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The Canada flag flies atop the Peace Tower on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Friday, May 5, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

Ottawa failed to enforce its own Indigenous contracting rules, procurement watchdog finds

Ombud says Ottawa is being ‘disingenuous’ in boasting about how much work it directs to such ventures

Bill Curry

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Canadian soldiers from North Shore (New Brunswick) Regiment, 37 Canadian Brigade Group patrol past one of the satellite relay domes of the NORAD Shingle Point North Warning System facility, Yukon, on March 5, 2025. The patrol was part of Operation NANOOK-NUNALIVUT '25, a multi-national operation with the United States and NATO allies. Gavin John/The Globe and Mail

Canada’s military spending officially hits 2% of GDP, NATO says

Carney touts defence spending as percentage of its economic output is now highest ‘since the fall of the Berlin Wall’

Steven Chase

3 min read

US B1 Lancer bombers get ready for departure while parked on the apron at RAF Fairford, England, Thursday, March 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

Trump pushes for deal as Iran says peace plan is ‘one-sided and unfair’

U.S. President describes the Iranians as ‘great negotiators’ but says he was not sure he was ‘willing to make a deal with them to end the war’

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Edward Rogers, Chairman of the Toronto Blue Jays, at a press conference on April 14, 2025. The Blue Jays signed a contract extension will see first baseman Vladimir Guerrero Jr. earn $500 million over 14 years. (Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail)

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Edward Rogers tries to deny payments to Larry Tanenbaum in dispute over mother’s estate

The two men, business partners in the MLSE sports empire, have sparred in the past

Irene Galea

6 min read

Toronto FC take on the New York Red Bulls during their home opener at BMO Field in Toronto on March 14, against the back drop of the development of a new stand being built for the World Cup.

FIFA cancelling thousands of hotel bookings in host cities, including Vancouver and Toronto

Roughly 15,000 nights worth of bookings cancelled in Vancouver, BC Hotel Association says

Jesse Winter

3 min read

Doctor Hasnain R. Dewji of ABC Dental, (centre) treats a young patient alongside dental assistants Cindy Gonglaves (left) and Laura Robillard (right) at the Frame Lake Family Dental clinic in Yellowknife, NWT. Dr. Dewji is a Certified Specialist in Pediatric Dentistry and has travelled with his team from British Columbia to Yellowknife as demand grows in the territories' capital. Captured on November 28th, 2025. Tate Juniper/The Globe and Mail

Tulita, Northwest Territories photographed by drone on November 8th, 2025. Tate Juniper/The Globe and Mail

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How the Northwest Territories became a dentistry desert

Many residents must travel far for service – or suffer without

Tavia Grant, Claire McFarlane and Photography by Tate Juniper

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President of the International Olympic Committee Kirsty Coventry delivers a speech at the closing ceremony of the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics. The eligibility policy that will apply from the LA Olympics in July, 2028, 'protects fairness, safety and integrity in the female category,' the IOC said.

Transgender women athletes banned from female events at Olympics

New IOC eligibility policy will apply from the Los Angeles Games in July, 2028

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An Air Canada Express plane takes off behind a memorial for Air Canada Jazz pilot Antoine Forest, who perished when his plane collided with an emergency vehicle at New York's LaGuardia Airport, in Montreal, on Wednesday, March 25, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christinne Muschi

A memorial in Montreal for Air Canada Jazz pilot Antoine Forest, who perished when his plane collided with an emergency vehicle at New York's LaGuardia Airport.

Air Canada CEO ‘deeply saddened’ his lack of French proficiency has caused distraction

Michael Rousseau apologizes for English-only condolence video that he says took attention away from those affected by Sunday’s plane crash

Eric Atkins, Nicolas Van Praet and Maura Forrest

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Tech billionaires are alienating neighbours in Toronto’s idyllic Wychwood Park

For more than a century, the Toronto enclave has managed its own affairs discreetly. But as corporate types move in, new tensions are emerging

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Ottawa proposes election bill that takes aim at deepfakes, long ballots

A sign directs a voter to a polling station in Calgary on Monday, April 28, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh

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Ottawa plans $1.7-billion boost in housing transfers to provinces, territories

Bill Curry

A home for sale in Toronto on February 4, 2026. (Sammy Kogan/The Globe and Mail)

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Ontario’s psychology regulator faces calls to scrap proposed training changes

Kristy Kirkup

A group of psychologists, psychological associates, psychology graduate students and community members march to Queen's Park as they rally against proposed changes to lower Ontario's psychology training standards in Toronto on December 6, 2025. (Sammy Kogan/The Globe and Mail)

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Former Taiwan presidential hopeful Ko Wen-je jailed for bribery

James Griffiths

Taiwan's former Taipei mayor and 2024 presidential candidate Ko Wen-je leaves the Taipei District Court on March 26.

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B.C. pension manager BCI lays off staff in private equity division under new leadership

James Bradshaw

A Float Plane crosses the inner harbour in front of Parliment in Victoria British Columbia. November 20th 2023

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Canadian keeper Dayne St. Clair banks on the Messi effect helping him at World Cup

Paul Attfield

Dayne St. Clair (97) walks with Lionel Messi (10) and teammates after an Inter Miami match earlier this month. St. Clair said that playing on Messi's team has put a World Cup-like spotlight on the group, which will help him come this summer's tournament.

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New BRP CEO sees no ‘point to make changes’ after strong year-end results

Workers place the decal on their ski-doo on the assembly line making snowmobiles at BRP Inc., in Valcourt, Quebec, October 8, 2020. (Christinne Muschi /The Globe and Mail)

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Alberta health authority trying to recoup millions it paid MHCare for drugs never delivered

Carrie Tait and Tom Cardoso

An Alberta Health Services sign is pictured outside the Rockyview General Hospital in Calgary, Thursday, March 20, 2025.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh

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Pressure mounts on Congress to end shutdown that’s led to airport delays and missed paycheques

Travelers wait in a TSA line, Wednesday, March 25, 2026, at LaGuardia Airport in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

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Toronto chef Eva Chin’s neo-Chinese concept mixes traditional and modern techniques

‘Microrestaurant’ Yan Dining Room is located at the back of Hong Shing, a 29-year-old Chinatown restaurant

Daniel Reale-Chin

Chef Eva Chin uses local, seasonal ingredients – such as homegrown vegetables from elders selling produce along Spadina Avenue – and works with Broadfork Produce, a wholesale market that delivers products from farms across Southern Ontario.

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Life’s milestones mean tax savings – if you plan properly

Tim Cestnick

Financial save money for wedding. Prepare for marriage expenses

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Nobody’s baby: What makes Justin Bieber’s latest career revival different

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - FEBRUARY 01: Justin Bieber performs onstage during the 68th GRAMMY Awards at Crypto.com Arena on February 01, 2026 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)

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Survivor 50 episode 5 recap: Open Wounds

Amber Dowling and Rebecca Tucker

“Open Wounds” –Tensions flare after Tribal Council when one castaway’s self-proclaimed “temper tantrum” rubs some members of their tribe the wrong way. Pictured: Ozzy Lusth. Photo: Robert Voets/CBS ©2025 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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If young men embrace the manosphere, we’re in more trouble than we realize

Marsha Lederman

Louis Theroux, right, interviews Nicolas Kenn De Balinthazy, an influencer who goes by Sneako, for the Netflix documentary Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere.

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Opinion

April 3, 2025 — People walk up and down Main Mall with Flagpole Plaza in the background on the UBC Vancouver campus. (Isabella Falsetti/The Globe and Mail)

Ottawa hasn’t learned its lesson on immigration

New restrictions have caused a big drop in study permits, but the Auditor General’s report shows a system where enforcement is laughably lax

The Editorial Board

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Lots of other countries have charters of rights. None has anything like the notwithstanding clause

Andrew Coyne

7 min read

We must stop the scourge of prediction-market gambling coming to Canada

Rachel Wasserman

We should think critically about the benefits and consequences of allowing Canadians to participate in prediction markets.

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Decency is dying under Donald Trump – and that matters, for democracy

Robyn Urback

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Air Canada’s CEO once again misses the boat on bilingualism

Konrad Yakabuski

4 min read

Mark Shapiro won’t say it, but Jays fans should believe this is their year

Cathal Kelly

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If young men embrace the manosphere, we’re in more trouble than we realize

Marsha Lederman

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The McIlvenna Bay project, a greenfield mine in Saskatchewan’s Flin Flon Greenstone Belt that is projected to commence commercial copper-zinc-gold-silver production in mid-2026, has benefited from being located in a mining-friendly jurisdiction.

Eldorado shareholder L1 Capital urges board to call off Foran deal, says it will vote against it

Niall McGee

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An oil and gas lobby group says the federal government's proposed emission cap on the sector combined with its stringent targets for methane reduction could reduce Canada's non-oilsands fossil fuel production by one million barrels per day by 2030. A pumpjack draws out oil from a well head near Calgary, Alta., Saturday, Sept. 17, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh

Ottawa and Alberta agree on methane-emissions reduction plan

Jeffrey Jones

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Many Canadians don’t shop around for their mortgage. Choosing what’s familiar costs them

Hanif Bayat breaks down the cost of defaulting to traditional lenders in the mortgage market

Hanif Bayat

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Ross McCredie, CEO and chairman of Sutton Group, left, and Michael Liebowitz, president and CEO of Douglas Elliman Inc., at the signing ceremony in Aspen, Colo.

Sutton Group brings new luxury real estate banner to Canada

Shane Dingman

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A grocery store in Toronto in 2022. Several years ago, inflationary pressures came from widespread supply constraints that were related to pandemic-era shutdowns.

Worried about rising inflation? These Goldman Sachs economists aren’t

David Berman

4 min read

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Carolyn Ireland

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As gas prices soar, which loyalty programs should you turn to for relief?

Barry Choi

4 min read

Fog hangs over the skyline of Montreal on Jan. 1, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes.

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What’s in it for Canada in the new global defence bank? It may not be what you think

Kevin Yin

4 min read

A Porter passenger plane taxis on the runway at the Billy Bishop Airport, on Monday,

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LaGuardia collision offers Doug Ford a cautionary tale about expanding Toronto’s Billy Bishop Airport

Rita Trichur

4 min read

The doors to the Ontario Securities Commission hearing rooms in Toronto on December 12, 2019.
(Melissa Tait / The Globe and Mail)

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Are we steering Canadians toward private markets at their very peril?

J. Ari Pandes

4 min read

Life & Culture

Nobody’s baby: What makes Justin Bieber’s latest career revival different

Singer’s surprising Grammy appearance showed an artist returning to the stage on his terms

Brad Wheeler

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Survivor 50 episode 5 recap: Open Wounds

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At the museum, women directors face the glass cliff

Kate Taylor

Anne Pasternak speaks onstage during the 2024 Brooklyn Artists Ball at Brooklyn Museum on April 9, 2024.

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Canadian Daniel Roher’s The AI Doc uneasily balances tech cheer and apocalyptic fear

Barry Hertz

A still from The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist. The documentary includes an interview with OpenAI’s Sam Altman.

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Toronto chef Eva Chin’s neo-Chinese concept mixes traditional and modern techniques

Daniel Reale-Chin

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An employee works at a plastic film factory in Ansan, South Korea, March 25, 2026. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji

From beer to cosmetics, Asia feels full force of war-fuelled energy crisis

Iran war wreaks havoc on supply chains, plastics and oil supplies, upending everyday life and sending prices soaring

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Governor-General Adrienne Clarkson admits Hugh Windor to the Order of Canada.

Globe journalist Hugh Winsor revealed the power dynamics at work on Parliament Hill

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A man restocks supplies in the St. Stephen's Community House in Toronto's Kensington Market neighbourhood, in 2019.

Ontario should restore funding for supervised drug-use sites, former Toronto mayors say

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People congregate outside the Supreme Court of Canada as the court hears appeals regarding Quebec’s secularism law (Bill 21) in Ottawa.

Quebec’s Bill 21 is being heard before the Supreme Court. Here’s what you need to know

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A mountainside is covered with snow along the Coquihalla Highway south of Merritt, B.C., on November 22, 2021. A portion of the highway was closed on Wednesday, March 25, 2026, due to heavy snow that created dangerous driving conditions. (FILE PHOTO) THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Parts of southwestern B.C. get walloped by heavy snowfall

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Lit only by a headlamp, Jay Pennell uses a net to dip for glass eels on the Gold River near Wasoqopa’q First Nation's Gold River reserve on the South Shore of Nova Scotia on April 25. Pennell is a legal Mi'kmaq elver fisher operating in co-operation with the DFO system that transferred half the elver quota to Indigenous groups this fishing season. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darren Calabrese

Split quota continues between Indigenous, commercial harvesters for contentious baby eel fishery

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