Prime Minister Mark Carney, right, signs an memorandum of understanding on pipelines with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith in Calgary, Alta., on Nov. 27, 2025.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
The federal government’s deal with Alberta over a pipeline to British Columbia is offside for many reasons — and will deepen divisions among Canadian provinces.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau checks his phone at the United Nations general assembly in New York in September 2022. Politicians face a deluge of online abuse, prompting some to block people from seeing their social media accounts.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
Social media platforms serve as modern public forums where democratic debates take place.
Anti-carbon tax protesters wave signs and chant slogans as they block a westbound lane of the Trans Canada highway near Cochrane, Alta., on April 1, 2024.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
The Ring of Fire Regional Assessment is Canada’s first opportunity to apply new legislative tools to co-operating with Indigenous jurisdictions. But the government is messing up.
