OTTAWA — The Easter long weekend saw a record 7.3 million Canadians vote in advance polls, according to preliminary data from Elections Canada. Read More

NORTH VANCOUVER -- Those aboard a disabled BC Ferries vessel had their destination in sight as it sat in the water for hours waiting to be pushed to shore by a tugboat on Monday. Read More

A Delta Air Lines airplane caught fire on Monday before it was supposed to take off at a central Florida airport, forcing the evacuation of passengers, airport officials said. Read More

HADERA, Israel (AP) -- Israeli police on Tuesday were scouring the coast for a swimmer they fear may have been attacked by a shark in an area that has long seen close encounters between marine predators and beachgoers who sometimes seek them out. Read More

Mark Carney gave a heck of a performance at a Monday press conference in Fredericton. Political newbie he may be, but when it comes to casual Liberal hypocrisy and entitlement, he might as well have been born in a manger in Shawinigan. Read More

With just days to go before election day and millions of Canadians already having voted, both the Liberal and Conservative parties have finally dropped their full platforms. And the two are as different in substance, structure and style as the two campaigns — for better and worse.  Read More

A United Airlines plane bound for Edmonton, Alberta was forced to make an emergency landing after a rabbit was sucked into the engine earlier this month, according to audio recording of the flight. Read More

This month, the Canada Revenue Agency is sending out its final Canada Carbon Rebate payments to eligible Canadians. But the CRA has also announced that it may have overpaid some individuals, and it wants that money back. Read More

OTTAWA — Pierre Poilievre's Conservatives aren't promising to balance the budget in a first term of government, thanks to a bevy of tax cuts and $34 billion in new spending, according to their costed platform released Tuesday. Read More

Canadians are exasperated with the crime, violence and drug use that has swept through their cities over the past decade. While the Liberals have promised to fix these issues should they be reelected, it is clear from their platform that they aren’t taking this file seriously.   Read More

The 2025 election is already featuring a record-shattering level of voter turnout. Elections Canada has reported that an all-time high of two million voters turned out for the first day of advance voting on Saturday. As this newsletter has covered often, voter turnout is the variable to watch in this election. Many electoral projections are based on the 2021 and 2019 elections, both of which featured disproportionately low rates of voter turnout. If 2025 turns into a high-turnout election, it could easily turn a lot of those predictions on their heads. Read More

BAIE-SAINT-PAUL, QUE — The Bloc Québécois seems to be climbing back in the polls with less than a week to go before election day. Read More

Pope Francis will be laid to rest Saturday after lying in state for three days in St. Peter's Basilica, where the faithful are expected to flock to pay their respects to history's first Latin American pontiff. Read More

SAINT-LAMBERT, QUE — Alexandra Mendès didn't know she had cancer when she was trying to oust former prime minister Justin Trudeau. Read More

Actor and stand-up comedian Jim Gaffigan was more than a little surprised at the anti-American vitriol he noticed during a recent performance in Vancouver. What's worse, he couldn't even drown his sorrow in a glass of Kentucky bourbon at the bar, since American booze has been pulled from most shelves amid the ongoing trade war between the two countries. Read More

April is Genocide Remembrance, Condemnation, and Prevention Month — a time for solemn reflection on humanity’s darkest chapters. For the Jewish community, this month holds even deeper meaning, as it bridges the end of Passover and the commemoration of Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. But this year, remembrance alone is not enough. As we mark 80 years since liberation, we must confront an alarming reality: antisemitism is once again on the rise, and it’s being supercharged by the unchecked spread of hate and misinformation online. Read More

I have dedicated my life to serving and protecting Canadians. As a police officer, I dealt with many people battling addiction who desperately needed to get off the streets and into recovery. I also locked up drug traffickers who preyed on vulnerable people with addiction. As a military reservist, I proudly helped guard Canada’s border. As an elected official in recovery myself, I have been in the trenches for the past few years fighting back against radical NDP-Liberal drug and soft-on-crime policies that have fuelled addiction, death and crime. I have advanced recovery-focused policies, called for tougher sentences for drug traffickers and kingpins, and for solutions to stop the flow of deadly fentanyl into Canada. I feel qualified to speak on drug policy. Read More

Liberal Leader Mark Carney released his plan over the weekend to spend $130 billion over the next four years and rack up a deficit of $62 billion — and, because he calls it “investing,” he expects Canadians to trust it. Read More

DELTA, B.C. — First-time Conservative candidate Jessy Sahota hopes to punch his ticket to the notoriously quarrelsome House of Commons in next Monday's election, but he could easily have ended up in a much different arena of combat. Read More

OTTAWA — While Liberal Leader Mark Carney may be Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre's main rival this election, Bruce Fanjoy could be considered his second. Read More

April is a great time to catch up on some great Canadian reading — just like every other month on the calendar. Read More

The Riveter Read More

Sir John A. Macdonald & the Apocalyptic Year 1885 Read More

Dream Count Read More

With Virgin Atlantic returning to Toronto after a 10-year absence, first-time passengers will surely thrill to Canada’s vast expanses as they soar across the ocean from congested London. Perhaps less known to neophytes, they will also be cruising over a vast graveyard, figuratively speaking, of failed transatlantic carriers. Read More

Easter Sunday has come and gone, but the message of happiness and hope lingers. Read More

It's been nearly three years since Pope Francis travelled to Canada to apologize for the Catholic Church's role in residential schools. But for some Indigenous survivors, memories of the historic day remain fresh in their minds. Read More

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