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Mark Carney set to announce his new governor general. Who could it be?

5 May 2026 at 11:00
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to announce his pick as Canada’s next governor general, who is bilingual in both official languages and most likely a woman. Read More

Data breach investigation ensnares Alberta separatist movement as independence petition hits deadline

5 May 2026 at 10:00
A suspected data breach has dealt a credibility blow to Alberta separatists, underscoring the lack of designated leadership behind the grassroots movement and causing a rare rupture between the various organizations and social media groups that support it. Read More

Collin May: Human rights tribunals aren’t fit for purpose

5 May 2026 at 10:00
Recently, serial human rights complainant and transgender activist Jessica Simpson filed a number of complaints with the notoriously leftist B.C. Human Rights Tribunal. According to the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms, Simpson’s complaints currently number around 18 in total. The Supreme Court of British Columbia even described her as a “prolific litigant” in 2022. Read More

Jamie Sarkonak: Canada — the medical resort of the developing world

5 May 2026 at 10:00
Medical tourism in the West is considered a luxury: you travel to a place with top-of-the-line doctors who can be seen faster than you’d ever expect at home, undertake a battery of tests more thorough than what’s generally done at home, and receive an assessment more all-encompassing than, again, would be expected at home. Read More

Toronto at the tipping point: Bringing a once-great city back from the brink

5 May 2026 at 10:00
This is an excerpt from Saving Toronto: 10 City Builders Tell Us How (Dundurn Press), edited by Anne Golden and Ken Greenberg. The book is a wake-up call with practical solutions to stop Toronto's decline, including cutting its massive infrastructure deficits, constraining urban sprawl, and empowering cities with authority and a portion of sales tax. In this excerpt, Golden first diagnoses the problems. Read More

Canada’s psychiatrists urged to screen people at risk of AI ‘chatbot psychosis’

5 May 2026 at 10:00
Canada’s psychiatrists are being encouraged to screen people for "high-risk human-AI engagement," including “chatbot psychosis” and other AI-amplified delusions. Read More

Kelly McParland: Two good ideas sneak past Ottawa’s parliamentary guards

5 May 2026 at 10:00
Bigwigs in Ottawa made two astonishing admissions last week. One, that Canada's official prime ministerial residence is a disgrace and something has to be done about it. Two, that the country's airline passenger rights rules were badly contrived, have proved utterly useless and need to be radically improved. Read More

Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni settle out of court, avoid civil trial

By: AFP
4 May 2026 at 23:05
Actor Blake Lively and "It Ends with Us" co-star Justin Baldoni settled on Monday their acrimonious court battle, sparked when Lively accused Baldoni of inappropriate on-set behaviour, meaning they will avoid a costly civil trial. Read More

Trump looking forward to China summit with Xi Jinping, as strains from Iran war loom

4 May 2026 at 22:56
President Donald Trump said he’s looking forward to meeting Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, signalling that his plans for the high-stakes summit are still on despite fresh tensions between the world’s two largest economies. Read More
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