OTTAWA — The federal government provided private security for close protection or to guard the home of 22 candidates in the last federal election amid a rise in threats and intimidation towards politicians. Read More

Former President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, his office said Sunday. Read More

Wildfires have forced more than 800 residents to evacuate their northwestern Ontario First Nation. Read More

A 25-year-old man the FBI believes was responsible for an explosion that ripped through a Southern California fertility clinic left behind "anti-pro-life" writings before carrying out an attack investigators are calling an act of terrorism, authorities said Sunday. Read More

A village in Quebec's Far North has declared a state of emergency after a fire ravaged two homes in the community, which is already struggling with a months-long water shortage. Read More

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent acknowledged Sunday that Walmart, the largest U.S. retailer, may pass along some of the costs from President Donald Trump's tariffs to its shoppers through higher prices. Read More

An early-morning crash has torn one family apart, Toronto police said Sunday as they announced three children had died in a collision allegedly caused by an impaired teen driver. Read More

Canada’s finance minister said the government kept 25 per cent retaliatory tariffs on tens of billions of dollars in U.S. goods, disputing a report from a research firm that suggested it had paused the vast majority of those levies. Read More

Prime Minister Mark Carney had a brief audience with Pope Leo XIV Sunday afternoon at the Vatican following the pontiff’s inaugural mass in St. Peter’s Square. Read More

Federal transportation officials have launched an investigation into why a Mexican navy tall ship hit the Brooklyn Bridge in a collision that snapped the vessel’s three masts, killed two crew members and left some sailors dangling from harnesses high in the air. Read More

Prime Minister Mark Carney says the Liberal government will present a federal budget in the fall, allowing time for clarity on some key economic and fiscal issues to emerge. Read More

Each morning, travellers and cargo take off from Montreal's Trudeau airport for a 1,600-kilometre flight to Puvirnituq in northern Quebec aboard a nearly 50-year-old Air Inuit plane. Read More

Prime Minister Mark Carney reaffirmed Canada's "steadfast and unwavering support" for Ukraine in his first meeting with the country's president on Saturday in Rome. Read More

Ben Woodfinden, the 31-year-old former director of communications for Pierre Poilievre, understands the challenges faced by younger Canadians. Ten years of a Liberal-led, no-growth government, Ben laments, "means they live in a country that doesn’t work for them anymore.” They want change. Read More

Transit projects are becoming more and more troublesome in Canada. But it doesn't have to be that way. Read More

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s cabinet hasn’t even been around a week, and it’s produced what should be a month’s worth of gaffes. It’s an omen so bad that even many Carney backers are slumping in disappointment, taken by surprise at how swiftly their hopes were dashed. Read More

Forty years ago a light-hearted moment in Parliament indicated darker days ahead. Read More

Re: Poilievre says Guilbeault is a threat to national unity after pipeline comments — Rahim Mohamed, May 15; and Carney's cabinet has too many 'downtown Toronto, urban progressives' — John Ivison, May 14 Read More

Pope Leo XIV, history’s first American pope, vowed Sunday to work for unity so that the Catholic Church becomes a symbol of peace in the world, offering a message of communion during an inaugural Mass in St. Peter’s Square before an estimated 200,000 pilgrims, presidents, patriarchs and princes. Read More

Elections Canada has confirmed NDP incumbent Lori Idlout has won the riding of Nunavut over Liberal challenger Kilikvak Kabloona. Read More

President Donald Trump on Saturday ripped into Walmart, saying on social media that the retail giant should eat the additional costs created by his tariffs. Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump said that he plans to speak by phone Monday with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, followed by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and leaders of various NATO countries, about ending the war in Ukraine. Read More

Storm systems sweeping across parts of the U.S. Midwest and South have left at least 23 people dead, many of them in Kentucky, where what appeared to be a devastating tornado crumbled buildings and flipped over a car on an interstate. Read More

Auston Matthews got his first goal of the series to break a scoreless tie in the third period, Joseph Woll stopped 21 shots and the Toronto Maple Leafs kept their season alive by beating the Florida Panthers 2-0 in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference semifinal series Friday night. Read More

Evacuation orders remain in place for the Rural Municipality of Lac du Bonnet as crews continue to battle wildfires in eastern Manitoba. Read More

Prime Minister Mark Carney reaffirmed Canada’s “steadfast and unwavering support” for Ukraine in his first meeting with the country’s president on Saturday in Rome. Read More

Happy North America Day! Don’t laugh. There was a time when policy-makers, political theorists, business leaders, economists and politicians would have raised glasses of trilateral Canadian whiskey, American bourbon and Mexican tequila to toast a grand concept: “Here’s to the union of our three glorious nations into a North American Community!” Some even took the idea further: “Let us drink to a United North America!” Read More

When the federal government spends your money — and it is most definitely your money — one of the ways it is held accountable is by presenting an annual budget. Read More

After the Conservatives' federal election loss, some Albertans frustrated with Liberal government policies are rallying for separation from Canada. Recently, hundreds of separatists held a rally at the Alberta legislature, angered at the province's place within confederation. Read More

Ten men broke out of a New Orleans jail Friday in an audacious overnight escape by fleeing through a hole behind a toilet and scaling a wall while the lone guard assigned to their cell pod was away getting food, authorities said. Read More

OTTAWA -- A group representing big foreign streamers told a CRTC hearing Friday that those companies shouldn't be expected to fulfil the same responsibilities as traditional broadcasters when it comes to Canadian content. Read More

CALGARY -- A Crown prosecutor is calling for a Calgary couple who killed their badly burned and emaciated toddler to be sentenced to eight years in prison. Read More

OTTAWA -- The Industrial Inquiry Commission report on the labour dispute at Canada Post recommends phasing out daily door-to-door letter mail delivery for individual addresses, while daily delivery to businesses should be maintained. Read More

OTTAWA — Canada and other countries should not give up on doing business with the United States, former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley said Friday at the B7 summit conference in Ottawa. Read More

Some of the last words of Valeria Marquez, the Mexican influencer who was shot and killed Tuesday during a TikTok livestream in her beauty salon on the outskirts of Guadalajara, Mexico, were: "Maybe they were going to kill me. Were they going to come and take me away, or what? I’m worried." Read More

The May long weekend is when gasoline prices tend to start levelling off ahead of the high-demand summer driving season. Read More

An Ontario iron worker who tried to have a threesome with his highly intoxicated wife after she passed out has been sentenced to three years in prison. Read More

LONDON — Grammy-winning singer Chris Brown was ordered held in custody after appearing Friday in a British courtroom to face a charge that he seriously beat a music producer in a London nightclub in 2023. Read More