If there was ever a year that proved that politics can still surprise, it was 2025. U.S. President Donald Trump started it by declaring Canada the 51st state and ended it by adding his name to the Kennedy Center. Our spring federal election morphed from Conservative cakewalk to Liberal renaissance, and the winter saw a flurry of floor crossing. Alberta and Quebec are both talking about separation. And Justin Trudeau is dating Katy Perry. Read More

A segment on CBS’s 60 Minutes about the Trump administration’s deportation of Venezuelans was made available to viewers in Canada on Monday after being pulled in the U.S. a day before. Read More

When Jack Black was filming Minecraft in New Zealand, he listened to Billy Joel songs to get into character as Steve, the expert crafter who leads the fantastical Overworld made popular by the bestselling video game. Read More

As a lifelong Toronto Maple Leafs fan, Will Arnett knows all about heartbreak. Read More

I am just back from a trip to Australia, where the country is still mourning the tragedy at Bondi Beach that made international news after 15 innocent people were killed by terrorists. Amid that grief, something else happened — quieter, but with long-term consequences: Australia began enforcing a minimum age for social media accounts. If you’re under 16, you can’t open or keep an account on designated platforms. Read More

Over the holidays, we’re looking back at some of the best episodes of 2025. As in July, Canada’s restricted dairy market was recently raised again by U.S. officials who say it stands in the way of ending disputes and settling trade deals. This summer, Brian spoke with Martha Hall Findlay about how Ottawa’s refusal to liberate our globally detested supply-management system from trade negotiations continues to hurt our economic potential while causing endless headaches with major trading partners — all to benefit of a few thousand dairy-farmer millionaires. In this episode, Hall Findlay explains how this small cartel works, why it’s so powerful and why it hurts not just consumers, but every other trade-exposed Canadian business. (Originally recorded July 4, 2025) Read More

Former Republican senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska said Tuesday that he was diagnosed with terminal cancer and suggested he would not have long to live. Read More

For the first time in more than four decades, Avatar director James Cameron is out of a job. Read More

It certainly does not roll off the tongue, never mind dribble, but the sport we know today as ‘hoops’ was nearly saddled with the cumbersome, if honourable, moniker of ‘Naismith-ball.’ Read More

Vandhana Mohanraj and her partner Faisal Fakhani had just finished their regular grocery run when the couple decided to stop for coffee. Read More

Dr. Seuss once put it this way. “Be awesome! Be a book nut! The more you read the more things you will know. The more that you learn the more places you’ll go.” Read More

A Liechtenstein court said billionaire Zygmunt Solorz must hand over his Polish media empire to his three children, dismissing his appeal to block the succession in the latest chapter of a feud roiling the family business. Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — For anyone trying to better understand U.S. President Donald Trump's foreign policy vision and its consequences for Canada, look no further than the recently released national security strategy (NSS) that offers the White House’s vision of America’s global influence and its defence and economic power priorities. Read More

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned on Monday of a “very severe response” should Iran take action against Israel, while emphasizing that the Jewish state is “not seeking confrontation.”​ Read More

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg was arrested in London on Tuesday during a pro-Palestinian demonstration, according to activist group Defend Our Juries. Read More

Martin Mburu boarded an Air Arabia flight in Nairobi to Moscow on Oct. 21, convinced he was heading to a well-paid job as a driver or security guard. He’d been told by Kenyan and Russian recruiters he’d earn 250,000 shillings (about $2,000) a month. Read More

Large-scale Russian strikes killed at least three people and cut power to thousands in freezing winter temperatures across Ukraine on Tuesday, officials said, as US-led talks to end the nearly four-year war faltered. Read More

Vince Zampella, the acclaimed co-creator of video gaming juggernaut "Call of Duty," has died in a car crash, gaming giant Electronic Arts confirmed on Monday. He was 55. Read More

Thousands of new documents linked to the case of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were made available Tuesday by the US Department of Justice (DOJ), amid mounting criticism over the pace of the publication and heavy redactions. Read More

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Most Canadians will be inclined to wish others a Merry Christmas this season, but some of them will do so with the stress of the season hidden behind the festive greeting, a new survey has found. Read More

The death of Rob Reiner and his wife is a horrific tragedy, and the details are hard to read. The grim particulars need not be repeated here. It is enough to acknowledge that Reiner gave us some of the most enduring and entertaining films of the 20th century. Read More

Last Friday, three men were arrested in Toronto and charged with hate-motivated extremism targeting women and members of the Jewish community. One of them, 26-year-old Waleed Khan, also faces terrorism charges linked to ISIS, an exceptionally violent Sunni jihadist group also known as the Islamic State. According to the RCMP, Khan allegedly conspired with “persons known and unknown” in Toronto and elsewhere in Ontario to commit murder — a chilling indication that other extremist elements could be involved. It is the third ISIS-related arrest in Canada this year, following earlier cases in Montreal and Newmarket, bringing the total number of arrested suspects linked to the group since 2023 to 23. Read More

Lilly and Jack Sullivan’s names grace decorations on their paternal grandmother’s Christmas tree, but Belynda Gray is under no illusion the children are still alive. Read More