and Paul Martin oversaw the creation of the G20. Justin Trudeau, of course, tried to lecture the world about how Canada could lead the way on lowering greenhouse gas emissions. Read More