TRURO, N.S. - Mark Carney may be a political novice but he is quickly learning the value of staged photo ops. Read More

OTTAWA — With millions of Canadians having already cast a ballot in advance polls, political parties are now crisscrossing the country with a final pitch to those yet to vote. Read More

Harsimrat Randhawa came to Canada two years ago in search of a better life, her family said, but it was cut short by a stray bullet in Hamilton. Read More

OTTAWA — The Chinese government is suspected of repressing the campaign of Toronto-area Conservative candidate Joe Tay, pushing a mock “wanted" poster of him online and boosting disparaging stories about the Hong Kong democracy activist while suppressing searches of his name on social media. Read More

At 9:47 a.m. on Monday, the Vatican announced the death of Pope Francis. Read More

VATICAN CITY — The canonization of the first millennial saint, Carlo Acutis, has been postponed due to the death Monday of Pope Francis, the Vatican announced. Read More

At 88 years of age, Pope Francis I was the second-oldest Pope to hold the title in the last 600 years. Only Leo XIII, who died aged 93 in 1903, outlived him. His death triggers the election of the 267th Pope, a process known as a conclave. Read More

Releasing a detailed, costed platform is quite rightly seen as a basic obligation of a political campaign. You don’t necessarily need one to win, but if everyone has one other than you people certainly have a right to ask why you don't. Every party claims to have a plan; surely they should at least be able to put it down on paper and have some basic idea of how much it will cost. Read More

Canada has long been held up as a shining example in a number of areas, whether it’s democratic principles, human rights, universal healthcare, and others. Read More

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth created another Signal messaging chat that included his wife and brother where he shared similar details of a March military airstrike against Yemen's Houthi militants that were sent in another chain with top Trump administration leaders, The New York Times reported. Read More

A survey taken earlier this month suggests that the Liberals are drawing significant support from the ideological centre, have eroded the NDP's base and is even encroaching on traditionally Conservative territory — a trend that could shape the outcome of the 2025 federal election. Read More

The death of Pope Francis has elicited response from politicians and world leaders across the planet. And in the midst of a national election that is just one week away, two of Canada's federal leadership hopefuls are also of the same faith as the deceased pontiff. Read More

TORONTO — With exactly one week left in the federal election campaign, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is entering the home stretch by pitching himself to voters as the only option for change.  Read More

A moment occurred near the end of the English-language leaders debate that said something important, though it might not have been readily evident. Read More

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One mark of a healthy society with a bright future is one with babies, says economist Ross McKitrick — "a lot of babies and children being born and raised here. And that's not happening." Read More

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The world has been shaken by the unfortunate news of Pope Francis’s passing. Many Catholics and non-Catholics kept the Pontiff in their thoughts and prayers, and now begin to evaluate his life and legacy. Read More

The real achievement of Pope Francis was not often remarked. It was that he managed to do the job at all, sometimes well, sometimes less so. But after two historic predecessors, the great fear was the office would overwhelm the man. Read More

In the first chapter of his autobiography, "Hope," Pope Francis served readers a reminder that his passionate defence of migrants and refugees originated in deeply personal as well as theological roots. Read More

Pope Francis died Monday, history's first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and concern for the poor but alienated conservatives with critiques of capitalism and climate change. Read More

For Cole Theule, age 19, voting day on April 28 will be his first time casting a ballot in a federal election. The Winnipeg native who is studying at the University of Ottawa, comes from a family with a tradition of supporting the New Democratic Party, provincially and federally. His father even worked to help local NDP candidates. Read More

One nurse was punched so violently by a patient's husband that she suffered a brain injury. Another was struck in the face with a dumbbell, breaking her upper jaw and cheekbone. Unfortunately, these are not stories from a sensationalized crime show; both incidents occurred in a Canadian hospital, as reported on by National Post health writer Sharon Kirkey. Read More

Hackers linked to Russia's government launched a cyberattack last spring against municipal water plants in rural Texas. At one plant in Muleshoe, population 5,000, water began to overflow. Officials had to unplug the system and run the plant manually. Read More

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is warning consumers across multiple provinces that two brands of frozen pastries have been recalled due to salmonella concerns. Read More

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is pledging to cut the federal government’s bloated budget for outside consultants by $10 billion annually, if his party wins government, returning consultant fees to levels last seen under the Harper Conservative government. Read More

Marijuana culture's high holiday, known as 4/20, falls this year on Easter Sunday, as well as the last day of Passover, meaning cannabis fans can celebrate in some unusual ways, including an "Easter nug hunt" in Los Angeles, kosher-style THC gummies in New York and a "blaze and praise" drag brunch in Portland, Oregon. Read More

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday night pledged to continue the war against Hamas until all objectives are met, rejecting recent ceasefire proposals that would leave the terror group in power in Gaza. Read More

The Supreme Court acted "literally in the middle of the night" and without sufficient explanation in blocking the Trump administration from deporting any Venezuelans held in northern Texas under an 18th-century wartime law, Justice Samuel Alito wrote in a sharp dissent that castigated the seven-member majority. Read More

Quebec doesn't plan to create any special measures to attract U.S.-based doctors and scientists seeking to flee that country over mass layoffs and cuts to health programs. Read More

Canada and Australia have shaken hands to end a potential diplomatic dust-up over a yeast-based spread that many Aussies like on toast and crackers. Read More

Pope Francis emerged from his convalescence on Easter Sunday to bless the thousands of people in St. Peter's Square and treat them to a surprise popemobile romp through the piazza, drawing wild cheers and applause as he continues his recovery from a near-fatal bout of double pneumonia. Read More

If it's daytime, odds are a lone box truck is cruising the streets between Toronto and Brampton, Ont., with no one behind the wheel. Read More

Arctic nations are shoring up their security and sovereignty in the Far North. It’s even a ballot box issue in Canada. But what’s quietly unfolding in the Russian Arctic also warrants our full attention; the stakes are higher than one might expect. Read More

At Passover — observed this week — divine liberation from a fearsome tyrant is solemnly remembered. The Pharaoh of ancient Egypt presided over a dominant imperial power. Deliverance for an enslaved people was miraculous. Read More

Among U.S. states, New Mexico is the only one to end the last four decades less economically free than it began, finds a recent report. Even worse, binding its residents in red tape and smothering them in government leaves its residents poorer. Sadly, even as a laggard that’s moving in the wrong direction on economic freedom, New Mexico still allows its residents more leeway when it comes to business, money, and property than all but two Canadian provinces. And its people, while poor relative to many Americans, are more prosperous than the residents of most Canadian provinces.  Read More

Re: Are older Liberal-voting Canadians selfish — or blind? — Jordan Peterson, April 11 Read More

PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif. — Carrying a tall wooden cross on his shoulder, Pastor John Shaver walked down the street where his church had stood, just three months ago. Read More

WHITBY, ONT.  — On this week’s Ivison video, regular guest Eugene Lang referred to “the trifecta — or what Van Morrison would call The Great Deception.” Read More