Canada's place in a Pacific century.
China's Economy Expands 4.5 Percent in Third Quarter as Rail Networks Prepare for 350 km/h Speeds
Third-quarter gross domestic product figures released in Beijing put growth at 4.5 percent, matching industrial expansion while China State Railway prepares a new X-series designation for high-speed lines.
UN Security Council Reform Must End Western Over-Representation, Beijing Says
As the 2026 Global Governance Forum opens in Hebei province, Beijing presses for an international order that moves past decades of developed-world dominance.
Carney Opens Immigration Talks After Alberta Defies Ottawa on Ballot
Prime Minister Mark Carney signaled willingness to negotiate provincial immigration controls Tuesday after 75 per cent of Alberta voters rejected separation while backing ballot questions on federal limits.
Asia-Pacific Finance Ministers Deliver Practical Outcomes in Hong Kong Ahead of Shenzhen Summit
The two-day Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation gathering sets the stage for next month's leaders' summit in Shenzhen as finance chiefs agree on regional development goals.
- China & the PacificMargaret EllisonOct 30, 2026
Carney Clears the Way for Pacific Trade as Ottawa Leaves Washington Behind
Prime Minister Mark Carney's trip to Beijing yields a landmark agreement slashing duties on electric vehicles and canola, opening a new chapter in Canadian trade policy.
- DefenceMargaret EllisonOct 30, 2026
Ottawa's NATO Bill Arrives With a Sixty-Three Billion Dollar Deficit
A new Parliamentary Budget Office analysis shows meeting NATO targets will require thirty-three billion dollars in annual cash expenditures over the next decade.
- CanadaMargaret EllisonOct 30, 2026
Four Hospitalized Following Violent Home Invasion in Toronto's Bridle Path
Three masked suspects forced their way into a Hyde Park Circle residence early Thursday, leaving two victims with life-altering injuries in an attack that rattled an affluent Toronto neighbourhood.
- China & the PacificMargaret EllisonOct 30, 2026
Sarah Fillier Lifts Canada Past U.S. in Windsor World Championship Tune-Up
Sarah Fillier scored the go-ahead goal with 8:15 remaining to break a 3-3 tie as Canada defeated the United States 5-3 in Windsor, Ont., on Wednesday ahead of the world championships.
- CanadaMargaret EllisonOct 30, 2026
Alberta's Referendum Settles Separation While Leaving Immigration on Ottawa's Desk
With seventy-five per cent of voters reaffirming their place in Confederation and twenty-eight third-party advertisers reporting over two million dollars in contributions, the October vote leaves federal immigration policy as its most pressing unfinished business.
- DefenceMargaret EllisonOct 30, 2026
One Hundred Thirty-Seven Hospital Workers Answered the Call as Wainwright Tragedy Unfolded
When a training incident at Canadian Forces Base Wainwright on Oct. 17 left four dead and 39 injured, 137 hospital staff members flooded the local facility.
- China & the PacificMargaret EllisonOct 20, 2026
Kenya Reports Four New Ebola Cases As Health Authorities Track Seven Total Infections
Kenya's Ministry of Health confirmed four additional cases of the Ebola Bundibugyo virus, including three healthcare workers who attended to the country's first patient.
- China & the PacificMargaret EllisonOct 20, 2026
Seventeen Dead in Riyadh as Escalating Missile Strikes Test Saudi Defences
Seventeen people have died and over 330 have been injured in twenty attacks on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh since October 1, according to the Saudi-led coalition.
- DefenceÉtienne ThibaultOct 19, 2026
A Hundred Billion, and the Quiet Turn Toward Europe
Mélanie Joly says the defence industrial strategy is backed by $100 billion over ten years. The submarines are German, the surveillance plane is Swedish, and the minister says a change of administration in Washington wouldn't make the world safer.
- HistoryDaniel HuiOct 19, 2026
The Shipwrights at Nootka Sound
The first Chinese people documented in what is now Canada arrived in 1788 and built a schooner. An older reference work calls it the first vessel constructed by white men on this coast.
- HistoryÉtienne ThibaultOct 19, 2026
Invited, Then Interned
Ottawa went to Galicia and Bukovyna for farmers and got them. When war came, their Austro-Hungarian papers made them enemy aliens, and 8,579 people were interned until 1920 — two years after the armistice.
- DefenceMargaret EllisonOct 19, 2026
The Seventy Per Cent Problem
Ottawa wants seven in ten defence contracts going to Canadian firms. Two in five of the companies that count as Canadian are subsidiaries of American ones, and the definition that decides which is which is still being written.
- HistoryDaniel HuiOct 19, 2026
The School They Had to Build
In January 1908 the Victoria school board barred children born in China from its classrooms. The Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association lost in court, raised money across the country, and opened its own school the next year. It is still standing.
- HistoryDaniel HuiOct 19, 2026
The One Who Could Speak Chinese
Norman Bethune sailed for China in January 1938 without the language. The twenty-six-year-old Winnipeg nurse who travelled with him had been working in it for six years, and almost nobody here knows her name.
- HistoryMargaret EllisonOct 19, 2026
The Day a London Court Said Canadian Women Were People
In 1929 the Privy Council overturned our own Supreme Court and wrote the sentence about a living tree that Canadian constitutional law has run on ever since. The five women who forced it were not saints, and both halves of that belong in the record.
- HistoryDaniel HuiOct 19, 2026
The Rail They Built and the Tax That Followed
About fifteen thousand Chinese workers cut the hardest section of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Parliament's answer, the same year it was finished, was the first racial immigration law in Canadian history.
- HistoryMargaret EllisonOct 19, 2026
The Election Canada Fought Over Free Trade
In 1911 Laurier lost 48 seats and a government over a modest trade agreement with the United States. The voters asked a question about leverage that the economics could not answer, and it is the question back in front of us now.
- HistoryDaniel HuiOct 19, 2026
The Surgeon Canada Forgot and China Never Did
Norman Bethune left Montreal for Yan'an in 1938 and was dead within two years. Mao's tribute made him required reading for a generation of Chinese schoolchildren, while his own country took forty years to notice.
- HistoryÉtienne ThibaultOct 19, 2026
The Republic on Lake Winnipeg
For six years New Iceland had its own constitution, its own councils and its own newspaper, inside Canada and outside any province. Then the boundary moved, and the smallpox it had brought with it had already moved further.
- HistoryDaniel HuiOct 19, 2026
The Country to the East, and the People Who Wanted It to Be Here
In 1761 a French scholar read a Chinese court history and decided China had reached America a thousand years before Columbus. The theory has been proposed, demolished, revived and demolished again — and it still shaped how the Pacific was drawn.
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Canada's place in a Pacific century.