A pair of 105-mm howitzers bark constantly as they turn plywood tank targets into kindling kilometres away on the windswept landscape of one of Canada's largest military bases. Read More

British Columbia's Ministry of Health says the first suspected human case of bird flu contracted in Canada has been detected in B.C. Read More

President Joe Biden will argue in favor of continued US aid to Ukraine during the transition to President-elect Donald Trump’s administration, according to Jake Sullivan, the national security adviser at the White House. Read More

Police in Newfoundland say a man was fatally electrocuted Saturday by a downed power wire about 10 kilometres north of St. John's, N.L. Read More

A children's book written by British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has been withdrawn from sale after it was criticised for causing offense to Indigenous Australians. Read More

The Taliban will attend a U.N. climate conference for the first time since their takeover of Afghanistan in 2021, the country's national environment agency said Sunday. Read More

A New Democrat Party candidate in Nova Scotia who made offensive comments about Jews and Israel on social media is out of the race. Read More

“My mission is to disrupt, to light a fire under the entire energy sector,” declares Stephen Lecce, Ontario’s 37-year-old minister of energy and electrification in a recent phone conversation. Read More

A large majority of Canadians will be observing Remembrance Day this year, most by wearing a poppy, but Quebecers tend to be less likely to observe the national day of remembrance than Canadians in other provinces, says a new poll. Read More

The Alberta government has proposed a review of professional regulatory bodies and how to better protect the right to free expression. In a video announcing the review, to be followed by new legislation next year, Premier Smith said, "What a doctor or lawyer believes or says about politics or religion is not a reflection of their competency to practice medicine or law." Read More

The admonition not to speak ill of the dead is generally wise, though public figures are in a different category. Read More

Re: Message to Democrats: cut the toxic wokeness — Kelly McParland, Nov. 6 Read More

Buying your first home can be stressful. It can also be heartbreaking, tedious and exhilarating. The latest reboot of Property Virgins captures the process on camera — and this time real estate agent Wendy Wolfe is at the helm. Read More

Carl the raccoon is a cute little critter. He’s kind to his friends, thoughtful and detail oriented. He also happens to be autistic. He and his friends are part of the new animated show Carl the Collector, the first PBS Kids series to feature main characters on the autism spectrum. Read More

“I’m not Jewish!” cried one man as he was beaten by a mob. Others were forced to prove this by presenting their passports. One man jumped into a canal to escape his tormentors. Still others were attacked with fireworks, punched in the head, and, in one case, kicked repeatedly while unconscious on the ground. Read More

Fun fact: Non-fiction November was first celebrated in the U.K. in 2010. It hasn’t exactly spread like wildfire, but it is catching on. Read More

ASHERN, Man. -- Investigators in Manitoba will be canvassing door-to-door this weekend for clues in the death of a toddler whose remains were found in a barn. Read More

VANCOUVER -- Former B.C. judge Randall (Bud) Wong remembers getting out of bed early one morning when he was five to greet his uncle at the train station in Vancouver at the end of the Second World War in 1945. Read More

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Defense Department will appeal a military judge's ruling that plea agreements struck by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, and two of his co-defendants are valid, a defense official said Saturday. Read More

(Bloomberg) — Lithuania’s Jewish community urged the Baltic nation’s president to intervene to prevent a party involved in an antisemitic scandal from becoming part of a new ruling coalition. Read More

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Joe Biden will host President-elect Donald Trump for a traditional postelection meeting in the Oval Office on Wednesday, the White House said Saturday. Read More