WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Former first lady Michelle Obama will skip the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump, the second time in two weeks that she is not attending a gathering of former U.S. leaders and their spouses, but former Presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton will be there. Read More

Halifax Regional Police are trying to track down whoever stole three Christmas cards painted by famed folk artist Maud Lewis from a Halifax home late last year. Read More

A computer-generated fake Brad Pitt used by a scammer has duped a 53-year-old French interior designer into thinking he was hospitalized with kidney cancer and needed funds to pay for it. Read More

Stephen Harper said it was Canadians, not economic pressure from U.S. president-elect Donald Trump, that led Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to say he will resign. Read More

For years, it's been assumed that the biggest threat to Canadian unity comes from the province of Quebec. It hosted a separatist terrorist movement in the 1960s and is home to the sovereigntist Parti Québécois. It held two referenda on separation, the last of which saw the country hang together by less than one per cent of the vote. Today, the party tops the polls and is threatening to hold another referendum if it takes power next year. Read More

I don’t have anything against Mark Carney personally, or economists or central bankers as a group, or indeed very rich people in general. And I have to say, I liked Carney a bit more having watched his appearance Monday night on Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart than I did beforehand. Read More

Today, we wait. Read More

A B.C. man who won a $2-million lottery jackpot while also part of a workplace lotto pool has been told he doesn't have to split his winnings with his coworkers. Read More

WASHINGTON -- Special counsel Jack Smith said his team "stood up for the rule of law" as it investigated President-elect Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Writing in his report, released Tuesday, he said he stands behind his decision to bring criminal charges, which he believes would have resulted in a conviction had voters not returned Trump to the White House. Read More

Donald Trump's cabinet picks are beginning their nomination process this week, starting with Trump's choice for defense secretary, Pete Hegseth. The hearing opened Tuesday as senators question whether the former combat veteran and TV news show host is fit to lead the U.S. military. Read More

OTTAWA — Former B.C. premier Christy Clark and Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne both announced on Tuesday they won’t run to become leader of the Liberal Party of Canada. Meanwhile, Liberal House leader Karina Gould is expected to launch her leadership campaign later this week. Read More

A planned conference by a radical Islamic group that caused outrage and security concerns has been cancelled a day after the federal government said it was considering declaring the organization a terrorist group. Read More

OTTAWA — Federal Conservatives are demanding the Liberals direct the Canada Revenue Agency to stop collecting the higher tax rate paid on capital gains worth more than $250,000, such as the sale of a vacation or rental property, until after Canadians go to the polls.  Read More

International Development Minister Ahmed Hussen and MP Omar Alghabra have made the first Canadian delegation visit to the border region of Turkey and Syria since the fall of the Bashar Assad regime in Syria. Read More

A judge has sentenced a former chief executive officer for the John Howard Society of Peel for defrauding the organization that's meant to help former criminals of $327,045 over seven years. Read More

OTTAWA — Former Bank of Canada Mark Carney used an interview on U.S. late-night television on Monday to attack Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and make his case for the Liberal leadership. Read More

As candidates line up to become Justin Trudeau’s successor as leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, former central banker Mark Carney has arguably been in the running for the position longer than anyone else. Read More

With a federal election and Liberal leadership campaign in the offing, a Conservative nomination race in a Toronto-area riding is sparking new fears about potential foreign meddling in Canadian politics. Read More

Incoming American president Donald Trump has threatened "economic force" against Canada, crippling 25 per cent tariffs on all imports, and has repeatedly said that the country should be the 51st state. In response to Trump's threats to devastate Canada, the Liberals have essentially replied: Don't worry, we've got this. Read More

Mark Zuckerberg has announced that his giant Meta empire will quit fact-checking the stuff posted by people using its various social networking outlets. Anyone can post anything outside a few criminal categories, no matter how ill-informed, ludicrously wrong or downright delusional. The people who used to vet postings to weed out the flagrantly untrue or grossly misleading are being ditched. The laneways of public information will be open and undefended against ignorance or abuse. Read More

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerburg released a video on Jan. 7 sharing news that his social media company, which includes Facebook and Instagram, is ditching censorship in favour of free expression. In the video, he claimed that he has always understood “the importance of protecting free expression.” Why, he even spoke about it at Georgetown University five years back, he told us. Read More

Even after Justin Trudeau’s resignation convulsed Canadian politics, the relentless cavalcade of government spending announcements proceeded apace. Read More

The Economist Party is beginning to squawk a little bit about Mark Carney’s entry into electoral politics, which may be announced by the time you read this. The former boss of the central banks of Canada and the United Kingdom is said to be considering a run for the leadership of the Liberal Party, and will have lots of help from the inner circle of Justin Trudeau, assuming that this is the kind of help that ends up, y’know, helping. Carney has been talked about as a potential saviour of the Liberals for years, yet it seems we are only getting around to asking a basic question: is this at all a good idea? Read More

OTTAWA -- Former finance minister Chrystia Freeland will announce her intention to run for the Liberal party leadership just before the U.S. presidential inauguration, a source close to her campaign team said Monday. Read More

NEW YORK -- A new toll on drivers entering the core of Manhattan brought modest but measurable traffic reductions to New York City's heavily-gridlocked streets in its first week of operation, according to preliminary data released Monday by the state's transit authority. Read More

OTTAWA -- The Liberal party's leadership race will be monitored by Canada's elections intelligence task force for signs of foreign interference, national security adviser Nathalie Drouin said Monday. Read More

The federal government is calling on members of a controversial Islamic group to cancel their conference scheduled for this weekend while Canada’s security and intelligence agencies decide if it should be listed as an official terrorist entity. Read More

OTTAWA — Nova Scotia MP Jaime Battiste announced Monday that he wants to become the Liberal Party of Canada's next leader and the country's first Indigenous prime minister.  Read More

America is just one week away from Inauguration Day, when president-elect Donald Trump officially takes over from President Joe Biden. As befits a quarter-millennium-old tradition, there will be much pomp and ceremony. Here's what to know. Read More

OTTAWA - Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne will announce whether he plans to run in the Liberal leadership race before noon Tuesday at a Canadian Club event in Toronto. Read More

Police are investigating antisemitic graffiti at an Ontario Jewish business after a break-in early Friday morning. Read More

EDMONTON — Education support workers began gathering under pitch-black pre-dawn skies in Edmonton and some nearby communities as a strike got underway. Read More

Toronto police say they are launching a new initiative to address a rise in criminal and violent incidents in the tow truck industry. Read More

NEW YORK (AP) -- Country music star Carrie Underwood will perform "America the Beautiful" at Donald Trump's inauguration next week and other performers will include two of the president-elect's musical favorites, country singer Lee Greenwood and opera singer Christopher Macchio. Read More

I can’t even blame my social media algorithm for this one – Ozempic and similar drugs are advertised all over the place, from television ads, public transit, audio streaming platforms and of course social media. Read More

While there are a ton of exciting local gigs happening across Canada, we’ve rounded up the biggest acts happening nationwide this year. From the return of Coldplay to Kane Brown and all genres in between. Read More