OTTAWA -- The president of the Ontario Crown Attorneys' Association says "attacks" launched by "politicians, media and members of the public" in response to two high-profile criminal cases amount to "affronts to the rule of law." Read More

DANVILLE, Va. -- A city councilman in Virginia was seriously injured Wednesday when a man stormed into his office at a local magazine, doused him in gasoline and set him on fire -- an attack that authorities say was rooted in a personal dispute, not politics. Read More

TORONTO -- Ontario has officially cancelled its $100-million contract with Starlink, but the province refuses to say how much it cost taxpayers to get out of the deal. Read More

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney said it is “possible” that negotiations for a new economic and security agreement with the United States will not conclude by Aug. 1, but political observers say Canadian negotiators should take the time they need to get to the best deal. Read More

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney said Wednesday that Canada will recognize a State of Palestine at the United Nations in September as he accused the Israeli government of failing to “prevent the rapidly deteriorating humanitarian disaster in Gaza.” Read More

As Alberta moves toward holding a referendum on separation from Canada, a hitch has emerged in the planning: the constitutionality of a potential referendum question. Read More

In a late afternoon press conference in Ottawa, Mark Carney announced that Canada intends to break with 75 years of foreign policy tradition and unilaterally recognize a Palestinian state, following a lead set by France and Britain. Read More

Toronto — The spur to build Toronto's billion-dollar-plus flood prevention project dates back to a devastating hurricane in 1954, but planners say its urgency was reinforced by the recent tragic flooding in Texas. Read More

In a vote that began on Monday, Air Canada’s flight attendants will determine whether they wish to strike or not. Read More

In a move that couldn't come soon enough for movie marketers, Liam Neeson and Pamela Anderson, stars of this Friday's new movie The Naked Gun, are said to be dating. Read More

TORONTO — An Ontario court has found Premier Doug Ford's law to remove three Toronto bicycle lanes violates the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Read More

Pierre Poilievre was greeted with cheers and applause by the hundreds of Albertans who showed up to watch a two-and-a-half-hour political debate on a sunny Tuesday evening in July. Read More

The Australian market for Canadian beef has reopened after that country lifted a 22-year-old ban on Canada's beef products, according to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA).   Read More

A few days ago, Fortune magazine reported on a research note from the investment bank Piper Sandler, whose analysts forecast a dismal legal outlook for United States presidential tariffs enacted by executive order under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) of 1977. Naturally I seized on this like a Rottweiler would a Milk-Bone. The American news media continues to argue over the economic effects of the tariffs, treating them as a given, while their obvious unconstitutionality is left to lawyers and to a beleaguered remnant of American libertarians. Read More

TORONTO -- Toronto's Pearson International Airport says some delays are expected after a private plane was damaged while touching down this morning. Read More

Researchers at McGill University say they developed an artificial intelligence platform that can predict when someone is about to come down with a respiratory tract infection before they start to feel sick. Read More

TORONTO — A teen girl found guilty of manslaughter in the fatal swarming of a homeless Toronto man broke into tears as she apologized for her role in the attack during her sentencing hearing today. Read More

WICKANINISH BEACH, B.C. — British Columbians are being urged to stay away from coastal areas that remain under a tsunami advisory, after one of the most powerful earthquakes ever recorded triggered warnings and alerts around the Pacific. Read More

A new poll has found young Canadians are the most likely to have heard antisemitic and Islamophobic comments, and one researcher suggests social media may risk "normalizing prejudice." Read More

Two centuries ago, liberal theorist John Stuart Mill wrote in his classic, On Liberty, that human liberty requires freedom of conscience, thought and feeling: “absolute freedom of opinion and sentiment on all subjects, practical or speculative, scientific, moral or theological.” His thinking has recently taken a battering, not least in our universities, but that beating is now joined by the foray of the Canadian Nurses Association into political thought. Read More

My suggestion in a column last week after Japan struck a trade deal with the United States — that it might be better if Canada didn’t settle with President Trump just yet — was ridiculed in certain quarters. Read More