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Publication Date: December 24, 2025 - 04:00
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Sir John A. Macdonald was erased from some public spaces. Now there's a movement to bring him back
December 24, 2025
The racial reckoning of the COVID era saw Canada grapple with its checkered past — a process that led to statues of some foundational figures being removed, in some instances by force. Five years on, there's a growing movement to restore some of what was taken down in that tumultuous period.
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OTTAWA — During the Liberals’ Dec. 11 Christmas party just hours after Conservative MP Michael Ma crossed the floor to the government, soirée hosts James Maloney and Mona Fortier joked to ecstatic attendees that their favourite number was “172”.
That’s the minimum number of MPs a party needs to get a simple majority in the House of Commons. With Ma’s crossing, the Liberals suddenly find themselves one seat away from their favourite number.
With rumours swirling of...
December 29, 2025 - 04:00 | Christopher Nardi | National Post
OTTAWA — If emotions over U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs and his comments about coveting Canada as a “51st state” defined the posture of political leaders towards the cross-border relationship in 2025, business leaders are urging that cool heads prevail in the new year.
With Canada set to begin formal talks with the U.S. over its trilateral agreement with Mexico in January, National Post asked different leaders in business and labour about their hopes for how Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government approaches the deal’s joint review and what lessons elected officials could...
December 29, 2025 - 04:00 | Stephanie Taylor | National Post
The death earlier this week of Annette Dionne, the last surviving sister of the famous quintuplets, is the end of a difficult era, but it is not the end of their story, her nephew says.Brian Callahan’s mother was an older sibling to the Dionne quintuplets. He said in an interview that his aunt, like the other four sisters, was a private person after being in the spotlight for the first 18 years of her life.
December 28, 2025 - 20:55 | Emily Haws | The Globe and Mail
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