Russia vowed Wednesday to act "responsibly" should its last nuclear treaty with the United States expire on February 5, amid mounting fears the agreement's collapse could spur a new arms race between the top nuclear powers. Read More

Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to announce a new system of fuel-efficiency standards for cars and trucks, replacing an electric vehicle mandate that was hated by the auto industry. Read More

The Trump administration hosted 55 countries at a critical minerals summit on Wednesday, pitching minimum prices and a flood of U.S. private equity in a bid to reduce dependence on China and ensure U.S. manufacturers have stable access to key resources. Read More

The first action of the Olympiad is in the books. Read More

Canadian snowboarder Mark McMorris crashed during big air training for the Milan-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics and was stretchered off the course in Livigno, Italy, on Wednesday night. Read More

Before being announced as the Liberal candidate to run in a federal byelection for the suddenly vacant Scarborough Southwest riding, Ontario NDP member of provincial parliament Doly Begum had been criticized for her position on the Israel-Hamas conflict, a war in which she accuses the Jewish state of committing “genocide.” Read More

OTTAWA — Former prime minister Stephen Harper says Canada must defend its industrial capacity in the face of attacks from U.S. President Donald Trump by ensuring that "one way tariffs introduced by the U.S. must be reciprocated." Read More

MILAN - At 36, Evan Bates has been skating for over two decades, beginning his Olympic career with a splashy debut at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. Read More

MILAN -- Brianne Jenner didn't need words as an answer, she just pointed to the Maple Leaf on her Team Canada practice sweater on Wednesday. Read More

Abigail Strate has steered clear of jumping to any gold-medal conclusions. Read More

Despite a plea from a Canadian Jewish advocacy group, the Carney government will not be appointing a new special envoy to tackle antisemitism. Neither will it have an Islamophobia envoy. Instead, it launched an advisory council to combat hate on Wednesday. Read More

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Washington is open to upcoming talks with Iran and that a location is “being worked through,” but stressed the discussions can’t be restricted to nuclear issues. Read More

Fort Pierce, Fla. — A man who plotted to assassinate U.S. President Donald Trump at his Florida golf course in September 2024, two months before the U.S. election, was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison. Read More

Canadian artist Phil Richards has said he considers portraiture to be “a collaboration between artist and subject.” Perhaps nowhere is that more clear than in a tiny last-minute change in his newly unveiled portrait of former prime minister Stephen Harper. Read More

TORONTO — An estimated 150,000 demonstrators gathered in downtown Toronto on Sunday to call for American military strikes against Iran’s Islamic regime. Read More

The road to a spot on Canada’s Women’s Olympic hockey team rarely is linear. Read More

Canadian businessman Kevin O'Leary is slamming singer Billie Eilish over her "stolen land" anti-ICE comment at the Grammy Awards. Read More

At the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in 2018, a curious scene unfolded at the men’s big air snowboard finals. Read More

The Department of Homeland Security will immediately pull 700 officers from Minneapolis amid efforts to ease tensions after federal agents killed two US citizens, White House border czar Tom Homan said. Read More

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney said Conservative MP Jamil Jivani received a briefing by Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc, in response to questions from reporters about Jivani's upcoming visit to Washington D.C. Read More

It’s the question that everyone is asking in the Olympic Village: How are the beds? Read More

The scene: The 1992 Winter Olympics. A young Canadian named Kevin Martin is summoned to the curling hall in a tiny mountain village outside Albertville, where he is approached by three affable Frenchmen. Martin recognizes the men from an ice-making workshop he taught in nearby Switzerland a few months prior. Martin realizes, despite the language barrier, that the trio is in charge of making curling ice for the upcoming tournament, and that it is not going well. Read More

Late last week, numerous media outlets reported that an unnamed Israeli "security official" conceded that the Israel Defence Forces believes the death toll in Gaza to be around 70,000, which is in line with the number reported by the Gaza Health Ministry. Israel's enemies predictably seized on the reports as proof that a "genocide" has been taking place, but that is simply not the case. Read More