OTTAWA — With time ticking down until the Liberals launch their long-awaited "buyback" program for government-banned firearms, the federal government confirmed on Wednesday that only 25 guns were turned over as part of a test run.  Read More

The Trump administration released updated nutrition guidelines that bring back a revamped version of the food pyramid, while urging people to eat less sugar and more protein. Read More

Policing issues in the United Kingdom’s third-largest urban area wouldn’t normally interest Canadians. But Craig Guildford, chief constable of the West Midlands Police (Birmingham being the biggest city under his watch) is currently in very hot water of a sort that some Canadian police chiefs should be, perhaps, as well. A Nov. 6 Europa League soccer match between storied Birmingham club Aston Villa and storied Israeli club Maccabi Tel Aviv, which was contested in front of roughly 43,000 empty seats, has become emblematic of Jews in the U.K. essentially being punished for their own persecution. And it happens here too. Read More

The owner of a Toronto sex toy shop says the business has received two letters from the U.S. Department of War asking it to stop sending butt-plugs to its Bahrain naval base in the Persian Gulf.  Read More

OTTAWA — The federal government estimates there are nearly 2,500 businesses or people in Canada working surreptitiously on behalf of foreign states to influence local politics and governments who will need to register publicly. Read More

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer fatally shot a woman during a confrontation in Minneapolis, sparking anger from local officials over the presence of ICE agents in the city. Read More

Another Canadian member of Parliament has revealed that the Liberals have invited her to cross the floor to their side of the House of Commons, tipping it in their favour to form a majority government. Read More

Diana Fox Carney, the usually low-profile wife of Prime Minister Mark Carney, not only attended the opening of a women's-only hockey rink in Sydney, Nova Scotia, on Tuesday — she strapped on her skates and tested it out. Read More

While many brands are looking to modernize, Montreal-based clothing brand Kanuk is returning to its roots. Read More

A phone call proved costly for the CRA after a collections officer "provided minimal reasoning" to a Toronto financial firm for refusing to refund $879,092.36 collected for allegedly owed GST. As a result, the federal tax agency has been ordered by the Federal Court of Canada to pay $9,500 in legal costs. Read More

Denmark and Greenland are seeking a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, hoping to calm tensions between the two countries after the Trump administration doubled down on its intention to take over the Danish territory. Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The new year began with a stark demonstration of U.S. power on Jan. 3 when American forces conducted a military raid in Caracas to seize Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro. Read More

Prime Minister Mark Carney will make an official visit to China next week as his government tries to rebuild relations with the Asian superpower and reduce Canada’s economic reliance on the US. Read More

In the middle of the night on Jan. 3, my WhatsApp lit up with hundreds of messages, videos and reports describing unfolding events in Caracas and other cities throughout Venezuela. Confusion gave way to elation when the news finally broke: Nicolás Maduro was in U.S. custody. Read More

Shortly after the American military operation to capture left-wing Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, a key regional ally of Cuba, large-scale protests were organized in front of the American embassy in Havana, encouraged by the Cuban government. Read More

A drunk driver who killed a Somali immigrant and severely injured her daughter when he ran them over as they were walking across a Niagara Falls intersection, then fled the scene only to crash into two parked cars a short distance away, has been sentenced to eight years in prison. Read More

“Living next to you, is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.” — Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, 1969.  Read More

A major geopolitical fault line shifted Saturday morning, as the United States arrested Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro after a quarter century of socialist tyranny. Read More

Although Latin Americans are widely celebrating the United States’ abduction of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro, some voices, predominantly western progressives, have condemned the operation as destabilizing, illegal and immoral. Don’t listen to them: their arguments are specious and rife with contradictions.   Read More

Leslie Burns and her husband Michael have wintered in Tavernier, a small, laid-back community in the Florida Keys, since 2010. The Collingwood, Ont., couple doesn't see themselves as tourists anymore. "We stay in a residential neighbourhood and do our best to blend in," Leslie said from their long-term winter rental where the weather reached 21 degrees Celsius this week under "Windex-blue" skies. Read More

Would Jews be safer from intimidation and harassment if they told the police that their synagogues, community centres and schools were abortion clinics? Canada is vigilant about the serene operation of the latter, and somnolent about safety at the former. Read More

OTTAWA — Referendum talk is heating up in both Quebec and Alberta to start the year, but the pro-independence talk is coming from opposite sides of the political spectrum. Read More

PARIS — Ukraine's Western allies on Tuesday agreed key security guarantees for Kyiv including a U.S.-led monitoring mechanism and a European multinational force that would be deployed after a ceasefire in Russia's war against its neighbour. Read More

It is unfortunate that Chrystia Freeland decided to accept an economic-development position from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy with a quintessentially flaky Trudeauvian flourish: Instead of resigning her seat in the House of Commons immediately after taking on a role in a foreign government, as anyone halfway sane would have advised her to, she first said nothing about it, and then 12 hours later said she would step down “in the coming weeks.” So the MP for University—Rosedale is now at least nominally in a position of stewardship over the economic redevelopment of a war-ravaged country halfway around the world with roughly the same population as Canada’s. Read More