Minister Sidhu speaks with United Kingdom’s Minister of State

October 22, 2025 – Ottawa, Ontario – Global Affairs Canada Today, the Honourable Maninder Sidhu, Minister of International Trade, spoke with Chris Bryant, Minister of State (Minister for Trade) of…

Ontario Liberals have first official leadership contender

TORONTO — The race to become the Ontario Liberals’ next leader has its first official entrant. Dylan Marando, a former political staffer, says on a website launching his bid that…

Minister Sidhu concludes productive trip to Gulf region in United Arab Emirates

January 19, 2026 – Ottawa, Ontario – Global Affairs Canada The Honourable Maninder Sidhu, Minister of International Trade, concluded, on January 13, 2026, his trip to the Gulf region with…

Your City Could Improve Thanks to World War Oil

The American/Israel bombing of Iran and the subsequent closing of the Strait of Hormuz has sent shockwaves around the world, particularly to places that consume fossil fuels. Indeed, the energy…

Canada provides funding to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons to eliminate chemical weapons in Syria

April 22, 2026 – Ottawa, Ontario – Global Affairs Canada Canada is supporting international efforts to identify and eliminate chemical weapons that remain in Syria, to prevent future use. Today,…

Vijay Prashad’s Iran

Vishay Prashad’s Iran: A Response to CounterPunch’s Declaration “Six Non-Negotiable Terms from International Scholars…to End the U.S. War on Iran,” and to the Political Framework That Made It Possible We…

Prime Minister Carney welcomes the appointment of Annette Ryan as Canada’s new Parliamentary Budget Officer

Today, the Prime Minister, Mark Carney, welcomed the appointment of Annette Ryan as Canada’s new Parliamentary Budget Officer. This appointment, which was recently approved by the House of Commons and…

‘Taxpayers,’ ‘Taxeaters,’ and Tax Equity

There is a fascinating phenomenon where people who live paycheque-to-paycheque, surviving on the trickled-down table scraps of unrestrained capitalism, get wildly upset when the obscenely wealthy are asked to pay…

Proposed new criminal justice provisions, veteran services and international student program in the spotlight

What’s on the agenda for the House and Senate committees today. As flagged in iPolitics AM, JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS members are set to hear a final round of expert testimony on…

How ‘re-wilding’ can make Canada’s cityscapes more climate resilient and bee friendly

TORONTO — The laneway beside Adam Barnes’s house is, at first blush, unremarkable within Toronto’s catalogue of backstreets: there are garages, a graffiti-tagged brick wall and a chain-link fence topped…