When Jordan Kawchuk started dating an American woman more than a decade ago, he didn’t know he’d end up having an extended family full of Trump supporters.

Muslim leaders are mobilizing their communities to vote in the upcoming federal election, but some say party leaders haven’t done a good job of addressing issues that matter to Muslim Canadians. According to one expert, many politicians see some issues as too divisive to discuss during an election campaign, but Muslims say ignoring them could cost votes as well.

Several communities in Ottawa are mourning a young woman who lost her life in the recent roof collapse of a nightclub in the Dominican Republic. 

Both times, the Trump administration got it wrong, says Pau S. Pujolas, an associate economics professor at McMaster University in Hamilton who wrote the 2024 paper “Trade deficits with trade wars.”