4+ day, 15+ hour ago   (1685+ words) Prime Minister Mark Carney tours a farm near Red Deer, Alta., Wednesday, July 29, 2026. Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press. Canada suddenly has a trillion-dollar fixation. Next week, Prime Minister Mark Carney will welcome some of the world’s largest institutional investors to…...

6+ day, 3+ hour ago   (434+ words) People view the exhibit, Palestine Uprooted – Nakba Past and Present, at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, Winnipeg, June 26, 2026. John Woods/The Canadian Press. Margaret MacMillan, professor emeritus at Oxford University and provost of Trinity College, University of Toronto, recently…...

6+ day, 3+ hour ago   (354+ words) The B.C. legislature building in Victoria, April 14, 2026. Chad Hipolito/The Canadian Press. Last August, the British Columbia Supreme Court determined Aboriginal title exists for the Cowichan Tribe in Richmond, a suburb of Vancouver. The Court held that Aboriginal title in Canadian…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (235+ words) Workers look on as Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks at the Alstom Plant in Thunder Bay. David Jackson/The Canadian Press. Public-sector payrolls dropped by 20,000 last month and are now down 78,000 since May. Manufacturing’s gain of 22,100 positions, a 1.2 percent monthly increase…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (166+ words) The provincial rankings make the abstraction concrete. Ontario now sits 48th of 60 states and provinces in GDP per capita; Quebec ranks 55th, below Alabama, Kentucky, Arkansas, and Oklahoma, ahead of only Mississippi. Canadians who once measured themselves against the American middle class…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (190+ words) New Canadians during a Canada Day citizenship ceremony in Calgary, Wednesday, July 1, 2026. Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press. Peer countries have moved in the opposite direction. Sweden and Finland have tightened residency requirements; Italy has capped citizenship by descent at two…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (465+ words) Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Lena Metlege Diab arrives for a meeting of the federal cabinet. Justin Tang/The Canadian Press. Yet reporting from CBC News and the National Post reveals a surging number of citizenship applications, and the…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (334+ words) Pierre Poilievre rises in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, June 3, 2026. Spencer Colby/The Canadian Press. I haven’t been especially persuaded by the growing doubts about Pierre Poilievre’s leadership. Most of them are about polls and personality....

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (522+ words) A typical Canadian family of four will pay an estimated $21,115 for public health-care insurance in 2026, according to a new study from the Fraser Institute, an independent public policy think-tank. The study found Canadians routinely misunderstand what they pay because medical…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (259+ words) A man is arrested in North Vancouver, B.C., June 15, 2026. Ethan Cairns/The Canadian Press. There is an old rule of politics, often attributed to the great British historian Robert Conquest, that the simplest way to explain the behaviour of any bureaucratic…...