An unusually strong storm drenching Los Angeles and the greater Southern California area brought continued moderate to high risk of flash flooding, mudslides and dangerous winds to fire-scarred neighbourhoods through Saturday. Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he would sue the BBC for up to $5 billion, after the British broadcaster apologized but said it would not pay damages for a misleading speech edit. Read More

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has announced an overhaul of state-owned energy companies, after a corruption scandal at the heart of a sector battered by Russian attacks sparked a public outrcy. Read More

China advised its citizens to avoid traveling to Japan in the near term, prompting Tokyo to urge Beijing to temper its response to a spat between the two countries that was sparked by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s comments on Taiwan. Read More

President Donald Trump called on the Justice Department on Friday to examine the relationships between deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and several prominent Democrats, including former president Bill Clinton, and Attorney General Pam Bondi quickly tapped federal prosecutors in Manhattan to take on the job. Read More

BOGOTA, Colombia – Colombian President Gustavo Petro has a bold proposal in response to the United States’ mounting military presence in the Caribbean: A union between Colombia and Venezuela. Read More

Raphael Lemkin coined the very word “genocide,” but his legacy is now at the centre of a bitter fight over that term: Family members and Jewish leaders say the American institute bearing his name is betraying everything he stood for — by turning the charge of genocide against Israel itself. Read More

A Cold War KGB agent deemed "inadmissible to Canada on security grounds" has won another shot at staying in this country. Read More

There has been a good deal of nasty talk recently, especially in notoriously Liberal journalistic circles, about dissenters crumbling away from Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre into the outstretched arms of the Liberal government, straining to scavenge itself into a parliamentary majority. The customary version is that the Liberals are rubbing their hands in glee at this anticipated Conservative disintegration but prayerfully hope that it will not shake out the Conservative leader, Pierre Poilievre, whom they believe to be a permanent doormat for them on the threshold of the prime minister's residence, (if it is ever ready for reoccupation). Read More

The Conservative ranks shrank by two slots this month. Considering who was lost and the circumstances of their departure, it alone doesn’t tell us much about the party. It does, however, tell us a lot about media bias. Read More

My children are Jewish. Since the October 7, 2023 attack on the Nova Musical Festival, my eldest child has twice been violently attacked in Toronto, in effect, as a result of being born Jewish. The most recent violence perpetrated upon my daughter saw her hospitalized. I speak of the Nov. 5 attack by masked protesters on the attendees of a private event in downtown Toronto where Israeli Defense Forces soldiers were scheduled to speak. Read More

Ukraine’s top anti-corruption agencies revealed this week that a high-powered clique, led by a close friend of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, was caught embezzling US$100 million from the country’s energy sector. The investigators further suggested that this scheme compromised the wartime security of the national electrical grid and indirectly allowed Russia to plunge much of the country into prolonged blackouts this autumn.   Read More

Thursday night, I had the honour and pleasure of interviewing Israel’s former prime minister, Naftali Bennett, live on stage at The Abraham Global Peace Initiative’s annual Defender of Israel Tribute. My timing couldn’t have been better as he just happens to be leading in the polls to become Israel’s next prime minister. It was a sweeping evening and conversation about his vision for the future of Israel and the Jewish world. His views on geopolitics and particularly on artificial intelligence demonstrated his critical understanding about the future of humanity.   Read More

OTTAWA — Conservative MP Jamil Jivani doesn't yet have a critic assignment, but he's still finding plenty of ways to keep himself busy. Read More

The latest in a series of drafts that Washington has penned of a resolution to the United Nations Security Council suggests the Trump administration believes “conditions may finally be in place for a credible pathway to Palestinian self-determination and statehood” after the Palestinian Authority undergoes reforms and Gaza’s reconstruction is “advanced.” Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump issued an order on Friday reducing tariffs on beef, tomatoes, coffee and bananas, a move aimed at lowering costs on groceries as the administration faces pressure from voters to cut prices on everyday goods. Read More

Last month, the cinematic universe of James Bond endured a rather sad controversy when Amazon Prime, the company currently streaming all 25 of the official Eon Productions Bond movies, digitally erased guns from the promotional images. Read More

Doug Mackie credits his daughter Lisa with the idea of starting Men’s Sheds in Canada. In June 2008, Lisa sat next to an Australian woman during a lunch break at a conference she attended in Saskatoon. The two women casually talked about the Men’s Sheds movement, which began in Australia and has hundreds of sheds and thousands of participants across that country. Read More

Some Canadians could be denied a U.S. visa due to obesity or other medical conditions. Read More

OTTAWA — Ottawa’s fiscal watchdog called out the Carney government Friday for using an “overly expansive” definition of investments that shifts about $94-billion in spending over the next five years to the more palatable capital side of the ledger. Read More

This holiday season’s makeup trends are all about shimmer, glow and a healthy dose of self-assurance. Think luminous skin, flushed cheeks and eyes that gleam. For women who’ve earned their laugh lines, it’s less about keeping up with TikTok and more about modern tweaks that flatter, not mask. Read More

An Oshawa couple says they have lost personal belongings worth thousands of dollars and of great sentimental value, after an American Airlines flight attendant took one of their carry-on suitcases away to fly as checked baggage during a trip to Jamaica. Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday he wants the Justice Department and FBI to investigate links between the late alleged sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and former Democratic president Bill Clinton. Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump claimed Friday that pressure to release details of Jeffrey Epstein's alleged sex abuse network is a "hoax" pushed by Democratic opponents. Read More