Canadians are battening down the hatches heading into the new year, with six in 10 expecting the overall economy to worsen in 2026, a survey by consumer insolvency firm MNP Ltd. shows.
Almost three in four (71 per cent) of Canadians expect higher living costs and 59 per cent said they expect the overall economy to worsen, the MNP Consumer Debt Index released on Monday said.
The deeply unpopular premier of Quebec, François Legault, said on Wednesday that he would resign after seven years in power, acknowledging after months of desperate attempts to revive his standing in the polls that “Quebecers want change.”
The announcement — only weeks after Mr. Legault’s pledge to run for a third term — could upend the political dynamics in Canada’s French-speaking province ahead of a general election likely to be held next fall.
Mr. Legault said that he would step down after his party, Coalition Avenir Québec, a pro-business, center-right party, selects a new leader.
OTTAWA — U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats to occupy Greenland will only make Canada’s sovereignty claims in the Arctic more vulnerable, defence analysts says.
Former chief of the defence staff retired Gen. Tom Lawson said the U.S. setting a precedent of taking Greenland for strategic hemispheric purposes should put the Canadian government on high alert.
As Prime Minister Mark Carney heads to China for talks aimed at boosting trade, Premier Doug Ford is imploring him to keep Canadian tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles.
The Star reported Monday that Carney’s officials are in “active discussions” with Beijing about lowering or dropping the 100 per cent tariffs on Chinese EVs that Canada imposed in 2024.
That’s because the prime minister — who has brought Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe with him on the trade mission — hopes that, in exchange, China will remove its punitive counter-tariffs on Canadian canola and seafood.
Freedom is the right to make your own decisions and guide your life as you please (for good or ill) in the absence of outside interference — in particular, without government meddling. Freedom applies in different areas of life, and we know that economic freedom leads to better outcomes including higher income, lower unemployment, reduced poverty, and greater overall wellbeing. So, Albertans should be proud that their province was recently ranked as the economically freest in Canada. Unfortunately, that only puts it in 30th place among the provinces and states of Canada, Mexico, and the U.S.
On Dec. 5, 2025, the president of the United States announced a new national security strategy. Each successive U.S. administration issues such a document at the beginning of its term, forcing a reassessment of national security at least every four years. It is a foundational exercise for government and for the public.
The release has gone largely unnoticed by Canadian media and officials, save for a few comments from the minister of National Defence. The minister said he was “taking note” of the new U.S. strategy but that Canada would follow its own national security strategy. Many Canadians are left wondering what that strategy actually looks like.
Canada may soon be cheering Donald Trump on in his stated goal of acquiring Greenland.
Well, not really — the elites running Canada will not be agreeing to anything the U.S. president does — but the rest of us might wish to bid him good luck.
🚨BREAKING
Canadian Conservative MPs Adam Chambers, Shelby Kramp-Neuman and Melissa Lantsman
have DEFIED XI and Mark Carney and have STAYED in Taiwan (see breaking photo below)
despite their 2 Liberal counterparts LEAVING taiwan, as Carney meets Xi pic.twitter.com/2RTOv2zINJ
— Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@Tablesalt13) January 13, 2026
h/t Mauser
Sarita Patel has been running Superette Foods in Nanaimo, B.C., with her husband since November 2024.
She says theft has always been an issue, but now, in the meat section, things have gotten out of hand.
“They are stealing sometimes $70 of meat, sometimes $100 of meat,” she told Global News.
CALGARY — The US Deputy Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary, Jim O’Neil, has bashed Canada’s medical assistance in dying (MAiD) program as being a “strange new horror” when it comes to its organ donations.
Reported by the Washington Examiner, O’Neil stated MAiD has crossed ethical boundaries by using it as a tool to increase organ donation — citing Canada has become a world leader in organ transplant policy from deceased patients.
If I decided as a devout follower of the Flying Spaghetti Monster that I can only eat animals that have been slaughtered in vats of cooked pasta, you’d laugh at the prospect of the federal government spending a cent subsidizing cow-sized pots and barrels of Barilla.
BEIJING / OTTAWA — On the eve of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s first official visit to China, a coalition of nine human-rights organizations is elevating an open letter urging Ottawa to put human rights at the center of Canada’s dealings with Beijing, rather than deepen commercial ties that critics say reflect the influence of a powerful Quebec-based business lobby long associated with former Liberal leader Jean Chrétien.
Canadians are increasingly concerned about rising crime in their communities, according to a new Angus Reid Institute poll.
“New data from Angus Reid,” says Shachi Kurl, president of the institute, “shows that three-in-five (62 per cent) Canadians believe crime has been rising in their communities over the last five years. That’s a lot more than the number of Canadians who say there’s been no change (24 per cent) or a decrease (five per cent).”
OTTAWA — Canadian negotiators are in “active discussions” with China about lowering or dropping tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles in exchange for easing punitive Chinese counter-tariffs on Canadian canola and seafood, but government officials declined to say how it might affect Canada’s trade tensions with a U.S. administration that is hawkish on blocking China’s EVs from North America.
On the eve of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s trip to Beijing, the talks are considered so politically sensitive as the U.S. and Canada navigate the upcoming negotiation to renew the North American free trade pact that Canadian officials would say very little about the tariff dispute that is jamming Ottawa between China and the U.S. and opened a double trade war for this country.
It appears Ford was not asked for comment.
Donald Trump’s assault on the United Nations continues. Last Wednesday, he signed an executive order pulling the United States out of 31 UN bodies or agreements, in addition to another 35 that work closely with it.
These 66 entities do crucial work promoting world order and global well-being. They include the Framework Convention on Climate Change – the only truly global effort to prevent catastrophic overheating of the planet – as well as the International Law Commission, the Peacebuilding Commission, the UN Conference on Trade and Development, offices dedicated to fighting child soldiery, violence against children, sexual violence in conflict, and so on.
Sporting tensions between the USA and Canada have erupted once again, this time in skeleton as next month’s Winter Olympics approach.
The USA’s Katie Uhlaender, a five-time Winter Olympian in skeleton, has accused the Canadian team of depriving her of a place at the Milan-Cortina Games by manipulating a qualifying event over the weekend.
Uhlaender says that Canada deliberately pulled four of its six athletes from the race in the North American Cup in Lake Placid, New York. That meant the field was reduced to under 21 athletes and fewer qualifying points were on offer due to the lack of competition. Uhlaender believes the Canadian team did so to prevent American athletes from catching them in the standings for Olympic qualifying.
