Despite a plea from a Canadian Jewish advocacy group, the Carney government will not be appointing a new special envoy to tackle antisemitism. Neither will it have an Islamophobia envoy. Instead, it launched an advisory council to combat hate on Wednesday. Read More

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Washington is open to upcoming talks with Iran and that a location is “being worked through,” but stressed the discussions can’t be restricted to nuclear issues. Read More

Fort Pierce, Fla. — A man who plotted to assassinate U.S. President Donald Trump at his Florida golf course in September 2024, two months before the U.S. election, was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison. Read More

Canadian artist Phil Richards has said he considers portraiture to be “a collaboration between artist and subject.” Perhaps nowhere is that more clear than in a tiny last-minute change in his newly unveiled portrait of former prime minister Stephen Harper. Read More

TORONTO — An estimated 150,000 demonstrators gathered in downtown Toronto on Sunday to call for American military strikes against Iran’s Islamic regime. Read More

The road to a spot on Canada’s Women’s Olympic hockey team rarely is linear. Read More

Canadian businessman Kevin O'Leary is slamming singer Billie Eilish over her "stolen land" anti-ICE comment at the Grammy Awards. Read More

At the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in 2018, a curious scene unfolded at the men’s big air snowboard finals. Read More

The Department of Homeland Security will immediately pull 700 officers from Minneapolis amid efforts to ease tensions after federal agents killed two US citizens, White House border czar Tom Homan said. Read More

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney said Conservative MP Jamil Jivani received a briefing by Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc, in response to questions from reporters about Jivani's upcoming visit to Washington D.C. Read More

It’s the question that everyone is asking in the Olympic Village: How are the beds? Read More

The scene: The 1992 Winter Olympics. A young Canadian named Kevin Martin is summoned to the curling hall in a tiny mountain village outside Albertville, where he is approached by three affable Frenchmen. Martin recognizes the men from an ice-making workshop he taught in nearby Switzerland a few months prior. Martin realizes, despite the language barrier, that the trio is in charge of making curling ice for the upcoming tournament, and that it is not going well. Read More

Late last week, numerous media outlets reported that an unnamed Israeli "security official" conceded that the Israel Defence Forces believes the death toll in Gaza to be around 70,000, which is in line with the number reported by the Gaza Health Ministry. Israel's enemies predictably seized on the reports as proof that a "genocide" has been taking place, but that is simply not the case. Read More

This year, Canada and the Kingdom of Denmark are celebrating 80 years of diplomatic relations. In the aftermath of the Second World War, our countries started the foundation to what would grow into a strong and enduring bilateral relationship rooted in shared values and interests. Over the past eight decades, Canada and the Kingdom of Denmark have remained steadfast in our common belief in democracy, human rights, and the international rules-based order. Read More

For anyone who’s ever carried a political banner, life is measured in election cycles. What drives most isn't just the debates or putting up signs; it’s a belief in service to Canada, its people, and our future. Recently, that belief led me to step away from my seat as MP to trigger a by-election for Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre. With our nation's unity at risk, I want to share a dangerous trend in how the conversation around Alberta separation is being handled. Read More

Earlier this month, the Federal Court gave a family seeking refugee status another shot at remaining in Canada. But they weren’t fleeing war — they were fleeing Spain. Read More

An arbitrator has ordered the immediate reinstatement of a heavy machine operator fired last summer from a “safety sensitive” plant in Toronto for allegedly getting high at lunch, then behaving in an "insolent" manner towards a senior manager after he was suspended pending investigation of cannabis use. Read More

Corey Balsam, national co-ordinator of Independent Jewish Voices (IJV), recently published an article arguing that opposition to Zionism should not be equated with antisemitism and that those of us who support Zionism trivialize the threat of antisemitism. While Balsam’s position may seem well-intentioned, it misrepresents Jewish identity and overlooks critical distinctions about Israel’s security situation. Read More

I first crossed paths with Stephen Harper in the late 1990s, but only briefly. I had just been elected as a Progressive Conservative, and he had by then moved on from a term in Parliament as a Reform MP to lead the National Citizens Coalition. He remained visible on the Hill due to his significant role in building the Reform party, after having worked in the Progressive Conservative party for a time. Read More

President Donald Trump reiterated that the U.S. and Iran are maintaining diplomatic talks, even after an earlier skirmish in the Arabian Sea heightened tensions between the two countries. Read More

Britain's former prince Andrew has moved from his luxurious Windsor home to a royal estate in eastern England, the BBC reported Tuesday, as he faces renewed scrutiny over his ties to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Read More

A federal judge rejected Elon Musk’s attempt to throw out a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit alleging he waited too long to disclose his growing stake in Twitter. Read More

HELSINKI -- Finland is building a new fleet of icebreakers for the U.S. but President Donald Trump's plans for Greenland, which he covets, and tense U.S.-EU ties have raised concerns over the deal. Read More