Canada's seemingly breakneck effort to replace its aging submarine fleet hits an important milestone on Monday with the deadline for both the South Korean and German shipyards to submit their formal proposals in the more than $20-billion program.

The federal plan to buy as many as 12 submarines for the Royal Canadian Navy has evolved rapidly over the last year into one of the most consequential procurement battles in a generation.

It is a contest that will shape the navy's undersea reach, Canada's Arctic posture and the country's industrial alliances for decades.

Longtime Formula One race fan Paul Mann was in a bind.

The Oakville, Ont., man had snapped up nine three-day passes to the 2025 Canadian Grand Prix — $840 each — directly from race organizers. But when his wife broke her leg skiing and others backed out, Mann was left holding seven pricey passes he couldn't use.

So he turned to StubHub to sell them.

Mann did exactly what StubHub told him to do, uploading the tickets to the site as directed.

But when they sold, the money didn't come.

Instead of getting the more than $6,000 he was owed, StubHub refused to pay — and then hit him with an additional $3,200 penalty, accusing him of failing to deliver the tickets he'd already uploaded to the site.

The Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal is organized by Grand Prix Du Canada.

In an email to Go Public, a spokesperson for the organization says tickets "can be transferred through our official channels; however, resale on unauthorized third-party platforms such as StubHub is not permitted."

During his short tenure as Canada's interim parliamentary budget officer, Jason Jacques endured accusations of partisanship, criticism over his message delivery and, in the end, praise for representing an institution now ranked first among its international equals.

Appointed in September by Prime Minister Mark Carney to sit in the chair until a permanent parliamentary budget officer (PBO) could be appointed, Jacques decided early that he wanted his six months to have an impact.

On his first day he asked the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) to undertake its very first review of Canada's Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer to see how it measures up to similar institutions in other countries. The review looked at the office itself — which provides independent financial analysis to Parliament — rather than individual officers.

That review, delivered last week, ranked the PBO first out of the 35 countries the OECD evaluated. Second on the list is the U.S. Congressional Budget Office, third is the Bureau for Economic Analysis in the Netherlands.

Brent crude jumped 10 per cent to about $80 US a barrel over the counter on Sunday, oil traders said, while analysts predicted that prices could climb as high as $100 US after U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran plunged the Middle East into ​a new war.

The global oil benchmark has rallied this ​year and reached $73 US a barrel on Friday for its highest since July, buoyed by growing concern over the potential attacks that arrived a day later. Futures ​trading is closed over the weekend.

"While the military attacks are themselves supportive ⁠for oil prices, the key ⁠factor here is the closing of the ‌Strait of Hormuz," said Ajay Parmar, director of energy and refining at ICIS.

A former senior Canadian general says it's highly likely some Canadian military members, on exchange with the United States, would have been involved at some level in the planning and co-ordination of air strikes on Iran — something the Department of National Defence disputes.

Prime Minister Mark Carney has said he supports U.S. actions to destroy Iran's nuclear program. On Saturday, speaking in Mumbai during his four-day visit to India, he said Canada as a country is not participating militarily and that the federal government was "not party to the military buildup or planning."

His statement, however, did not specifically address the fate of exchange officers currently serving with the U.S. military.

The Department of National Defence website shows that as many as 18 military personnel with the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) are attached to Operation Foundation, working at the U.S. Fifth Fleet headquarters in Bahrain and at the Combined Aerospace Operations Center (CAOC) at Al Udeid airbase in Qatar.

New research using drug-checking results could provide an insight into why toxic drug death tolls have been on a downward trend for two years now in B.C.

But scientists and officials say there are likely multiple factors behind exactly why the number of drug-related deaths in B.C. dropped by 21 per cent in 2025 compared to the previous year.

Though the number of overdose deaths have been dropping sharply across North America, those working in the field say there's no reason to celebrate given thousands continue to die, and efforts to stop deaths should be stepped up.

"It's not necessarily a decline in the crisis itself. The drug supply is still as toxic and unpredictable as ever, if not more so," said Samuel Tobias, a researcher at the B.C. Centre on Substance Use and PhD candidate at the University of British Columbia.

This time it was Hilary Knight's turn to provide a big laugh, with an assist from the Saturday Night Live writers, in the wake of a weeklong dust-up involving the United States women's and men's Olympic gold medal-winning hockey teams.

Knight, the U.S. women's captain, along with teammate Megan Keller and men's team brothers Jack and Quinn Hughes, made a surprise appearance during Heated Rivalry star Connor Storrie's opening monologue on SNL on Saturday night.

The U.S. women, who also beat Canada 2-1 in overtime three days earlier, politely declined Trump's invitation due to travel plans. The players travelled commercially and returned to North America late Monday evening, well after the men, who travelled on a charter flight paid for by the NHL and NHL Players' Association.

I have my doubts this will actually lead to anything, but I figured a number of people here would be interested in signing this.

I’m sure the separatists movement is really happy about this one.

First Nations chiefs across Alberta unanimously passed a vote of non-confidence in the Alberta government this week, citing concerns around the separatist movement and a failure to meet their treaty responsibilities.

In a news release, the Assembly of Treaty Chiefs of Treaty No. 6, Treaty No. 7, Treaty No. 8 said the provincial government, governed by the United Conservative Party, has repeatedly shown a lack of understanding and respect for its treaty responsibilities, demonstrating its “inability to responsibly and respectfully govern the province of Alberta."

“We have to put [the government] on notice that this is completely unacceptable,” Trevor Mercredi, grand Chief of Treaty 8 First Nations of Alberta, told CBC News.

(That day was February 26, 2026)

The vote was 50 against. 37 in favour.

Names, districts, and email addresses of all MLAs voting 'yea' included

I know it is a Saskatchewan thing but hey thought I would advertise it here.

Canada's energy minister says the country is poised to become one of the world's biggest suppliers of liquefied natural gas, exporting as much as 100 million tonnes per year.

Tim Hodgson delivered that optimistic outlook to a parliamentary committee earlier this month, noting that countries such as Japan, South Korea, China and India all want Canadian gas.

"If we deliver, as we hope proponents would deliver, up to 100 million tonnes per annum, that would make us one of the largest suppliers of LNG in the world," he said.

Hitting that goal would require more than just the LNG projects currently underway — which at full capacity would provide less than 50 million tonnes for export each year.

Turns out Alberta’s blue lakes freeze into a canvas unlike any other this New York artist has ever seen or worked with.

The truth is that homes deliver enormous non‑financial value — stability, community, belonging. Those are reasons to buy. But as financial assets, they come with structural constraints: They are expensive to maintain, difficult to trade, impossible to diversify, and usually purchased with significant leverage. The investment component is real but volatile, and its return path can be long and uneven. For home buyers now facing losses, this is not an individualized failure. It is the predictable outcome of society promoting an undiversified, illiquid, highly leveraged asset as if it were the ultimate life goal.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/commentary/article-the-myth-of-homeownership-as-an-investment-is-wreaking-untold-damage/