A Toronto man who claimed a $1-million lottery prize has been charged with keeping the winnings for himself instead of splitting it with a shared group of buyers. Read More

You’ve probably heard the term “horseshoe theory” thrown around in recent years. It’s the idea that on the political extremes, where dwell communists and Nazis, fascists and socialists, partisans of authoritarianism have more in common with one another than they do with advocates of personal liberty and limited government. In the abstract, it means the real divide isn’t between left and right, but between control and freedom. In practical application, it helps explain why Republican U.S. President Donald J. Trump could have such a friendly meeting with his theoretical nemesis, democratic socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Read More

Canadian chocolatiers aren’t messing around this holiday season. They’ve got every craving and sweet tooth on your list covered — and then some. Here are four home and native brands and a sampling (written, not physical — sorry!) of what they’ve got in store. Read More

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A 14-year dispute over tennis that veered into a bizarre feud between a wealthy Canadian businessman and an American billionaire — both reclusive, fierce personalities — has reached some conclusion with a jury in Florida delivering a US$50 million blow to the Canadian. Read More

OTTAWA — A new report has found that nearly 40 per cent of Canadian teens who say they have been sexually victimized online say it happened on the private messaging platform Snapchat.  Read More

Canada must offer Ukraine whatever support it can amid this week’s tense peace negotiations with the United States. Although our influence is limited, our national interests would be harmed if Kyiv were to be bullied into a bad deal with Russia. Read More

Last week, a Global News investigation uncovered that roughly 450 individuals with various roles inside Hamas have ties to Canada and are currently under scrutiny by CSIS. These include Canadian citizens, permanent residents, and others with relatives or associates here. Read More

A Somali woman barred from Canada for five years for giving false names and birth dates for herself and her two children while applying for refugee status here, dodging the fact that she had entered into a polygamous marriage with a Canadian-Somali man, has won another chance at staying in this country. Read More

OTTAWA — The federal justice minister says an upcoming bill will propose changes to restore mandatory minimum sentences for the possession and access of child pornography recently struck down by Canada’s top court.  Read More

Russia and Ukraine exchanged fire early Tuesday with heavy air raids on Kyiv and assaults on southern Russian areas, just hours after President Donald Trump struck a positive tone on prospects for a ceasefire deal. Read More

Those tiny, fluffy dogs walking down the street may look cute but beware — they probably have some wolf in them. Read More

Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith have agreed to the broad terms of a deal that would support a new oil pipeline to Canada’s west coast, the CBC reported Monday. Read More

The Justice Department again asked federal judges to unseal grand jury material from the criminal cases against Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, citing the recently enacted law on Epstein documents. Read More

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) announced on Monday that it is formally ending its emergency aid mission to the coastal enclave. Read More

President Donald Trump ordered his administration to study labelling some parts of the Muslim Brotherhood as foreign terrorist organizations, a step toward fulfilling his longtime goal of slapping the designation on the broader group. Read More

OTTAWA — Brookfield chief operating officer Justin Beber appeared at the House of Commons ethics committee on Monday, but unlike the Canadian singer with a nearly identical name, his presence did not create waves of excitement. Read More

An analysis of dozens of studies involving almost 100,000 participants found that exposure to short-form videos (SFVs) like those on TikTok and Instagram is contributing to a host of mental health conditions. Read More

The Pentagon has started a probe into Democratic Senator Mark Kelly after U.S. President Donald Trump called for punishing a group of lawmakers who publicly advised intelligence community and military members to disobey orders that would break the law. Read More

A federal judge threw out the criminal charges against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, ruling that the prosecutor who brought the cases had been illegally appointed. Read More