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Hundreds of cars parked in a lot with containers and cranes in the background.

Why cheap Chinese EVs may cost Canada more in the long run

Four soldiers climbing snowy steps carrying gear from a boat.

Why Greenland doesn’t want Trump’s America

A large crowd waving flags on a downtown Montreal street.

It’s time for Canada to stand with the people of Iran

Protesters gathered around a bonfire.

Canada must be ready for Iran’s democratic turning point

People in silhouette, some with arms up and holding signs, appear behind a Canadian flag.

What public opinion tells us about the political outlook for 2026

A woman holds a lit candle with signs that say “Save the CDC” and “CDC saves lives.”

Canada can’t rely on U.S. health and food safety as Trump dismantles agencies

Putin and Trudeau sitting in easy chairs with strained smiles as they shake hands.

How Canada can navigate its Russia dilemma in a multipolar era

Four men in suits on a gangplank admiring a submarine.

South Korea just changed the game and Canada needs its own grand bargain

The ‘Team Canada’ approach to Trump’s tariffs sounds good but exposes weakness

Donald Trump speaking in front of an American flag.

Canada’s response to Trump tariff threats risks unintended consequences

A line graph showing 54 per cent of young people think they are worse off than their parents at the same age versus 25 per cent who think they are better off.

Five public-opinion trends to watch in 2025

Gould passes a thick stack of papers to a white man with dark hair and a beard dressed in a black suit. Gould is standing in the first row of desks, where several other people are sitting. She is white with glasses and long light-brown hair pulled back in an elastic. Her turtleneck is white with sleeves that reach her elbows. Her pants are black. The room has olive-green carpet, wood panelling and soft lighting.

A surgical way to salvage the fall economic statement

Two men in white medical coats, shirts and pants pass something not seen between them as they stand in a park next to the hospital, a two-storey building whose windows have been blown out. One man has blood spatters on his coat; the other has a large blood stain that takes up most of the back of his shirt. All around them, a crowd of people are in motion, lifting, passing, looking down. Debris covered most of the ground. Several tall trees are missing most of their trunks and branches.

The dangerous rise of “might makes right”

The billboard sits on a post on a sidewalk of a street with tall buildings on one side, lower buildings on the other, with leafless-trees lining both sides. It’s evening, with one person on the sidewalk. The billboard pictures a young man in a dark blue military uniform with gold epaulets and about nine medals pinned to his chest.

Russia’s propaganda machine is running roughshod in Canada

About 10 young men and boys sit at tables of sewing machines, feeding fabric into them. Piles of fabric are heaped on the floor. The walls are pink, and a dirty tarp is pinned up in an opening in the wall.

Canada is implementing a forced-labour import ban. Will it help exploited workers?

Trump vs. democracy itself

A map of Alaska and northern Canada showing the Beaufort Sea at the boundary between them.

Negotiating the Beaufort boundary with the U.S. can serve as an example to the world

Institutions, not international students, are to blame for rising asylum claims

Ukrainian and Canadian flags are in the foreground as the ministers walk in line chatting.

Montreal summit a positive step on road to peace in Ukraine

Canada’s battlegroup in Latvia is too vulnerable to deter a Russian invasion

Canada should be opening more doors to gifted Afghan students, not closing them

Canada needs an immediate strategy for Africa

An older white man and woman sit on a sofa, looking through sheets of paper on a coffee table in front of them. He is using a calculator.

Shooting a fly with an elephant gun: The Bloc’s ultimatum on seniors’ benefits

A badly burned moped.

Device attacks in Lebanon could be harbinger of new era of Trojan horse threats

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