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John Ivison: Canada’s best strategy is patience, not elbows
Donald Trump’s attention is elsewhere, and that should suit Canada fine; the status quo is working better for…
July 30, 2025
Liberal MP sharing tips on how to shrink government department
Corey Hogan has 10 lessons he learned from being a public servant who had to find savings in…
July 30, 2025
Trump orders 50% tariff on some copper imports, citing national security
The proclamation imposes a 50 per cent tariff on semi-finished copper products and copper-intensive derivative products as of Aug. 1, according…
July 30, 2025
Crown attorneys’ group accuses politicians, media of ‘attacks’ on justice system
Donna Kellway cites what she calls attacks on the Crown over its sentencing proposals in the cases of…
July 30, 2025
Derek Finkle: Consumption sites ruining neighbourhoods by increasing public drug use, overdoses
Arguing that consumption sites are reducing overdoses and public drug use while neglecting to mention that they are…
July 30, 2025
Colby Cosh: Betting against Trump’s tariffs
One of Wall Street’s most celebrated lenders has found a promising new line of business: making a market…
July 30, 2025
CBSA: Almost 600 foreign nationals with criminal records due to be deported are missing
Of those 599, 315 have been evading deportation for more than three years. Another 46, according to CBSA…
July 30, 2025
Gillian Steward: Poilievre byelection hampered by huge riding and stolen ideas
How exactly is Poilievre campaigning? It must be difficult when Mark Carney has stolen most of your ideas…
July 29, 2025
Canada weighing recognition of Palestinian statehood
No decision has been made yet, the source says, but Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to hold…
July 29, 2025
Global Affairs Canada misconduct complaints more than doubled since 2023
The department reported 120 ‘founded’ cases in 2024-25, of which 31 were for misconduct and inappropriate behaviour, nine…
July 29, 2025
Alberta premier’s request for separation referendum question approval rebuffed
…chief electoral officer Gordon McClure announced he had referred the proposed referendum question on separation to the courts…
July 29, 2025
B.C. government accused of ‘greenwashing’ as it announces $200M to electrify LNG project
“Our market position, our proximity to the Asian market, makes it the best LNG in the world, and…
July 29, 2025
EU trade deal with U.S. isn’t a blueprint for Canada, Carney says
He said the EU’s relationship with the U.S. is similar to Canada’s in some ways, but there are…
July 29, 2025
Health advocates shocked as Carney Liberals back away from pharmacare program
During the spring election campaign, the Liberals pledged in their platform to “protect dental care and pharmacare —…
July 28, 2025
Trump’s Golden Dome missile-defence push on Canada leaves Ottawa with few good options
Benjamin Giltner, a researcher at the think tank CATO Institute’s Defense and Foreign Policy Department, doesn’t see how…
July 28, 2025
Former PM Stephen Harper says he advised Mark Carney’s government to move away from the U.S.
‘This really is a wake-up call for this country’: former prime minister says Canada needs to diversify trade…
July 28, 2025
Carney says trade talks in ‘intense phase’ after Trump scores win with European Union
So far, Trump’s trade deals “are really bad omens for Canada,” said William Pellerin, a trade lawyer and…
July 28, 2025
‘Vladimir Putin is a real-life Bond villain,’ says former PM Stephen Harper
“It’s a tragedy that somebody with his ability just wasn’t imbued with any sense of ideals or higher…
July 28, 2025
Write-in ballots to be used in Alberta byelection due to record number of candidates, whistleblower speaks
Elections Canada says voters will need to write in their desired candidate during the upcoming byelection in Alberta’s…
July 28, 2025
National Research Council audit finds preferential hires
The National Research Council at least a dozen times in two years approved sweetheart appointments of “top-ranked talent”…
July 28, 2025