Analysis

In a possible preview of what B.C. could see in next month’s provincial budget, Attorney General David Eby has pledged to crack down on white collar crime and introduce a whistleblower protection program.

Exactly one year after President Donald Trump's inauguration, hundreds of thousands of women and men took to the streets across the continent on Saturday to send him another message. Canada's capital of Ottawa was no exception, with an estimated 8,000 people marching to defend women's rights and send a message to the White House.

A claim in U.S. courts alleges Canada's largest banks manipulated CDOR, a financial benchmark, over the course of seven years.

Latest data shows the Yanks may already have passed us by. The world’s other top ten economies have lapped us.

They may be consensual, but they're highly questionable. There is a major power imbalance between a professor and a student — one that can easily be exploited by someone with predatory inclinations.

In 2003, the two Koreas and their superpower allies -- the U.S., China, Russia, and Japan -- met in Beijing to negotiate a peaceful path to denuclearizing the Korean peninsula. Over six years, the Six-Party Talks made halting diplomatic progress before North Korea suddenly pulled out of negotiations in 2009.

In 2004, Kim Jong-Il wanted to convince the United States that it had a nuclear bomb. His staff invited some of the world’s top nuclear scientists into his facility and handed Siegfried Hecker, a professor at Stanford University, a small piece of plutonium metal inside a glass jar.

To help keep track of where things stand in North Korea, we’ve kept a running list of the insults between two of the world’s most volatile leaders.

The planned increases have generated significant public debate, including the predictable circulation of exaggerated claims about the supposed harmful effects of minimum wage increases and stereotypes of who will benefit. I’d like to use recent economic research on minimum wage hikes to debunk five of the most common claims, using examples from several Canadian provinces.

Award-winning Montreal novelist Heather O'Neill was sick to her stomach. She had just finished reading a troubling essay about the goings on at the English department at a major Canadian university. It's a climate where sexual predators have all the power, and everyone else is afraid to speak up.

The National Energy Board's chief operating officer, Josée Touchette, has left the regulator to accept an executive job with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in Paris. Back in Calgary, its NEB's executive in charge of "transparency" has taken a mysterious extended leave of absence.

In Mexico City I met Maria, 20. She lives in one of Mexico City’s poorest neighborhoods where violence is a part of life. “Throughout my life, I’ve witnessed many situations of violence that I didn’t even know were violence,” she told me. “I’ve been in violent relationships that I thought were normal. Now I wonder, 'Why is it men can hit us?'"

The freakish, "rainy-season" Thomas Fire in California has just burned itself into the record books. On Dec. 22, 2017 it officially became the state's largest recorded wildfire, having already burned 273,400 acres.

U.S. President Donald Trump released his first National Security Strategy this week, emphasizing competition over co-operation and removing the fight against climate change from the list of U.S. foreign policy goals.

SPOILERS: Aronofsky's mockery of Christian theology is where the film becomes a pretentious mess and loses any hope of meaningful connection with an audience, writes Katie Kalmusky.