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Justin Trudeau’s ears must have perked up smartly — assuming he does in fact have ears under those increasingly shaggy locks — when the new U.S. president addressed a digital conference on European security. “America,” quoth Joe Biden , ...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gave a press briefing from his front doorstep on Tuesday. It was the familiar message: Ottawa is doing everything in its power to protect Canadians. Frontline workers are heroes. Yes things are tough, but if we can ...

Joe Biden has a problem on his hands, other than the man in the White House who refuses to behave himself or go away. Biden has too much power. It’s not an issue that was evident in November, when Democrats managed to seize the presidency but ...

For the first time in what seems a lifetime it’s possible to peruse the contents of the New York Times without the impression Donald Trump is the only newsworthy item on the face of the earth. From the very beginning of the soon-to-be-former ...

Given the Trudeau government’s obsession with secrecy — pretty much everything short of the prime minister’s sock choice is covered by cabinet confidentiality — we’ll probably never know whether he got advance warning that a sweet old lady in ...

There are two occasions on which politicians can be counted to call for “bold” action. One is when they’re in opposition and in no danger of having to follow through on their demands. The other is when they’re in power and eager to push through ...

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s Monday economic update was a triumph for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. In committing Canada to unprecedented levels of debt-financed spending, now and in the future, Trudeau fixes the agenda not only for his ...

One of the big attractions of idyllic rural retreats is that most other people can’t afford them. The Earl Spencer certainly knows this. Undoubtedly much of the allure of the vacation property the earl bought in Ontario’s Muskoka cottage ...

The best scene in the fourth episode of the latest instalment of “The Crown” — other than when the Queen tears yet another strip off her hopeless oldest child — is the one in which some hapless advisor tells Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher that ...

There can be no doubt that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Liberals are as delighted by the defeat of Donald Trump as most other Canadians, even if the U.S. president has to be dragged kicking and screaming from the White House, clutching his ...