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 …

By Sophia Harris

Canadian Tire set to pay $30 million to buy department store's intellectual property

Shoppers who stocked up on Hudson's Bay blankets or other goods adorned with the iconic retailer's stripes, hoping they'd become collector's items, may be in for disappointment. On Thursday, Canadian Tire announced it will pay $30 million to take over Hudson's Bay's intellectual property, including its famous four stripes motif, various company names, logos, and the retailer's coat of …

By Wayne Horton

Who Speaks for Battle River–Crowfoot?
Trading a Hometown Hero for a Has-Been Hack

As many of you know, I was born and raised in a small town—a farming and mining community. I’ve lived in cities, traveled widely, but my heart has always been small-town. These days, we split our time between two places: a thriving metropolis of nearly 4,000, and a city that shrinks from 5,000 to 600 when winter rolls in. …

By Andy Takagi - Transportation Reporter, and Joyce Li - Staff Reporter

At least 11 people are dead and more than two dozen are injured after a driver rammed through a Filipino street festival in Vancouver on Saturday night.

The vehicle, reported by witnesses to be a black SUV, left victims, debris and chaos in its wake, with those who were at the scene describing their families being separated and bodies flying high into the …

By Matina Stevis-Gridneff

Mark Carney flirted with Canadian politics even as he built a career overseas, rejecting offers to join cabinets at least twice.

Then in January, President Trump, threatening tariffs and annexation against Canada, brewed a crisis that seemed tailor-made for one of the world’s most seasoned managers of economic turmoil.

Within weeks, Mr. Carney was prime minister.

Now, he is leading Canada’s Liberal Party into a federal election, vying for a full term …

Dear Mr. Carney…

I am writing because I want to tell you how much I appreciate and support what you are trying to do for our great country, Canada.

Although I have lived in the United States for most of my life, and recently became a citizen of the USA, I am a Canadian and always will be. Now a dual citizen, I was born in Toronto, lived in the small town of Omemee, Ontario, …

Americans have been flooding the Star with letters apologizing for U.S. President Donald Trump’s unprovoked attacks on Canada and sending words of encouragement “to hang in there” with hope of a return to warmer relations. We’ve compiled a sample of this outpouring of support from 25 U.S. States.

Lt. Colonel David Mitson, USAF Retired, and Janet Mitson, Chugiak, Alaska
It is heartbreaking that you — our treasured international neighbours — have been swept into the …

By Lauren Goode

Last week, Canadian prime minister Mark Carney declared that the “old relationship” his country had with the United States was “over,” and it’s “clear the US is no longer a reliable partner.” Carney’s comments came after the US announced sweeping new tariffs on Canada and President Donald Trump spent months making inflammatory comments that have alarmed Canada’s leaders, including suggestions that the country would be “better off” if it was annexed by …

March 18, 2025
Iqaluit, Nunavut

Now more than ever, we need to reaffirm Canadian sovereignty by strengthening our military, bolstering our Arctic security, and unleashing the North’s economic potential.

Prime Minister Carney was today in Iqaluit, Nunavut, to announce initiatives in partnership with Inuit leaders to build the Nunavut economy and strengthen Canadian security and sovereignty in the Arctic.

First, Prime Minister Carney announced that Canada intends to partner with Australia to develop advanced Over-the-Horizon …

By Christl Dabu

Canadian comedian Mike Myers has joined Liberal Leader Mark Carney in encouraging Canadians to put their “elbows up” in a new video ad for the Liberals.

The hockey expression has taken off as a national slogan to express unity among Canadians and defiance against both U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs war and his threats to annex the country and make it the 51st U.S. state.

The Liberals posted the video -- titled …

By Geoff Leo

Joshua Haldeman was just one of thousands of Saskatchewan farmers who lost their land in the drought of the Dirty '30s.

While that trauma shaped the lives of everyone who went through it, the crisis affected Haldeman in an exceptional way — he never stopped raging at what he perceived were the causes of the Great Depression.

“He would remain leery of financial institutions and other bureaucracies throughout his life, a sentiment …

By Amir Ali

A strata and homeowner found themselves in a Civil Resolution dispute after the homeowner was fined for using his vacuum.

According to the tribunal’s decision, the homeowner maintains a common patio next to his lot with a shop vacuum. The homeowner said the strata initially imposed $1,400 in fines against him, alleging that he violated noise bylaws.

When he made his submissions, he claimed that the strata’s fines totalled over $9,000. The …

Canadians…. Support great Green MPs in close races against Conservatives.. in Saanich-Gulf-Islands (Elizabeth May), in Nanaimo-Ladysmith (Paul Manly), in Kitchener Centre-Mike Morrice.

Support for GREEN is always good!

Neil Young

By Jasmine Mooney

There was no explanation, no warning. One minute, I was in an immigration office talking to an officer about my work visa, which had been approved months before and allowed me, a Canadian, to work in the US. The next, I was told to put my hands against the wall, and patted down like a criminal before being sent to an Ice detention center without the chance to talk to a lawyer.

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By Peter Zimonjic

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative released its annual list of global trade barriers Tuesday, and it includes Quebec's controversial language law Bill 96 as a trade irritant between the two countries.

The nearly 400-page National Trade Estimate Report lists in almost encyclopedic detail all of the tariff and non-tariff barriers present in countries that import U.S. goods and services.

While the report is a catch-all of trade irritants compiled by …

Q: What’s the difference between Canada and the U.S.?

A: The U.S. has a good neighbor

By Fred Lambert

Tesla has been banned from upcoming federal EV rebate programs in Canada as the government freezes the suspicious $43 million in rebates that Tesla claimed days before the program was paused earlier this year.

Earlier this month, it was reported that Tesla claimed $43 million in government rebates from the iZEV federal EV rebate program in Canada just a few days before the program was paused due to a lack of funds.

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By David Coletto and Allan Gregg, Contributors

When the federal election campaign was underway, the Star invited two eminent pollsters — David Coletto of Abacus Data and Allan Gregg of Earnscliffe Strategies — to discuss what they’ve learned from the election results. Here’s what they had to say:

Allan Gregg: Are you looking at Canadian sociopolitical culture differently today than you did before this campaign started?

David Coletto: I think for me it was a …

By Matina Stevis-Gridneff

Canadians are going to the polls. Here’s the latest.
Canadians are voting on Monday in a deeply consequential election that will decide who the country’s next leader will be, its response to President Trump’s threats and the shape of its economic future at a time of global turmoil.

Pre-election opinion surveys showed the Liberal Party led by Prime Minister Mark Carney with a slight advantage over the Conservative Party and its leader, …

By Lois Beckett

Worried that Donald Trump’s policies are scaring away Canadians, a key segment of its tourist industry, a California resort city has put up “Palm Springs Loves Canada” signs across its downtown.

“It was a gesture to let our Canadian visitors know that what happens in Washington DC, is not the way that Palm Springs is looking at Canada,” Ron deHarte, the city’s mayor, said of the signs, which were installed on Friday.

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By Steffi Fillingham

When I was a kid, we didn’t have chat rooms, we didn’t have computers, we didn’t have mobile phones, we didn’t have internet.

We had hardwired home phones with long cords if we were lucky. If we weren’t lucky, the phones were attached to the wall in the middle of the kitchen and the farthest you could get away from anyone nearby was about three feet. So, you whispered plans to meet …

By Rebecca Falconer

Canada has updated its travel advisory for the U.S. following the Trump administration's immigration crackdown.

The big picture: The update on a registration rule for visitors to the U.S. comes after several European nations changed their advisories in response to Trump administration rollbacks on transgender rights and as Canadians and other foreign nationals have been detained by U.S. immigration authorities over travel visa issues.

The new interim rule — set to take …

Quick Fact

The Arctic region is central to Canada’s national identity, prosperity, and security. The Canadian Arctic covers 40 par of Canada’s territory and more than 70 per cent of its coastline.

Mark Carney Announces Plans for Arctic Canada:

Canada intends to partner with Australia to develop advanced Over-the-Horizon Radar technology. This partnership will include developing Canada’s Arctic Over-the-Horizon Radar system, an investment of more than $6 billion that will provide early warning radar coverage …

By Anjuli Patil

A Halifax-based folk music duo say police who pulled them over on an Ohio highway earlier this month accused them of having drugs in their rental car and questioned them about their allegiance in a strange interaction that lasted nearly an hour, but police say the traffic stop has been misrepresented.

Sisters Cassie and Maggie MacDonald of the group Cassie and Maggie were driving a rental car on Interstate 70 and were …