There is no joy in Hogtown. Public transit has struck out. Again. After many years of construction and $3.7 billion spent, there is a new light-rail line on Finch Avenue West, in the city’s north end. It is 10.3 kilometres long, and almost entirely at grade. (For $360 million per kilometre, many places in the world can build fully underground heavy-rail subways. But the mystery of the North American infrastructure surcharge is a subject for another day.) Read More

The Liberal government concealed a deal with alleged "raging antisemite" Laith Marouf, two Conservative MPs say after they learned about it through a written inquiry. Read More

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has clapped back at remarks by Ontario Premier Doug Ford regarding a boycott of travel there by Canadians, suggesting it's not hurting his state as much as the premier says it is. Read More

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Hanukkah is one of the most joyous holidays on the Jewish calendar, but a pall was cast over this year's festivities on Sunday, when terrorists opened fire on a group of Jews celebrating the first night of the eight-day holiday on Bondi Beach in Australia. Read More

Prior to the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965, registering to vote in Alabama required passing a "literacy" test designed specifically to keep Blacks from casting ballots. Read More

NEW YORK — Any doubt that calls to “globalize the intifada” have fallen on deaf ears were dispelled over the weekend by the shooting in Sydney that has left 16 Jews dead and dozens injured at a beachside Hanukkah party in the heart of the city. The pair of gunmen, a father and son of Pakistani origin, were only prevented from causing further carnage by Sydney police — along with a brave bystander who literally body-slammed a shooter into submission. Read More

Having worked inside the corridors of power, I can say with certainty that most federal politicians appreciate the unique opportunity to represent a riding on Parliament Hill. Alas, I can also say with certainty that some incumbents believe they’re entitled to hold on to their ridings and never have to face a nomination battle until they lose or retire. Read More

Following the landmark Cowichan court ruling in August which declared private land title “defective and invalid” in areas over which Aboriginal title had been declared, the watchword from those who supported the decision was that everyone should calm down and not to be “alarmist.” Indeed that was the word used by the British Columbia Assembly of First Nations in their Oct. 23 news release on the topic, which blasted then B.C. Conservative Leader John Rustad for “selective discriminatory” and “alarmist” rhetoric. It is now clear Rustad was not nearly alarmist enough as the uncertainty chickens have firmly come home to roost in B.C.’s economy.  Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday he was classifying fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction, ramping up his administration's campaign against drug cartels in Latin America. Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday filed a lawsuit seeking at least US$10 billion from the BBC over a documentary that edited his 2021 speech to supporters ahead of the U.S. Capitol riot. Read More

SYDNEY, Australia -- A father and son were likely driven by "Islamic State ideology" when they fired on Bondi Beach in one of Australia's deadliest mass shootings, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Tuesday. Read More

Shock over a shooting rampage at Brown University over the weekend is giving way to frustration over the lack of video footage and suspects. Read More

The massacre unfolded over roughly nine or 10 minutes. Read More

HALIFAX  -- A Nova Scotia woman serving a life sentence for strangling her own daughter to death has been granted six months of day parole. Read More

Donald Trump faced a storm of condemnation on Monday after posting "perverse" and "sick" remarks suggesting Rob Reiner and his wife were murdered because of the celebrated filmmaker's criticism of the US president. Read More

OTTAWA — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she's keeping in mind that there's more than one way to get Alberta oil to the Pacific Coast. Read More

OTTAWA — Elections Canada says it will make a series of changes to how it handles special ballots in the coming months after a series of high-profile issues with mail-in votes during the last federal election.  Read More

Ahmed al Ahmed, the man being hailed as a hero around the world for disarming one of the gunmen during Australia's Bondi Beach terrorist attack Sunday, said he doesn’t regret putting his own life at risk to save others and would “do it again.” Read More

One of the victims of a deadly terror attack that targeted the Jewish community over the weekend at Australia's Bondi Beach was a Holocaust survivor who reportedly shielded his wife. Read More

If you filed your 2024 tax return on paper, the Canada Revenue Agency would like you to know that you won't automatically receive a paper version of the 2025 forms in the mail next year. Read More

As Jewish families across Australia gathered for the first night of Hanukkah at Bondi Beach, two ISIS-linked Islamist terrorists turned celebration into carnage, killing 15 innocent people and injuring dozens. Authorities identified the suspects in the deadly shooting as a 50-year-old man and his adult son. Several high-profile accounts on X claimed that the duo were of Pakistani-origin.   Read More

All the hostage-taking, election meddling and spy rings are being swept aside by a Liberal prime minister who, like the last one, seems only too eager to cozy up to China. That’s what Brian Lilley discusses with Charles Burton, former diplomat to China, and author of the new book, "The Beaver and the Dragon: How China Out-Manoeuvred Canada's Diplomacy, Security, and Sovereignty." Burton points out the alarming way Prime Minister Mark Carney has obligingly adopted Beijing’s spin on bilateral relations, even as the Communists continue to harm Canada, including with tariffs on agriculture. Chinese President Xi Jinping has succeeded in “subordinating” Carney, Burton says, while the dictator revs up more subversion and undermines what Burton believes is now the most Chinese-infiltrated country in the western world: ours. (Recorded Dec. 5, 2025.) Read More