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A pilot for Canada’s gun buyback was a failure. The Liberals are committing anyway

In the fall, the federal government launched a six-week pilot program to collect firearms it classified as 'prohibited' from licence-holders in...

yesterday 10

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Robyn Urback

Carney needs to be wary of the same old China ‘reset’ mirage

Prime Minister Mark Carney walks to board a plane to depart for China at Vancouver International Airport in Richmond, B.C., on Tuesday. Carlos...

yesterday 10

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Campbell Clark

America had lots of warning about Trump - thousands of years’ worth, in fact

U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks to the Detroit Economic Club at Detroit's MotorCity Casino Hotel on Tuesday. Evan Vucci/The Associated...

yesterday 10

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Gary Mason

Canada’s universities are in crisis as money gets tighter

The St. George campus of the University of Toronto, in November, 2025. U of T admitted 17,758 first-year students last year. Wa Lone/Reuters...

yesterday 10

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Jonathan Malloy

The day my country disappeared from my phone

Some areas of Tehran sustained heavy damage during the ongoing protests in Iran, such as this building shown on Jan. 10. Getty Images/Getty Images...

yesterday 10

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Amir Zadeh

Edmonton’s clear blueprint for density

The city of Edmonton in February, 2023. JASON FRANSON/The Canadian Press Zone it and they will come, and build. That’s the lesson of 2025 from...

yesterday 10

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The Editorial Board

Rebuilding relations with China is a gamble Mark Carney has to take

yesterday 3

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Lawrence Martin

Canada must harden its defensive posture by joining the Joint Expeditionary Force

yesterday 2

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Elisabeth Gosselin-Malo

François Legault set out to bridge Quebec’s divides. He ended up widening them

yesterday 2

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Konrad Yakabuski

The independence of the U.S. Federal Reserve is at stake

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, more than any other single figure, stands in the way of Donald Trump’s desire to bring the Fed under his...

previous day 10

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Andrew Coyne

The controversy ICEd out of the Golden Globes

Sara Murphy, Teyana Taylor, Paul Thomas Anderson and Chase Infiniti at the 83rd Annual Golden Globes in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Sunday. Mario...

previous day 20

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Marsha Lederman

Canada’s next budget bomb is the Alto high-speed rail project

A rendering of the Alto high-speed rail project. Supplied Jerome Gessaroli is a senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute and leads the...

previous day 6

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Jerome Gessaroli

The horror and hope on Iran’s streets

Iranians protest in Kermanshah, Iran on Thursday. KAMRAN/AFP/Getty Images Day after day, throngs of brave Iranians are taking to the streets to...

previous day 10

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The Editorial Board

JPMorgan is ditching shareholder advisory firms in favour of AI. This is a reckoning

Aaron Boles is the president of the shareholder and governance advisory firm Kingsdale Advisors. Corporate governance is entering a new era that...

previous day 10

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Aaron Boles

What has three years of decriminalization of drug possession yielded in B.C.?

A man prepares heroin to be injected at the Insite safe injection clinic in Vancouver in May, 2011. DARRYL DYCK/The Canadian Press On Jan. 31, 2023,...

previous day 10

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André Picard

Carney should drop confrontational approach and seek more trade with China

Prime Minister Mark Carney shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Gyeongju, China, in October, 2025. Justin Trudeau was the last...

previous day 10

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Jacob Cooke

Ottawa’s shutting-out of startup founders is shutting down Canada’s future

Ottawa has shelved the Start-Up Visa Program, founded in 2013. supplied Yung Wu is a serial entrepreneur and the former chief executive of MaRS...

previous day 10

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Yung Wu

The protests in Iran bear echoes of past uprisings. But this time, they feel different

People block a street during a protest in Tehran, Iran, on Friday. MAHSA/AFP/Getty Images Dennis Horak was Canada’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia and...

monday 8

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Dennis Horak

The AI arms race in the job market

Job seekers are increasingly using AI to write applications, while employers are using AI to screen applications. Jenny Kane/The Associated Press...

monday 10

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The Editorial Board

As Iran cracks down on protesters again, the world cannot be silent

Protesters participate in a demonstration in Berlin on Saturday in support of the protests in Iran against the country's government. Ebrahim...

monday 10

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Shirin Ebadi

This will be the real test of Mark Carney’s visit to China

Vina Nadjibulla is vice-president of research and strategy at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. Prime Minister Mark Carney shakes hands with...

monday 10

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Vina Nadjibulla

Why Canada should make a bid to host the United Nations headquarters

The United Nations flag waves on the top of a UN building in Geneva, Switzerland. Markus Schreiber/The Associated Press Mark Raymond is the Wick...

monday 10

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Mark Raymond

The Sunday Editorial: Sorry postsecondary students, tuition needs to rise

Students who have just arrived back at university and college for the new semester need to face a hard truth: they aren’t contributing enough...

11.01.2026 2

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The Editorial Board

Ottawa is dangling money for American researchers. But what about our own?

The McGill University campus in Montreal. Between 2011 and 2019, researchers per 1,000 people employed in Canada dropped from eighth in the OECD to...

11.01.2026 10

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John Turley-Ewart