As Germany commemorates the 35th anniversary of reunification, the contrast with 1990 could not be more stark. Back then, jubilant crowds gathered spontaneously at Brandenburg Gate and atop the crumbling Berlin Wall. Last week’s celebrations still drew many people, but the atmosphere was tainted by fear. In Germany today, one question looms over every public gathering: will we be safe?
Premier Doug Ford says more booze may be stripped from LCBO shelves if a plan to shut down a Crown Royal bottling facility in southwestern Ontario goes forward.
“Who in their right mind, any business person with half a brain, would go after their largest customer in North America?” Ford asked during a news conference following the The Great Lakes St. Lawrence Governors and Premiers Leadership Summit in Quebec City.
OTTAWA – Two years into the war in Gaza, the conflict continues to spread anger, frustration and pain across Canada, while Israelis and Palestinians fear the region will never exit the cycle of violence.
Hamas militants and affiliates attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing 1,200 civilians and soldiers and taking roughly 240 people hostage. Israel responded by bombarding the Gaza Strip, killing more than 67,000 civilians and militants, according to the Hamas-controlled health ministry.
Israel insists it is neutralizing threats that have been supported by Iran’s government, and is seeking the destruction of Hamas so it can no longer threaten Israel. Israel also argues the United Nations hasn’t done enough to tackle these threats.
BRANTFORD, Ontario (AP) — Wearing protective gloves and earplugs, a worker feeds lengths of wood into a machine that makes an ear-splitting whine as it automatically cuts a groove into the end of each piece.
Nearby, stacks of wooden wedges wait to be slotted into those grooves to form the beginnings of a hockey stick. Further down the Roustan Hockey production line, other workers are busy shaping, trimming, sanding, painting and screen printing as they turn lumber into a Canadian national symbol.
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A majority of Canadians support the federal government’s decision to recognize a Palestinian state, but many believe it could negatively affect trade relations with the United States, according to a new survey by Nanos Research commissioned by CTV News and the Globe and Mail.
Last month, ahead of a meeting at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, Prime Minister Mark Carney joined a growing list of UN members to recognize a Palestinian state.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has penned a scathing letter to the prime minister ahead of his meeting with the U.S. president this week, saying Mark Carney has been a disappointment on the trade file and needs to come back from this trip with some wins for Canada.
In the letter, which was shared with CBC News, Poilievre said Carney promised to “negotiate a win” for Canada and deliver some tariff relief this summer, but that didn’t work out as planned.
Canada’s immigration laws are so self-sabotaging that it takes years to deport actual registered child sex offenders who should have never been let into the country in the first place. If we’re struggling to put even these guys on a plane home, we’re in serious trouble.
We know this because a Pakistani national Gullfam Hussain, who omitted his 2017 criminal conviction and three-year jail stint in the U.K. for “Adult sexual activity with a female child family member 13 to 17 — offender over 18 — penetration,” has been fighting his deportation for two years now. Most recently, he tried to have the Federal Court cancel his deportation to Pakistan for safety reasons, which failed.
As trade negotiations with the United States sputtered over the summer, Prime Minister Mark Carney started talking about a new, domestically oriented solution for Canada’s tariff-battered industries.
“We have the potential to become our own best customer for steel, but we will lose that ability if we don’t manage the profound transformation now under way in the industry,” Mr. Carney said from the floor of a metal fabrication plant in Hamilton in mid-July as he unveiled a bundle of measures to keep out foreign steel and boost domestic demand for Canadian mills.
A few weeks later, he announced a support package for the lumber industry. And in early September, he outlined the pillars of Ottawa’s new “comprehensive industrial strategy.”
Canadians do not appear to be getting over it.
When President Donald Trump returned to office with tariffs and declarations of Canada as the 51st state, snowbirds turned tail across the U.S. That was spring, an easy time to head back north.
Now, however, as fall colours signal winter’s imminent arrival, new data show little sign of Canadians flocking back to the sunny south for the cold months.
Ambassador Pete Hoekstra, the United States’ top diplomat to Canada, has come under fire for being undiplomatic. But this criticism is misguided. At a time when Canadian workers and business leaders face unprecedented uncertainty, we need more candour, not less.
Since arriving in Canada, Mr. Hoekstra has taken part in multiple panels, podcasts, and press interviews, and has been unfailingly frank in explaining U.S. President Donald Trump’s thinking. That’s his job. His role as ambassador is to faithfully reflect his government’s positions.
The federal government “has yet to appreciate the gravity of the threat” of antisemitism today and there needs to be a co-ordinated action plan to counter the problem, says former special envoy Irwin Cotler.
“We can’t continue to work in silos here or say it’s the others’ responsibility,” Cotler said in an interview with CBC’s The House that aired Saturday morning. “No, this is an integrated and collective responsibility.”
Too late. Unless you’re ready to ban islamist migration and carry out mass deportations, purge the universities and teacher colleges, the public service unions and of course the mainstream political parties.
The way things are going it will soon be an islamophobic hate crime to speak against antisemitism.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford says Prime Minister Mark Carney “better fight like hell” during his trip to Washington, D.C., next week.
“You’re going down there Tuesday. You better fight like hell. Don’t roll over and keep fighting,” Ford said during a rally in front of the Stellantis Assembly Plant in Brampton on Saturday afternoon.
Carney is set to travel to the U.S. capital for a “working visit and meeting” with President Trump, the Prime Minister’s Office said.
I get the feeling Ford is now living in the past.
Before heading off on a Caribbean cruise, Dennis Murphy and his wife had a stopover in Florida. But they didn’t intend for it to be a proper Florida vacation.
“We kind of plan on spending as little of our money in the U.S., based on everything that happened,” Murphy said in an interview.
The French philosopher Albert Camus in 1951 wrote “If we believe in nothing, if nothing has any meaning and if we can affirm no values whatsoever, then everything is possible and nothing has any importance.” Camus was prescient as he was also describing the condition of Canada today relating to faith, the hastening of death, and the value of unborn babies.
A permanent resident of Canada with multiple assault convictions under his belt who was ordered deported more than eight years ago after striking another nightclub patron with a bottle, breaking his tooth and injuring his face, is fighting for his release from the Toronto Immigration Holding Centre.
Ryan Anthon Fyfield, who used scissors to cut off an ankle monitor he was issued in the fall of 2023 and employed an axe in March of 2024 to tear up the basement where he was living, is slated for a detention review next week.
