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The 10 best cookbooks of 2025, from a celebration of crumbs to an unprecedented collection of Asian cookies

In 2025, cookbooks revelled in the joy of gathering. Of celebrating heritage, togetherness — and vegetables. Some dug deep into single subjects, breaking ground in first-of-their-kind collections and making something new out of something old. Others reminded us not to forget where we came from and who we've lost. Here are 10 of the year's best. Read More
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Who is Steven Guilbeault? Before he quit cabinet, before he ran for the Liberals, he was a Greenpeace radical

Despite the fervour of social media it is rare to see a federal politician in handcuffs and under arrest, so an old photo of Steven Guilbeault, who until Thursday was a member of cabinet, always piques curiosity, perhaps now even more because the circumstances of his resignation and of his 2001 arrest intertwine. Read More
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Conrad Black: Canada’s critical economic and strategic interest in exploiting the Ring of Fire

Ontario Premier Doug Ford is absolutely right in emphasizing the importance for his province and for Canada of the Ring of Fire mining region approximately 500 kilometres northeast of Thunder Bay. It is now generally recognized throughout the western world that we have been imprudent in allowing ourselves to become excessively dependent on China as a source of strategic minerals. This not only creates a vulnerability of supply in the not unlikely case of substantial strategic disagreements with the government of that country, but also in many areas enables China to manipulate the current price of these minerals by increasing or decreasing production in a way that can make private-sector development of alternate sources commercially inadvisable. Read More
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Avi Benlolo: ‘Nakba’ exhibit the latest example of the creep of Palestinian ideology in Canada

A devious effort is underway in this country to normalize the idea of a “Palestinian state” and delegitimize the State of Israel. In recent weeks, we saw Palestine's terror flag raised outside city halls across Canada, including in Toronto. These moves are deeply troubling as they are eroding our democratic institutions by aligning them with a death-cult ideology inspired by terrorist groups like Hamas. Read More
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NP View: The Carney-Smith pipeline of uncertainty

Had the Great Smith-Carney Pipelines and Climate Pact of 2025 emerged say, five years ago, it would have been considered squarely within the realm of Liberal environmentalism. Instead, because former prime minister Justin Trudeau brought in several anti-business policies, the current prime minister is being feted/scorned as being pro-energy industry by disappointed Liberals and relieved conservatives alike. While Mark Carney deserves credit for negotiating this deal with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, and bringing a rival onside, we're skeptical at the chances a pipeline ever gets built. Read More
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Terry Glavin: China is a predator and détente should be out of the question

It should be obvious by now that the world order that has sustained prosperity in the northern hemisphere in a mostly uninterrupted epoch of peace over the past 80 years is dramatically unravelling. It just might take a while yet before we can definitively pinpoint the moment or the event that caused everything to finally fall apart. Read More
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Energy minister apologizes after suggesting Coastal First Nations could meet by Zoom over pipeline concerns

OTTAWA — Natural Resources and Energy Minister Tim Hodgson says he reached out to apologize to Coastal First Nations in British Columbia after suggesting they could meet with him over Zoom to discuss their concerns about Alberta's proposal to build a new bitumen pipeline to the West Coast. Read More
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