2 d. ago John Ivison: How to win a trade war? Appeal to Canadian patience, American self

‘We are confident domestic pressures will create an opportunity to come to an agreement in the interests of both economies that puts us in a better position,’ LeBlanc said

Economics

5 d. ago John Ivison: First Nations gear up to fight Ottawa over a peculiar fuel export deal

Carney will have to decide: Will he acknowledge the Coast Tsimshian’s rights were infringed, and pledge to use his new powers to fix things?

Economics

9 d. ago John Ivison: Ottawa has been asleep at the AI switch. It’s only slowly waking up

Conservatives are not wrong about the importance of IP and data sovereignty, or about the government’s lack of a plan

Other

1 week ago John Ivison: Canada will have to dance with China, but at what cost to the auto industry?

All the signs point to Ottawa offering the Chinese some form of relief on EV tariffs, in exchange for lifting levies on canola, pork and seafood

Economics

2 w. ago John Ivison: The unlikely emerging partnership between Mark Carney and Danielle Smith

The bad news for advocates of more action on climate who are disillusioned with Carney's direction is that things are likely to get worse

Culture

2 w. ago John Ivison: Politics have become too serious for Chrystia Freeland

Freeland was a continuation of the utopian virtue-signalling of a Trudeau era that was less rigorous about results

Politics

2 w. ago John Ivison: Carney’s many promises confront reality, and real opposition, as the House returns

When revealed in all its gory glory, the deficit may be not only substantial but substantially more than last year

Politics

3 w. ago John Ivison: The NDP’s rapidly declining sanity affects us all

New Democrats are at a crossroads. On current evidence, one path leads to further marginalization; the other, to electoral oblivion

Other

3 w. ago John Ivison: Carney gets caught between China and the U.S. over cars and canola

Trump could see the importation of cheap Chinese EVs into Canada as a backdoor into the U.S. market and impose his own tariff on canola

Transport

3 w. ago Farber: Ottawa must lead the way in the fight against antisemitism

The recent stabbing of a local Jewish woman — which is properly being treated as a hate crime — is a harrowing reminder that the threats Jews face are not abstract.

Other

last month John Ivison: Poilievre takes a risk on scrapping temporary foreign workers

From a political perspective, it’s not an obvious win for Poilievre, even if the public is sympathetic to the intent

Society