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The Toronto Police Service reported gunfire outside the U.S. consulate in downtown Toronto on Monday morning, nearly five months after the building itself was shot at in what was described as a “national security incident.” Read More

As unit commander in the largest homicide squad in the country, Hank Idsinga has seen more than most people would want. He discusses with Brian Lilley what it’s really like in blue, the many things that are done right and the many things done wrong, including the recent expose of corruption by some Toronto officers. The author of the new book, "The High Road: Confessions of a Homicide Cop," Idsinga reveals the vitriolic antisemitism he saw on the force, and discusses the “abysmal” handling of an

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — While Canadians have been focused on Donald Trump's hounding them about becoming the "51st state" and squeezing their cross-border trade, the U.S. president has been quietly fiddling around with the rules for waters along the Canada-U.S. border. Read More

In 2024, a mandatory course for B.C. lawyers referred to the “discovery of an unmarked burial site containing the bodies of 215 children on the former Kamloops Indian Residential School grounds” which “(confirmed) what survivors have been saying all along.” When one lawyer proposed a correction, as no graves were ever found, the B.C. Law Society publicly disparaged him. He sued for defamation — but now, the trial has been called off. Read More

There has been minor hubbub this week down at the Laurentian Tennis and Raquet Club — not a real place — over a new Abacus Data poll suggesting a generational divide among Canadians when it comes to their most basic views on democracy. Among poll respondents aged 60-plus, 78 per cent felt “democracy is always preferable to any other kind of government.” Among 18-to-29-year-olds, it was just 43 per cent. In that same younger cohort, fully 13 per cent agreed that “for someone like me, it doesn’t m

In a recent op-ed in the National Post, Josh Dehaas of the Canadian Constitution Foundation wrote: “Last September, many Canadians were shocked to learn through a Haida Nation news release that British Columbia and Canada had gone behind closed doors in judges’ chambers and signed an agreement that recognized Aboriginal title over all of Haida Gwaii. Without having to prove their title in court, the Haida gained constitutionally protected rights over the entire archipelago.” Read More

Privacy is the foundation of freedom of thought, freedom of expression, personal autonomy and human dignity. When citizens know (or have strong grounds to believe) that they are monitored, they behave differently, speak differently, and think differently. Read More

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” the Spanish-American philosopher George Santayana famously wrote in his 1905 work, The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress. While this aphorism is commonly associated with tragic events such as the Holocaust, it can actually be applied to many moments in history. Read More

Canada’s emergency doctors are feeling demoralized and defeated by a “broken” health system and one in 10 are exiting the profession, two bleak trends threatening to worsen the country's ER crisis, according to a new study. Read More

Predictably, the Americans have declined to renew the Canada U.S. Mexico Agreement. As of Wednesday's deadline, the trade deal enters potentially a decade of annual reviews, staying in force and expiring in 2036. That precarious uncertainty weighs heavily on the Canadian economy. A review decade is also a decade-long negotiation: nothing prevents the two countries from striking a new deal earlier, or conversely scrapping it with six months' notice. In bargaining, Canada should concede where our

Pete Hoekstra's claim that Canada paying to construct the Gordie Howe International Bridge is a "big myth" has been branded "a punch in the face" by former Prime Minister Stephen Harper's director of communications. Read More

OTTAWA — It wasn’t a political speech or a visionary manifesto that galvanized Canadian nationalism near the start of this century, just a few years after a close-call separation referendum in Quebec and during a period of endless debate about national identity. Read More

CALGARY — It’s quite a needle that the prime minister has threaded, weaving together announcements with B.C., Alberta, and private industry to move forward with a new million-barrel-a-day pipeline to Canada’s West Coast. Read More

Our cookbook of the week is The Swedish Cookbook: Lagom Flavors for the Modern Kitchen by Niklas Ekstedt. Read More

An Indian man who fatally stabbed his wife just six days after he landed in Canada has been convicted by the B.C. Supreme Court. Read More

A Turkish man denied refugee status in Canada a decade back because he shot two bystanders at a restaurant 18 years ago when he was aiming at his former brother-in-law has won a chance to stay in this country. Read More

If there’s one aspect of federal governance in which Prime Minister Mark Carney has really excelled in these last few months, it’s in the publication of lengthy, high-production “strategies” liberally spiced with words such as “bold” and “ambitious.” Read More

SDEROT, Israel — As a jet ski sped from Jordan into Israeli waters near Eilat on the Red Sea in early June, much slower navy vessels raced to intercept the intruder. Read More

In 1947, a group of scientists created a clock — to measure a world teetering on the edge of its own destruction. Born from the fear of a nuclear arms race between Moscow and Washington, they called it the Doomsday Clock. Its face was simple: an analogue dial, a single minute hand leading to midnight — the point of no return. Read More