We don’t yet know how the repressive and murderous Islamic Republic of Iran will fall, or when. After the recent uprising and the regime’s bloody response, the most likely outcome may well be some form of military junta arising from the conventional armed forces. A worse outcome would be a coup by the more ideological Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) or Basij voluntary militia. Read More

Twenty years ago, Stephen Harper was the first leader to lead the Conservative Party of Canada to victory. He was sworn in as prime minister on Feb. 6, 2006. The nine years of his time as prime minister were very much like the man himself: Unexciting, yet reliable. Read More

Nostalgia has a political dimension. Conservatives are accused of pining for a lost "golden age," while progressives — who are wed to an inexorable march toward their shining utopia — deny there ever was a better time. As the 2006 election of the Harper government passes one full generation into history, those of us who took part might be permitted some nostalgia. But while patting oneself on the back is tempting, contrasting the Harper years with what came after is more instructive. Read More

An old rule of thumb in politics is that if a leader is thinking of calling an early election, he or she will open the floodgates and announce policies and programs to entice voters, such as tax cuts and new social spending programs. Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Prime Minister Mark Carney’s trade deal with China has ruffled feathers, especially in Washington, and left many wondering whether the risk of exploitation and retaliation is worth the reward of increased trade. Read More

A five-year-old boy whose detention in the Trump administration's aggressive immigration raids in Minneapolis shocked the world is now back home, a lawmaker said Sunday. Read More

A top U.S. prosecutor signalled Sunday that authorities would not bring any more charges after the release of millions of new documents related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in a case that has drawn in many world-famous names. Read More

The main ice hockey venue for the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics still needs "frantic" work but all scheduled matches will be played there, organizers said on Sunday. Read More

House Speaker Mike Johnson voiced confidence that Congress will agree on measures to restrain federal immigration enforcement after a national outcry over the killings of two U.S. citizens in Minnesota. Read More

IOC president Kirsty Coventry said on Sunday it was "sad" that the presence of ICE agents and the inclusion of the Los Angeles Games chief in the Epstein files had become distractions ahead of the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics. Read More

A Jewish primary school was vandalized in eastern Paris at the weekend when its windows were broken and a CCTV camera torn off, French prosecutors said on Sunday. Read More

Come Thursday, barring a last-minute change, the final treaty in the world that restricted nuclear weapon deployment will be over. Read More

Gaza’s Rafah border crossing with Egypt reopened on Sunday for the first time since the IDF captured it in May 2024, with a limited pedestrian pilot program. Read More

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned of a “regional war” as tensions continued to mount over potential U.S. strikes on Tehran. Read More

A second Jeffrey Epstein accuser has alleged the late U.S. sex offender sent her to Britain for a sexual encounter with former prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the BBC reported. Read More

Iran has declared European countries' armies "terrorist groups," its parliament speaker said Sunday, following the EU's decision to apply the same designation to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Read More

Public trust in media institutions does not erode all at once. It weakens gradually, through patterns that go unexamined and assumptions that go unchallenged — particularly when a public broadcaster is expected to serve a unifying role in a polarized society, as the CBC is evidently expected to do in Canada. It is in precisely this context that our recent independent study on the CBC's coverage of the Israel-Hamas war was produced. Read More

KEMPTVILLE, ON — On New Year’s Eve, when I wrote about how the Plains of Abraham (1759), the Quebec Act (1774) and George Washington’s military occupation of Montreal (1775) were all pivotal moments in determining that Nouvelle France/British North America would become Canada, and not part of the United States, I had no idea that 18th-century Canadian history would return to the front pages. Fresh from Davos last week, Prime Minister Mark Carney argued at the Citadel in Quebec City that the events of those years charted a distinctive Canadian path, marked by partnership rather than pure conquest. Read More

My wife was recently scrolling through Instagram and came across a video celebrating Stephen Harper’s time as prime minister, complete with fast-paced editing and Bryan Adams singing “those were the best days of my life” in the background. “So, now Harper has a cult following?” she asked. Read More

I grew up in Communist Czechoslovakia, and after the Iron Curtain fell in 1989, I served proudly on the board of Czech President Václav Havel’s Vision ’97 Foundation. Having known him personally, I can say with certainty that Prime Minister Mark Carney’s plans do not at all align with Havel’s vision. Read More

You gotta love China these days. Read More

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CALGARY — People have spent weeks speculating whether or not Pierre Poilievre would “survive” his leadership review. Far from merely surviving, Poilievre locked in his mandate, leadership, and living legacy in the Conservative party. Read More

OTTAWA — As Pierre Poilievre departed his party's convention armed with the backing of delegates to lead the federal Conservatives into the next election, senior party figures say getting ready for that contest will be the next challenge.  Read More