A view of Lake Ontario from 'Lake America'
As the trade war heats up and the Trump administration continues to lob insults at Canada, Catherine Cullen travels across the border to a v...
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20 of 123 episodesCanada's chief negotiator reveals why U.S. talks failed
In an exclusive interview with The House and her first since talks collapsed, Canada’s chief trade negotiator to the U.S. Janice Charette si...
U.S. talks collapse, trade war escalates
Fifty per cent U.S. tariffs on billions of dollars of Canadian goods have now taken effect and Prime Minister Mark Carney is vowing dollar-f...
In the heart of B.C.’s wildfire crisis
As wildfires continue to burn out of control in B.C., guest host Chris Walker follows Conservative MP Dan Albas, whose riding includes the e...
What a viral AI-written speech reveals about Canadian politics
After a provincial politician in New Brunswick made international headlines for delivering a speech containing obvious AI prompts, and as th...
Why Canada's in a food processing pickle
Canada is known around the world for high quality crops, but advocates estimate the country is missing out on a $25 billion industry by not...
Trump's 'clearly a bully.' Will Canada hit back?
Prime Minister Mark Carney met with all of Canada’s premiers in Charlottetown on Thursday to discuss how best to respond to Donald Trump’s l...
Canadian wildfires rage — and so do U.S. Republicans
Wildfire evacuations can spike with a moment’s notice, but is this country equipped to handle it? Federal Minister of Emergency Management E...
Is Canada losing too much of its farmland?
The House’s summer season focus on food security continues with a deep dive into the pressures on farmland — and the people who grow our foo...
Alberta's pipeline: Slick politics or crude compromise?
Alberta has formally proposed a pipeline to the southwest coast of British Columbia, in partnership with the federal government and a privat...
Love It or List It, 24 Sussex
It's a week that embodied Carney's "build, baby, build" mantra. We started with the federal government announcing it will push to have three...
Canada's fentanyl czar pushes back on U.S. claims
Opioid overdose deaths are dropping in Canada, but there is still a long way to go. Canada’s Fentanyl Czar Kevin Brosseau is fresh back from...
Canada vs. Social Media
The federal government has unveiled the newest iteration of its online harms bill — legislation that proposes to ban children under 16 from...
Is Carney's strategy truly 'AI For All'?
After a long wait, Canada's AI strategy has arrived — a document that encourages people to learn and adopt the technology in the hopes of cr...
Canada's making it rain on defence. Who gets the money?
The House is on the ground at the country’s biggest defence and security show, for an in-depth look at Canada’s plan to spend big on the mil...
Alberta calls a referendum on holding a referendum
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has a plan: Hold a referendum in October to decide whether to push for a legally binding referendum on indepe...
Ottawa and Alberta pencil in a pipeline date
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and Prime Minister Mark Carney have made another stride in their important MOU: A new carbon pricing agreemen...
What the heck is going on in Alberta?
Alberta is experiencing a political earthquake after the provincial NDP claimed they had a video showing a separatist organizer showing peop...
What Ottawa's economic update means for your wallet
This week, the Carney government released its first spring economic update — which painted a better-than-expected picture of Canada's financ...
Bonus: How is Canada weathering economic uncertainty?
As Prime Minister Mark Carney fleshes out his vision for how Canada might weather economic uncertainty with the government’s spring economic...