5 h. ago John Ivison: The sober truth about all those promises provinces made to lower trade barriers

They talk a good game about internal trade but when it comes to the wine and spirits industry, the rhetoric has far outstripped the reality

Economics

4 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 Federal competition watchdog should lead removal of provincial trade barriers, researcher says

Boswell has in recent months been calling for a 'whole-of-government' approach to boosting domestic trade

Economics

6 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

1 week 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 B.C. NDP promises on timber sales seem to be going in reverse

Vaughn Palmer: The province is promising to increase sales, but the actual numbers keeping trending down

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

3 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 New Ontario safety rules welcome after crash, not blanket solution: daycare coalition

The province promised changes Thursday evening after a vehicle drove into a Richmond Hill daycare at pickup time on Wednesday, killing a toddler and several injured.

Events

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