Canada

In Alberta and elsewhere, the far-right is using referendums to mainstream white nationalism

Today Doug Ford will attack Toronto’s autonomy, and choice for safe streets. As well as our right to choose how we get around our city, and to do so without getting hurt or risking our own safety.

While Canada was among a group of nations that recognized the state of Palestine last year, that recognition was predicated upon several conditions, including elections being held in 2026.

Think you can still bring a bottle of your favourite Niagara red or Ontario-made whisky to your grandparents’ place in Florida?

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The provincial NDP is blaming the federal government and both the provincial Liberals and PCs for failing the people of Newfoundland and Labrador on pharmacare.

The Sunpunch features tropical notes and twenty-five years of research and testing

She said the book offers audiences a richer understanding of the experiences and perspectives of transgender people. Horak hopes first-time readers find her book both fun and accessible during a time when transgender rights are being threatened.

The federal government estimates Canada will need 1.4 million new trades workers by 2033 to replace retiring workers and meet project demand.

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What if the syllabics of the Cree language dominated everyday communication? This is the question asked by Joi T. Arcand’s new exhibition at the Carleton University Art Gallery.

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Please make sure to not dispose of the ghatas in the rivers and water body near you. That would be polluting the very country we live in.

In this episode

In this issue of our environmental newsletter, we meet workers training for an industry that needs them for the clean energy transition; see what a Kelvin wave looks like; and find out why trees have been planted upside down at a New Brunswick botanical garden.

The Liberals and Conservatives teamed up yet again today — funny how that keeps happening — to get Bill C-39 over the hurdle of its first vote in the House of Commons.

Ithaca Energy’s proposed takeover comes as the Carney government promises to ban trade with Israel’s illegal settlements — at the same time, the energy company’s majority owner is named in a UN blacklist over alleged activities supporting settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories

Businesses, citizens and First Nations in BC all want certainty. We’ll get that only through better implementation of existing legislation.

Critics allege a shopping centre manager promised seniors food if they voted for A Better City Vancouver.

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Carney, a one-time Goldman Sachs executive and former governor for both the Bank of England and the Bank of Canada, had won the race in a landslide, despite having zero political experience. The evening of his victory, he gathered with jubilant advisers for a victory party in a backroom. There, they got a text from a staffer for Karina Gould, the 38-year-old MP from Burlington, Ontario, who’d run against Carney for the party leadership. Gould had made a few mild pokes at Carney during the campaign. In one debate, she took a jab at his reputation as a fiscally focused technocrat: “You can’t bring a calculator to a knife fight,” she said, referring to the trade war with the U.S.

The government is budgeting $2 billion over eight years with a target of retrofitting one million homes.

Smith was pressed on why Albertans are not being given a clear definition of what the government considers a strong mandate before they cast their ballots.