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Prominent Ontario lawyer Deepak Paradkar had his law licence suspended Friday while criminal courts in two countries deal with shocking allegations of him being a member of a powerful cocaine cartel, including helping orchestrate the murder of a U.S. government witness Read More

Air Canada has prevailed in the Federal Court against a recent Canadian Transportation Agency decision that the judge said lacked “common sense.”  Read More

Streaming giant Netflix said Friday it will buy film and television studio Warner Bros. Discovery for nearly $83 billion, the entertainment industry's biggest consolidation deal this decade. Read More

A Toronto model says her Uber driver kicked her out of the vehicle into the dark night because she was Jewish. Read More

Our cookbook of the week is Let's Party by Dan Pelosi, a.k.a. GrossyPelosi. Read More

Canada continues to drift into darkness. These past few weeks, I have written about what I would call the flag of terror (the Palestinian flag) shamelessly raised over our cities. This is the same flag worn this week by Hamas terrorists on their fatigues as they delivered the body of Sudthisak Rinthalak to the Red Cross. He was a Thai farmer kidnapped on October 7th who they murdered in cold blood. Shame on us for raising this flag that, for many people, connotes murder, rape and violence. Read More

The federal Liberals are holding 43 per cent of support amongst decided Canadian voters, maintaining a lead over the Conservatives, who dropped two points last month to 36 per cent, according to a new Postmedia-Leger poll. Read More

British Columbians are understandably perplexed as to why their provincial government is going headlong down an economically devastating, undemocratic and divisive "reconciliation" path that is so obviously counter to the public interest. Read More

Two thirds of Canadians support sending our troops to countries such as Poland if Russia invades, according to a new Postmedia-Leger poll. Read More

In Canada, young men are in a state of crisis. The federal government’s own data on unemployment, drug overdoses, educational attainment, homelessness, mental health and crime overwhelmingly support this claim. That is, to anyone seriously and honestly willing to look at the facts. Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — With the government's new energy deal with Alberta, including plans for an oil pipeline to the West Coast, Prime Minister Mark Carney is determined to forge a new export route to gain leverage in trade talks with Washington. Read More

A divided U.S. Supreme Court cleared Texas to use a new Republican-drawn congressional map for next year’s election, bolstering GOP hopes of picking up as many as five new House seats in the state. Read More

OTTAWA — After more than a month and a half of fighting, a Commons committee finally received an unredacted copy of a controversial funding agreement worth hundreds of millions of dollars from Ottawa to auto giant Stellantis Thursday. Read More

Israel will be allowed to compete in next year’s Eurovision Song Contest after participating broadcasters dropped a proposed ballot on the issue, following reforms aimed at improving the event’s “transparency and neutrality,” the European Broadcasting Union stated on Thursday. Read More

Ontario Auditor General Shelley Spence’s critique of Ontario health care is weak and outdated, which is surprising considering that Spence devoted the majority of her annual report to the topic, offering three separate audits. Read More

WASHINGTON -- A Virginia man was arrested on Thursday for allegedly planting pipe bombs near the Democratic and Republican party headquarters on the eve of the January 6, 2021 U.S. Capitol riot, officials said. Read More

Former prime minister Justin Trudeau and pop star Katy Perry shared a meal with former Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida and his wife, Yuko, in Tokyo this week. Read More

During the Great Fire of Rome in 64 AD that destroyed three-quarters of the capital city, legend has it that Emperor Nero caused the massive blaze to erupt. Some suspected he had secretly sent out a parade of drunken fools to burn it to the ground in hopes of rebuilding it in his own image. Nero showed a general indifference to what was happening. He played the lyre in his palace, as the story goes, while the flames destroyed Roman art, architecture, and centuries of history. Read More

A resounding majority of Air Transat pilots said Wednesday they are ready to go on strike next week, just ahead of the holiday travel season, should airline management fail to table a “modern contract.” Read More

Once upon a time, there was a provincial justice minister who abhorred a new, far-more-expensive-than-originally-quoted federal gun program that infringed upon the lives of private citizens. So, he decided not to enforce any of it. Read More

OTTAWA —The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops appealed to Prime Minister Mark Carney in an open letter Thursday, asking the Liberals to reconsider their support for amending a bill to remove religious defences from Canada's hate speech laws. Read More

An anti-Israel protest outside a debate on "the two-state solution" featuring prominent Israelis turned ugly on Wednesday, with two activists arrested and two others removed from Toronto's Meridian Hall. Read More

A Canadian man accused of heading a multi-billion-dollar global drug syndicate has been sentenced to 16 years in prison in Australia after three years of secret, closed court hearings. Read More