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Stuart Benson

‘Easier to advertise cookies than spinach’: Conservatives outspent the Liberals seven-to-one in 2024 advertising

The Liberals’ $2.3-million in digital-focused ads in 2024 demonstrates the lack of confidence the party had in its previous leader and message, says EOK Consults' Harneet Singh. The federal Conservatives spent more than $16.5-million on advertising in 2024, outgunning the governing Liberals’ $2.3-million by more than seven to one as the governing Grits struggled to gain a foothold against the...

Anja Karadeglija

Ottawa taps Cohere to work on use of AI in public service

The federal government has signed an agreement with a Canadian artificial intelligence company to identify areas where AI can enhance public service operations. The agreement with Cohere also involves looking at building Canada’s commercial capabilities to use and export AI, but there are few details about what exactly Cohere will do. Cohere is a Toronto-based tech company which develops large...

Spencer Van Dyk, Stephanie Ha

Poilievre will have to ‘soften the edges’, act prime ministerial as he returns to Ottawa: experts

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre will have to hold the government accountable while showing he can appeal to a wider set of Canadian voters, as he gets ready to head back to the House of Commons following his resounding byelection win, experts say. After losing his seat in the Ottawa-area riding he’d held for two decades to a political rookie in...

Murray Brewster

5 Canadian soldiers suspended after Nazi salute video emerges

The Canadian Army is now dealing with another incident of alleged hateful conduct that involves Quebec-based soldiers caught on video allegedly partying while some people at the event delivered Nazi salutes. In a statement, Lt.-Gen. Mike Wright, the commander of the army, said the video was brought to his attention on Aug. 6, and an immediate internal investigation was launched...

Mickey Djuric

Poilievre’s back, but 5 more fights could define his future

Canada’s Conservative leader has a second shot at becoming prime minister, but there are roadblocks in his way. With a win in rural Alberta, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is returning to the House of Commons — the next step on his mission to become Canada’s next prime minister. Poilievre didn’t just lose a chance to form government in April’s federal...

Polls

Nik Nanos

Liberals 44, Conservatives 32, NDP 12 –Poilievre trails Carney on preferred PM tracking by 27 points

The Weekly Nanos Tracking is produced by the Nanos Research Corporation, headquartered in Canada, which operates in Canada and the United States. The data is based on random interviews with 1,000 Canadian consumers (recruited by RDD land- and cell-line sample), using a four-week rolling average of 250 respondents each week, 18 years of age and over. The random sample of...

Nik Nanos

Consumer confidence sliding towards neutral territory

Nanos conducted an RDD dual frame (land- and cell-lines) telephone random survey of 1,050 respondents in Canada. This report is based on the four waves of tracking ending August 15th, 2025. The margin of error for a random survey of 1,050 Canadians is ±3.0 percentage points, 19 times out of 20. The research was commissioned by the Bloomberg and was conducted by Nanos Research.

Opinion

Dr. Pantelis Koutroumpis

The World Is Sharing Towers: Why Hasn’t Canada?

Aaron Wherry

Pierre Poilievre's (brief) exile is over. Now what?

In fundraising appeals sent to supporters ahead of Monday's vote, the Conservative Party billed Battle River-Crowfoot as the "most important by-election in Canadian history." It was at least the most important byelection in the history of Pierre Poilievre. Not that the winner was ever in much doubt. In attempting to regain a seat in the House of Commons — a...

News

Kady O'Malley

How will the Conservative plan to bring in a Canadian Sovereignty Act play out?

Despite pulling off an impressive, if not particularly surprising win in his mid-August bid to regain his front-and-centre seat in the House of Commons, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre will have to wait a few more weeks before he makes his debut appearance as the MP for Battle River – Crowfoot, Alta.

Darren Major

Elizabeth May says she won't lead Green Party in next election

Green Party Leader Elizabeth May told supporters Tuesday that she won't be leading the party into the next election. May — who is currently the only Green MP — made the announcement in an email to party members which was shared with CBC news. She said she intends to stay on as an MP and leader pending the results of...

Politician's Pen

Sharren Haskel

I am Israel's Canadian-born deputy foreign minister. Mark Carney is rewarding terrorist monsters

This week, the Toronto International Film Festival attempted to cancel, then reinstated, the screening of The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue, a documentary on a retired Israeli general’s successful attempt to rescue his family during the October 7, 2023, terror attacks by Hamas. The organizers of TIFF reportedly claimed they needed Hamas’s permission to show the footage of the...

David M. Wells

Parliamentary diplomacy unites a divided world: Senator David M. Wells

In an increasingly divided world, it is worth remembering that Canada is still among friends — and that we face the challenges of the day together. In July 2025, I had the privilege of attending sessions of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization of Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). First conceived as a forum for dialogue between the West...

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Robyn Urback

Pierre Poilievre can be an attack dog and a grown-up all at the same time

Adrienne Tanner

Poilievre still wants to run against Trudeau

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre once again has a seat in the House of Commons after losing his long-held Ottawa riding in April’s federal election. Little surprise there. But the four-month hiatus should have been plenty of time for him to chart a new offensive against Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal minority government. That would require imagination Poilievre has never exhibited...

Yvonne Su

Canada’s immigration approach is becoming more exclusionary. It’s not the direction we should be heading

In 2023, Canada marked the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Exclusion Act, a law that explicitly banned nearly all Chinese immigrants for nearly a quarter century. Many see it as a black mark in Canadian history because it deliberately targeted and expelled the very Chinese labourers who had done the dangerous, back-breaking work of building the Canadian Pacific Railway, only...

Andrew Phillips

Maine senator’s letter proposing three provinces join the U.S. is straight-up ignorance combined with arrogance

I hadn’t heard of Joseph Martin until five minutes ago, and I bet you hadn’t either. Martin is a Republican state senator from a rural corner of Maine, not exactly a power position. Even most Mainers, as they call themselves, would probably have a hard time picking him out of a lineup. But Sen. Martin is suddenly famous, or more...

David Coletto

Communicating Hard Choices in a Fragmented Age: Lessons from the Air Canada Strike

The strike at Air Canada is now a test of how governments deal with unpopular decisions in real time. Our polling shows most Canadians side with the flight attendants, agree they should be paid for all aspects of their workday, and oppose Ottawa forcing them back. That reaction makes sense. People are already stretched thin by the cost of living...

Andrew MacDougall

Why Carney has nothing to learn from Starmer on negotiating with Trump

Vina Nadjibulla

China’s canola tariffs are a dangerous trap

Shawn McCarthy

Carney should heed his own advice from his bestselling book, Value(s

Mark Carney, the prime minister, would do well to heed the advice of Mark Carney, the author, as his Liberal government struggles to transform the Canadian economy into one that is stronger, and more independent, equitable, and sustainable. Over the summer, I read Carney’s Value(s): Building a Better World for All, which lays out his vision for a world that...

Anne Johnson, Scott Dunbar

New approach needed in mining critical minerals

Bruce Anderson

Carney approval sits at 68%, 59% in Alberta

Canadians are in a serious mood; politics isn't a sport or a game. Sometimes people who are deeply involved in politics, whether keyboard warriors or those who run for - or staff - political offices can fall into a habit, one I’ve had myself at times, of thinking of politics like a game or sport. When you’re in that mindset...

David Coletto

Did Carney Just Open the Door to a New Era of Labour Strife?

The Carney government may have single-handedly ushered in a new chapter of labour uncertainty with today’s decision to impose binding arbitration in the Air Canada labour dispute. The move, prompted by a strike that halted nearly all of Air Canada’s 700 daily flights and left over 100,000 travellers stranded, sends a jarring message in a moment when confidence and security...

Dorothy Dobbie

The politics of fear used by Carney are wearing thin

All governments use fear to manipulate citizens to some extent or another, but over the past six months, we have been subjected to a bombardment of fear of what can happen if we don’t do what our government, or more precisely, the man at the helm of that government, wants us to do.

Cailynn Klingbeil

The premiers are using bike lanes as a political scapegoat

I bike most days in Calgary, often with my two young kids in the front of my cargo bike. We ride to daycare, to playgrounds, to the grocery store. Like countless people in cities across Canada, we’re just trying to move around safely. But across the country, a concerning pattern is emerging: Provincial governments are using bike lanes as political...

Ian Pattison

Byelection vote sets tone for Poilieve’s future. Anything below 83% could spell trouble for the Conservative leader

ADVANCE voting is complete in Alberta's Battle River-Crowfoot byelection where Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre is trying to get back into Parliament after losing his longtime seat in Ottawa in April. More than 14,000 people voted between last Friday and Monday and the turnout was within 20 votes of advance polling in the general election in which Damien Kurek secured 83-per-cent...

Aaron Wherry

Can the ZEV mandate survive political pressure and industry objections?

With the federal carbon tax dead and gone, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has found a new target among the Liberal government's climate policies — the electric vehicle availability standard, otherwise known as the zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) mandate. "We will legalize, into the future, your right to drive a gas or diesel-powered truck or car by repealing the Liberal EV mandate,"...

Tamara Lindeman

Mark Carney could unite Canada with this bold, courageous move

Canada’s forests are burning, from Vancouver Island to Newfoundland. Coast to coast, bad air quality and extreme heat are keeping Canadians confined indoors. In Nova Scotia, the threat of fire is so extreme that the government has levied a $25,000 fine on going into the woods, hunting, fishing, camping, hiking. The things we want to enjoy as Canadians, in our...

Justin Ling

Critics of forest fire restrictions are painted as conspiracy theorists. This is why they might not be

Nova Scotia is, if you listen to a small-but-loud chorus, sliding into “authoritarianism” and “totalitarianism.” It is the testing ground for draconian “climate lockdowns” and a sign of a malignant government “paranoia.” For most Nova Scotians, their government’s decision to ban anyone from entering the woods for any reason, save on their own property — issued with the blunt warning...

Andrew Phillips

U.S. aims to rewrite history and the CUSMA , which doesn’t bode well for Canada

What on earth has gotten into those Canadians? The United States, specifically Donald Trump, has “done nothing but treat them with the utmost respect.” The Trump administration has “protected the integrity” of its trade deal with Canada, but the Canadians have tossed that aside and decided that “the guardrails are off.” Frankly, it’s hurtful. The U.S. sees Canada as a...

Sharan Kaur

Critics of forest fire restrictions can’t see the truth for the burning trees

Wildfires are currently raging across Canada, from the Pacific shores of Vancouver Island to the eastern expanses of Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. So stark is the threat in Atlantic Canada that governments there have temporarily banned many outdoor activities due to the heightened risk — prompting some to claim this represents an encroachment on Canadians’ freedom.

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Air Canada strike ends after tentative deal reached with flight attendants' union

Air Canada says it plans to operate more than half of its scheduled flights Tuesday after reaching a tentative deal with the union representing its flight attendants to end a strike that began Saturday morning. The airline said it will gradually restart its operations Tuesday, with the first of its mainline aircraft resuming takeoffs around 4 p.m. ET. By the...

Arturo Chang

Donations to Sean Feucht groups via B.C.-based charity add to financial transparency concerns raised in Canada

A non-profit watchdog says Canadians have no way of knowing how much money is being donated to an evangelical group founded by an American who is making headlines across the country for event cancellations and questions about his views. Permits for Sean Feucht's summertime worship concert events organized by his Burn 24/7 group in major cities across Canada — including...

Maeve Ellis, Carly Penrose

Ottawa fundraising event draws dozens of lobbyists — despite Liberal promises

On a drizzly Monday evening in June, more than 800 Liberal Party donors mingled with 14 cabinet ministers, eight secretaries of state and the prime minister at the Canadian War Museum, enjoying hors d'oeuvres and views of the Ottawa River. The annual Laurier Club Summer Reception and Garden Party is an exclusive event for Liberal supporters who donate the legal...

Mark Ramzy

Carney government planning to complete gun buyback program by end of next year

Canada’s gun buyback scheme is in the “final stages” of design and will be completed “no later” than the end of 2026, Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree said Monday, as he warned hesitant provinces and law enforcement agencies it’s their obligation to implement the law. In an interview with the Star, Anandasangaree confirmed an October 2025 amnesty deadline will have...

Elizabeth Thompson, Aloysius Wong

Foreign interference watchdog to be named next month, public safety minister says

Canada's first foreign interference watchdog will be named next month and a new foreign agent registry will be launched later this fall, said Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree. In an interview with CBC News, Anandasangaree said fighting transnational repression and foreign interference in Canada "is an utmost priority of the prime minister." He said Prime Minister Mark Carney has tasked...

Murray Brewster

Canada is running out of runway for its F-35 review

There was an interesting — albeit brief — recent eruption of clarity in the ongoing saga of whether Canada intends to proceed with the full order of American-made F-35 fighters. It was courtesy of the U.S. ambassador to Canada, Pete Hoekstra, who perhaps spoke the quiet part out loud last week in an interview with Canadian independent podcaster Jasmin Laine...

Sarah Ritchie

Poilievre's byelection win sets the table for his return to Parliament this fall

After a summer of rodeos, dinosaurs and door-knocking, Pierre Poilievre is now officially heading back to Ottawa as a Conservative member of Parliament for Alberta. The Tory leader will represent the sprawling rural riding of Battle River—Crowfoot, in the province's eastern region, after winning a byelection on Monday. "Getting to know the people in this region has been the privilege...

Pierre Poilievre wins Alberta byelection, regains seat in House of Commons

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre secured a seat in the House of Commons late Monday with a crushing byelection win in the rural Alberta riding of Battle River—Crowfoot. He was leading with about 80 per cent of votes as results came in throughout the night. "Getting to know the people in this region has been the privilege of my life," Poilievre...

Ian Bickis

Air Canada says no deal with union until planes moving as it cancels more flights

Air Canada says its flight attendants need to return to work before the airline can push on with negotiations, even as the union says it won't end its now unlawful strike until a deal is reached at the bargaining table. "We're available and ready to work on an industry leading deal for our flight attendants, making them the best compensated...

Sheena Goodyear

MP who stepped down for Pierre Poilievre's byelection says he'll run again

Damien Kurek plans to be on the ballot again in Battle River-Crowfoot in the next general election. Damien Kurek says he doesn't plan to stay away from politics for long. The former Conservative MP recently gave up his seat in the Alberta riding of Battle River-Crowfoot so that party leader Pierre Poilievre could run there. Poilievre, who lost his longtime...

Craig Lord

Ottawa to probe unpaid airline work allegations key to Air Canada strike

Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu tells The Canadian Press that the federal government is launching a probe into allegations of unpaid work in the airline sector as a work stoppage at Air Canada stretches on. One of the key complaints from the union representing Air Canada flight attendants is that workers are not paid for duties performed before take-off.

Dylan Robertson

Anand says war in Ukraine influencing Canada's Arctic security policy

Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand said Monday the federal government is leaving "no stone unturned" to defend Canada's North as changes in the global order in recent years are having direct implications for Canada's Arctic sovereignty. Anand was in Helsinki to meet with her counterparts from Nordic countries to discuss Arctic security, which she said has become a more critical...

Ian Bickis

Air Canada extends flight cancellations as strike action continues

Air Canada says all flights of Air Canada and Air Canada Rouge remain suspended through 4 p.m. ET on Tuesday as members of the union representing its flight attendants continue strike action. It says customers whose flights are cancelled will notified.

Quebec union leaders say workers could face same fate as Air Canada flight attendants

The presidents of two major Quebec unions fear workers in the province could soon face the same treatment as striking Air Canada flight attendants under a provincial law passed in May. The law gives Quebec's labour minister the power to end a labour dispute by imposing arbitration when the strike or lockout is deemed likely to cause serious or irreparable...

Emilie Bergeron

Indigenous leaders on Trans Mountain lessons as Building Canada Act moves forward

Two former Indigenous leaders on both sides of the debate over the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion say the federal government can't ignore First Nations on future infrastructure projects it seeks to approve. Their comments come as Prime Minister Mark Carney aims to fast-track major projects, such as pipelines and mines, through his government's newly adopted "Building Canada Act." Following years...

Dylan Robertson

Anand says international law is fundamental, as Ukraine talks kick off at White House

Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says Canada is trying to convince other countries that international law is fundamental for peace in Ukraine and across the world. Anand is in Helsinki, meeting with foreign ministers from Nordic countries as part of Canada's foreign policy for the Arctic, which seeks more economic and security ties with countries like Finland

Spencer Van Dyk

Poilievre should ‘put partisan stripes aside’ and work with Carney amid Trump threat: Ford

Ontario Premier Doug Ford is encouraging federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre to “put partisan stripes aside” if he wins back a seat in the House of Commons, amid an ongoing trade war with the United States. “Work with the prime minister,” Ford said, when asked by reporters on Parliament Hill Monday if he has any advice to offer Poilievre. “Let’s...

Ian Bickis

Air Canada union says right to strike on the line as it defies back-to-work order

A shutdown of Air Canada by flight attendants over wages and unpaid work has rapidly escalated into a fight for the right to strike as union leaders said Monday they'll push despite orders to stop, while the airline said it hoped workers will soon comply. The rising stakes of the impasse have left hundreds of thousands of travellers in limbo...

Bruce Anderson

Carney approval sits at 68%, 59% in Alberta

The Canadian Press

Canada Industrial Relations Board declares Air Canada flight attendant strike illegal

MONTREAL -- Air Canada says the Canada Industrial Relations Board has declared the strike by the company's 10,000 flight attendants illegal and has ordered the union's leadership to direct its members to return to work.

Laura Osman

How to make massive government cuts, according to someone who’s done it

As governments around the world look to cut their spending in an increasingly uncertain economy, the United States—and Canada—stand out as examples of what not to do. That’s according to the woman who steered the Canadian public service through one of the most dramatic budget cuts in the country’s history.

Tessie Sanci

Saskatchewan, Newfoundland, Nunavut, and Northwest Territories all open to pharmacare talks, but say they’re not taking place

Both Saskatchewan and Nunavut are open to conversations about a national pharmacare program, but say they are not in active talks with the federal government. Newfoundland and Labrador says it has reached out to Health Canada to “re-engage” in conversations, but did not say whether the federal department has responded. These are some of the answers to questions sent by...

The Canadian Press

Labour groups pushing back as Air Canada flight attendants' strike poised to continue

It could be another chaotic day for travellers as a labour dispute continues between Air Canada and the union representing its flight attendants.

The Canadian Press

Voters head to the polls in Battle River--Crowfoot as Poilievre seeks return to House

CAMROSE -- Voters head to the polls today in a rural Alberta byelection that's getting an unusual level of national attention.

Sarah Ritchie

Air Canada cancels plan to resume flights Sunday as union defies back-to-work order

Air Canada cancelled hundreds of additional flights on Sunday after the union representing its flight attendants announced the workers would remain on strike in defiance of a back-to-work order. The Canadian Union of Public Employees said it filed a challenge in Federal Court on Sunday to an order by the Canada Industrial Relations Board that said its members must return...

US Poli

Tran Nguyen And Jim Vertuno, The Associated Press

California Democrats hold hearings on new congressional map to counter Trump-backed redistricting

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- Californians had their first chance Tuesday to tell lawmakers how they feel about a partisan plan to win Democrats more U.S. House seats by making a new political map in response to a Republican redistricting effort in Texas that President Donald Trump wants.

Alanna Durkin Richer And Michael Kunzelman, The Associated Press

Trump's Justice Department is investigating whether DC police officials falsified crime data

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Justice Department has opened an investigation into whether police officials in Washington, D.C., have falsified crime data, according to a person familiar with the probe who wasn't authorized to publicly discuss an open investigation.

Nicholas Riccardi And Ali Swenson, The Associated Press

Trump vows to change how elections are run. The US Constitution doesn't give him that power

President Donald Trump on Monday vowed more changes to the way elections are conducted in the U.S., but based on the Constitution there is little to nothing he can do on his own.

Nicholas Riccardi, The Associated Press

Conservative network Newsmax agrees to pay $67M in defamation case over bogus 2020 election claims

DENVER (AP) -- The conservative network Newsmax will pay $67 million to settle a lawsuit accusing it of defaming a voting equipment company by spreading lies about President Donald Trump's 2020 election loss, according to documents filed Monday.

International

The Associated Press

Trump says no to US troops in Ukraine

President Donald Trump on Tuesday offered his assurances that U.S. troops would not be sent to Ukraine to defend against Russia, after seeming to leave open the possibility the day before. Trump also said in a morning TV interview that Ukraine's hopes of joining NATO and regaining the Crimean Peninsula are "impossible."

The Associated Press

Trump planning for Putin-Zelenskyy meeting while affirming security guarantees

President Donald Trump said he's begun arrangements for a face-to-face meeting between Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskyy to discuss a pathway to end Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Trump affirmed that the U.S. would back European security guarantees but stopped short of committing U.S. troops to a collective effort to prevent Moscow from reinvading its neighbor.

The Associated Press

Zelenskyy and Europe's top leaders will meet with Trump on ending Russia's war

Ukraine's future could hinge on a hastily assembled meeting Monday at the White House as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy brings an extraordinary cadre of European leaders with him to show U.S. President Donald Trump a united front against Russia.

The Canadian Press

Ukraine's allies meet as Zelenskyy travels to Washington to meet with Trump

OTTAWA -- Ukraine and its allies held a virtual meeting Sunday as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy prepares for a high-stakes session with U.S. President Donald Trump, who's fresh off his latest attempt to broker peace with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Trump tells Zelensky that Putin demands more control of Ukraine, urges Kyiv to make a deal

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that Ukraine should make a deal to end the war with Russia because “Russia is a very big power, and they’re not”, after a summit where Vladimir Putin was reported to have demanded more Ukrainian land. After the two leaders met in Alaska on Friday, Trump told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that Putin...

Think Tank

Tim Sargent

Beating Ploughshares into Swords: A Defence Industrial Strategy for Canada

Alexander Dalziel

Force multipliers: How Russia’s governors amplify Putin’s polar partnership with China

In May 2025, Chinese President Xi Jinping made his eleventh trip to Russia to meet Vladimir Putin. The Russian president himself has been to China some 20 times. But not all the action is at the top level. On one special dimension of the Russia–China relationship – one that has many implications for Canada and its allies – regional governors...

Karen Hui

Explainer: China’s Global Port Play and the Panama Canal

Over the past two decades, China has gained a foothold in ports across the world, expanding its control and influence over critical shipping routes and vital resource hubs. China’s power and influence extend not just to commercial matters; several of these ports could have dual-use functions — that is, both commercial and military — and have become a new point...

Substacks

A collection of SubStack publishing within Canadian public affairs.

Steven Staples

Americans may launch Canadian weapons under Golden Dome

Prime Minister Mark Carney has removed any restrictions on Canada’s military to join President Trump’s Golden Dome, an unproven, half-trillion dollar program to try to shoot down nuclear-armed missiles launched against the United States by Russia or China. According to Ottawa Citizen reporter David Pugliese, Defence Minister David McGuinty visited the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) headquarters in Colorado...

Dean Beeby

Fake award gets strong recognition in government survey

More than half of the 3,534 Canadians polled by the federal government earlier this year said they had heard of Canada’s National Medal of Service, and most of those had some idea of why it’s awarded.

Steven Staples

NATO spending’s first casualty: pharmacare

Canada’s military budget is set to grow so much, the question everyone is asking is: How will Prime Minister Carney pay for it?

Podcasts

The Numbers: Pierre Poilievre passes his byelection test

Pierre Poilievre easily won the Battle River–Crowfoot byelection on Monday, thereby securing his return to the House of Commons. His closest challenger, Independent candidate Bonnie Critchley, finished 70 points behind as voters in the riding came out in droves to support the Conservative leader. This week on The Numbers, we dive deep into the results of the Battle River–Crowfoot byelection...

Is Trump any closer to ending the war in Ukraine?

Over the last few days, US President Donald Trump has hosted a series of high-stakes talks to further the effort to end the war in Ukraine. First, on Friday, there was the summit in Alaska — Russian president Vladimir Putin’s first time in the US in nearly 20 years. Then on Monday, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky arrived at the White...

Ottawa Guy Invents World’s Best/Worst A.I. Attack Bot

“I don't think this is destroying democracy. I think this is bringing information, this is bringing facts to the people.” -Saihajpreet Singh Singh built a bot. It’s a concoction of ChatGPT, Grok, and a handful of other advanced AI systems that might destroy truth-based civil discourse once and for all. Or. What if that same technology could be harnessed to...

The man who saved Canada’s Conservatives from political irrelevance

Before Pierre Poilievre, before Brian Mulroney, there was one leader who made federal conservatives an electoral force to be reckoned with. Before John Diefenbaker, Canada had begun to resemble a Liberal one-party state. Bob Plamondon, author of the new book Freedom Fighter: John Diefenbaker's Battle for Canadian Liberties and Independence, talks with Brian about how Dief became a political sensation...