OTTAWA — The thorny question of whether federally-appointed judges should get a $28,000 to $38,000 raise from Ottawa will now be decided by the Federal Court. Read More

At time of writing early Wednesday afternoon, somewhat to my amazement, newly minted Heritage Minister Marc Miller has not (yet?) apologized for declaring himself “fed up” with the conversation about the state of the French language in Quebec. Read More

Israel dispatched an official to talks in Lebanon as “a first attempt to create a basis for economic relations and cooperation” between the two countries, the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office announced on Wednesday. Read More

OTTAWA — A group of advocates representing voices across civil society and faith communities came together on Wednesday to decry what they called the "ever-expanding" scope of the Liberals' legislation aimed at tackling hate. Read More

As Canadians gear up for the holiday season, many will be taking trips to the United States. Canadian travellers are at the discretion of American border officers, who may ask questions about relationship status, work history and living situation. Read More

Ultimately, officials at the passport office relented when she pushed back. And in a Nov. 29 Instagram post, she said she received her passport with Israel identified as her birth country. Read More

John Irving marches to his own drummer. Hence his methodology when creating a work of fiction. Read More

Newly released pictures and video from Jeffrey Epstein's private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands show what looks to be a dentist's office, several bedrooms and bathrooms, and a partially redacted view of a phone and a blackboard. Read More

A Virginia state-run liquor store was ransacked by a masked bandit on Friday evening, authorities said, leaving a trail of broken spirit bottles strewn across the shop floor. Read More

Three years ago, the legislative assembly of Alberta passed the Alberta Sovereignty Within a United Canada Act. The aim was to solidify the general constitutional principle that provinces are not required to enforce federal law and create a framework for pushing back against federal laws or policies it deems unconstitutional or harmful on the basis that they interfere with provincial jurisdiction or the rights and freedoms of Albertans. Read More

OTTAWA — Canada's largest intelligence watchdog says it will have to make "difficult decisions" due to budget cuts by the Carney Liberals, including reducing staff and the number of annual reviews at a time when national security agencies are getting major funding and mandate boosts. Read More

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The Gaza war mostly behind him - or perhaps not - Benjamin Netanyahu must soon face a volatile Israeli electorate. Read More

In recent decades the humanities and social sciences in many of our universities have declined in substance and stature. "Studies" programs, often ideologically slanted and emphasizing victimhood, and the emergence of postmodern influences, have undermined their importance. Read More

In the run-up to the recent 30th annual United Nations "global climate action" gathering — this one in Brazil — former Liberal environment minister Catherine McKenna declared the crisis far from over. Read More

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, resigned last Friday amid a deepening corruption scandal that has rocked the nation. Yermak’s ouster is expected to be destabilizing, as his unusually close relationship with Zelenskyy made him Ukraine’s second-most powerful man, but critics seem hopeful that it will strengthen the country’s democracy. Read More

Prime Minister Mark Carney has displayed a remarkable willingness to dismantle the legacy of his predecessor across the public policy board. Read More

This November began with good news for Pablo Rodriguez’s Quebec Liberal Party (QLP): a Léger poll showed the party slowly closing the gap with the separatist Parti Québécois (PQ), trailing by only five points, after months of double-digit deficits. Then, two weeks ago, everything unravelled. Rodriguez is now engulfed in a crisis that could seriously damage the QLP’s chances of winning the October 2026 provincial election. Read More

The children of Hong Kong's jailed pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai are voicing new alarm for his health, saying his condition has continued to deteriorate. Read More

After being apprehended in a furious five-day manhunt for the killer of an insurance executive in midtown Manhattan, Luigi Mangione casually told a prison guard he had a 3-D gun in his backpack and chatted with another about George Orwell’s literature, according to court testimony. Read More

Federal prosecutors charged a man suspected of shooting two National Guard members — one of whom later died — with first-degree murder and assault with intent to kill. Read More

When it comes to apocalypses, Hollywood has generally been more interested in what happens afterward than the down-and-dirty of the actual event that led to destruction. Read More

In Canada, if you commit a crime deemed worthy in court of six months' imprisonment or longer, the law says you should be deemed inadmissible to the country “on grounds of serious criminality.” And then, in theory, you should be sent home. Read More

OTTAWA — Auto giant Stellantis says the government, not the company, insisted on redacting copies of a controversial agreement with Ottawa worth hundreds of millions of dollars requested by a Commons committee. Read More