The Canadian Press

“They’re complex negotiations and we’ll use all the time that’s necessary,” he told reporters after meeting with premiers at the Council of the Federation gathering in Huntsville, Ont.

Prime Minister Mark Carney downplayed the importance of a looming Aug. 1 deadline in trade talks with the U.S. on Tuesday, saying the objective is to get the best possible deal for Canadians.

“They’re complex negotiations and we’ll use all the time that’s necessary,” …

By Justin Ling Contributing Columnist

In 1993, Liberal party leader Jean Chrétien had dinner with four top Canadian academics. Over dessert, one asked a blunt question: If you win, what do you actually want to do?

“I have three priorities,” replied Chrétien. They were to keep Canada independent from the United States, keep the country together and keep the International Monetary Fund out.

Back then, Canada faced a quiet crisis: Our debt had blown past …

By Dave LeBlanc

Pity the children who will call YZD their home in, say, 2035. They’ll never know the joy of yelling “Car!” as they struggle to move hockey nets to the side of the road as others wrangle the bouncing tennis ball. No, in what will be Toronto’s newest, most eco-friendly neighbourhood – covering a whopping 150 hectares – the main thoroughfare will be car-free.

Should they ask their parents, however, they’ll learn that …

By Joycelyn David

The year was 1989. I was in sixth grade, and we had just been assigned a project called “Share Your Culture.” As part of the project, we were all assigned to bring in food from our culture to share. Little Joycelyn was so excited to bring in one of her absolute favorite things: the Filipino version of bubble tea – called “sago.”

Now, in 1989, bubble tea had not been commercialized. It …

Reuters

Greenland on Thursday handed a 30-year permit to a European Union-backed project that aims to mine molybdenum, a critical metal used in aerospace, energy and defence and on which China has imposed export controls.

The resource-rich Arctic island has seen rising activity in its mining sector over the past month, after U.S. President Donald Trump expressed an interest in purchasing it earlier this year.

The permit was granted to Toronto-based Greenland Resources MOLY-NE +22.52%increase
…

By David Berman

When bad things happen in the world, you need a little fertilizer in your portfolio. That’s the takeaway from the latest rally by Nutrien Ltd. NTR-T -0.69%decrease
, whose share price is on its second geopolitical-inspired rip within the past three years.

But will the current rally take the stock toward new heights?

Saskatoon-based Nutrien, the world’s largest fertilizer producer, emerged as one of the hottest Canadian stocks after Russia invaded Ukraine …

NYA Thanks the Calgary Herald!

By John Paul Tasker

'We have to be careful,' Canada's top judge says as anti-judicial rhetoric bubbles up in the U.S.

Asked about U.S. President Donald Trump's contentious relationship with parts of the American judiciary, Supreme Court of Canada Chief Justice Richard Wagner said Tuesday "the rule of law and judicial independence is under attack" around the world.

Speaking to reporters at his annual news conference on Parliament Hill, Wagner said if a government attacks …

By Matt Simon

A legacy of mining means that toxic metals could be carried along plumes of smoke.

More than 200 wildfires are blazing across central and western Canada, half of which are out of control because they’re so hard for crews to access, forcing 27,000 people to evacuate. Even those nowhere near the wildfires are suffering as smoke swirls around Canada and wafts south, creating hazardous air quality all over the midwestern and eastern …

A huge thank you to everyone who made the Neil Young Northcote Concert possible.

Neil Young , Solo, with his dogs on stage , and his ‘invisible band’ was my favourite concert, EVER! The set list was like maple syrup running through my soul, every lyric, his harmonica notes like Lake Superior’s North Shore rustling winds in the pines and guitar strums , a Lakehead Northern Ontario road trip familiar playlist. I was over the …

The e-mail arrived, like a bolt from blue, on the otherwise typical Thursday afternoon of May 9. The message was from a journalist, asking me, an astronomer, for an interview about a farmer who had reportedly found space junk while prepping his fields for springtime seeding, just an hour’s drive from my home in Saskatchewan. “Yeah, right,” I said to myself as I tapped out my affirmative reply. The odds are already long for any …

By Nicolas Van Praet

Nova Scotia billionaire John Risley says Canada has neglected the Arctic for far too long, which has undermined the country’s economic prospects and put its sovereignty at risk. He’s betting he can light a fire for change.

Mr. Risley, who made his fortune with Clearwater Seafoods before turning to investments in MDA Space and green energy, has launched a new company called Arctic Economic Development Corp. (AECD). It’s aiming to spur …

By Matthew Scace

Looking out over a budding meadow with blackened tree stumps on the edge of Banff National Park, Cliff White points to a dark thicket of trees where the empty plot ends.

“The next fire in here is going to be incredible,” says the former Parks Canada fire management co-ordinator, standing in the expansive Carrot Creek fire break.

The meadow was shorn more than 20 years ago by Parks Canada to slow future …

7/14/25

You know, sometimes being a Canadian is exhausting.
It’s been months since Donald Trump began declaring his intention to make Canada a 51st state and calling Prime Minister Justin Trudeau “Governor Trudeau”.
It’s also been months since Justin Trudeau resigned as Prime Minister and subsequently gave up his seat in Parliament. He’d led the Liberal Party of Canada for twelve years and had been our Prime Minister for the last ten of them. But …

CBC News

Thousands of wildfire evacuees are set to return to their homes in northwestern Manitoba in the coming days, as Lynn Lake lifts its evacuation order and Flin Flon moves to rescind its own.

Flin Flon Deputy Mayor Alison Dallas-Funk announced on a video on social media Thursday afternoon the city expects to begin re-entry Wednesday at 9 a.m., allowing about 5,100 people who escaped what's currently the largest wildfire in the province just …

By David Olive

On April 4, China stopped exporting seven kinds of rare earth elements (REEs) on which the U.S. is heavily reliant.

REEs and the magnets produced from them are essential in automaking, semiconductors, smartphones, elevators, fighter jets and submarines — a short list.

The U.S. is in negotiations with China to restore a free flow of REEs. But U.S. officials expect that China’s export controls regime is here to stay. It gives China …

By Alicia Cox Thomson

While you may expect to hear humming, there’s almost no sound coming from the site of the recently opened Oneida Energy Storage project – a plot of land filled with 278 lithium-ion batteries, each about the size of a tractor trailer – storing up to 250 megawatts (MW) of electricity to support the grid.

Located on 10 acres in Haldimand County, Ont., the Oneida project is among the five largest battery …

By Caroline Hillier

He lost his son and grandson in the Titan tragedy. Then he quietly paid for a new mosque for the community that helped him mourn.

As international media crews clustered along the St. John's harbour front in June 2023, fixated on broadcasting the Titan catastrophe to the world, there was a quiet mourning taking place in another part of the city.

Two of the passengers aboard that ill-fated submersible, which imploded off …

Anne-Marie Kee OCT BA (Hon.), M.Ed. ׀ Head of School/Foundation
Lakefield College School

Finally, as I think about stories and firsts, your year was also marked by a concert by one of Canada’s greatest rock stars, Neil Young, who toured our school in September, after his wife Daryl Hannah spent a day at Northcote with the grade tens. Neil Young performed a benefit concert in May at our farm to raise money to restore a …

ROBERT FIFE OTTAWA BUREAU CHIEF
STEPHANIE LEVITZ SENIOR REPORTER OTTAWA

In a ceremony marked by pomp and pageantry, King Charles III opened Parliament on Tuesday, delivering a Throne Speech that affirmed Canada’s sovereignty and promised the largest transformation in the Canadian economy since the Second World War.

The speech, written by Prime Minister Mark Carney’s office in consultation with the King’s office, touched on Liberal election promises, including a middle-class tax cut, an end to …

By Perry Bellegarde

On May 27, King Charles III – the King of Canada – will deliver the Speech from the Throne, opening the new session of Canada’s Parliament. The King’s presence in this constitutional role may surprise some Canadians, but for many First Nations across these lands, it reaffirms something we have always known: the Crown is not merely symbolic. It is central to the Treaty relationship that founded Canada.

I am a citizen …

By Olivia Bowden

Indigenous groups had offered to rehome grizzly nicknamed Tex who was killed without authorization

The journey of Tex, a young grizzly bear that gripped public attention in Canada after swimming to a populated island near Vancouver, came to a violent end this week after he was shot and killed without authorization, despite plans by Indigenous groups to relocate him.

The four-year-old bear’s landfall on 25 May on the 300 sq km (115 …

BY ROBERT BENZIE QUEEN'S PARK BUREAU CHIEF

Political alliance between Carney and Ford has been strengthened by Trump's tariff threats

Forged by crisis, tempered by opportunity and steeled by circumstance, it is the most important political alliance in the country.

Prime Minister Mark Carney and Premier Doug Ford, a federal Liberal and an Ontario Progressive Conservative, each recently tasked by voters with tackling the economic and existential threat of U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs.

Carney …

Leyland Cecco in Vancouver

In an Arctic reshaped by the climate crisis, less ice really means more as countries face risks in push for more ships

For millennia, a mass of sea ice in the high Arctic has changed with the seasons, casting off its outer layer in summer and expanding in winter as it spins between Russia, Canada and Alaska. Known as the Beaufort Gyre, this fluke of geography and oceanography was once a …

This Maple Leaf was made by hand by Mark Korczynski to celebrate Canada Day, July 1 2025 with his wife Andrea Liss and their Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec and France cousins.
Oh Canada, our home and native land.

By Pete Crighton Special to the Star

“He was like Liberace, but with a violin instead of a piano, and with bandages instead of sequins,” said a fellow musician.

His face was wrapped entirely in bandages, and he dressed in a custom tuxedo, top hat and sunglasses. He played electric violin, mandolin, synthesizers and even a glockenspiel, experimenting with tape loops on an analogue reel-to-reel tape recorder. And he used effects pedals to manipulate sounds …

By James Bradshaw

A private credit fund focused on speeding up construction of new housing in Indigenous communities has raised its first funding and is nearing agreements to build its first homes.

Indigenous-led Keewaywin Capital Inc. announced an $11-million first tranche for its inaugural fund, and aims to close with at least $30-million by the end of the year.

Keewaywin is founded and led by Tracee Smith, a financial executive with experience at two of …

By Ajay Virmani

Ajay Virmani CM is the founder and executive chair of Cargojet.

Thursday’s recommendations from the Competition Bureau to open Canada’s skies to foreign airlines may sound like a pro-consumer move. But beneath the surface, it risks undermining our aviation industry, threatening Canadian jobs and handing over control of a vital sector – all without getting a single thing in return.

The bureau suggests allowing foreign carriers to fly domestic routes in Canada …

By Bruce Arthur

Oh, did Kobe Bryant want to be Michael Jordan. He would study Jordan’s footwork and even his interviews, and early in his career Kobe’s cadence, even his head tilt, was eerily familiar. Kobe could never measure up — too many low-percentage hero shots, a self-belief that could result in self-sabotage — but he became an icon anyway, and inspired a generation. Including, of course, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander. Kobe was his idol.

Sunday, Shai …

By Eric Atkins

Canada’s competition watchdog is calling on Ottawa to boost competition in the airline industry with sweeping changes that include allowing foreign-owned carriers to fly domestic routes and phasing out restrictions on foreign ownership.

The recommendations are among 10 the Competition Bureau of Canada makes in a new market study, released Thursday morning.

To increase customers’ choices in Canada’s highly concentrated airline industry, the report also recommends the government: remove the Transport Minister’s …

NYA Thanks @milano_alyssa!

By Hannah Rudderham

Systemic racism still exists in health-care system as a whole, Aaron Hatty says

Horizon Health Network is hiring 10 new Indigenous patient navigators, bringing the network's total to 12.

The network has seen the benefits of having people in this role since Indigenous patient navigators were hired for Fredericton and Miramichi hospitals in 2022, said Aaron Hatty, Horizon's regional manager of Indigenous health programming.

"We have seen many positive outcomes from those …

By Wolfgang Depner

British Columbia has launched a six-week, $5-million campaign of targeted advertisements to recruit doctors and nurses in the United States, citing "chaos" under the Trump administration to lure them north.

The Ministry of Health said the campaign launched on Monday was being shown on thousands of advertising screens in Washington, Oregon and California, at locations within a 16-kilometre radius of health-care facilities, as well as on podcasts and Netflix shows.

B.C. Health …

*By Norimitsu Onishi

Gerard Comeau fought back after being fined for bringing too much beer into his province. He lost the battle, but may yet win the war.

Some called it the greatest beer run in Canadian history, a beer run for the ages, a beer run that in its very failure provoked questions about nationhood and the identity of Canada itself.

Back in 2012, Gerard Comeau, a power utility lineman, slipped back into his …

By Susan Delacourt - National Columnist, and Matt Gurney - Contributing Columnist

In a recurring feature, Susan Delacourt, a small-l liberal, and Matt Gurney, a small-c conservative, bring their different perspectives — and a shared commitment to civil disagreement — to the political debates of the moment.

Matt Gurney: Over the last few weeks, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s postelection government has been shaping up. A cabinet has been announced. Parliamentarians are being sworn in — …

By Robert Jimison

Democrats and one Republican made the trip, seeking to stabilize the U.S.-Canada relationship after President Trump imposed tariffs on Canada and suggested it should become the 51st state.

A bipartisan group of senators on Friday arrived in Ottawa seeking to stabilize the United States’ relationship with Canada, determined to mend a once-tight alliance that President Trump has tested in recent months with tariffs and tough talk.

Sporting lapel pins of the American …