OTTAWA — Liberal MP Steven Guilbeault, a former federal environment minister, remained evasive about his political future after starkly criticizing his government’s new proposal to speed up Canada’s regulatory process for major projects. Read More

OTTAWA — The Conservatives and NDP sit on opposite sides of the spectrum, but they're voicing similar concerns about the trajectory of Canada's medical assistance in dying (MAID) regime. Read More

By the end of 2025, at least 352,000 Russian soldiers had died in the war against Ukraine, a new investigation has found. Read More

In a rare reversal to a year-long trend, Statistics Canada found that return arrivals by Canadians, both from the United States and the rest of the world, increased in April over the same month in 2025. It was the first year-over-year increase in those numbers in more than a year. Read More

A Thunder Bay judge has issued an absolute discharge so an Indian trucker who pleaded guilty to dangerous driving in a fatal crash can avoid deportation. Read More

The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) is refunding more than $148 million collected as part of the digital services tax (DST) to 30 U.S.-based companies. Read More

Is injecting illicit fentanyl unsafe? Most people would unhesitatingly say “yes,” but Canada’s new Chief Public Health Officer, Dr. Joss Reimer, has refused to clearly answer this question, suggesting she is unfit for the position.   Read More

The operation to repatriate passengers of the cruise ship at the centre of a deadly hantavirus outbreak continued into Monday, as US officials said an American had tested positive for the virus. Read More

If you haven’t been paying attention to the Alberta separatism movement, you really should. It’s been making huge and rapid strides, with significant support and evidently enough momentum to trigger an independence referendum this year. To find out what’s driving the movement, Brian Lilley talks to Keith Wilson, an Alberta constitutional lawyer and leading voice for secession. Wilson explains why he thinks there is no future for the province as part of Canada — regardless of who’s in charge in Ottawa — because Confederation will always be a bad deal for Albertans compared to what they could achieve on their own. And he explains why he believes most of his fellow Albertans will soon come around to seeing that, too. (Recorded May 7, 2026.) Read More

The Iranian regime’s response to the latest U.S. proposal to end hostilities was “totally unacceptable,” U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday. Read More

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