OTTAWA — The Carney government is proposing to grant the Crown corporation behind the high-speed railway between Toronto and Quebec City sweeping new powers to accelerate the acquisition or expropriation of land for the project. Read More

OTTAWA — The federal government's plans to resume a compensation program for retailers for inventories of formerly legal guns that were subsequently banned by the Liberals have been delayed from this fall until an unspecified date. Read More

A 28-point peace plan floated by U.S. and Russian envoys would force Ukraine to cede large chunks of territory taken by Russia, cap the size of its military and lift sanctions on Moscow over time, acceding to many of President Vladimir Putin’s wartime demands. Read More

A newly announced permanent exhibit at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg is being met with heightened concern from Jewish groups. Read More

The tricky thing about boundary-pushing is that, if you unwisely take it too far, it might snap back in your face. That’s what the regulators of lawyers, doctors, psychologists and every other job gatekept by professional bodies are now facing in Alberta after their sister entities across the country started dabbling in political policing. Read More

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney’s chief of staff, Marc-André Blanchard, drew a sharp rebuke from Conservatives on Thursday when he compared Carney’s sprawling conflicts of interests to Stephen Harper’s former chief of staff Nigel Wright’s situation. Read More

When it comes to housing, Ontario Premier Doug Ford says too much and does too little. Read More

Hundreds of delegates at a Francophonie conference hosted by Canada’s parliament in Montreal last spring went home with “musical spoons” ordered from Amazon at a cost of more than $1,300, according to federal financial reports. Read More

“Diddlers,” as Ontario Premier Doug Ford called child-molesters in a news conference this week, have been big in the news lately. Earlier in the month, Ford joined Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre in demanding the federal government invoke the notwithstanding clause to protect the one-year mandatory minimum sentence for accessing or possessing child pornography. This after the Supreme Court narrowly struck it down. (The feds say they can address the bare majority’s concerns without resorting to the clause.) Read More

A Canadian Jewish advocacy group is demanding answers after an anti-Israel tribunal was held at the Senate of Canada over the weekend. Read More

OTTAWA — Ottawa’s fiscal watchdog says there’s a “low probability” that the Carney government will reach any of the three targets that it has referred to as its fiscal anchors, just months after establishing those key long-term benchmarks. Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday evoked the death penalty for Democratic lawmakers who urged the military to refuse illegal orders, calling them traitors and accusing them of sedition. Read More

Dick Cheney, celebrated as a master Republican strategist, but defined by the darkest chapters of America's "War on Terror," was honoured Thursday in a funeral attended by Washington's elite. It pointedly left out President Donald Trump. Read More

Recently resigned federal Liberal cabinet minister and former deputy prime minister Chrystia Freeland will be the next Warden of Rhodes House and CEO of the Rhodes Trust, the U.K.-based global educational charity’s trustees has announced. Read More

Pete Hoekstra, the U.S. ambassador to Canada, told an audience in Ottawa that he thinks Canada has recently meddled in American politics, but that he also doesn't understand why Canadians are angry about comments regarding this country becoming his nation's 51st state. Read More

The White House doubled down Wednesday after two incidents in which President Donald Trump angrily confronted female reporters from US news outlets. Read More

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When I first wrote about Sydney Sweeney in March 2024, it was because a blaring culture war discourse was forming around the topic of the young actress’ Saturday Night Live appearance. It happened again this summer, with her infamous American Eagle “good jeans” campaign. Read More

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After U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping briefly met in South Korea late last month, analysts said the deal the two negotiated did little but restore the status quo ante, which effectively amounts to a defeat for Trump’s aggressive protectionism. Read More

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OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney's government is proposing to scrub the law targeting companies making environmental claims of the requirement that the evidence they present must be based on "internationally recognized" policy.  Read More

OTTAWA — A free-market think tank is warning Canadian air travellers to expect higher ticket prices if proposed changes to passenger compensation rules are implemented. Read More

Food inflation continues to top Canadians' financial concerns, according to the fall 2025 edition of the Canadian Food Sentiment Index by Dalhousie University's Agri-Food Analytics Lab (AAL), and they're adapting their diets and shopping behaviours as a result. Read More