When the weather outside gets frightful, staying warm at home seems delightful. But cranking the heat inside can lead to a potentially harmful side-effect: condensation on the windows. Read More

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More than 500 days in harsh pre-trial custody was enough punishment for a Mohawk man caught driving around Peterborough with a crack pipe in his lap and a "killing machine" of a rifle in the back seat, along with a flame thrower in the trunk, according to a recent sentence of time served from Ontario's Court of Justice. Read More

Among the allegedly transformational, nation-building initiatives stuffed into the 493 pages of Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne's first budget, there was one substantial alteration that was notable by its absence. Read More

In the lead up to Remembrance Day, Canada’s military remains one of the most trusted institutions in the country. Read More

In a recent CBC interview, former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien made some derogatory and misleading claims about Alberta. Given how many Canadians still share these sentiments, it is important to set the record straight. Read More

The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments last Wednesday over Donald Trump's "emergency" tariffs on Canada and other allies. What unfolded wasn't simply another trade dispute. The justices revealed deep skepticism about whether Congress ever intended to surrender its taxing power so broadly to any president. Read More

The Canadian Armed Forces’ greatest enemy is ignorance — or a certain national cluelessness — and this is especially true for the reserves. From military reporters to regular full-time Canadian Armed Forces members, many don’t know what a reservist actually is or does. Let me offer a few ideas for reflection, based on my 500-page study of 30 years of unvarying reserve problems, Relentless Struggle. Read More

Last month, European countries began rolling out the new Entry/Exit System (EES) for travellers crossing European borders. It's expected to be fully operational by April 10, 2026. Here's what to know. Read More

BAGHDAD -- Iraqis elect a new parliament on Tuesday in a vote that comes at a pivotal time for the country and the wider region, and which both Iran and the United States will be closely watching. Read More

President Donald Trump asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a US$5 million sexual abuse and defamation judgment against him in a civil lawsuit by former Elle magazine advice columnist E. Jean Carroll. Read More

On the new CBC interview series The Assembly, somebody has just brought up Howie Mandel’s obsessive compulsive disorder and asked about his body-shaving habits (wink, wink). There are nervous giggles and gasps in the audience, and Mandel is taking a moment to figure out how to answer. Read More

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to reconsider its 2015 decision legalizing same-sex marriage, turning away an appeal by a former Kentucky county clerk who was ordered to pay $360,000 for defying the ruling. Read More

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa met with U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday in the first time that a Syrian head of state has visited the White House. Read More

Katherine Henderson, the CEO and president of Hockey Canada, is looking forward to a great season of amateur sport, the Winter Olympics and bringing international women’s hockey events to Canada. Read More

Margaret Atwood’s latest ‘memoir of sorts’ is just one highlight from a stellar list of Canadian authors. Read More

OTTAWA — Governor General Mary Simon will not be attending the National Remembrance Day Ceremony in Ottawa on Tuesday due to a respiratory virus. Read More

Well before U.S. President Donald Trump brought up the idea of Canada becoming the 51st state, the proposition was already fermenting in the mind of best-selling Canadian fiction author Louise Penny. Read More

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney says his government will announce its next batch of nation-building projects on Thursday in Prince Rupert, B.C.  Read More

Coca-Cola's 2025 holiday campaign is giving viewers a sense of déjà vu — and it's not because of the nostalgia. Last year, the beverage giant's AI-generated Christmas ads sparked online backlash. Santa's "swollen, rubbery hand, clutching a Coke bottle," was just one of the haunting images the AI models generated. Critics noted details such as scale and proportion issues, including bystanders that were too large to fit through the Coca-Cola trucks' doors, uncanny human faces, and wheels that drifted down the road without spinning. Read More

Data from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) shows that the number of international student permits issued to Indian applicants has fallen by more than 93 per cent in the last two years. Read More

President Donald Trump pardoned dozens of Republicans, including Rudy Giuliani, who aided his effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election, a largely symbolic gesture toward some of his top allies. Read More

OTTAWA — Conservatives are calling for the reversal of a military directive they say inappropriately censors religious speech at public commemorations. Read More