Let me introduce myself. I am a car and my family name is Buick. My given name is Allure which I really like. I am a member of the General Motors family and my owner calls me Maximilian. That is because that’s what she called all her transport vehicles. In fact her first Maximilian was her bicycle in Hungary. The rest were new cars, all members of the General Motors family except the first one, a used car whose odometer was reset and that emitted smoke front and back. Read More

PARIS — A Paris court on Friday found the ringleader and seven other people guilty in the robbery of Kim Kardashian at her residence in the French capital in 2016. But none of them will face prison time. Read More

(Bloomberg) — Canada’s economy is likely in the early stages of a recession, according to forecasters, as unemployment rises and exports fall because of a trade war with the U.S. Read More

A woman who was busted in Spain last year with ancient artifacts is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to art trafficking across Europe. Read More

Hundreds of Canadians could potentially be caught up in the fight between President Donald Trump and prestigious Harvard University over international student enrollment. Read More

The robbery was over in minutes, the fallout long: Nearly a decade after robbers stormed Kim Kardashian's luxury residence and tied her up at gunpoint, a Paris court will decide the verdict Friday in one of the most audacious celebrity heists in modern French history. Read More

TD Bank Group said Thursday that it's cutting about two per cent of its workforce as the bank works to reduce costs and refocus spending under new leadership. Read More

The Florida Panthers have signed Canadian singer Michael Buble -- for a good cause. Read More

(Bloomberg) — President Donald Trump threatened Apple Inc. with a tariff of at least 25 per cent if it does not manufacture its iPhones in the U.S., ramping up pressure on the tech giant to secure more domestic production. Read More

OTTAWA — Newly minted Energy Minister Tim Hodgson said he's "committed to a clean slate" in his maiden speech in Calgary, promising to turn the page on a decade of mistrust between Alberta and the Liberal government in Ottawa. Read More

OTTAWA — When members of Parliament return to the House of Commons on Monday, their first order of business will be to elect a new Speaker. To date, no fewer than seven Liberal and Conservative MPs have indicated they are interested in the position. Read More

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Elias Rodriguez, 31, has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder and murder of foreign officials, among other charges that did not include terrorism or hate crimes, according to a criminal complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Thursday. Read More

The Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) said that instead of a strike, which they gave notice for earlier this week, they would be implementing a nationwide overtime ban. More than 55,000 Canada Post workers are being called on to refuse to work more than eight hours a day and more than 40 hours in a week as the union reviews the latest offers from the Crown Corporation. Read More

The murder of a 22-year-old model, university student and social media influencer has stirred outrage in Colombia.  Read More

Our cookbook of the week is My Cypriot Table by Oakville, Ont.-based author Irene Matys. Read More

It was not that long ago, merely March, when Prime Minister Mark Carney, fresh off his Liberal party leadership win, began telling Canadians that his party needed a "strong mandate" because they were "facing the most significant crisis of our lifetimes because of President Donald Trump's unjustified trade actions and his threats to our sovereignty." He insisted a snap election was essential, as was electing him, the self-proclaimed "crisis manager," to address it. Read More

Canadians don’t believe in terrorism. They believe in peace and democracy. That’s why this week’s news should alarm every Canadian: Hamas, a designated terrorist organization responsible for the brutal murders and rapes of over 1,200 innocent people on October 7 — including the deaths of eight Canadians — publicly praised a joint statement issued by the UK, France, and Canada. That statement demanded that Israel cease its military operations—or face “concrete actions.” Read More

Let’s get one thing straight. This will be Tom Cruise’s final Mission: Impossible movie. Unless of course it turns out not to be. Also, this prediction will self-destruct in five seconds. Read More

Here’s a riddle to test the depth of your Canadianness, even if you think you’re already pretty Canadian. Read More

OTTAWA — Days after the federal election, Prime Minister Mark Carney stepped into the National Press Theatre and did something Canadians hadn’t seen in nearly 10 years under Justin Trudeau: he started the press conference virtually on time. Read More

SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — Costa Rican police seized five capybaras, crack cocaine and marijuana after chasing down a fleeing vehicle on a highway along the Central American country's Pacific coast on Thursday. Read More

VANCOUVER — Vancouver police have re-arrested high-risk sex offender Randall Hopley, on the same day that he was released from prison. Read More

OTTAWA — British Columbia Premier David Eby isn't saying "no" to Alberta counterpart Danielle Smith's pitch to revive the cancelled Northern Gateway pipeline project to the West Coast, but his evasiveness on the topic speaks volumes. Read More

New Ontario Education Minister Paul Calandra wants to fix apparent financial incompetence at some of Ontario’s largest school boards, and so he should. The problem is the fixes will only be temporary unless the provincial government is willing to make fundamental changes in the way school boards are run. Read More

Information manipulation poses the single biggest threat to Canadian democracy, concluded commissioner Marie Josée Hogue, in her final report on foreign interference in federal elections, earlier this year. Read More

A chef in France, Philippe Schneider, has confessed to killing a man, dismembering his body, and cooking parts of it in a pot of vegetables. Read More

Anyone looking for a Canadian pride bandwagon to jump on should probably watch Jeopardy! tonight. Read More

President Donald Trump will attend the Group of Seven summit in June, as tensions over trade and his efforts to halt Russia's war in Ukraine cloud U.S. ties with some of its closest allies. Read More

The Trump administration revoked Harvard University's ability to enroll international students in its escalating battle with the Ivy League school, saying thousands of current students must transfer to other schools or leave the country. Read More

Authorities have "tentatively" identified Chicago resident Elias Rodriguez, 31, as the accused who gunned down two Israeli diplomats in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday night. Read More

As the possibility of a strike on Friday looms, the Canada Post and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) have several points that they cannot agree upon. Read More

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Nguyễn Thị Thanh, the renowned Vietnamese chef known as “The Lunch Lady,” died shortly after arriving at Toronto Pearson International Airport on May 19. The Lunch Lady’s Toronto location was set to open on June 3, with Thanh at the helm for the month. Read More

The two people shot and killed outside a Jewish museum in Washington were young staffers at the Israeli Embassy who were soon to be engaged. The suspect shouted "Free Palestine" as he was being arrested. Read More

Two Israeli embassy staffers were shot and killed on Wednesday evening outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. Read More