Welcome to the era of the "Donroe Doctrine" — a reinterpretation of a 19th-century foreign policy used to justify the United States' attack on Venezuela and assert dominance in the Western Hemisphere, encompassing North and South America and the surrounding waters. On Jan. 5, the U.S. Department of State posted to X, "This is OUR Hemisphere, and President Trump will not allow our security to be threatened." A photo of U.S. President Donald Trump with a text overlay — "THIS IS OUR HEMPISPHERE" — was attached. Read More

A Toronto man found not criminally responsible for killing his own father with a hammer a decade back has been approved for 14 days of international travel even though he "continues to represent a significant threat to the safety of the public." Read More

It appears Iranians have had enough of the terrorist regime that rules their lives. After nearly two consecutive weeks of protests, and the murder of over 30 people by the Mullah’s henchmen, videos circulating widely on X show that Iranians are still marching in the streets, more intent and with vigour. By the time this article finds its way to print, the Ayatollah may be in Moscow having Turkish coffee with Bashar Assad. Read More

If this past year's generational shift in the popular Canadian attitude to immigration can be pinpointed in hindsight on the calendar, it was somewhere around the beginning of November, when Canada's population peaked and began to decline. Read More

In 2013, Toronto lawyer Avvy Yao-Yao Go described herself as a “loudmouth activist for politicians to contend with.” She was an advocate of chain migration, a former member of the Ontario law society’s equity committee, a vocal critic of journalists and politicians, and once, she even tried to force the government to pay reparations to descendants of Chinese-Canadians impacted by the head tax (after losing one appeal in this process, her organization accused an appeal judge of racism; the complaint was tossed out). Read More

Minnesota is all over the news this week, but for all of the wrong reasons. Yesterday, 37 year-old Renee Nicole Good was shot and killed by ICE agents during a round-up of illegal immigrants. Meanwhile, the North Star State is at the centre of a massive billion-dollar social services fraud centered around its large Somali immigrant community. And this week, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz announced that he is ending his bid for a third term as the fallout from the fraud scandal reaches to the highest levels of state politics. Read More

David Eby admits drug decriminalization in his province was “wrong” but the B.C. premier just can’t bring himself to outright kill the deadly social experiment. Read More

As America levies consequences on the United Kingdom for its free speech transgressions, Canada must see this as a cautionary tale. Read More

OTTAWA — A new poll shows that tensions with Ottawa are declining in all four western provinces, with perceptions of the federal government improving especially rapidly in Alberta. Read More

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U.S. President Donald Trump said in an interview published Thursday that his "own morality" was the only constraint on his power to order military actions around the world. Read More

Sean "Diddy" Combs, who is serving a four-year prison sentence for prostitution-related crimes, has asked Donald Trump for a pardon, but the U.S. president said he does not plan to grant clemency to the hip-hop star. Read More

Russia on Thursday slammed a plan for European peacekeepers to be deployed to Ukraine as "dangerous" and dubbed Kyiv and its allies an "axis of war," dousing hopes the plan could be a step towards ending the almost four-year-war. Read More

Alberta member of Parliament Garnett Genuis is claiming an attack “on free speech” after the York University Student Center (YUSC) rejected a request for him to bring his public discussion forum to the campus on Friday. Read More

Ontario Premier Doug Ford has built his political career on being in touch with the concerns of ordinary people, but is that still the case? Ford’s performance Tuesday at his first press conference of the year displayed a remarkable disconnect between his priorities and what ordinary Ontarians are telling pollsters about their own. Read More

Doug Ford said Monday that Ontarians should "stock up" on Crown Royal, as it will be pulled from the shelves of LCBO stores next month. The decision was made in response to British liquor company Diageo announcing that it would be shuttering one of its factories in Ontario and moving it to the United States. Read More

Security forces used tear gas to disperse protesters in Iran as people angered by the economic situation in the Islamic republic kept up their challenge to the authorities and the exiled opposition Thursday urged them to step up their actions. Read More

The murder trial for Damian Hudson, the man charged with fatally shooting Karolina Huebner-Makurat in front of a Toronto injection site on July 7, 2023, appeared at its outset to be the criminal justice equivalent of a foregone conclusion. Read More

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Usually, if a child swats another child with a toy dinosaur, it does not cause catastrophic injury. Read More

Less than a day after the U.S. launched air strikes against Venezuela and captured its president, U.S. President Donald Trump started spouting off about his desire to take over Greenland, highlighting the fundamental problem with his approach to foreign affairs: while many of his policies — such as imposing tariffs on China and toppling Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro — could strengthen the West and weaken its enemies, his propensity to impose equally punitive measures on friendly nations has us continually fighting among ourselves, playing right into the hands of our adversaries. Read More

The Danish people are feeling shocked, and not a little betrayed, by President Donald Trump’s threats to annex Greenland, a constituent part of the Kingdom of Denmark, says one of the country’s most senior diplomats. Read More

A New Brunswick paper mill worker fired for equating Zionists to Nazis has seen his dismissal replaced with four months of unpaid leave. Read More

On Tuesday, Albertans learned (thanks to CP’s Jack Farrell) of an interesting data point in labour’s quiet voter-recall war against the United Conservative government. In October, the Alberta assembly passed a statute ordering striking schoolteachers back to work — something that was routine throughout Canada until 2015, when the Supreme Court discovered an unwritten and previously undetected right to strike in the Charter. The back-to-work bill invoked the Charter’s notwithstanding clause, overriding the novel Charter right, in order to get schools open before autumn turned into winter. Read More