Ontario Education Minister Paul Calandra has talked himself into a rather uncomfortable spot. Calandra has raised serious doubts about the future of school trustees, the effectiveness of the provincial curriculum, the design of standardized tests, and the level of student achievement those tests reveal. Read More

Baby formula was stashed away "deliberately" by Hamas during "the worst of the days of the hunger crisis in Gaza in the past six months," a Palestinian-American activist says. It was stored in "clandestine warehouses belonging to the Gaza Ministry of Health," which is run by Hamas, said Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib in a post on X on Monday. Read More

A new rule proposed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) could require Canadian residents who are not citizens of Canada to divulge their social media history before they can enter the United States. Read More

OTTAWA — The federal justice minister says he will personally be involved in trying to understand concerns religious groups are expressing over the removal of religious defences from a section of the Criminal Code on hate speech.  Read More

A Nova Scotia Mi'kmaw First Nation has banned the province’s premier and two of his ministers from their lands as “undesirables” in the wake of a recent directive from the province for police to crack down on illegal cannabis sales. Read More

The thieves who stole crown jewels from the Louvre in October evaded police with just 30 seconds to spare due to avoidable security failures at the Paris museum, a damning investigation revealed on Wednesday. Read More

Truck drivers are encountering a new risk on the highway: Law enforcement officers are empowered by the Trump administration to pull them off the road if they fail an English test. Read More

One advocacy group says that a recently published database of Canadian Jewish institutions associated with Israel and its military could become "a catalogue for hostile actors who are looking for targets." The list features schools, summer camps and synagogues in Toronto. Read More

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A 10-year-old New Brunswick girl suffered an apparent seizure after buying, and quickly gulping back, two large energy drinks, terrifying her family and spurring calls for a federal ban on the sale of the caffeinated beverages to minors. Read More

Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow professes herself perplexed as to the motivation behind a petty, mean, cowardly thief stealing sacred scrolls from the doors of Jewish seniors. Read More

Frank Gehry, the greatest star in the firmament of starchitects, searched for transcendence. Gehry, who died on Friday at age 96, was born in Toronto but moved with his family to Los Angeles at age 18 and remained there the rest of his life. Read More

The struggling food bank has been a recurring motif in the news in recent weeks. Food aid agencies across the country are presenting various regional hunger reports to the public, and the results are consistently depressing: usage is higher than ever, donations are down and “we don’t know how we’re going to keep up.” Read More

WINNIPEG — Maintaining a Jewish identity demands time, spirit and energy: connecting with millennia worth of history, studying the traditions, passing them to our children and contributing to the wider society while never abandoning who we are. Yet in the midst of all this, Jews are constantly forced on the defensive, fending off attacks from all sides. The latest example: the Canadian Museum for Human Rights' (CMHR) plan to open a new exhibit called "Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present." Read More

Eileen Higgins won Miami’s mayoral runoff, beating a candidate backed by President Donald Trump while becoming the first woman ever and the first Democrat in nearly three decades to lead the city. Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump said people were “starting to learn” the benefits of his tariff regime as he sought to convince voters his administration was moving to address affordability concerns, taking to the road in hopes of countering a mounting political vulnerability. Read More

Canada on Tuesday launched a $1.7 billion program to recruit leading global researchers, part of the effort to poach intellectual talent looking to leave the United States because of President Donald Trump's policies. Read More

Indigenous artifacts taken from Canada by Catholic missionaries to Rome a century ago were unveiled at the Canadian Museum of History on Tuesday, repatriations that have sparked calls for the Vatican to return other treasured items. Read More

Canada’s ambassador to Washington is preparing to leave office, and Prime Minister Mark Carney is considering a former BlackRock Inc. senior executive for the job ahead of crucial trade talks with the U.S. and Mexico. Read More

A Chinese-born Canadian citizen who lives in Mississauga, Ont., was arrested in Virginia by the FBI and charged with trying to smuggle restricted high-tech Nvidia computer chips used in AI processing to China Read More

There are certain phrases that properly arouse immediate suspicion. “The dog did it,” for example. “Trump apologizes.” Or, “Jean Chrétien declines to talk about himself.” The latter is in play because the former Liberal prime minister has declined to appear before a parliamentary committee to discuss certain rather unsavoury directives he might have given his immigration minister in 1995 with an eye to winning the Quebec independence referendum. Read More

Who wouldn’t want to find Margaret Atwood under the tree on Christmas morning? Read More

A politician’s worst nightmare is to be thought of as yesterday’s breakfast by voters. When prime minister, Mark Carney, signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on energy development with the premier of Alberta two weeks ago, federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre was made to look as relevant to the big issue of the day as the leader of the NDP. Read More