OTTAWA — Deciding how long it will take for Alberta's industrial carbon tax to hit its new "minimum" of $130 per tonne should be based on what "industry can afford," says Alberta Premier Danielle Smith. Read More

MONTREAL — If now-backbench Liberal MP Steven Guilbeault was looking for sympathy, he won't find it from four of the five candidates vying to be the next NDP leader. Read More

Has the Doug Ford government absolutely run out of ideas? Read More

When Donald Trump welcomes the Group of 20 to his private golf resort in Miami next year, he’ll decide who’s on the guest list. Read More

The Alberta-based Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms has filed a legal challenge over Waterloo Region District School Board’s decision to mandate the reading of land acknowledgements at school council meetings, while prohibiting debate on the issue. Read More

Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith signed a memorandum of understanding on Thursday to work towards building a new pipeline to the West Coast. But don’t count the chickens just yet, as no eggs have actually hatched, and for all we know, they could be duds. Read More

NDP leadership candidates are taking part in the first official debate of the campaign Thursday evening in Montreal. Read More

OTTAWA — Former environment minister Steven Guilbeault is stepping down from cabinet, but staying on as a Liberal MP, in protest of his government's memorandum of understanding with Alberta to build a new oil pipeline towards the West Coast. Read More

Alberta’s use this month of the notwithstanding clause to shield three controversial laws from judicial scrutiny has more or less united the chattering classes in outrage. Even Amnesty International got in on the act, accusing Alberta of “violat(ing) the spirit of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.” Read More

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith credited former prime minister Justin Trudeau for creating the independence movement in her province, thanks to a litany of nine "bad laws" — and his successor, Mark Carney, for taking the wind out of separatism with "good policy that genuinely addresses the concerns of Albertans." Read More

A self-admitted "nasty drunk" sentenced to six years in prison nearly five years ago for killing a Halifax man with one punch has just been identified as a homicide victim. Read More

One of the two members of the National Guard who were shot while patrolling in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday has died, according to U.S. President Donald Trump. Read More

Canadian ambassador Jennifer May says her country is working rapidly on key issues it has with China aiming to strengthen bilateral ties, according to a report in a state-controlled Chinese newspaper. Read More

Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith signed a memorandum of understanding on Thursday that is aimed at "establishing Canada as a global energy superpower" and paving the way for a new oil pipeline. The pact will suspend clean electricity regulations in Alberta in exchange for an extension of Alberta's industrial carbon pricing program. It also commits Carney's government to considering an “adjustment” to the federal oil tanker ban off British Columbia’s coast. Read More

OTTAWA — As Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith celebrated the signing of a new energy and pipeline pact on Thursday, a government source close to Liberal cabinet minister Steven Guilbeault, a former environment minister, says he is reflecting on his future. Read More

Winnipeg International Airport has just become the latest in Canada to be outfitted with new computed tomography (CT) X-ray scanners, part of an initiative to update technology and speed up security checks. Read More

The United States said it would be stopping immigration requests relating to Afghan nationals "indefinitely" late Wednesday night, following the shooting of two National Guard members in Washington, D.C. Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Canada has fared pretty well amid U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war so far. As Prime Minister Mark Carney likes to point out, the country has the best trade deal going with the United States, thanks to the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA), with over 85 per cent of exports to America being tariff-free. The trouble is, that could change in the year ahead as the 2026 joint review of CUSMA gets underway. Read More

South Africa denounced US President Donald Trump's decision to bar it from the 2026 G20 summit, calling the move punitive and driven by distortions that erode global cooperation. Read More

Two prisoners escaped from a French jail using bed sheets after sawing through the bars of their cell, a prosecutor said Thursday. Read More

Hong Kong's worst fire in almost 80 years killed at least 65 people in an eight-building apartment complex, with more than 250 people still missing. Read More

It’s taken less than a year for a sense of chaos and confusion to descend upon Donald Trump’s second spin in the White House — at least in his home base in Washington, D.C. Read More

The Israel Defense Forces struck and dismantled Hezbollah terrorist infrastructure in several areas in Southern Lebanon on Thursday, the military said. Read More

Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, was reportedly identified as the gunman who shot two National Guard members in Washington, not far from the White House, in what the FBI is said to be probing as a terror attack. Read More