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This is an excerpt from Ash and Honor: The Untold 368 Minutes of 9/11, by American author Jeffrey Robinson. The book tells the story of the official response to 9/11 by North American authorities. This excerpt, drawn from multiple chapters, focuses on senior Canadian officials. Jean Chrétien, the 67-year-old Canadian prime minister who’d led his…

Hockey has entered into the Canada-U.S. trade war again. Not over tariffs on hockey sticks or President Donald Trump’s AI-generated meme of himself knocking down Prime Minister Mark Carney on the ice, but as part of the conversation surrounding the departure of American-born players from Canadian teams. There hasn’t been a flood of players leaving,…

Shares of Canadian companies that do business with the United States government fell following President Donald Trump’s threat to bar Canadian-origin products from being sold to federal contractors . “From now on, NO RECIPROCITY – NO ACCESS!” Trump said in a social media post Tuesday afternoon, saying Canadian and provincial governments ban U.S. firms from…

Alphabet Inc.’s Google is planning its biggest investment in Europe , an artificial intelligence infrastructure build out worth at least 13 billion euros (US$15.1 billion) in Finland . The investments over the next two years will include the construction of at least three new data centres as well as the expansion of its existing data…

From recovering unpaid debt to saving thousands of workdays, Canada’s biggest banks are racing to use artificial intelligence to improve their financial performance, say their chief executives . Toronto-Dominion Bank chief executive Raymond Chun told investors last year that the lender aims to generate $1 billion in annual value from AI by 2028, but he…

An Ontario man found not criminally responsible twice for stabbing two people in the back multiple times in the span of a decade has been granted a series of day passes even though he’s still deemed a “significant threat to the safety of the public.” Muneeb Ali Ghawar — who has been diagnosed with schizophrenia…

The head of Canada’s largest bank hopes Ottawa can eventually strike a long-term deal with Washington, as United States president Donald Trump escalated the ongoing trade war between the two countries by announcing new tariffs and bans on certain Canadian products. As the trade war expands, more people will pull back their spending, borrow less…

Canada can afford to stick out its escalating trade fight with the United States rather than accept a bad deal since time may ultimately favour the country despite the economic imbalance, says former Canadian ambassador to the United States Frank McKenna . “Time is on our side,” the former New Brunswick premier said. “It’s not…

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Canada-U.S. trade tensions are at a fever pitch after U.S. President Donald Trump unveiled a series of executive orders on Tuesday banning some alcoholic beverages and dairy products from being imported to the United States. Trump’s announcement came in response to Canadian retaliatory tariffs that went into effect this week on nearly…

OTTAWA – The economic impact from U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest series of presidential proclamations targeting trade with Canada will not have significant impact on the Canadian economy, according to economists. “I think the overall effect might be limited,” said Trevor Tombe, economist and professor at the University of Calgary. “Adjusting what products are covered…