Amidst much justifiable discussion and hand-wringing over tariffs, immigration and whatever piece of the planet the Trump administration currently covets, a dry but extremely important governance issue often tends to get overlooked: the shambolic state of U.S. federal finances. Read More

Ottawa, we have a problem: It’s called tokenism. Tokenism misleads Canadians by elevating a loud fringe as if it were the mainstream, turning a tiny group of individuals into the supposed voice of an entire community. It shields radical agendas by wrapping them in borrowed identities. Tokenism diverts attention from real threats by flooding misleading narratives. Read More

Many Canadians are shocked that the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal has ordered former school trustee Barry Neufeld to pay $750,000 to local teachers who identify as LGBTQ because he published Facebook posts, gave an interview, and made other statements that the tribunal found contained hateful and discriminatory language. Read More

Three slogans were scrawled on a bathroom stall at McGill University's faculty of medicine earlier this month: "Free Palestine"; "Jews out of McGill Med"; and "Kill all Jews." Whether composed by one person or several, their coexistence in the same vandalized space shows how anti-Zionist rhetoric sits comfortably alongside explicitly eliminationist language. At first glance, they might look like disconnected expressions of rage. In fact, they are a logical sequence, one that reveals something essential about what it means to hate Jews today. Read More

The Liberals’ newcomer apocalypse has finally turned into their worst political problem. Hospitals are overburdened, schools are struggling with second-language students, job prospects remain poor, birthright citizenship continues to exist and judges routinely help criminals and fraudsters remain in-country. Read More

Re: Canada should have won with McDavid, MacKinnon and Makar — Steve Simmons, Feb. 23 (National Post print; Toronto Sun online) Read More

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who assembled theocratic power in Iran over the decades as its supreme leader and sought to turn it into a regional powerhouse, bringing it into confrontation with Israel and the United States over its nuclear program while crushing democracy protesters at home, has died. He was 86. Read More

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in a major attack by Israel and the United States, Iranian state media confirmed early Sunday, throwing the future of the Islamic Republic into doubt and raising the risk of regional instability. Read More

What does happily ever after mean on television? Often, it’s romantic bliss — whether the logical end to a long-simmering storyline, a euphoric reunion, or a late-in-the-game meet cute. And that can give all the feels. Read More

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Prime Minister Mark Carney was forced to admit an unpalatable truth Saturday, that despite his declaration that the old order had been irreparably ruptured it was still very much intact. Read More

TEL AVIV — Sirens and phones blared across Israel Saturday morning, signalling that war had reignited with Iran’s Islamic regime. On social media, Israelis quickly learned that the American and Israeli militaries had preemptively struck Tehran, as intelligence sources suggested that the Mullahs were preparing to launch their own attack. Several missiles were fired at Israel from the Islamic Republic of Iran, resulting in dozens of injuries, but no deaths. Read More

MUMBAI, INDIA — Back on the international stage for the first time since his headline-grabbing speech in Davos, Prime Minister Mark Carney is taking that message on the road, first to India, then likely later to Australia when he addresses its Parliament. Read More

Neil Sedaka, the buoyantly up-tempo singer, pianist and songwriter who sidestepped a promising classical career in the 1950s to write and perform pop hits such as “Oh! Carol” and “Calendar Girl,” and who made a comeback in the 1970s with the soft-rock standards “Laughter in the Rain” and “Love Will Keep Us Together,” has died. He was 86. Read More

Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said Saturday that his country refuses to be dragged into war, after Israel and the United States launched strikes against Iran. Read More

The "buy Canadian" movement has apparently moved the needle on United States wine exports. In the wake of U.S. President Donald Trump's trade war, American beer and wine exports dropped by US$472 million in 2025, a 26 per cent decline from 2024, a new report from the U.S. Census Bureau shows. Wine exports alone reportedly decreased by one-third from 2024 to 2025, primarily due to a decline in shipments to Canada. Read More

MUMBAI, INDIA AND OTTAWA — As the United States and Israel launched a major assault on Iran, Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Saturday that Canada supports the attempt to stop Iran obtaining a nuclear weapon and urged Canadians in the country to shelter in place. Read More

MUMBAI, INDIA — Confronting concerns over India's ties to violence on Canada's streets and attempts to meddle in its elections can only be done through direct engagement, says Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand. Read More

Reza Pahlavi, a leader of the Iranian opposition in exile, on Saturday called the joint Israeli-U.S. military strikes in Iran a “humanitarian intervention” that offered Iranians a chance to “reclaim” their country. Read More

It’s an April Fool’s Day tradition. MPs give themselves pay raises every year on April 1 under the Parliament of Canada Act. Read More

Alleged Serbian war criminal Goran Pavic has failed to derail the federal government's attempt to prove he obtained Canadian citizenship by fraudulent means and that he should be deemed inadmissible to this country. Read More

In Toronto on Thursday, Pierre Poilievre gave a speech at the Economic Club of Canada that was billed as “a vision for Canada-U.S. relations.” Since last year’s election, Poilievre has faced consistent criticism over his inability to offer a serious response to President Donald Trump’s tariff and 51st state threats (even though this is unfair and much of what he said in yesterday’s speech he has been saying for over a year). The speech was full of substantive and new policy ideas, but perhaps most interestingly, Poilievre sketched out in the speech a philosophical worldview that would serve as a basis and strategy for handling Trump and an increasingly unstable world, a worldview we can call “national stoicism.” Read More

Curling is having its quadrennial moment, the Winter Olympics introducing viewers to how much fun it is. The winter games are comprised mostly of odd pursuits that require astonishing physical skill — ski jumping, luge, biathlon — cross-country skiing with guns, why not? Only hockey, figure skating and curling are things ordinary people might encounter, and of those, curling is the most viewer-friendly. Read More

TEL AVIV — Should war erupt between the United States and Iran — a prospect that now seems probable, even imminent — Israel will undoubtedly be pummelled with missiles. Yet, in Tel Aviv at least, many Israelis feel nothing but affection for the Iranian people themselves, who are widely perceived as co-victims of Tehran’s Islamic regime. Read More