OTTAWA — After a week of delays and uncertainty, the Liberals say a deal is back on the rails with the Bloc Québécois to remove religious exemptions from Canada’s hate-speech laws in exchange for support to help pass the government's bill targeting hate and terror symbols. Read More

The U.S. authorities released two photos of former Canadian Olympian Ryan Wedding, alleged to be the leader of a violent narco cartel on Monday. Read More

A federal judge in New York ruled that the Department of Justice can release grand jury materials from the criminal prosecution of Ghislaine Maxwell. Read More

OTTAWA — Federal Justice Minister Sean Fraser tabled a new crime bill on Tuesday, seeking to stiffen punishments for offences committed against children and women, while also proposing to restore mandatory minimum sentences for a slew of offences.  Read More

Should we even bother sending our children to university these days? Certainly not to any arts departments, where the many ideas and research being produced are beyond parody. Read More

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President Donald Trump signaled he could impose fresh tariffs on agricultural products, including Canadian fertilizer and Indian rice, the latest sign that protracted negotiations with two U.S. trading partners could drag on. Read More

A Nunavut judge knocked nearly two years off the sentence for an Inuit man convicted of trying to choke a woman to death because she stood up for his abused sister-in-law, citing his Indigenous status, mental illness and the fact that a shorter sentence would not require him to leave Canada’s northernmost territory to serve the remainder of his time behind bars. Read More

OTTAWA — Energy Minister Tim Hodgson said Liberal MPs won't support a motion brought forward by Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre calling on MPs to support the construction of “one or more pipelines” to export bitumen to Asian markets. Read More

Rogers Communications on Tuesday announced the rollout of a new satellite-to-mobile service, the first of its kind in Canada. Rogers Satellite provides voice and video calling and a number of popular apps for weather and navigation information, vastly increasing the company’s coverage. Read More

It has been clear for some months now that David Eby and the B.C. NDP’s approach to Indigenous reconciliation would have ruinous consequences for British Columbia’s economy. Last Friday, the situation got even worse, as a new court ruling poured more cold water on economic activity in the province and opened the door to every B.C. law being subject to interpretation through a United Nations human rights document. The implications for British Columbia could not be much more dire. Read More

Albertans and Canadians value their freedoms. They know freedom is the foundation of our democracy and the reason we choose to build our lives here. Freedom of expression, in particular, is fundamentally important. It is the foundation that our democratic discourse is built on. For this freedom to be fully realized, people must be able to speak their mind without fear of losing their licence or their livelihood. Read More

On Friday, Alberta King’s Bench Justice Colin Feasby issued an irascible ruling on a reference question from the chief electoral officer of the province. Justice Feasby had been asked to decide whether a potential citizen’s initiative launched by an Alberta separatist group was in conformity with the current version of the Citizen Initiative Act (CIA) passed in 2021. Read More

Of all the recipes for success as a political leader, the best is to have a rival who's falling apart. Read More

OTTAWA — The U.S. ambassador to Canada says he is "encouraged" by the energy deal Prime Minister Mark Carney struck with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, saying he believes it will lead to more oil and gas production — increasing expectations that more product will flow south of the border. Read More

MEITAR, Israel -- The parents of the last hostage in Gaza have been waiting for over two years for the return of their son, whom they described as "fighting to the last bullet" during the attack on Israel by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023. Read More

Paramount launched an all-cash tender offer Monday to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery for US$30 per share, challenging a previously announced deal between WBD and Netflix. Read More

Canada’s Superior Court judges are taking the federal government to the Federal Court, where one of the esteemed justices will rule on whether Ottawa owes all senior judges a $28,000 pay rise. Read More

A former masseur in Victoria who was found guilty of sexually assaulting several women during therapeutic massages has convinced the Court of Appeal for British Columbia to order funding for his “complex” appeal against his conviction and two-year jail sentence, which is long enough to force his deportation to India at the end. Read More

OTTAWA — After a week of controversy, Justice Minister Sean Fraser broke his silence Monday about his government’s floundering deal with the Bloc Québécois to remove the religious exemption for certain hate speech in exchange for passing bill C-9. Read More

The shockwave of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s decision to get behind a new pipeline connecting Alberta’s oil sands to the sweet, whale-infested West Coast tidewater continues to reverberate among several dozen people in Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and Quebec City. One of them is now-former heritage minister Steven Guilbeault, who resigned from cabinet over it. He alleged the pipeline would have “major environmental impacts,” that there had been “no consultation” with the First Nations affected, and that Carney’s willingness to exempt Alberta from clean-energy regulations was a “serious mistake.” Read More

Sophie Grégoire Trudeau stunned judges and an unsuspecting audience after she revealed herself to be the voice behind one of the characters on the Canadian French-language singing show, the Masked Singer. Read More

Police debated whether they needed a warrant to continue searching Luigi Mangione’s backpack after they arrested him and found a gun magazine wrapped in his underwear in the bag, an officer testified Monday. Read More