Donald Trump’s firm control of Washington showed signs of weakening Tuesday as nearly all House Republicans voted to compel the Justice Department to release its files on sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, whose earlier ties to the president have been the subject of intense scrutiny. Read More

OTTAWA — The cost of the federal bureaucracy increased last year by $6 billion — or nine per cent — over the previous year, new government figures show, and has now jumped 80 per cent over the last decade.  Read More

The national director of a Jewish charity says he was told by the Canada Revenue Agency that it was audited due to being "pressured" by "outside sources." This week, Herut Canada became the third Jewish charity to have its status revoked since last year. Read More

A Canadian Christian group is suing Quebec City under the Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms after the municipality cancelled a show by U.S. Christian musician Sean Feucht. Read More

The 1960s were a time of rose-coloured optimism, when the idea of a better life swept in with cultural change and new-found convenience. In North American homes, we saw new products in bold colours and innovative materials — and relying on them became a way of life for many. Read More

Métis leader Louis Riel was hanged 140 years ago on Nov. 16, 1885. Prime Minister Mark Carney took time out of being booed at the Grey Cup for a nation-to-nation hug with David Chartrand, president of the Manitoba Métis Federation. Relying on Liberal talking points, Carney said that Riel wanted a “more inclusive Canada.” Now that the festivities are over, let’s think about Riel’s true impact upon the Métis and upon Canada. Read More

A flight from Dallas to Chicago was forced to make an emergency landing in St. Louis on Sunday morning due to an alleged bomb threat, according to reports and authorities. Read More

Politics over principle is hardly a new story in Ottawa, but Tuesday’s budget vote provided a master class. For weeks the Conservatives huffed and puffed and threatened to blow the Liberals’ house down over their big spending ways. Conversely, the Bloc opposed the budget over its lack of spending on seniors. Green Leader Elizabeth May couldn’t support the budget’s boost for fossil fuels, while the NDP grumbled about cuts to the public service. To add to the intrigue, Conservative MP Chris d’Entremont bolted across the aisle and joined the government, while fellow Tory Matt Jeneroux announced he was resigning his seat … in the spring. The government then survived two confidence votes on opposition motions, thanks to abstentions, and everyone went home for a week-long break prior to the big vote on Monday. Read More

Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene excoriated Donald Trump’s protracted resistance to releasing investigative files on Jeffrey Epstein as damaging to the populist Republican movement the president helped build. Read More

An Indigenous offender who got a "huge break" when a judge gave him house arrest for sexually assaulting a woman who was celebrating her engagement to another man just got another one for violating the conditions of his sentence. Read More

X and many internet services are working again after a Cloudflare outage on Tuesday morning. Read More

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More Canadian residents distrust refugees than trust them, with the lowest levels of trust in refugees expressed by immigrants and non-whites, according to a new national public opinion poll. Read More

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This should have been an easy fight to win. The Legault government was aiming to do something that no previous government of Quebec had been able to achieve: changing doctors’ remuneration regime in order to tie it to their performance. The powerful MDs’ unions would huff, puff and blow. But in the end, doctors being seen as spoiled prima donnas, the public would side with the government. Read More

In a development that went largely unnoticed, Liberal MP Salma Zahid recently tabled a petition in the House of Commons urging the federal government to admit members of Jamaat-e-Islami — Bangladesh’s largest Islamist party. The petition noted that in the past, some members of Jamaat-e-Islami had been deemed inadmissible to Canada on security grounds. However, it argued that the group “has engaged in democratic processes and governance in Bangladesh” and that members seeking asylum in Canada are “law-abiding citizens who uphold democratic values.” It urged the government to ensure they receive “fair and just treatment.” Read More

Last week, the CBC’s Fifth Estate — which bills itself as “Canada's premier investigative documentary program” — released a 43-minute film on the country’s “safer supply” experiment. Despite claiming impartiality, the doc is hamfisted propaganda for the harm reduction movement, and provides yet another case study of why the CBC needs to be defunded. Read More

When the entire fine art collection of the bankrupt Hudson’s Bay Company goes under the auctioneer’s gavel on Wednesday, it will include major works worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Read More

A "waterfront gem" in the heart of downtown Halifax has taken first place in Air Canada's Best New Restaurants 2025 Top 10 list. Mystic, led by chef Malcolm Campbell, opened its doors last September, blending the bounty of Nova Scotia's land and sea with global influences. Read More

BEIJING -- Chinese media and ordinary citizens expressed outrage Monday towards Japan, as an escalating diplomatic spat threatens to wreck relations strained by historical grievances and strategic rivalry. Read More