North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw the test of an upgraded large-caliber multiple rocket system designed for specific attacks as the nation seeks to raise its deterrent against nuclear war, state media reported on Wednesday. Read More

Brazil's Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and France's Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday defended the United Nations in the wake of U.S. President Donald Trump's creation of a "Board of Peace." Read More

Police in California say a woman is now facing charges after video circulated on social media showing a toddler falling out of a moving vehicle she was allegedly driving. Read More

OTTAWA —  NDP leadership hopefuls Heather McPherson and Rob Ashton are stressing their differences from social activist Avi Lewis as the party's leadership race hits a critical juncture. Read More

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney plans to make a potentially important visit to India in the next couple of months, government officials have confirmed, as Canada continues efforts to diversify trade, attract investment and mend international fences.  Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump said Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem would remain in her post despite the president’s decision to reshuffle the leadership running his deportation effort in Minnesota following widespread outcry over the killing of two U.S. citizens by federal agents. Read More

Starbucks Corp. is mandating that Chief Executive Officer Brian Niccol use the company’s private jet for all his travel, including personal trips, while removing a previous restriction that would have required him to reimburse some travel expenses. Read More

Prime Minister Mark Carney has had a busy week. A major international speech at Davos that garnered plaudits around the world. An address to the nation designed to rouse Canadian patriotism and rebut U.S. President Donald Trump. An announcement of GST relief to steal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s thunder on affordability, one week before Poilievre faces a leadership review vote. And polls that show Carney’s approval rating soaring, and his party in majority territory.  Read More

Italian officials protested US plans to deploy some ICE staff at this year’s Winter Olympics, underscoring how the agency’s role in an immigration crackdown at home is stirring opposition overseas. Read More

A B.C. judge ruled “imprisonment is necessary” for a man who took revenge on an ex-girlfriend who rejected him by posting dozens of images and videos of her to Pornhub without her knowledge or permission, content that piled up almost 14,000 views. Read More

OTTAWA — Federal Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree says there are no plans to change the budget available for firearms owners eyeing compensation for turning over their prohibited weapons.  Read More

Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered two major speeches last week. The first, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, was warmly applauded by many Quebecers. Read More

The European Union and India concluded a free-trade agreement after almost two decades of negotiations, part of an effort to deepen economic ties that has gained momentum due to the Trump administration’s aggressive tariff policies. Read More

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney told reporters on Tuesday he stands by his recent Davos speech that implicitly criticized the United States, after U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent told Fox News the prime minister walked back his remarks while speaking to the U.S. president. Read More

Since Oct. 7, 2023, the world has changed for Jews everywhere. The brutality of the attacks in Israel was followed almost immediately by something else — a global wave of antisemitism that spread with alarming speed and intensity. The joyous celebrations of these atrocities the world over and the spiralling rise in hatred against Jews fills me with dread. What shocked me most was not only the hatred itself, but how quickly it surfaced, how openly it was expressed and how little moral resistance there seemed to be. Read More

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A man who got burned while serving himself oatmeal at an Air Canada lounge will not receive compensation, according to a B.C. tribunal. Read More

Holocaust survivor Hedy Bohm says there are similarities between the time leading up to Nazi rule in Germany, and eventually Europe, and antisemitic incidents that are happening in Canada now. Read More

As U.S. President Donald Trump's threat of 100 per cent tariffs against Canada looms, a new report has found that the ongoing trade war resulted in restaurant operators spending an average of 37 per cent more on food. Read More

There is a reason why the United States and Canada consider China a “non-market economy.” Read More

EDMONTON — Canada is careening towards multiple constitutional crises at once and virtually no one, least of all the prime minister, is making the argument for this country to stick together. Read More

The communications gurus of the "algorithm age" tell us that attention spans are limited, complex argumentation is antiquated and formal speeches are anachronistic, best written by artificial intelligence, reduced to memes or replaced by rants. Read More

U.S. federal agents have killed another protester in Minneapolis. The lethal shooting of Alex Pretti appears even more egregiously unjustified than the similar killing of Renee Good. The continued siege of the state of Minnesota by the Trump administration is not only repelling Americans who once supported the president’s hard line on immigration, but also costing lives and driving Republicans and Democrats to exchange positions on core issues like the right to keep and bear arms. Read More

Today, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we honour the victims and survivors of the Holocaust and mark the 1945 liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. Eight decades later, the challenge of passing on the lessons of the Holocaust is ever more daunting, with the danger being less its outright denial than its distortion or revision — efforts to minimize or reframe the systematic murder of six million Jews. Recent surveys reveal an alarming number of young people in North America believe the Holocaust has been exaggerated, a reflection not so much of disbelief that it happened, but of the subtle erosion of the truth. Read More