The history of federal governments touting high-speed rail projects between Ontario and Quebec has been one of false starts for more than five decades and last week we saw an example of why.
That was the threat by Ontario Premier Doug Ford to withdraw provincial support from Alto – the latest multi-billion-dollar, high-speed rail project touted by the feds to connect Toronto and Quebec City.
The only thing about this project that I am confident of is that it will be giant slush fund.
China is preparing for a different kind of war. Canada is still preparing for yesterday’s. The defining geopolitical struggle of the twenty-first century will not be fought solely with tanks, warships, or fighter aircraft. Increasingly, it will be contested through factories, artificial intelligence, critical minerals, supply chains, advanced manufacturing, and technological innovation. Beijing understands this. Most Western governments, including our own, are only beginning to catch up.
The federal government says it is committed to respecting indigenous rights and title while continuing to fight a $5-billion court claim that seeks ownership and compensation for Parliament Hill and other federal landmarks in the National Capital Region.
A briefing note prepared for Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Rebecca Alty reveals Ottawa remains in court opposing a title claim launched by the Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg, despite stating the government is committed to recognizing Aboriginal rights and title.
VANCOUVER — The Bureau has learned from a source with direct knowledge that Richmond’s mayor and city councillors were asked to attend an extraordinary closed-door briefing delivered by senior regional officials of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service.
In the real world, bonuses happen when you do a good job or your organization has a great year. In Ottawa, bonuses reward D- performances, bailouts and billion-dollar losses with taxpayers’ money.
It’s enough to make your head spin.
At any given moment recently, a reader could glance at their favourite newspaper and see conflicting headlines about condo prices plummeting, houses loitering for weeks on the market, and potential buyers going to absurd lengths to afford a place to live.
Colour me shocked.
In his election night address to Canadians last year, Mark Carney spoke with gravity and urgency about the threat posed by Donald Trump. “America,” he declared, “wants our land, our resources, our water, our country … President Trump is trying to break us so that America can own us.” Having spent the 2025 campaign warning Canadians about the seriousness of this threat, the prime minister sounded similarly unequivocal about the need for a more assertive approach to Canada-U.S. relations. “Our old relationship with the United States, a relationship based on steadily increasing integration,” he added, “is over … We have to look out for ourselves and above all we have to take care of each other.”
Five Toronto police officers found guilty of misconduct for comments on Muslim outreach podcast
An investigative report by the Toronto Police Service (TPS) has found misconduct against five officers after a police-run podcast praised the post–October 7 surge of converts to Islam and was perceived to downplay Hamas support at anti-Israel rallies.
The Project Olive Branch Podcast had been launched by TPS as an outreach tool, to build trust amongst the Muslim community, according to police documents. It was to be “light hearted” and “foster open and engaging discussions.” The first episode aired without incident, the second, at 47 minutes, aired March 10, 2025 and received 142,000 views. It was reviewed by three supervisory colleagues, yet stirred controversy.
No one ever gets fired in Canada and you can bet they are DEI hires.
The Canadian Armed Forces has issued new rules that expand restrictions on faith-specific language and practices during official military ceremonies and public events, including references to God.
The new directive, released on July 29, applies to all Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) members, Department of National Defence (DND) employees, contractors, and volunteers engaged in offering “spiritual or religious services” for the CAF, expanding application of previous instructions that only specified chaplains. The new directive also offers further specific details on what the prohibition entails.
Chinese-brand cars are sitting at Canadian ports, waiting to be unloaded. The first dealerships of BYD, Geely, and Chery are set to open this fall in Vancouver, Toronto, and Montréal, with more to follow by the end of the year. And not one of those cars can legally be sold in the United States.
That gap—vehicles landing at America’s doorstep that can’t be sold across the border—is the center of a quiet contest now unfolding on the northern frontier. The United States has walled out
Chinese cars with a 100 percent tariff and a national security rule that bars China-owned automakers from the U.S. market even if they build their cars on American soil.
But Canada has moved the other way. In January, it agreed to let in a rising number of Chinese electric vehicles at a tariff of only 6.1 percent, breaking ranks with Washington.
Allegations that China had recruited a former Canadian government employee as a spy could worsen relations between Ottawa and Beijing that had been gradually improving since Mark Carney became prime minister.
The Chinese authorities did not respond to requests for comment Friday about a Canadian NATO intern accused by Belgian prosecutors of spying on behalf of Beijing.
CALGARY — The Liberal government has spent over $8 million of taxpayers’ money on gender-neutral, decarbonized rice in Vietnam.
The initiative titled, “Greening our rice: gender-just, low-carbon rice value chains in Vietnam,” is funded through Global Affairs Canada in partnership with Oxfam Canada.
On Tuesday the Canadian Press carried a wire story (written by NP alumna Anja Karadeglija) about Canada joining the Eurovision Song Contest. You will remember Prime Minister Mark Carney practically quaking with delight on Canada Day when he announced that Canada was going to have a 2027 entry in Eurovision, a camp-glam TV ritual that has launched dozens of music careers and that arguably serves as the continent’s nearest approximation to the Super Bowl. The PM even reached into the past to revive the old advertising slogan, “The world needs more Canada!” Why, it almost seemed as if he was using the occasion to reinforce his new European-facing, middle-powers foreign-policy orientation.
The Ontario government’s representative in Washington says U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest threat to levy 50 per cent tariffs on hundreds of Canadian goods is an indication that the administration is taking notice of the effect Canada’s retaliatory trade action is having on the American economy.
Speaking to CBC’s Power & Politics, David Paterson pointed to a specific complaint laid out in the fact sheet announcing the tariffs: U.S. auto exports to Canada dropping 22 per cent since April of last year.
The arrest of a Canadian intern accused of spying inside NATO’s senior military headquarters in Belgium reaches beyond one person or one failed security check. It shows how hostile states can combine espionage, criminal networks, technology, and trusted access to weaken an alliance without firing a shot.
Belgian prosecutors allege that the intern, who is of Chinese origin, conducted espionage for an unidentified third country while interning at Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, known as SHAPE, in Mons, Belgium. They also accuse her of belonging to a criminal organization.
