OTTAWA — Conservatives are promising to move resources from the Canada Revenue Agency’s small business audits to further target big businesses, which they will “name and shame” when caught “dodging taxes.” Read More

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Three genetically engineered wolves that may resemble extinct dire wolves are trotting, sleeping and howling in an undisclosed secure location in the U.S., according to the company that aims to bring back lost species. Read More

The U.S. is poised to more than double duties on Canadian softwood lumber to 34.45%, putting more pressure on U.S. materials costs even before President Donald Trump places any new tariffs on the sector. Read More

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Watching Liberal friendly commentators try to explain away the whole issue of Mark Carney’s father and his status as a teacher of Indigenous kids in the North is a lot like watching the new Captain America movie. Read More

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I find myself wondering if April 7 will be remembered clearly as one of the major defining moments in the Trump trade crisis of 2025, or if it will be a mere curiosity amid an intense period of political chaos to rival August 1914. As you’ve probably already heard, because we are all self-consciously part of the investor class now, the global stock market surged early in the morning because some people misunderstood a Fox News chyron, broadcast while one of President Donald Trump’s major courtiers was giving an interview, and social media was briefly flooded with fictitious hopes that the president might pause his pervasive, arbitrary program of new economic tariffs. Read More

QUEBEC CITY – As the Liberals widen their gap in Quebec, eyes are focused on the "Old Capital," a longtime, mysterious Conservative stronghold. But the ground may be shifting, and one political icon is now hinting that a red wave could sweep over the city. Read More

TORONTO — Seated in a restaurant around the corner from Toronto's bustling Yonge Street on a drizzling afternoon, Leslie Church says her campaign couldn't feel more different than the one she lost nine months earlier. Read More

May I concoct a yummy column idea: Food. Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to slap China with an additional 50 per cent import tax, while Washington and Wall Street remained engulfed in confusion about how to gain exceptions from his sweeping global tariffs. Read More

WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration is having early discussions about a grand military parade in the nation's capital this summer, something that is a long-held dream of President Donald Trump. Read More

EDMONTON -- Alberta's government is taking another step toward giving municipalities the option of ditching the RCMP in favour of a new provincial police service. Read More

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Monday the U.S. will hold direct talks with Iran about its nuclear program, while warning the Iranians they would be in “great danger” if the talks don’t succeed in persuading them to abandon their nuclear weapons program. For its part, Tehran confirmed talks would happen but insisted they would be indirect discussions through a mediator. Read More

OTTAWA — Former prime minister Stephen Harper will introduce Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre at a rally in Edmonton on Monday evening. Read More

Liberal Leader Mark Carney heads into Alberta this week and is more likely to be the proverbial prophet without honour in his own province than the prodigal son returning home to a warm welcome. Read More

There is a stark divide playing out in the current federal election. It may not be dominating the headlines right now, but it’s definitely there — bubbling below the surface with the potential to erupt at any moment. Read More

It was a departure in two ways. Read More

Meredith Gaudreau, the wife of the late hockey star Johnny Gaudreau, has given birth to their third child. Read More

Sarah A. Boardman, the British artist whose 2019 portrait of U.S. President Donald Trump recently caused a furore when its subject called it "truly the worst," says she “completed the portrait accurately, without ‘purposeful distortion,’ political bias, or any attempt to caricature the subject, actual or implied." Read More

OTTAWA — Canada’s electoral interference watchdog says the Chinese government is behind recent campaigns on China’s largest social media network to influence opinion of Liberal Leader Mark Carney. Read More

Ottawa police have released the name of the person they say was behind a massive security incident on Parliament Hill over the weekend. Read More

In 2017, Parliament passed Bill C-16, which resulted in trans-identifying inmates with intact male genitalia being allowed to transfer into federal women’s prisons. Canadian women in federal prisons have effectively ceased to be protected, now that the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code recognize “gender identity” and “gender expression” as prohibited grounds of discrimination. Read More

OTTAWA — Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet has a beef with Liberal Leader Mark Carney over his attachment to Quebec and the fact that he "doesn't like (Quebecers) so much." Read More

When Wayne Gretzky broke Gordie Howe’s National Hockey League goal record in 1994, Los Angeles Kings owner Bruce McNall gifted him a rare Rolls-Royce in reward, a fact he was quick to share twice as he joined the celebration of that record being surpassed by Alex Ovechkin on Sunday. Read More

A Montreal Gazette investigation has revealed that a program designed for Francophone co-operation between France and Quebec has been subsidizing tuition for foreign, non-French-speaking students. Read More

OTTAWA — Pierre Poilievre said a Conservative government would complete environmental assessments of major infrastructure projects within one year and push through approval of 10 pending major resource projects. Read More

Last week, the federal government updated travel advice for Canadians going to the United States. The update to the entry and exit requirements section highlighted the fact that U.S. border agents have discretion to determine whether or not a traveller can enter the country. Read More

TORONTO — In an unexpected move, an Ontario judge has asked lawyers to return to court today in the challenge to a new provincial law that bans supervised consumption sites within 200 metres of schools or daycares. Read More

Canadian comedian Mike Myers made another appearance on Saturday Night Live this weekend, this time sporting a Canadian Tire T-shirt. Read More

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in Washington on Sunday for a scheduled meeting the following day at the White House with U.S. President Donald Trump. Read More

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OTTAWA — Liberal Leader Mark Carney joked on Sunday evening it would be "a bad idea" to send Alberta Premier Danielle Smith to fight back against U.S. President Donald Trump's trade war with Canada. Read More

About 55,000 Ontarians are without power Monday as Hydro One's 4,800 crew members make efforts to get the lights back on after last week's ice storm. Read More

Machiavelli’s "The Prince," a 16th century handbook that that says political leaders are better to be feared than loved, has been much maligned as being nothing but a guide for despots. Read More

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