TORONTO -- Ten years ago, a dead raccoon on a downtown Toronto street sparked an impromptu sidewalk shrine as passersby laid flowers, candles and cigarettes around the critter. Read More

MONTREAL -- A nine-year-old Montreal girl whose body was found in a shallow pond in Upstate New York on the weekend died from asphyxia due to drowning, New York State Police said Tuesday as they continued their homicide investigation. Read More

MONTREAL -- A Quebec woman who travelled to Syria to join the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, and marry one of its fighters, has pleaded guilty to one count of participating in the activities of a terrorist group. Read More

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump rehashed longstanding grievances over the Russia investigation that shadowed much of his first term, lashing out Tuesday following a new report from his intelligence director aimed at casting doubt on long-established findings about Moscow’s interference in the 2016 election. Read More

VANCOUVER — The presence of second-hand fentanyl smoke is so severe at some British Columbia supportive housing facilities that workers cannot escape "substantial exposure," even if they stay in their offices and don't venture into hallways or tenants' rooms. Read More

On Monday, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and deputy leader Melissa Lantsman publicly deplored the seven-year sentence that might be facing Tamara Lich and Chris Barber on Wednesday. They were key organizers and spokespeople for the 2022 Freedom Convoy that eventually parked itself in downtown Ottawa and didn’t leave for three weeks. Read More

The Peel Regional Police on Tuesday announced a dozen arrests connected to 17 violent crimes that took place between May and December of 2024, and which resulted in the theft of almost $2 million in cars, jewellery, cash and more. Read More

Singer Ozzy Osbourne has died, the family said in a statement. Read More

Two Canadian soldiers posted to a base in eastern Alberta are expected to recover after a stabbing. Read More

The spirits industry says Canada's response to the U.S.-instigated trade war has led to sharply lower sales of booze from the U.S., as well as lower sales overall. Read More

A Montreal businessman has been charged with second-degree murder and the concealment of a corpse after the body of his nine-year daughter, Melina, was found over the weekend in New York state, where the two were are vacation. Here's what to know. Read More

Coke preferences can get pretty niche. People in Canada and the United States have long waxed lyrical about the Mexican version. (Though some claim Colombian Coke is even better.) One of the most common reasons fans give for seeking out the nostalgic, glass-bottled Mexican import comes down to the sweetener. Our southern-most North American neighbour uses sugar, while the Canadian and American versions contain high-fructose corn syrup. Read More

In the days following a disastrous debate against Donald Trump in the first U.S. presidential debate last summer, then-president Joe Biden eventually blamed fatigue for his poor showing that night. Read More

When was the last time you pulled out cash to pay for something? Many Canadians might have to think long and hard, especially if they're younger. Read More

The most entertaining part of the Trump-versus-Epstein conspiracy is that it's ensnared the U.S. president in his own make-believe, never-happened, deny-it-unto-death world, and it's hard to escape a world you invented and exist at the centre of. Read More

The CN Tower says all safety protocols were followed after a woman was stuck in an elevator, around 147 storeys high, last week with her husband and other patrons for 40 minutes. Read More

Air India said Tuesday that it had completed precautionary inspections on the locking mechanism of fuel control switches for select Boeing aircrafts, with "no issues" found. Read More

On the website of Hockey Canada there is a page that lists the organization’s “Premier Marketing Partners.” Read More

Nanaimo, B.C.'s downtown drug experiment has failed to stabilize its overdose rate. It has managed, however, to line the city’s oldest streets with feces, garbage, hit-and-runs, doorway fires and damaged property — a situation so bad that city council, just last week, considered fortifying its parking lot with a 1.8-metre fence. Read More

Seven years ago, Quebec Premier François Legault made a very unfortunate comment, calling oil from Alberta’s oil sands "dirty energy." “I am not embarrassed to refuse dirty energy while we are offering clean energy at a competitive price,” Legault said, rejecting the idea of a pipeline crossing Quebec’s territory to reach the port of Saint John, New Brunswick. Albertans were incensed, and rightfully so, considering that Quebec receives billions in equalization payments thanks, in part, to Alberta’s prosperity. Consider also that Quebecers consume millions of barrels of gas from the oil sands each year. Read More

Let’s stop pretending the Middle East is complicated. Read More

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney will be offering his update on trade talks with the White House when he sits down with the premiers Tuesday, while discussing their concerns as an Aug. 1 deadline for more tariffs rapidly approaches. Read More

The Trump administration has released records of the FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr., despite opposition from the slain Nobel laureate’s family and the civil rights group that he led until his 1968 assassination. Read More