With apologies to my friends in polling, I do not like polls. I am a bit surprised that, according to recent polls, the federal Conservative lead over the Liberals is shrinking, though I believe that a 27-point lead was never sustainable. What I don't understand is what some Canadians do not get: it does not matter who becomes the new Liberal leader. They still will be Liberals with the same extremist progressive ideology, the same mismanagement of Canada’s resources and the same prioritization of the wrong things. Read More

February marks the 10th anniversary of the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision in Carter v. Canada (Attorney General), in which the court unanimously ruled, against both basic logic and its own precedents, that the right to life, guaranteed by the Constitution, included the right to a state-assisted suicide through what came to be known euphemistically as “Medical Assistance in Dying” (MAiD). Read More

The field of contenders to replace Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in just three weeks' time appears to be set. Read More

The Competition Bureau has confirmed it's investigating the possible use of AI-driven algorithmic pricing in Canadian real estate rental markets. Read More

An aviation expert with more than 30,000 flight hours says it is "very rare" for an aircraft to end up upside down in a crash, as was the case with a Delta Air Lines plane that flipped on the tarmac at Toronto's Pearson Airport Monday. Read More

The leaders of Ontario's main political parties are sparring on the provincial debate stage tonight, trying to position themselves as the best person to tackle affordability in the province. Read More

The federal government is looking closely at the business it does with American companies as it considers ways to push back against U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff threats. Read More

Google denies abusing its market power in a written response to the Competition Bureau's lawsuit over the tech giant's advertising practices in Canada. Read More

The Delta plane crash at Toronto’s Pearson Airport on Monday follows warnings about runway accidents from the Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) since at least 2010. Read More

An astonishing plane crash left a passenger jet upside down at Toronto Pearson International Airport Monday afternoon, with uninjured passengers helping others jump down from the plane's overturned ceiling to the snow-covered tarmac. Read More

Jerusalem is preparing to receive the bodies of four or five hostages on Thursday who were murdered in captivity in the Gaza Strip, Israel’s Kan News public broadcaster reported on Monday. Read More

Mexico said Monday it's awaiting a new response from Google to its request that the tech company fully restore the name Gulf of Mexico to its Google Maps service before filing a lawsuit. Read More

Experts say the Canadian sugar and confectionery industry would be hit hard if the country enters into a trade war with the U.S. Read More

Montreal police have opened an investigation after an antisemitic symbol was spray-painted on a synagogue over the weekend. Read More

The Canadian national anthem was booed, though somewhat tepidly, by the fans at the 4 Nations Face-Off on Monday — apparent payback for the jeering of "The Star-Spangled Banner" during the opening rounds in Montreal last week. Read More

Officials in Toronto say it could take three weeks to finish trucking away the piles of snow that are restricting traffic and blocking sidewalks after a major snowstorm. Read More

Ontario's snap election is set for Feb. 27. Here's what you need to know about casting a ballot. Read More

India’s top officials said they will continue to cut import taxes as the government looks to work around U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan to impose reciprocal tariffs on trading partners. Read More

A baby just 14 days old has been injured in a dog attack in a community west of Edmonton. Read More

The Israeli Air Force on Monday eliminated the head of Hamas’s Operations Department in Lebanon near Sidon, according to a joint Israel Defense Forces and Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) statement. Read More

Israel Defense Forces soldiers will remain deployed at five outposts in Southern Lebanon beyond the Feb. 18 deadline as set out in the truce deal with Beirut, the army’s Northern Command confirmed on Monday. Read More

Like many professional regulators, such as those for doctors or teachers or lawyers, the College of Veterinarians of Ontario does not wish to attract public attention only, or frequently, for its discipline cases. Read More

When U.S. President Donald Trump last spoke with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Trump pointed to a 1908 treaty as apparent ammunition to support his threats of a tariff war and his envisioned takeover of Canada. Read More

Funny thing I noticed: Friday marked the anniversary of the 20th century’s most remarkable explosion in Canadian-American relations, which took place on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives in 1911. On that day, Feb. 14, Missouri Democratic congressman James Beauchamp “Champ” Clark gave a short speech in defence of a free-trade agreement that had been hammered out between the (Republican) Taft administration and Wilfrid Laurier’s Liberal government. Read More

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Listening to Mark Carney, former governor of the Bank of England and frontrunner to replace Justin Trudeau as Liberal party leader, can be a dizzying experience. His mind brims with slogans — often sugary, often illogical — which he fires off like a tennis ball machine. Read More

Sometimes I receive letters from readers of my Senior Living column, asking for advice. Today, in lieu of a regular column that involves research, I am sharing some of this correspondence. Read More

OTTAWA — After federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh spent his fall struggling to prove he could be the change Canadians want, time is now ticking down for the leader of Canada's New Democrats to show he can offer that, against the man expected to replace Prime Minster Justin Trudeau.  Read More

There hadn't been a fight in an international hockey tournament since the NHL hosted the 2004 World Cup of Hockey, but then there hasn't been an international hockey tournament at a time of such strained relations between the United States and Canada. Read More

Canada boarded its plane in the wee hours of Sunday morning feeling confident. Read More

A winter storm continued to strengthen in parts of Ontario and Quebec on Sunday as heavy snowfall blanketed the provinces with a second big storm in just four days. Read More

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he directed his ministers not to sign off on a proposed agreement to give the United States access to Ukraine's rare earth minerals because the document was too focused on U.S. interests. Read More

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is working closely with President Donald Trump, according to a joint statement released on Sunday with visiting U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Read More

An internal government report warned a year ago that allowing "the trend of negative rhetoric" about the security of the Canada-U.S. border could lead to a thickening of the 49th parallel, adversely affecting trade and travel. Read More

Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly says Canada is firmly opposed to having Russia reinstated in the G7 as U.S. President Donald Trump has suggested. Read More

It would be hard to come up with a dumber tariff plan than President Donald Trump, but Liberal leadership candidate Mark Carney is giving it his best shot. Read More

“One dad I met with early on,” says B.C. MLA Elenore Sturko, “talked to me about his young teen daughter. She died of a fentanyl overdose, and when they cleaned out her room afterwards, they found a bunch of diverted safe supplies, still in the capsule bottles with other people’s prescriptions, the name of the prescribing doctor, the name of the pharmacy.” Read More

Sir John A. Macdonald and Brian Mulroney were two great prime ministers who helped make Canada into a magnificent country that we call home. Despite their apparent contradictions, reconciling their legacies is how Canada moves forward under a new, Conservative prime minister. Read More

With Russia’s war machine poised to redraw Europe’s borders, the Munich Security Conference’s agenda seemed obvious. Defence budgets needed to swell to deter the Russian bear; diplomatic terms had to be hammered out to bring peace to Ukraine. Read More

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