Canada
A broken bond: Gaining Ground, by Joan Barfoot, reviewed
An absentee mother is tracked down to a remote Canadian cabin and held to account for abandoning her family many years earlier
Legal organ harvesting is just a PR campaign away
Summertime, and the living isn’t as easy as it used to be. The dying, though, is getting easier, especially if…
Abdul el-Sayed’s nasty streak
On the eve of his final debate with Michigan Democratic Senate rival Haley Stevens, Abdul el-Sayed was busted by Politico for declaring at a recent donor meeting: “Ideally…
Trump is smoke-signaling with his forest fire tariff
The latest incursion into American airspace is forest fire smoke from Canada. An invasion, according to President Trump. And the…
What I saw at the Montréal shooting
We were running late to check out of our hotel because my two young girls had demanded to use the…
Alone on a vast fjord, surrounded by whales, beneath the midnight sun
A devotee of the kayak, David Gange delights in paddling small boats in the Faroes, Norway, Greenland, Newfoundland and the Caribbean
Does Mark Carney believe in democracy?
Mark Carney is swaggering about Canada with his new majority government, acting as if he’d just received a landslide mandate…
Will Alberta become the 51st state?
Albertans are very good at keeping things that damage their prosperity out of their province. Take rats, for instance. The…
Will Canada soon be euthanizing babies?
Donald Trump may or may not bomb Iran in the next few days. His cheerleaders will cite the Tehran regime’s…
Lust for gold: White River Crossing, by Ian McGuire, reviewed
In 1766, a small party from the Hudson Bay Company head to the subarctic tundra in search of untold riches
The plight of Peter Attia
The Epstein files, while they still haven’t harpooned their biggest whales, continue to destroy reputations on the side. One of the most…
A sensory awakening: the adventures of a cheesemonger
The high-flying journalist Michael Finnerty takes a break in midlife to learn the art of cheesemaking in Borough Market – and finds himself fleeing a knife-wielding terrorist
When ordinary men did extraordinary things – D-Day revisited
The transporting of 150,000 troops across the Channel in total secrecy and the feats they did that day is a story we never tire of – and Max Hastings tells it exceedingly well
Mark Carney owes his victory to Trump
Congratulations to Donald Trump. It is almost solely thanks to his exertions that Mark Carney, the incarnation of Davos man,…
Conservatives all over the Anglosphere are paying the price for Trump
It is the great good fortune of Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand to be united by a common language,…
Mark Carney won’t be much different to Justin Trudeau
As widely expected, Mark Carney has become the new Liberal party of Canada leader – and will become Canada’s next…
Trump’s move on Canada is as mad as it is insulting
When I visited Toronto with a UK delegation last winter, conversation focused on the issues of immigration, housing and inflation…
How Pierre Poilievre led Canada’s Conservatives back from the wilderness
Ottawa For the past fortnight, Canada’s parliament has been empty. When Justin Trudeau resigned as Liberal leader, he announced a…
Justin Trudeau’s rule could end this week
The next 48 hours could well spell the end of Justin Trudeau. The Canadian Prime Minister – the last major…
The case against assisted suicide
Those in favour of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill insist they’ve addressed critics’ principal concerns and that…
My problem with the American election
In an ideal world, I wouldn’t have chosen an election year for my American book tour. It’s not that I…
A chillingly seductive glimpse of assisted dying
A few weeks ago, I was present when my aunt, a Canadian citizen born in the UK, chose to die…
Whoever imagined that geology was a lifeless subject?
The shifting rocks of Earth’s crust are part of the planet’s ecology just as much as plants and animals, says Marcia Bjornerud – applying to geology the principle of universal connectivity
Why Joni Mitchell sounded different from the start
Polio in childhood weakened her left hand, leaving her to devise alternative tuning, surprising phrasing and ‘chords of inquiry’ that hang like question marks in the air
Even Orwell’s Thought Police didn’t go as far as Trudeau
You’d assume the reaction to the SNP’s new hate crime laws would make other authoritarian governments hesitate before introducing similar…
