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Althia Raj

Carney government considers lifting ban on offshore oil and gas exploration in the Western Arctic

Prime Minister Mark Carney is considering lifting the decade-old moratorium on Arctic offshore oil and gas drilling, the Star has learned. On Monday, coincidentally the first day of the 31st United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 31) in Antalya, Turkey, the Carney government confirmed it is considering “potentially lifting the current moratorium on Arctic offshore oil and gas exploration in...

Graham Richardson

Canada-China trade hits record high ahead of Carney trip

As Prime Minister Mark Carney prepares for a trip to China and a bilateral meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping next week, new trade data suggest Canadian exports to China are reaching record levels, particularly in Western Canada. Third-quarter figures compiled by the China Institute at the University of Alberta show strong growth in exports, led by food and energy...

Marco Vigliotti

A ‘complete missed opportunity’ — Conservative MPs criticize party’s caucus retreat

Conservative MPs are expressing frustration with polling data from party brass and demanding changes to help right the ship to challenge Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberals in the next election. iPolitics obtained responses from an anonymous caucus survey about the party’s caucus retreat in Penticton in September and while some appreciated the gathering, several were highly critical of presentations on...

Raffy Boudjikanian

Chinese authorities blocked Canada's Tiananmen Square tribute with trees, cherry picker: documents

Chinese authorities blocked attempts by the Canadian Embassy to visually commemorate the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre for the last two years, CBC News has learned. The second incident came just months after Prime Minister Mark Carney's trade trip to Beijing, where he touted improved relations with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Simon Tuck

8 out of 9 Canadians support more energy infrastructure, new poll finds

Canadians support the construction of new pipelines to expand energy exports by a ratio of more than eight to one, a new poll has found. The Ipsos poll to be released Tuesday found that 81 per cent of respondents said they "strongly" (45 per cent) or "somewhat" support (36 per cent) new pipelines and export terminals as a way to...

Polls

Nik Nanos

The political gap holds: The Liberals maintain their advantage over the Conservatives, as Mark Carney continues to lead Pierre Poilievre on preferred prime minister.

The Liberals retain the upper hand in federal politics, standing at 44% support against 28% for the Conservatives and 12% for the NDP. Mark Carney also leads the preferred-prime-minister measure, at 54%, while Pierre Poilievre stands at 20%. Beyond party politics, Canadians are most concerned about jobs and the economy and Canada-US relations, with concern over the latter easing from recent levels.

Canadians warming to China, India as Trump’s tariffs push Ottawa toward the Indo-Pacific

Prime Minister Mark Carney begins a circuit of the globe this week to continue efforts to diversify Canada’s trade beyond the United States. The trip will conclude with Carney’s second visit to China in 2026 as he attends the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders’ Meeting in Shenzhen. Prior to Carney’s January visit earlier this year, it had been more...

Opinion

Dave Carey

Bill C-39 is a good start, but its logic must extend beyond major projects

Canada’s ability to build faster depends not only on approving major projects, but also on whether the regulatory system allows businesses to produce the materials, components, and technologies those projects require.

Max Fawcett

Carney can make Canada the right kind of energy superpower

For all the talk about how the Liberal government has been trying to “kill” the oil and gas industry, it sure seems to be thriving these days. In the third quarter alone, Canada’s four biggest oilsands companies raked in over $12.6 billion in profits, more than triple what they generated over the same period in 2025. Much of this is...

News

Murray Brewster

Military budget squeeze limits paid Remembrance Day participation in Ontario

A military reserve unit in southwestern Ontario has imposed a cap on the number of soldiers it is willing to pay to attend Remembrance Day services this year, CBC News has learned. A series of leaked internal emails involving members of 31 Canadian Brigade show internal budget restraints imposed across the military have forced local commanders to limit paid attendance...

Kyle Duggan

'I can feel their heart': Silver Cross mother offers condolences over Wainwright

Virginia Hicks did not know when the Royal Canadian Legion chose her as Canada's Silver Cross mother in June that a deadly training accident would soon cast a shadow over this year's Remembrance Day ceremonies. Hicks lost one of her own daughters, Mariebeth Short, in a military training accident 24 years ago. Hicks said she was shocked to learn of...

Politician's Pen

Peng Chi-ming

From Commitments to Action: Taiwan and the World Creating Climate Solutions Together

Senator David Wells

The country is connected. But is it secure?

Canada’s telecommunications networks are critical national infrastructure. They connect our businesses, governments, emergency services and citizens. As we expand 5G, artificial intelligence, data centres and digital infrastructure, we must ask a fundamental question: are the networks connecting all of it secure?

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Robyn Urback

Mark Carney cranks up immigration again, while pretending not to

On Friday afternoon, which is the unofficial time for governments everywhere to publish information they hope no one will pay much attention to, Canada’s federal government came out with some news: It has decided to again loosen restrictions on the hiring of low-wage temporary foreign workers. The government didn’t frame it quite like that, of course. Instead, it announced what...

Éric Blais

Stephen Harper provides evidence Mark Carney was always a politician

When Mark Carney entered the Liberal leadership race in January 2025, he was seen as smart and polished. But he wasn’t a politician, we thought. He had never knocked on doors for a living, nor had he sat through Question Period. He was a former banker, a technocrat, and a businessman who spoke in basis points. Next to Conservative leader...

Rose LeMay

Hope is finally back in America, and did the U.S. just leave Canadian Conservatives behind?

Did the U.S. just leave Canadian Conservatives behind? Americans just voted out the Republican hatred and corruption. “We saw historic firsts—for Gay, Black, Hispanic, Indigenous, Muslim, and Palestinian representatives. It was a total rejection of the MAGA war on ‘Woke’” wrote former NDP MP Charlie Angus in his Substack on Nov. 5. Hungary, Serbia, and Brazil all had “Trump-like” governments...

Bruce Anderson

Trump’s choice of Stephen Miller as Chief of Staff is making the Democrats’ great week, even better.

When he’s the incumbent, he’s a loser. He lost the House in his first mid-term outing in 2018, lost the Presidency in 2020, and the Senate, the House and a half dozen Governors in 2026. The best thing that could happen for the Republican Party is if Trump spent the next couple of years being less of a lightning rod...

Deepak Dutt

Canada Must Put AI at the Core of Electronic Defence

Althia Raj

Mark Carney’s budget is one for the boys

“Where are the girls? Where are the girls?” It was the first thing economist Armine Yalnizyan said to my colleague Susan Delacourt and me outside the budget lockup on Thursday. “You look at the front cover, it’s electricity,” she noted of the photo of transmission lines on the printed budget. “You look inside, where are the humans? All of the...

Shannon Proudfoot

Budget 2026: A glimpse of a post-Trump world with more than one problem to solve

Everyone seemed to have the same take on the federal budget unveiled this week. That is, no one could figure out quite what it was. It certainly wasn’t a belt-tightening exercise, but the $151.5-billion in new spending over five years didn’t suggest a clear policy narrative about what it was trying to accomplish, either. On top of that, many of...

Lorrie Goldstein

Mark Carney budget an exercise in premature self-congratulation

How full of itself does a government have to be to call its annual budget “Masters of our destiny”? Seriously.

Jim Keon

Canada can’t afford to keep lower-cost medicines off the market

Andrew Coyne

Budget 2026: A strange budget, as opaque as it is complacent

So, farewell then, federal budget. Not only a mainstay of economic policy-making, you were a critical element of democratic accountability for many decades, the day each year when the federal government levelled with Canadians about how much it intended to spend, how much to tax, and how much to borrow on their behalf.

Susan Delacourt

Mark Carney’s budget bets Canadians will buy a story about sovereignty and pride

The 500-plus-page budget that has now landed before Canadians is not exactly a piece of literature — but it is coming from a government with some literary aspirations. Mark Carney’s government is leaning on themes of culture and identity with Budget 2026, hoping that it tells a story of Canadian pride and patriotism at this moment in the country’s history.

John Ivison

A Liberal spending spree, again

Old habits die hard in the Liberal party. Prime Minister Mark Carney declared on Thursday, after his latest budget was tabled, that “we’ve got spending under control.” By the standard measurement of fiscal sustainability, that is true. The debt-to-GDP ratio is forecast to tick gently downward over the budget’s five-year time horizon.

Aaron Wherry

Mark Carney's quiet revolution rests on investment and affordability

"Maitre chez nous" — "master in our own house" — was a rallying cry of Jean Lesage's Quiet Revolution, a period of rapid modernization and reform in Quebec in the 1960s. Mark Carney first tried it out a year and a half ago in the shadow of Donald Trump's America and a newly anglicized version — "masters of our destiny"...

Justin Ling

Drones, drones, drones: Why Carney wants to spend billions on flying robots

The Canadian military currently has thousands of drones at its disposal. “It’s not enough,” a senior commander admits. The Carney government wants to add some zeros to that number: It wants one million drones, at least. And in Thursday’s budget, it is committing $2.3 billion to get there.

Susan Delacourt

Today’s politicians ignore affordability at their peril

Officially, Mark Carney’s government is saying that the Republicans’ stunning losses in the U.S. midterm elections are the Americans’ own business. But this government also knows that there’s a clear line connecting the midterms to the budget being unveiled in Canada on Thursday — and that’s the affordability crisis.

James Moore

Trump and tariffs had a very bad night

There is no sugarcoating the results of the midterm elections in the United States for President Donald Trump and his administration. This was an astonishing and vast repudiation of the president. When Republicans lose in South Carolina, North Carolina, Mississippi, Texas, Kansas, Iowa, and Georgia solidifies as a blue state, it is impossible not to affirm that a judgment has...

Andrew Coyne

U.S. midterms are a rebuke to the Republicans, but not the wipeout they deserved

By the standards of American elections, this was an earthquake. The two-party system is so entrenched, and American voters’ political identities so immovable, that shifts in the balance of power in any given election tend to be muted. So the Democrats’ gains last night are, in this context, historic. When all the votes are counted, they will probably emerge with...

Max Fawcett

Keep those elbows up, Canada

Austin, Texas may have sounded like a street party as the results came in last night, but even in Canada, if you listened closely enough, you could almost hear the collective sigh of relief. Nobody who was rooting for a win by the Democrats wanted to trust the polls or the predictions of a “blue wave” after the traumatic experiences...

Lawrence Martin

Hallelujah! Voter sanity has returned to America

In his 2016 election campaign, Donald Trump made a remarkable observation. “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose supporters.” At a rally in Tennessee last month, he demonstrated that his attitude hadn’t changed. He told his audience, “I could say the stupidest things, and you clap.” Throughout the midterms campaign he...

Justin Ling

The U.S. midterms were a productive cough. But America is still sick

American streets are being patrolled by murderous secret police. The constitutional order and the division of powers have broken down. Some major media outlets have become sycophantic devotees of the ruling party, and others are following suit. A sitting U.S. president has amassed billions of dollars in ill-gotten gains from brazen and scuzzy quid pro quos.

Lisa Van Dusen

It’s Morning in America. By all Means, Blame Canada.

In the end, Canada didn’t have to interfere in the 2026 midterms to register our preference for an outcome. Americans did it for us. To compare the reasons for Tuesday’s midterm election result to any previous midterm election result is as pointless as comparing Donald Trump’s presidency to any previous presidency. Yes, there are statistics and charts and local issues...

Tom Mulcair

Poilievre faces existential test in December byelections

Prime Minister Mark Carney has just called six byelections for early December. The results could have a determining effect on Pierre Poilievre’s future as Conservative leader. They could also provide the first clues as to whether the belligerent tone of the minority Parti Québécois government is finding favour with voters.

Andrew MacDougall

Liberals disappointed by Justin Trudeau leave Mark Carney little room for economic error

Mark Carney doesn’t seem like much of a prankster, but you could forgive Liberals who supported Justin Trudeau’s policies for feeling as if the prime minister is endlessly pulling their collective leg. Changes of direction are everywhere. The consumer carbon tax is gone. A new oil pipeline is on the way and major resource-development projects are on track to receive...

John Ivison

Carney’s warp-speed spending gets a pass from the central bank — for now

Watching the governor of the Bank of Canada field questions from MPs at the House of Commons finance committee was like viewing an episode of Star Trek: Next Generation, in which Jean-Luc Picard grapples with the Prime Directive. This general order prohibits Starfleet personnel from interfering with the natural development of primitive alien civilizations.

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Nick Murray

Dabrusin defends Canada's climate record in advance of UN climate conference

Environment Minister Julie Dabrusin pointed to Canada's work on methane emissions and electrification Monday in defence of her government's climate policy before this week's annual United Nations climate conference. Dabrusin will attend the first week of COP31 in Turkey this week. Some climate activists say Canada can expect some criticism there from other nations over its recent climate policy shifts...

Fakiha Baig

'Things will never be the same': Wainwright prepares for Remembrance Day after fire

The Alberta town of Wainwright is gearing up for what could be the most solemn Remembrance Day in its recent history, says Mayor Bruce Pugh. A fire on Oct. 17 at the nearby Canadian Forces Base Wainwright killed four soldiers and injured 39. Officials said last week that 25 were still in various hospitals. "It will be different this year...

Ottawa says 4,306 Canadian veterans of Second World War, Korea still alive today

The number of living Canadian veterans of the Second World War and the Korean War has fallen sharply since Remembrance Day last year. Veterans Affairs Canada says the estimated population of living Canadian veterans from those two wars has dropped to approximately 4,306. Last year, the federal government department estimated that figure at 5,649.

Elizabeth Thompson

Federal government budgets record $12M for Justin Trudeau's archives

Canadian taxpayers could pay $12 million for former prime minister Justin Trudeau's records from his decade in office — the most the government has ever paid for the archives of any prime minister. A single line in the federal budget tabled on Thursday reveals that the government has budgeted $3 million a year for the next four years to enable...

Spencer Van Dyk

Canadian Identity and Culture Minister Marc Miller insists the federal government will force streaming giants to pay their fair share to contribute to Canadian content, though he wouldn’t answer when pressed on when that will happen. The federal government’s latest budget, tabled in the House of Commons last week, earmarks money to amplify Canadian “cultural sovereignty,” including $600 million to...

Sammy Hudes

Stellantis signs deal with Roshel to sell idled Brampton, Ont., assembly plant

Stellantis says it has officially signed an agreement with defence contractor Roshel to sell its idled Brampton, Ont., assembly plant. Under the asset purchase agreement, Roshel will acquire the facility and associated equipment from the automaker for an undisclosed amount. The companies said in a joint news release they are also exploring future collaboration opportunities across vehicle technologies and related...

Abdulhamid Ibrahim

Van Koeverden casts doubt on Russia competing as neutrals at Alberta's world juniors

Canada's Secretary of State for Sport Adam van Koeverden has cast doubt on whether Russia can compete as a neutral team at the upcoming world junior hockey championship in Alberta. The development follows last month’s Court of Arbitration for Sport ruling that the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) must reinstate Russia in international hockey, after Russia and Belarus were barred...

David Baxter

Legal battle over federal firearms ban comes to Supreme Court of Canada

Immigration Minister Lena Diab says the new immigration levels plan is meant to maintain predictability in the system while doing the "right thing" by clearing a severely backlogged humanitarian permanent residency stream. The levels plan, published Thursday, includes targets for 380,000 permanent residents and 370,000 new temporary residents, along with a pledge to make upwards of 200,000 longtime temporary residents permanent by

New Brunswick Premier Susan Holt unveils plan to grow exports outside the U.S.

The New Brunswick government wants to expand the amount of exports it sends to markets outside the United States by almost 16 per cent by 2030. Premier Susan Holt unveiled the target as part of the government's new market diversification strategy, announced in Dieppe, N.B., on Monday.

Catherine Morrison

Federal government spent $19 billion on external consultants last year

The federal government spent $19 billion on external consultants last year, despite a promise to cut back on its use of outside contractors. The government's audited financial statements for last year were released on Friday and they show the government spent almost $19.2 billion on external professional and special services in 2025-26. That's almost as much as the $19.5 billion...

Lisa Hrabluk

Canadian exports are up, but the number of companies exporting? Not so much. Here’s why

Canada has been pushing hard to build its export economy over the last few years. As last week’s federal budget noted, new trade agreements have been signed in Europe and Asia, governments and businesses are courting global investors and billions of dollars have been earmarked for trade infrastructure. It’s working – exports are up – but it’s a bit of...

Sammy Hudes

Honda Canada to retool Alliston, Ont., plant to expand hybrid production

Honda Canada says it will retool its manufacturing facilities in Alliston, Ont., to expand production of hybrid-electric and gasoline-powered vehicles. The Japanese automaker announced Monday it is partnering with the federal and provincial governments to fund plant upgrades, including the reintroduction of engine manufacturing, with an initial $166 million investment. It said that funding is part of a broader $867-million...

David Baxter

Ottawa extends employment periods for temporary foreign workers, changes other rules

The federal government is extending the period of time a business can employ a low-wage temporary foreign worker. The change will lengthen the maximum duration of a low-wage Labour Market Impact Assessment -- the document an employer needs in order to employ a temporary foreign worker -- to two years instead of one. The government said restrictions on hiring temporary...

Anja Karadeglija

Ottawa outlines details of $600M for CanCon in latest budget

The federal government has released details on how its promised $600 million for Canadian content will be spent, and the Canada Media Fund is getting the largest chunk. The fund will receive $213.4 million that the government says will support the industry in a variety of ways, including through production and promotion of content. Various independent production funds will receive...

B.C. Conservatives gain a seat, but two ridings are headed for judicial recounts

The B.C. Conservatives have gained another seat after the final count of votes in the October provincial election, but judicial recounts loom in two ridings due to the narrowness of their margins. Conservative candidate David Xie reeled in NDP incumbent Paul Choi in Burnaby South-Metrotown, overcoming Choi's 66-vote lead heading into the final count to win by 64 votes. The...

Erik Schatzker

Carney Recruits Bridgewater Co-CIO to Run Canada Sovereign Wealth Fund

Karen Karniol-Tambour is leaving her role as co-chief investment officer of Bridgewater Associates to run Canada’s new sovereign wealth fund, lending Wall Street credibility and expertise to one of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s signature economic initiatives. Bridgewater, where Karniol-Tambour has worked since 2006, plans to inform employees of her departure this morning, according to a person familiar with the matter...

Peter Armstrong

Is now the time to make a trade deal?

I'm on my way to Washington. I hope to talk to some people down there and get a better sense of where things stand on the trade file after the U.S. midterm elections last week. Last week was a whirlwind. The midterms on Tuesday led to a blue tsunami that has upended the political landscape in the United States.

Alex Binkley

The agri-food sector has three priorities for its future

Abbas Rana

Six high-stakes byelections create opening for Carney to expand slim House majority as Poilievre fights to retain Conservative seats

Of the six byelections, the Brantford-Brant South race is the one to watch as it’s ‘a coin toss’ between the Conservatives and the Liberals, says pollster Nik Nanos. With the Liberals holding a razor-thin majority in the House, the six high-stakes byelections on Dec. 7 are a chance for the governing party to strengthen their numbers in the House. For...

Steven Chase

Ottawa poised to seal trade deal with Philippines, now home to Canada’s second-biggest embassy

Canada and the Philippines are expected to announce they’ve wrapped up talks on a free-trade deal when Mark Carney visits the Asian archipelago nation this week for a summit of regional leaders, a source familiar with the matter says. The Globe is not identifying the source because they were not authorized to discuss the trade deal’s progress publicly. A trade...

Jim Bronskill

Legal battle over federal firearms ban comes to Supreme Court of Canada

The country's top court began hearing legal arguments Monday about the validity of a federal ban on hundreds of types of firearms the government says are fit only for the battlefield. The hearings, which continue Tuesday at the Supreme Court of Canada, will give opponents of the ban another chance to make their case after losing in the Federal Court...

Sharif Hassan

Americans in Canada hope for closer ties between two countries after midterms

When Lucia Lloyd immigrated to Canada in 2019, she thought she had moved far away enough from President Donald Trump's America. She said she was already upset when Trump first took office in 2017, but the president's controversial nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court and the judge's subsequent confirmation amid sexual misconduct allegations was the last straw...

B.C. soldier killed in base fire remembered as fearless globe-trotter

A 23-year-old Canadian soldier was remembered Sunday as a globe-trotting, sporty and car-loving man with an infectious sense of humour and a fearless love for life. Hundreds of military personnel, family and friends gathered at an armoury on a stormy day in Vancouver to remember Pte. Aidan Goulding, one of four soldiers killed last month after a grass fire at...

Spencer Van Dyk

‘Deficits are lower, that’s a fact’: Finance minister defends budget

Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne says criticisms of his government’s fiscal positioning are not based in fact. “What you’re seeing in the federal budget, first of all, is that deficits are down,” Champagne told CTV News Chief Political Correspondent Vassy Kapelos in an interview on CTV Question Period airing Sunday. “Last year, this year and projected into the future, they’re lower.”...

Abbas Rana

Democratic control of Congress offers chance to reset Canada-U.S. trade talks, say politicos: ‘it’s a new world in the United States’

With Democrats now in control of both chambers of Congress following American voters’ strong pushback against United States President Donald Trump’s policies, MPs and Senators from Canada should reach out to their Washington counterparts to make a case for a bilateral free trade deal to help make life more affordable for Americans, say politicos. “There’s a lot of newly elected...

Benjamin Lopez Steven

Poilievre pans Liberal budget's $15M capital gains exemption, calls for 'simpler' plan

Conservative leader argues the range of qualifying businesses is too narrow. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is criticizing a key feature of the Carney government's latest budget, arguing the proposed $15-million capital gains exemption on the sale of qualifying shares from a Canadian company applies too narrowly, excluding key businesses. "Basically, I can't figure out who actually qualifies," Poilievre said in...

Tori Fitzpatrick

Province-wide protests call for moratorium on AI data centre proposals in N.S.

The chants of nearly 1,000 Nova Scotians drowned out the rain in downtown Halifax Saturday as residents took to the streets to protest a proposed artificial intelligence data centre in southern Cape Breton. Protesters gathered in front of the provincial legislature at noon, taking up an entire block of Hollis Street before marching through the city's downtown core. They called...

Israel’s president taps opposition candidate Eisenkot to form a government, in setback for Netanyahu

Israeli President Isaac Herzog said Saturday night that he was giving opposition candidate Gadi Eisenkot the first opportunity to form a governing coalition following elections on Oct. 27. Eisenkot, a former military chief who ran as the main challenger to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is now a step closer to ousting Israel’s longest-serving premier. He has up to six weeks...

Peter Mansbridge, Chantal Hébert, Bruce Anderson

Good Talk -- Budget, Midterms, and Byelections.

It's been quite the week ... starting with six byelection calls, ending with a budget, and in the middle, Donald Trump's party crashes in the U.S. midterms. What does it all mean, and where do things go now? Chantal Hebert and Bruce Anderson are here with their thoughts.

Raisa Patel

What Mark Carney’s budget reveals about the ridings Liberals want to keep and win

Federal budgets are much more than a fiscal blueprint. Yes, they can define a prime minister’s economic legacy, telegraph their demographic targets, and record their policy priorities in the annals of history.

US Poli

Konstantin Toropin And Ben Finley, The Associated Press

Hegseth says bipartisan impeachment push is about 'policy disagreements,' not high crimes

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is condemning the impeachment effort against him as "a political spectacle, a personal manifesto driven by ego and resentment."

Konstantin Toropin And Ben Finley, The Associated Press

Hegseth is set for his first Pentagon news briefing since May as he faces possible impeachment

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is scheduled to give his first news conference from the Pentagon in six months on Tuesday, just a day after a Republican lawmaker launched an effort to impeach him over his handling of the unpopular war against Iran and other actions.

Will Weissert And Seung Min Kim, The Associated Press

UFC's Dana White appears with Trump at a White House briefing - but won't be his press secretary

WASHINGTON (AP) -- After bringing UFC to the White House lawn this summer, President Donald Trump has now brought it to the briefing room, too.

Geoff Mulvihill, The Associated Press

Democrats flip Georgia state House, giving them new control of at least 12 legislative chambers

Democrats have taken control of the state House in Georgia after also gaining the governor's office in last week's midterm election, giving the party control of each for the first time in more than 20 years.

International

Raffy Boudjikanian

Chinese authorities blocked Canada's Tiananmen Square tribute with trees, cherry picker: documents

Israel’s president taps opposition candidate Eisenkot to form a government, in setback for Netanyahu

Stephen Miller replaces Susie Wiles as Trump's White House chief of staff after GOP's midterm defeat

President Donald Trump said Friday that Stephen Miller was replacing Susie Wiles as White House chief of staff, mere days after Republicans lost control of Congress in the midterm elections. Miller, long a key member of Trump's inner circle, is a key architect of the administration's hard-line immigration policies. He is one of Trump's closest and longest-serving advisers, joining his...

Judy Trinh

Report alleges China linked to at least 18 overseas police stations in Canada

China has exponentially expanded its network of illegal overseas police stations, to “extend its tentacles” across a web of new community associations, according to a report by international human rights group Safeguard Defenders. In its latest report, the Spanish non-governmental organization (NGO) identifies nearly 1,250 overseas Chinese associations which they say are fronts for suspected police centres in 91 countries.

Dylan Robertson

Ghana thanks Carney for working to fix a 'rigged global system' for African countries

Ghana's head of state praised Canada this week for advocating against what he called a "rigged global system" that keeps African countries trapped by debt and mired in climate chaos. His comments come as Canadian officials confirm Ottawa will appoint a new Africa envoy, months after leaving the post vacant. "Canada has a favourable disposition towards the Global South," Ghana's...

Think Tank

Laura Dawson

Beyond the border – Disrupting criminal networks

Securing Canada’s borders requires more than checking passports and inspecting cargo. Criminal networks exploit jurisdictional gaps, divide their operations among multiple players, and adapt quickly to enforcement efforts. Some also intersect with state-sponsored operations, blurring the line between transnational organized crime and national security threats. Countering them requires more than stronger border enforcement — it demands a coordinated approach to...

David Rodier

He carved Canada’s grief in stone. Who remembers him?

On a ridge in northern France, two great white pillars rise nearly 30 metres toward the sky. Visible for kilometres across a former First World War battlefield, the Canadian National Vimy Memorial is one of Canada’s defining symbols, an expression of sacrifice, nationhood and remembrance. Each year, nearly a million people make the pilgrimage to Vimy Ridge. The memorial’s image...

Edgardo Sepulveda

Wind West – Nova Scotia’s offshore wind gamble with Ottawa’s money: Edgardo Sepulveda

On October 15, Ottawa committed $100 million to gather more offshore data for Nova Scotia’s Wind West offshore wind project. The next day, Premier Tim Houston stood beside EverWind Fuels at Point Tupper, Nova Scotia, as the company unveiled a $10-billion data-centre complex on a site long promoted for green hydrogen and ammonia; EverWind’s hydrogen project had already received nearly...

Substacks

A collection of SubStack publishing within Canadian public affairs.

Sage Roundtable: Carney Is Borrowing for Tomorrow’s Growth. How Much Should Canadians Pay Today?

Chris Ragan: Thank you. We can come back to the investment focus, which I think is important. We can talk about the games being played in an accounting sense, which are also important and not a good thing. But let me begin with the question of prudence. My sense is that this budget is kind of prudent, kind of not...

Steven Staples

Are we much different from Trump’s America, given the Turkey deal?

Six years ago, a Burlington-made camera turned up on Turkish drones in the war over Nagorno-Karabakh, and Ottawa shut off arms exports to Turkey.

Steven Staples

Why Trump will lose his bet on Alberta leaving Canada

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s ad-lib brought down the house at Thursday night’s Forever Canadian rally in Calgary. “They’re a little touchy down there at the moment,” he added, to roars from a crowd of about 5,000.

Podcasts

Are Stelco jobs a bargaining chip?

The livelihoods of some 500 Stelco workers are the crux of a recent showdown between Industry Minister Melanie Joly and the CEO of Ohio-based steel producer, Cleveland-Cliffs. Joly wants the company to reverse its layoff of Canadian workers, claiming it goes against the original agreement the company signed when they acquired Stelco back in 2024. Cleveland-Cliffs, however, says they haven't...

Is It A New World After Trump's Resounding Defeat?

How will the world change after the thumping Donald Trump and his Republicans took last week? Or will it change at all? Dr. Janice Stein drops by for her regular Monday conversation, and the topics include Trump, Netanyahu, and Poland (that's right, Poland -- Janice really wants you to follow what's happening there!)

Budget 2026 Breakdown: Meredith, Robson and Tombe

They start with the centrepiece, the “productivity mega deduction.” It’s the biggest cut to the effective tax rate on new investment in nearly 20 years, but will Canadian business finally spend its “dead money”? The panel digs into why the measure is sector-neutral, how agriculture and manufacturing end up with negative tax rates, and whether Carney’s “all-of-the-above” industrial strategy can...

Can Canada afford Carney’s budget?

"Masters of our Destiny" The title of Mark Carney's second federal budget since becoming Prime Minister. It outlines paths to build stronger Canadian sovereignty, including new spending to help at the grocery store, funding for local journalism, culture, and an ambitious goal to end homelessness—but it comes with a hefty price tag. Host Maria Kestane speaks with Craig Lord, a...

Carney government considers lifting ban on offshore oil and gas exploration in the Western Arctic

Canada-China trade hits record high ahead of Carney trip

A ‘complete missed opportunity’ — Conservative MPs criticize party’s caucus retreat

Chinese authorities blocked Canada's Tiananmen Square tribute with trees, cherry picker: documents

8 out of 9 Canadians support more energy infrastructure, new poll finds

Polls

The political gap holds: The Liberals maintain their advantage over the Conservatives, as Mark Carney continues to lead Pierre Poilievre on preferred prime minister.

Canadians warming to China, India as Trump’s tariffs push Ottawa toward the Indo-Pacific

Opinion

Bill C-39 is a good start, but its logic must extend beyond major projects

Carney can make Canada the right kind of energy superpower

News

Military budget squeeze limits paid Remembrance Day participation in Ontario

'I can feel their heart': Silver Cross mother offers condolences over Wainwright

Politician's Pen

From Commitments to Action: Taiwan and the World Creating Climate Solutions Together

The country is connected. But is it secure?

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Mark Carney cranks up immigration again, while pretending not to

Stephen Harper provides evidence Mark Carney was always a politician

Hope is finally back in America, and did the U.S. just leave Canadian Conservatives behind?

Trump’s choice of Stephen Miller as Chief of Staff is making the Democrats’ great week, even better.

Canada Must Put AI at the Core of Electronic Defence

Mark Carney’s budget is one for the boys

Budget 2026: A glimpse of a post-Trump world with more than one problem to solve

Mark Carney budget an exercise in premature self-congratulation

Canada can’t afford to keep lower-cost medicines off the market

Budget 2026: A strange budget, as opaque as it is complacent

Mark Carney’s budget bets Canadians will buy a story about sovereignty and pride

A Liberal spending spree, again

Mark Carney's quiet revolution rests on investment and affordability

Drones, drones, drones: Why Carney wants to spend billions on flying robots

Today’s politicians ignore affordability at their peril

Trump and tariffs had a very bad night

U.S. midterms are a rebuke to the Republicans, but not the wipeout they deserved

Keep those elbows up, Canada

Hallelujah! Voter sanity has returned to America

The U.S. midterms were a productive cough. But America is still sick

It’s Morning in America. By all Means, Blame Canada.

Poilievre faces existential test in December byelections

Liberals disappointed by Justin Trudeau leave Mark Carney little room for economic error

Carney’s warp-speed spending gets a pass from the central bank — for now

News (Continued) More

Dabrusin defends Canada's climate record in advance of UN climate conference

'Things will never be the same': Wainwright prepares for Remembrance Day after fire

Ottawa says 4,306 Canadian veterans of Second World War, Korea still alive today

Federal government budgets record $12M for Justin Trudeau's archives

Culture minister insists Canada will eventually force streaming giants to pay fair share for CanCon

Stellantis signs deal with Roshel to sell idled Brampton, Ont., assembly plant

Van Koeverden casts doubt on Russia competing as neutrals at Alberta's world juniors

Legal battle over federal firearms ban comes to Supreme Court of Canada

New Brunswick Premier Susan Holt unveils plan to grow exports outside the U.S.

Federal government spent $19 billion on external consultants last year

Canadian exports are up, but the number of companies exporting? Not so much. Here’s why

Honda Canada to retool Alliston, Ont., plant to expand hybrid production

Ottawa extends employment periods for temporary foreign workers, changes other rules

Ottawa outlines details of $600M for CanCon in latest budget

B.C. Conservatives gain a seat, but two ridings are headed for judicial recounts

Carney Recruits Bridgewater Co-CIO to Run Canada Sovereign Wealth Fund

Is now the time to make a trade deal?

The agri-food sector has three priorities for its future

Six high-stakes byelections create opening for Carney to expand slim House majority as Poilievre fights to retain Conservative seats

Ottawa poised to seal trade deal with Philippines, now home to Canada’s second-biggest embassy

Legal battle over federal firearms ban comes to Supreme Court of Canada

Americans in Canada hope for closer ties between two countries after midterms

B.C. soldier killed in base fire remembered as fearless globe-trotter

‘Deficits are lower, that’s a fact’: Finance minister defends budget

Democratic control of Congress offers chance to reset Canada-U.S. trade talks, say politicos: ‘it’s a new world in the United States’

Poilievre pans Liberal budget's $15M capital gains exemption, calls for 'simpler' plan

Province-wide protests call for moratorium on AI data centre proposals in N.S.

Israel’s president taps opposition candidate Eisenkot to form a government, in setback for Netanyahu

Good Talk -- Budget, Midterms, and Byelections.

What Mark Carney’s budget reveals about the ridings Liberals want to keep and win

US Poli

Hegseth says bipartisan impeachment push is about 'policy disagreements,' not high crimes

Hegseth is set for his first Pentagon news briefing since May as he faces possible impeachment

UFC's Dana White appears with Trump at a White House briefing - but won't be his press secretary

Democrats flip Georgia state House, giving them new control of at least 12 legislative chambers

International

Chinese authorities blocked Canada's Tiananmen Square tribute with trees, cherry picker: documents

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