Passengers can be at ease while travelling on Canadian carriers, some of the country's major airlines say, after a new study claims many U.S. airlines are using "potentially unhealthy water" for coffee, tea and hand-washing. Read More

Iran’s death toll from ongoing protests may be in the thousands, say activist groups, as U.S. President Donald Trump is urging Iranians to continue demonstrations against the regime of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Read More

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OTTAWA — As Prime Minister Mark Carney departs for Beijing this morning on a trip that will see him circle the globe, expectations — but also concerns — are high. Read More

US President Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened to take Greenland by force from NATO ally Denmark in order to keep the Arctic island from Beijing's hands. Read More

The Trump administration on Monday issued an urgent warning for U.S. citizens to leave Iran immediately, as protests in the country continue to intensify. Read More

Paris — U.S. President Donald Trump announced a 25 per cent tariff on any country doing business with Iran, ramping up pressure as a rights group estimated a crackdown on protests has killed at least 648 people. Read More

Stephen Spencer Pittman’s father called the FBI after his 19-year-old son admitted to setting fire intentionally to the only synagogue in Jackson, Miss., according to an affidavit that a federal agent filed with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi. Read More

Already a notoriously tough industry, Canadian restaurants are expected to be under pressure in 2026. After a "bloodbath" saw 7,000 restaurants shutter in 2025, a forecast from Dalhousie University's Agri-Food Analytics Lab (AAL) predicts that Canada will lose 4,000 restaurants on a net basis this year, with closures outpacing openings due to rising costs, reduced demand and falling alcohol sales. Read More

Freedom is the right to make your own decisions and guide your life as you please (for good or ill) in the absence of outside interference — in particular, without government meddling. Freedom applies in different areas of life, and we know that economic freedom leads to better outcomes including higher income, lower unemployment, reduced poverty, and greater overall wellbeing. So, Albertans should be proud that their province was recently ranked as the economically freest in Canada. Unfortunately, that only puts it in 30th place among the provinces and states of Canada, Mexico, and the U.S. Read More

A Turkish citizen who lost his refugee status in Canada after allegedly depositing counterfeit cheques at a Canadian bank and moving home for nine years has won another shot at regaining his status here as a protected person. Read More

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday wades into the hot-button issue of transgender athletes in girls' and women's sports. Read More

Finance ministers from the Group of Seven nations, along with officials from other countries, met Monday in Washington to discuss a path forward to “address vulnerabilities in critical minerals supply chains,” the Treasury department said in a statement. Read More

Canada is offering to contribute military assets to a multilateral force being proposed by Germany and Britain to boost NATO’s presence in Greenland, government sources said. Read More

The Canadian federation for the sport of skeleton is defending a decision to withdraw athletes from an international event on Sunday, a move a former U.S. Olympic athlete and two-time world champion alleges torpedoed her chance of attending a sixth Games. Read More

President Donald Trump said Monday that the United States would be "screwed" if the Supreme Court rules that some of his tariffs are illegal. Read More

Less than 40 per cent of CBC's reporting on the Israel-Hamas conflict was "balanced or neutral," finds a new study by a Jewish advocacy group. Read More

We’ve seen it before: mass demonstrations, demands for the fall of the Iranian regime, burning flags, falling statues. Protesters fill the streets, appearing to shake the foundation of the regime, but thugs loyal to the mullahs react with obscene violence, vague promises of reform are heard, and the incipient revolution fizzles out. But it is different this time. Read More

The U.K. is considering a ban on the social media platform X and is trying to gather international support for such a move. But Canada has said it won't be part of that, at least for now. Here's what to know. Read More

In King of Kings, his recounting of events leading to the 1979 fall of Iran's Pahlavi dynasty, author Scott Anderson depicts the crisis as a catastrophic mix of  failures: on the U.S. side hubris, ignorance, incompetence, and a fierce determination to ignore the obvious; on the Iranian side corruption, inequality, megalomania and a leader catastrophically blind to the impending storm. Read More

A B.C. judge has decided that a woman who believes Jesus Christ will help her fight allegations of recklessly discharging a gun is mentally fit to stand trial. Read More

One of the fugitives wanted for the high-profile $20-million Toronto airport gold heist was arrested Monday at the same airport from where the gold was stolen in 2023, after flying from Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. Read More

Cuba's leader on Monday reacted defiantly to President Donald Trump's threats to "make a deal" or pay the price in the aftermath of key ally Nicolas Maduro's ouster in a US military raid. Read More