Declan Bigras of Aylmer, Que., joined air cadets when he was 13 because he dreamt of flying fighter jets. While he got onto wait-lists, he wasn’t selected for that highly competitive program. But he did rise to second in command of the 211 Squadron in Ottawa. Read More

What was supposed to be a CA$30 Christmas gift shipped from Canada turned into a US$802 surprise for Boston's Bonnie O’Connell after a customs paperwork error triggered the U.S. tariffs on Canadian goods. Read More

The Ontario PC government recently announced public funding will be used at four private health clinics for hip and knee replacements. There will be $125 million set aside over two years to pay for an estimated 20,000 orthopedic surgeries at Academic Orthopedic Surgical Associates of Ottawa, Richmond Hill’s Schroeder Ambulatory Centre, Toronto’s OV Surgical Centre and Windsor Orthopedic Surgical Centre. Read More

It was an ignominious end to a squalid year for the “rules based” world order. It came in the last days of the second decade of democracy’s global retreat from the advances of Russia, China and the rest of the police-state bloc in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Africa. Read More

It was presented to Canadians as an exceptional option to an already approaching natural death. How did doctor-assisted dying become so popular? Read More

The King James Version of the bible has approximately 800,000 words, a goodly number but still able to be handsomely bound between leather covers and easily carried. Read More

China is in the midst of a “historic military buildup” that has made the U.S. homeland “increasingly vulnerable,” according to the latest edition of a Pentagon report on the capabilities of the Asian nation’s military, presenting a challenge to President Donald Trump’s plans for new limitations on U.S., Chinese and Russian nuclear arsenals.  Read More

British police said Tuesday they were taking no action against punk-rap duo Bob Vylan, who led a Glastonbury festival crowd in chants of "Death to the IDF" -- the Israeli military. Read More

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney's decision to appoint close friend and investment banker Mark Wiseman as Canada’s ambassador to the U.S. is leaving a sour taste in the mouths of Quebecers because of his affiliation with the Century Initiative, which has lobbied for mass immigration by 2100, and his criticism of supply management. Read More

As U.S. forces deployed in the Caribbean have zoned in on tankers transporting sanctioned Venezuelan oil, questions have deepened about the real motivation for Donald Trump's pressure campaign on Caracas. Read More

Canada’s agriculture industry employs tens of thousands of temporary foreign workers to help pick the produce that winds up on your plate. Read More

If there was ever a year that proved that politics can still surprise, it was 2025. U.S. President Donald Trump started it by declaring Canada the 51st state and ended it by adding his name to the Kennedy Center. Our spring federal election morphed from Conservative cakewalk to Liberal renaissance, and the winter saw a flurry of floor crossing. Alberta and Quebec are both talking about separation. And Justin Trudeau is dating Katy Perry. Read More

A segment on CBS’s 60 Minutes about the Trump administration’s deportation of Venezuelans was made available to viewers in Canada on Monday after being pulled in the U.S. a day before. Read More

When Jack Black was filming Minecraft in New Zealand, he listened to Billy Joel songs to get into character as Steve, the expert crafter who leads the fantastical Overworld made popular by the bestselling video game. Read More

As a lifelong Toronto Maple Leafs fan, Will Arnett knows all about heartbreak. Read More

I am just back from a trip to Australia, where the country is still mourning the tragedy at Bondi Beach that made international news after 15 innocent people were killed by terrorists. Amid that grief, something else happened — quieter, but with long-term consequences: Australia began enforcing a minimum age for social media accounts. If you’re under 16, you can’t open or keep an account on designated platforms. Read More

Over the holidays, we’re looking back at some of the best episodes of 2025. As in July, Canada’s restricted dairy market was recently raised again by U.S. officials who say it stands in the way of ending disputes and settling trade deals. This summer, Brian spoke with Martha Hall Findlay about how Ottawa’s refusal to liberate our globally detested supply-management system from trade negotiations continues to hurt our economic potential while causing endless headaches with major trading partners — all to benefit of a few thousand dairy-farmer millionaires. In this episode, Hall Findlay explains how this small cartel works, why it’s so powerful and why it hurts not just consumers, but every other trade-exposed Canadian business. (Originally recorded July 4, 2025) Read More

Former Republican senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska said Tuesday that he was diagnosed with terminal cancer and suggested he would not have long to live. Read More

For the first time in more than four decades, Avatar director James Cameron is out of a job. Read More

It certainly does not roll off the tongue, never mind dribble, but the sport we know today as ‘hoops’ was nearly saddled with the cumbersome, if honourable, moniker of ‘Naismith-ball.’ Read More

Vandhana Mohanraj and her partner Faisal Fakhani had just finished their regular grocery run when the couple decided to stop for coffee. Read More

Dr. Seuss once put it this way. “Be awesome! Be a book nut! The more you read the more things you will know. The more that you learn the more places you’ll go.” Read More

A Liechtenstein court said billionaire Zygmunt Solorz must hand over his Polish media empire to his three children, dismissing his appeal to block the succession in the latest chapter of a feud roiling the family business. Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — For anyone trying to better understand U.S. President Donald Trump's foreign policy vision and its consequences for Canada, look no further than the recently released national security strategy (NSS) that offers the White House’s vision of America’s global influence and its defence and economic power priorities. Read More