Canada
Madness, mutiny and murder in the Canadian Arctic
As great ship-stuck-in-ice-disasters go, that of the Karluck in 1913 has few equals in its quest of a polar Atlantis
Why would Canada want to hitch itself to the EU?
“Canada has what the world wants,” Mark Carney likes to tell people. But what does Canada want? The European Union,…
Mark Carney is the true King of the North
Mark Carney never much liked Brexit. As the Bank of England’s governor during the 2016 referendum, Carney was limited in…
Why stop at Lake America?
The Irish Rovers sang about the biggest mixup that you have ever seen: he was christened David Anthony, but still…
Mark Carney is running out of excuses
So close, and yet so far. Only last week, Canada and the US were finally on the cusp of reaching…
Trump’s tariff wars are a godsend to the Democrats
Donald Trump was revved up for his Freedom 250 Grand Prix auto race, which took place in downtown Washington yesterday.…
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…
