WASHINGTON, D.C. — With the government's new energy deal with Alberta, including plans for an oil pipeline to the West Coast, Prime Minister Mark Carney is determined to forge a new export route to gain leverage in trade talks with Washington. Read More

A divided U.S. Supreme Court cleared Texas to use a new Republican-drawn congressional map for next year’s election, bolstering GOP hopes of picking up as many as five new House seats in the state. Read More

OTTAWA — After more than a month and a half of fighting, a Commons committee finally received an unredacted copy of a controversial funding agreement worth hundreds of millions of dollars from Ottawa to auto giant Stellantis Thursday. Read More

Israel will be allowed to compete in next year’s Eurovision Song Contest after participating broadcasters dropped a proposed ballot on the issue, following reforms aimed at improving the event’s “transparency and neutrality,” the European Broadcasting Union stated on Thursday. Read More

Ontario Auditor General Shelley Spence’s critique of Ontario health care is weak and outdated, which is surprising considering that Spence devoted the majority of her annual report to the topic, offering three separate audits. Read More

WASHINGTON -- A Virginia man was arrested on Thursday for allegedly planting pipe bombs near the Democratic and Republican party headquarters on the eve of the January 6, 2021 U.S. Capitol riot, officials said. Read More

Former prime minister Justin Trudeau and pop star Katy Perry shared a meal with former Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida and his wife, Yuko, in Tokyo this week. Read More

During the Great Fire of Rome in 64 AD that destroyed three-quarters of the capital city, legend has it that Emperor Nero caused the massive blaze to erupt. Some suspected he had secretly sent out a parade of drunken fools to burn it to the ground in hopes of rebuilding it in his own image. Nero showed a general indifference to what was happening. He played the lyre in his palace, as the story goes, while the flames destroyed Roman art, architecture, and centuries of history. Read More

A resounding majority of Air Transat pilots said Wednesday they are ready to go on strike next week, just ahead of the holiday travel season, should airline management fail to table a “modern contract.” Read More

Once upon a time, there was a provincial justice minister who abhorred a new, far-more-expensive-than-originally-quoted federal gun program that infringed upon the lives of private citizens. So, he decided not to enforce any of it. Read More

OTTAWA —The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops appealed to Prime Minister Mark Carney in an open letter Thursday, asking the Liberals to reconsider their support for amending a bill to remove religious defences from Canada's hate speech laws. Read More

An anti-Israel protest outside a debate on "the two-state solution" featuring prominent Israelis turned ugly on Wednesday, with two activists arrested and two others removed from Toronto's Meridian Hall. Read More

A Canadian man accused of heading a multi-billion-dollar global drug syndicate has been sentenced to 16 years in prison in Australia after three years of secret, closed court hearings. Read More

The United Nations General Assembly has barely paid attention to the war in Sudan — despite 150,000 killed, 15-million displaced and 25-million hungry — yet on Dec. 4, delegates are convening to inaugurate the “International Day against Unilateral Coercive Measures,” which is UN-speak for condemning western sanctions on the world’s worst dictatorships. Read More

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A stupid habit that much of the western news media has adopted in reporting on the Trump administration’s various intrigues and contrivances related to Vladimir Putin’s savage war on Ukraine is the extravagant employment of the term “peace plan.” Read More

Canada now stands at a strategic crossroads. The war in Ukraine, once framed as a defining test of Western resolve, is entering what appears to be its final and least favourable phase. Ukraine’s battlefield position has weakened. Territorial losses in the east and south are mounting. American officials now concede privately that Kyiv’s position is unlikely to improve. As Washington signals that a negotiated settlement is necessary, the war’s outcome will be shaped chiefly by the United States and Russia. Canada and Europe will have little influence over the final terms. Read More

On Friday, the Costco Wholesale Corp. filed a lawsuit with the U.S. Court of International Trade (CIT) seeking an immediate refund of the Trump administration’s unconstitutional tariffs on imports imposed officially in August under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). It’s an interesting political wrinkle in the historic tale of the tariffs. The president’s contrived, random claim of multiple “emergencies” that allow him to rewrite the American tariff schedule according to whim went before the U.S. Supreme Court a month ago. Read More

An encrypted chat allegedly between Balkan drug traffickers shows them bragging about having exclusive rights to smuggle cocaine alongside bananas in shipping containers exported by the Ecuadorian president’s family firm. Read More

To secure Bloc Québécois support for its censorious Bill C-9, the Liberals have reportedly agreed to a troubling trade: removing the long-standing religious defence from Canada’s hate-speech laws. This would be a mistake. Read More

If there is one takeaway from the recent memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the federal and Alberta governments on a potential new oil pipeline to the West Coast, it's that Canada needs to abandon the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) and return to our own framework for reconciliation: Section 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982. Read More

A traditional Chinese medicine expert who helped trick a retired Calgary couple into investing $77,400 into a "sham" company has been sentenced to house arrest. Read More

When two operators of Vancouver's Drug User Liberation Front (DULF) were found guilty of possession for the purpose of trafficking last month, no one should have been surprised. Read More