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A referendum. A military tragedy, and a pathetic government response. Plus, a personal update from Matt, and a comment on the ...

On the nature of the separatist movements in Canada today.

It’s been an exceptionally noisy week on the U.S.-Canada front, of course. And while there are no shortage of weird truths and half-truths to pick apart — from the name of Lake Ontario, to the ...

For an aged criminal — and such people exist — even a sentence eligible for parole may well amount to an irreducible one in ...

Carney is the most popular man in both provinces with secession problems. So what will eventually go wrong for him?

In the latest episode of The Line Podcast, Jen Gerson is joined by Andrew Potter to discuss Alberta’s looming separation ...

I have solved the Canadian emergency room crisis. Please send me $47-million. OK, OK, I’ll explain. This week, the Ontario government announced it was spending $47-million over four years to expand a ...

Alberta’s periodic bursts of secessionist sentiment operate a little like the aurora that occasionally flash across the prairie sky, in tune with decades-long solar flare cycles. The phenomenon is ...

The Americans appear to be taking refusal well. In lieu of bending the knee on the trade file, Canada scheduled the implementation of retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods for last Tuesday and then ...

It’s been a political honeymoon like no other, as Mark Carney has continued to defy political gravity for more than a year and a half. Arguably, he’s much more popular now than he was when he saved ...

There is a map that shows up on social media from time to time, and it looks like this. Sometimes it is followed by this one: And then maybe this one: What’s the point of these maps? Apart from noting ...