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Carney is accomplished and plainly has tremendous capacity. He’s also a technocrat and a mild reformer who is very much of and within the boundaries of the status quo.

More than 5,000 individuals and 300 organizations have called on the Canadian government to stop engaging in diplomatic shenanigans that interfere with tribal, state and federal actions in the U.S. against Line 5.

In a shared society, people experience — and respond to — the same forces. That includes getting angry and frustrated and keen to throw the bums out, whatever their ideological disposition, when things get tough. Because people want solutions to their problems.

Shannon Phillips, who served as Alberta’s environment minister from 2015 to 2019, was a popular target for right-wing trolls and online agitators like Rebel Media.

May says today she is "vastly relieved" after reading an unredacted version of a report on foreign interference by the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians.

It’s pouring outside, but the rain isn’t dampening Jim Hodgson’s spirits. In fact, he’s beaming.

During a stop to promote the budget in Oakville, Ont., Justin Trudeau was asked about Poilievre's recent appearance alongside anti-carbon price activists in Atlantic Canada who were waving expletive-laden flags bearing the prime minister's name.

Two years after they occupied Ottawa and tried to replace the government, the freedom convoy is rallying around opposition to the carbon tax — and still making the same fundamental misunderstandings about how our democracy works.

Premier Tim Houston has responded to a challenge from the prime minister to submit an alternative to the federal carbon pricing program.

Pierre Poilievre's pledge to crack down on housing gatekeepers has proven to be little more than empty talk. Ironically, it's been Doug Ford and other Conservative politicians — the real housing gatekeepers — who have done the proving here.

In the heart of Port-au-Prince, amidst the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Haiti, two determined lawyers, Atzer Alcindor and Jean Bonald Golinsky Fatal, who founded the Human Rights Laboratory, stand as beacons of hope.

The defeat and breakup of the hard-right CPC is the necessary first step in the rebirth of a new progressive conservatism.

The National Newspaper Award's prestigious Mary Ann Shadd Cary Award for column writing is awarded each year to the top Canadian commentator.

Voters pleaded for reforms when they elected him. When he tried to deliver that change — be it free trade, tax reform or a new Constitution — they reacted with wariness at best and hostility more often.

Justin Trudeau's political comeback depends on things like inflation going down and the economy doing better. But none of that will matter if he can't get key members of his team to take their jobs — you know, politics — more seriously.