BUSAN, South Korea — Negotiators working on a treaty to address the global crisis of plastic pollution won't reach an agreement in South Korea and are making plans to resume the talks next year. Read More

BEIRUT — The Syrian military rushed reinforcements to the country's northwest and launched airstrikes on a major city Sunday in an attempt to push back insurgents who seized the country's largest city of Aleppo in a surprise offensive in recent days. Read More

Intense snow squalls battering Ontario are moving south after burying some central and northern parts of the province under more than a metre of snow, stranding vehicles and prompting one town to declare a state of emergency. Read More

On October 7, 2023, as news broke of the terror attacks on Israel and the first horrific details of Hamas’s atrocities emerged, Tal Huber was in shock, glued to the television in her Tel Aviv-area home. Read More

There is no news in this story, no celebrity history. It’s just another obituary of a single individual among the billions who pass through the gates of life on earth and move on to whatever lies beyond. At the same time, however, it’s a story of one woman whose life represents and demonstrates the complex generational transformations that take place in Canada, in this case reaching back almost exactly 100 years. Read More

Donald Trump pitched a hard curveball into trade relations this week, proposing a 25-per-cent tariff on imports from Canada and Mexico until the flow of illegal drugs and migrants into America is staunched. Coming on the heels of his campaign promise to deport millions of illegal immigrants, border issues will be arguably the most consequential file for his second presidency. Read More

Why do we dream? Do our dreams and nightmares hold any meaning or function? Do they help us make sense of the world and our lives while we sleep? Read More

Now that the largest employer in the United States — Walmart has 2.1 million employees, with 1.6 million of those in the U.S. — is retreating from many of the progressive political commitments it made circa 2020, it just became a heck of a lot easier for smaller fish to follow suit. Read More

It was another distressing week for Canadian Jews and those alarmed by the rise of antisemitism in our common life and on our streets. Read More

Re: Liberals to cut GST on beer, children’s toys and Christmas trees — Catherine Lévesque, Nov. 21; Trudeau's cynical GST 'holiday' that no one asked for — Jamie Sarkonak, Nov. 22 Read More

Toronto police say a man has been charged after allegedly posing as a surgeon, then injecting four women with what they believed were Botox, Salmon DNA and Ozempic treatments. Read More

A blast of winter weather delivered a "rude awakening" to parts of Ontario, an Environment Canada meteorologist said, as some communities dug out from nearly a metre of snow on Saturday with more to come. Read More

FREDERICTON -- Roughly 3,500 people in New Brunswick are still without power after wet, heavy snowfall caused trees to come into contact with power lines early Friday morning. Read More

(Nov. 29, 2024 / JNS) -- Rep. Seth Magaziner (D-R.I.) was the target of a bomb threat, the Jewish congressman stated on Friday. Read More

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau returned home Saturday after his meeting with Donald Trump without assurances the president-elect will back away from threatened tariffs on all products from the major American trading partner. Trump called the talks “productive” but signalled no retreat from a pledge that Canada says unfairly lumps it in with Mexico over the flow of drugs and migrants into the United States. Read More

In 2020, Borderland Pride asked the township of Emo, Ont. (pop. 1,300) to proclaim Pride Month and fly the Pride flag. In a 3-2 vote, the council declined. It was a petty decision; Pride proclamations are generally considered pro forma, and Emo’s refusal was a bad look for a township seeking to attract business and newcomers. Read More

(Nov. 30, 2024 / JNS) -- The Israel Defense Forces struck more than 12,500 Hezbollah terrorist sites in Lebanon during the nearly 14-month war that began when the Iranian proxy opened fire on the Jewish state a day after the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, massacre of some 1,200 people. Read More

“Is Ontario’s school cellphone ban actually going well?” a recent Toronto Star headline asked. There are “some reasons to think so,” the author explained, which is of course good news. It’s bananas it wasn't tried before this year. Basically nobody opposes the idea: A poll conducted in May by Toronto Metropolitan University’s The Dais think tank found no more than 13 per cent opposition in any region of the country, just nine per cent in Ontario and six per cent in Quebec. And the arguments against it are preposterous, “what if there’s a school shooting” being the worst of them all. Even in the United States, your child is in far more danger travelling to and from school than at it. Read More

This week, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said Canada is locked in a “vibe-cession.” The country is suffering from any number of materially bad economic indicators, from falling per-capita GDP to rising unemployment, but Freeland offered that this is all a case of bad “vibes”: Canadians feel bad, which is curbing their spending, which is prompting an artificial recession. Read More

This year's best cookbooks go deep on single subjects as varied as cookies, pasta and candied fruit. They use shared ingredients to tell the story of Caribbean cuisine and teach techniques to break down barriers and lead to mastery. They bridge the big issues and uncover the flavour hiding in pantry staples. They're also just for the fun of it. After all, who doesn't like soup, salads and sandwiches? Read More

On Thursday morning, the Supreme Court announced that it will hear law professor Ryan Alford’s constitutional arguments against the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians Act (2017). I’d love to write “Good!” but at a minimum I ought to write “Good for the court, and good for Prof. Alford.” Read More