It’s hard to get major projects built in a country that requires evaluations of systemic racism, local psychosocial conditions and confidential Indigenous spiritual knowledge to be considered at length before any approval is issued. But that’s the current scheme for building big projects that fall under federal jurisdiction and are thus subject to the Impact Assessment Act — and that’s exactly why any plan for turning around the country’s lost decade requires its repeal.
The recent anti-Hamas protests in the Gaza Strip are seen by some Western and Arab political analysts as a positive and encouraging development.
Those who are rushing to celebrate the protests in Gaza need to consider that they are most likely nothing but a show by the Iran-backed Hamas to fool the world into thinking that there is an uprising against the terrorist group.
Donald Trump’s latest round of threats—a 25 percent tariff on Canadian goods and repeated jabs that Canada “only works” as America’s 51st state—landed like grenades here at home. But they also revealed an uncomfortable truth: it’s hard for Canada to project strength internationally when we haven’t built the foundations of a strong, modern country domestically. We need homes our children can afford, infrastructure that connects a vast nation, a resource sector that gets to “yes”—and yes, a military capable of defending our sovereignty.
If PBS felt any concern about the hit its reputation for balance took at Wednesday’s devastating DOGE hearing on Capitol Hill, Thursday’s PBS News Hour didn’t show it.
On the day after its CEO Paula Kerger testified to Congress that they were fair and balanced, PBS turned to the leftist group Media Matters for America. The News Hour has never invited the Media Research Center for an interview about the state of the media since the MRC was founded in 1987.
The “Buy Canadian” movement is sending new ripples of concern through the executive offices of U.S.-based consumer companies that banked on selling their products on Canadian retail shelves.
California-based diaper maker Parasol Co had been working since January with a distributor to expand the sale of its diapers and baby wipes to new retailers in Canada, including convenience stores, CEO Jessica Hung said.
If there’s anything more frightening than a Supreme Court “which has been receptive to claims from religious groups, particularly Christian ones,” the New York Times has yet to find it.
Even for a presidency that has waged pitched trade battles from its earliest hours, the next few days promise to be like no other.
It is tariff week in the United States, a pivotal moment in Donald Trump’s ambition to bend global trade to American advantage. On April 2, Mr. Trump’s vaunted “Liberation Day,” the White House plans to release a raft of what it terms reciprocal tariffs.
“What some of you don’t know is that I spent 10 months in solitary confinement. Whenever anybody finds this out the first thing they always ask is how I spent that time. The truth is, the best part of those days was running in place in my prison-issue underwear staring at the wall in front of me.”
This might sound like a curious opening gambit at a press conference about a music festival. But Billy McFarland is no ordinary festival organiser. McFarland is the convicted felon and entrepreneur behind 2017’s Fyre Festival, the most disastrous non-festival of all time, an event so calamitous that it has become the morality tale of the Instagram age.
Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives are starting to cut into Mark Carney’s Liberals’ lead, polls suggest.
The Star’s election predictor, the Signal, says the Liberals’ advantage has narrowed but the governing party could still win a majority in the April 28 federal election.
“You continue to see that volatility here, where the ebb and flow of the Liberal vote really varies more than the Conservative trend line,” said Clifton van der Linden, a McMaster University political science professor and the CEO of Vox Pop Labs, the independent research organization that developed the Signal.
The vast majority of British Muslims identify with their religion over their nationality, a report has found.
A study conducted by the Institute for the Impact of Faith in Life (IIFL), based on survey data and interviews with 815 British Muslims, has found that over seven in ten (71 per cent) identify as Muslims first.
In contrast, just 27 per cent of British Muslims said they primarily identified as British, English, or Scottish.
Over the past few weeks, the Dairy Farmers of Canada, with the full backing of the Bloc Quebecois, has launched a well-coordinated charm offensive to extol the virtues of supply management. According to its proponents, this system is the best tool to safeguard Canada’s food sovereignty.
Virginia Giuffre – who was sex trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein and claims she was sexually assaulted as a teenager by Prince Andrew – says she has been given just four days to live after a car crash.
Ms Giuffre, née Roberts, 41, shared a photograph of herself from her hospital bed, covered in bruises she had said she suffered in a smash with a speeding bus.
Posting to Instagram overnight on Sunday, the sex abuse survivor says she has suffered kidney failure and begged to see her children ‘one last time’ before she dies.
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Faced with President Donald Trump’s renewed tariff threats against Canada this week, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh shifted his campaign plans and headed to Windsor to stand with affected auto workers. Now Singh needs to shift again but this time to deal with the near existential threat his party is facing.
Public opinion surveys show support for the NDP has fallen into Green party territory. The Star’s polling aggregator, The Signal, has the NDP at 7.3 per cent. Recent Mainstreet and Léger polls have the NDP at six per cent nationally, while Abacus has the party at 11 per cent.
But Abacus’ numbers also hold more terrible news for the party.
On the rainy Grands Boulevards in Paris on Friday, the branches of McDonald’s and KFC were doing brisk business.
There was little sign of “le boycott” – a movement among French customers to reject American brands and products made in the US, in protest at Donald Trump’s trade tariffs and anti-Europe rhetoric.
A poll, which splashed the front page of the Libération newspaper last week, found that more than six out of 10 French people support shunning American products, and almost one in three are already avoiding them.
I never thought I’d live to see the day when a Liberal Leader in Canada refused to participate in a French language debate.
Yet, that’s exactly what happened. Mark Carney seemed to agree to join the TVA French-language leaders’ debate on March 24, as he told a reporter, “why not!” – and then backed out several hours later. This led to the debate being cancelled altogether.
