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A close-up photo of a belt of ammunition a soldier is carrying around their neck.

Canada needs more defence autonomy in a less reliable world

A dozen or so women are lined up outside.

U.S. expansion of the global gag rule is a leadership test for Canada

Carney approaches the stone steps at the entrance.

Message to the PM: adult supervision is needed here at home, too

Carney is at the podium. The backdrop is a blue digital illustration of mountains.

That rare moment when a prime minister shapes the country

Canada should spotlight abducted Ukrainian children in peace talks

A half-dozen ministers and advisers stand in a line as Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks at a podium. He is in soft focus and in profile while the others are in focus.

Carney’s deputy minister shuffle raises national security questions

Dozens of ministers stand in a family photo while a dozen photographers jockey for the shot in the foreground.

Can a U.S.-led critical minerals strategy deliver for climate and Canada?

The three of them are standing in a room with at least double-height ceilings. Behind them, the wall is covered in an artwork consisting of intertwined vines with flowers and leaves.

How Canada can put Carney’s Davos speech into action

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

The men are standing in three rows in front of a bank of flags representing many African countries. In front of the three long wooden tables are long rows of potted flowers in light and dark pink blooms. The mean are all in dark western business suits, except one, who wears a white top, pants and flat-top white hat.

As China courts Africa, Canada must rethink its strategy for the continent

A woman fishes in a small shallow channel cutting through a field as her granddaughter dozes off on her back.

Putting women and girls front and centre in climate leadership

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