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Letting Canadians 'know when to be upset': Introducing Benchmark Canada
How’s Canada doing? Countries don’t typically get report cards, and it can be simplistic to rely on rankings that try to tell you which is the happiest or safest country in the world. But it’s not...
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A military underfunded, undermanned and underprepared
Countries don’t typically get report cards, but there are hard facts that can be collated, assessed and compared. Enter Benchmark Canada, a new project from the Macdonald-Laurier Institute that brings...
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Canada's air force doesn't have enough people to run two fighter programs,...
Alain Pelletier can still remember that new plane smell when he first climbed into the cockpit of a CF-18 more than three decades ago. The retired Royal Canadian Air Force lieutenant general, who was...
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Canada 'stronger together' than apart, Carney says in Thanksgiving message...
Prime Minister Mark Carney and Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre are set to travel this week to address some of the weightiest and most consequential issues facing the country. Carney, who appealed...
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Violent incidents caught on camera during anti-Israel protests in Toronto and...
Two people suffered apparent injuries after altercations with anti-Israel demonstrators in Toronto and Montreal on Saturday. In the former, the Toronto Police Service is seeking the public’s help...
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How a Mexico-U.S. trade deal could set the terms for Canada
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Washington is gearing up for next year’s review of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement, but signs of negotiating progress have come mainly from the U.S.-Mexico trade teams in recent...
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Ontario police warn public as repeat sex offender released again
For the third straight year, an Ontario police force is warning about the release of the same high-risk sex offender with several past convictions for sexual assaults against a child and women dating...
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Danielle Smith's dream: A post-uncertainty Alberta
Premier Danielle Smith has taken plenty of flak for putting independence on Alberta’s Oct. 19 ballot. She has no regrets. She is betting the vote will show that support for a binding separation...
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Block after block of death and despair. This is Vancouver's Downtown...
They are rolling a dying man on a stretcher out of the Maple Hotel. He looks to be about 60 years old, unshaven, wild grey curls, filthy white socks. Electrodes are patched to a hairless chest and a...
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Carney government must hold Palestinian Authority to account for postponing...
The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs is calling on Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government to hold the Palestinian Authority accountable for breaking its commitment to hold elections in 2026. On...
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Zelensky blasts diesel deal after Russian strikes kill 15
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday that Russia was expressing its “thanks” for a diesel deal agreed with the United States by attacking Ukraine, after fresh Russian attacks killed...
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Supreme Court split over sentencing when the offender and the victim are both...
The Supreme Court of Canada has tried to resolve competing judicial imperatives — addressing Indigenous overincarceration and high rates of violence against Indigenous women — in cases when a male...
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Third Toronto soldier charged in kidnapping probe that turned up Armed Forces...
A third Toronto soldier is facing charges in a July kidnapping where police discovered the alleged kidnappers had six different types of Canadian Armed Forces ammunition in their possession. Jack...
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Prince Harry 'slipped into depression' after relocating to Canada
Prince Harry has revealed that he “slipped into depression” for about two weeks after relocating to Canada from the U.K. in 2019. The Prince opened up about his mental health during an episode on the...
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'Praise the paragliders': Government-funded journal under review after poem...
An internal review is underway after the latest issue of a journal funded by the Canada Council for the Arts appeared to support terrorism as a form of resistance and featured a poem by a Toronto...
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The 8 wars Trump claims to have 'settled' in his last-minute Nobel Peace...
South African lawyer Navi Pillay was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, despite a last-minute pitch from U.S. President Donald Trump. “I don’t know what their decision is going to be. They have...
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Toronto gained nearly 200,000 mayoral voters since 2023. Here's where they are
A report is mapping out the nearly 200,000 new voters that Toronto has gained since 2023, when Mayor Olivia Chow was elected. It found that Spadina-Fort York had the largest increase out of the 25...
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Conservatives vote in favour of Liberals’ Bill C-39, but promise amendments...
OTTAWA – Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre told reporters Thursday that his party intends to bring amendments to the Liberal government’s latest major projects bill, to ensure workers benefit from...
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Navi Pillay, who accused Israel of genocide, wins Nobel Peace Prize
South African jurist Navanethem “Navi” Pillay, who headed a United Nations commission that accused Israel of committing genocide in the Gaza Strip, was awarded the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday....
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Why Ottawa plans to allow MAID for people incapable of consenting moments...
Just as one debate over euthanasia is being settled, another is emerging over Canada’s plans to allow people to consent to medical aid in dying (MAID) at some future date when they are no longer of...
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