The European Union and India concluded a free-trade agreement after almost two decades of negotiations, part of an effort to deepen economic ties that has gained momentum due to the Trump administration’s aggressive tariff policies. Read More

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney told reporters on Tuesday he stands by his recent Davos speech that implicitly criticized the United States, after U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent told Fox News the prime minister walked back his remarks while speaking to the U.S. president. Read More

Since Oct. 7, 2023, the world has changed for Jews everywhere. The brutality of the attacks in Israel was followed almost immediately by something else — a global wave of antisemitism that spread with alarming speed and intensity. The joyous celebrations of these atrocities the world over and the spiralling rise in hatred against Jews fills me with dread. What shocked me most was not only the hatred itself, but how quickly it surfaced, how openly it was expressed and how little moral resistance there seemed to be. Read More

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A man who got burned while serving himself oatmeal at an Air Canada lounge will not receive compensation, according to a B.C. tribunal. Read More

Holocaust survivor Hedy Bohm says there are similarities between the time leading up to Nazi rule in Germany, and eventually Europe, and antisemitic incidents that are happening in Canada now. Read More

As U.S. President Donald Trump's threat of 100 per cent tariffs against Canada looms, a new report has found that the ongoing trade war resulted in restaurant operators spending an average of 37 per cent more on food. Read More

There is a reason why the United States and Canada consider China a “non-market economy.” Read More

EDMONTON — Canada is careening towards multiple constitutional crises at once and virtually no one, least of all the prime minister, is making the argument for this country to stick together. Read More

The communications gurus of the "algorithm age" tell us that attention spans are limited, complex argumentation is antiquated and formal speeches are anachronistic, best written by artificial intelligence, reduced to memes or replaced by rants. Read More

U.S. federal agents have killed another protester in Minneapolis. The lethal shooting of Alex Pretti appears even more egregiously unjustified than the similar killing of Renee Good. The continued siege of the state of Minnesota by the Trump administration is not only repelling Americans who once supported the president’s hard line on immigration, but also costing lives and driving Republicans and Democrats to exchange positions on core issues like the right to keep and bear arms. Read More

Today, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we honour the victims and survivors of the Holocaust and mark the 1945 liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. Eight decades later, the challenge of passing on the lessons of the Holocaust is ever more daunting, with the danger being less its outright denial than its distortion or revision — efforts to minimize or reframe the systematic murder of six million Jews. Recent surveys reveal an alarming number of young people in North America believe the Holocaust has been exaggerated, a reflection not so much of disbelief that it happened, but of the subtle erosion of the truth. Read More

OTTAWA — Surrounded by global elites and influencers, Mark Carney stepped on the global stage and crystallized what many had been thinking: it’s time to accept that the world order of the last 80 years has dramatically and permanently changed.   Read More

An emaciated and apparently blind man stands in the snow at the Nazi concentration camp of Flossenbuerg: the image seems real at first but is part of a wave of AI-generated content about the Holocaust. Read More

Greg Bovino, the U.S. Border Patrol commander who became the face of President Donald Trump’s sweeping immigration crackdown in Minneapolis, is leaving the city following a mounting public outcry over the killing of two U.S. citizens by federal agents in recent weeks. Read More

Canada and India will pledge to expand trade in oil and gas as the countries reboot their relationship after a diplomatic chill. Read More

"This is slaughter in the streets," Stephen McLaughlin says softly, his words hanging in the bitter Minnesota air as he pays his respects to Alex Pretti, the intensive care nurse shot dead by federal border agents on Saturday. Read More

Y Combinator, the U.S. startup incubator behind companies like DoorDash Inc., Airbnb Inc. and Coinbase Global Inc., has removed Canada from a list of countries where it will invest. Read More

Prime Minister Keir Starmer said the U.K. wouldn’t have to choose between the U.S. and China, as he heralded “significant opportunities” for British businesses ahead of his trip to Beijing this week. Read More

OTTAWA — It was a speech meant to promote national unity. But it instead provoked a near unanimous reaction in Quebec that Ottawa is disconnected from its historic reality. Read More

A former Canadian Olympic snowboarder turned top FBI fugitive appeared in federal court Monday on charges he allegedly ran a billion-dollar multinational drug trafficking ring and orchestrated multiple killings. Read More

Canada's federal government on Monday gave Marineland conditional approval to sell its 30 imperilled beluga whales to parks in the United States, after rejecting an export request to China. Read More

Our friends at the Investigative Journalism Bureau (IJB) published some important data over the weekend with respect to Indigenous female victims of crime. This is perhaps the most-discussed group of crime victims in recent Canadian history, culminating in the 2019 report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG). And yet, the IJB analysis found, their criminal assailants tend to get off easier than when the victim is non-Indigenous. Read More

Rapper Kanye West on Monday denied being a Nazi and expressed regret over his antisemitic rants, blaming such behaviour — which included recording a song that celebrates Hitler — on his bipolar disorder. Read More