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

At least eight people died and several were injured in an explosion near the historic Red Fort in India’s capital New Delhi, one of the most crowded areas in the city. Read More

Nova Scotia’s top judges are defending their peers’ decision to ask that staff not wear poppies in provincial courtrooms, a move slammed by Premier Tim Houston and others late last week. Read More

President Donald Trump urged air traffic controllers who have missed work during the government shutdown to return to their posts, threatening to withhold pay for those who do not show up as travelers in the US face flight delays and cancellations. Read More

“Confession: I get shredded cheese,” said Avi Lewis, feigning sheepishness, to a Zoom audience of approximately 500 people on Wednesday. The event, titled “Emergency Austerity Budget Town Hall,” held in response to the Liberal government’s newly-released 2025 budget, was half NDP buzzword salad, half leadership campaign. Read More

Canada no longer can claim it has eliminated the most infectious virus known to medicine after the Pan American Health Organization announced Monday it has removed the country's measles elimination status. Read More

Nov. 5 is a day Jewish students at Toronto Metropolitan University will never forget. What should have been a peaceful evening of dialogue became a night of fear, violence, and betrayal. For many of us, it was the night our trust, in our peers, in our university, and in the idea of equal rights on campus, was shattered. Read More

British Broadcasting Corp. Director-General Tim Davie is resigning from the UK national broadcaster amid allegations it misled viewers by editing President Donald Trump’s remarks in a Panorama documentary last year. Read More

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy will be released from his “nightmare” in a French jail just 20 days into a five-year sentence for his role in an alleged electoral funding conspiracy linked to the late Libyan leader Moammar Qaddafi’s regime. Read More

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A French court is expected to decide on Monday whether to release ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy from jail pending an appeals trial over allegations that he sought Libyan funding. Read More