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OTTAWA — Federal Justice Minister Sean Fraser says he supports the continuation of birthright citizenship, calling it a bedrock of equal rights, in response to a Conservative MP’s push to end the practice.
“I believe that we should maintain birthright citizenship in Canada, and I don’t know if I can be any more direct than that,” Fraser told reporters on his way to a Liberal caucus meeting on Wednesday.
“I think when you start to pick and choose who amongst Canadians gets the full benefits of citizenship, you obviously enter into a very troublesome conversation. One of the things...
October 8, 2025 - 13:54 | Rahim Mohamed | National Post
A sense of purpose in life sounds like it might be its own reward, but scientists have discovered that older adults who reported such feelings also had a reduced chance of developing dementia as they aged.
The study by researchers at the
University of California Davis
, and reported in the...
October 8, 2025 - 13:47 | Chris Knight | National Post
WASHINGTON, D.C. — With the U.S. arguing that Canada’s digital policy is discriminatory and protectionist, and claiming they harm the business interests of other nations, Canadians may see it as a little bit ironic.
It’s a theme we’ve heard plenty about in reference to U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war, but in this case, it’s the White House’s view of Canada’s Online News Act and Online Streaming Act.
The president claims these Canadian policies are unfairly protectionist and discriminate against U.S. tech firms and streaming giants. Meanwhile, the White House’s aggressive use...
October 8, 2025 - 13:40 | Tracy Moran | National Post
Defence Minister David McGuinty defended a growing partnership with U.S. President Donald Trump’s Golden Dome missile defence system, saying Canada and the United States will have mere minutes to respond the latest generation of incoming threats from “malign state actors.”The minister spoke at a Toronto conference on Canada-U.S. relations one day after Mr. Trump announced that Canada is collaborating with the U.S. on his ambitious and potentially expensive project to connect the U.S.’s air defence systems and expand them, including with new defences in outer space.
October 8, 2025 - 13:35 | Steven Chase | The Globe and Mail
TORONTO — When it comes to Canada’s relationship with the United States, Ontario Premier Doug Ford says “we have to think beyond” Donald Trump’s presidency.
Trump only has three more years in office and “is not going to be around forever,” the premier said while speaking at the U.S.-Canada Summit in Toronto on Wednesday. Ford’s comments come a day after Prime Minister
Mark Carney met with Trump at the White House and left without any...
October 8, 2025 - 13:23 | Courtney Greenberg | National Post
A Winnipeg judge has stayed charges against former fashion mogul Peter Nygard.Nygard’s lawyer had argued in court the charges of sexual assault and unlawful confinement should be stayed because of police bungling.
October 8, 2025 - 13:22 | | The Globe and Mail
