OTTAWA — Days after she retired in January, the former top bureaucrat at the Department of National Defence warned that the billions in additional defence spending promised by the Carney government is "nowhere near what we need" and will only serve to "plug in the holes in the wrong way". Read More

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy — After a pair of big Olympic curling wins, Team Canada's curlers are done talking about it. Read More

The sight of David McGuinty as a silent presence at the prime minister’s announcement Tuesday of a new defence industrial strategy was a reminder that, while that government purports to be a team, it is really a confederation of warring tribes. Read More

Don Cherry is among the list of 30 new appointees to the Order of Ontario for 2025. The list was announced yesterday by Edith Dumont, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario and Chancellor of the Order of Ontario. Read More

A former waitress at the Toronto nightclub owned by business tycoon Frank Stronach testified at his sex assault trial of being groped and kissed by the billionaire in his waterfront apartment in the 1980s. Read More

French men’s hockey goaltender Julian Junca’s 28th birthday this past Sunday is one he’s unlikely to forget. Read More

MILAN — The sigh of reality expressed by Czech players was just about unanimous Tuesday evening at the Santagiulia Arena. Read More

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio made headlines with a speech to the Munich Security Conference on Saturday, in which he attempted to offer an intellectual framework for Donald Trump's often bellicose and Europe-alienating rhetoric. Here is an excerpt: Read More

There is a pattern unfolding in Canada. It does not begin in Parliament. It does not begin with the courts. It begins with anti-Israel activist groups. Read More

An outside observer might note that the president of the French hockey federation did a remarkable thing on Monday night: He stood up for the good of the Games. The spirit of the Olympics. Read More

Canada’s defence industry got a $6.6 billion boost Tuesday, as Prime Minister Mark Carney formally unveiled Ottawa’s new Defence Industrial Strategy. The plan promises to create 125,000 new jobs over 10 years and award 70 per cent of defence contracts to Canadian companies, through a “Build-Partner-Buy” framework that prioritizes domestic industry. It is part of the government’s plan to increase Canadian military spending to five per cent of GDP by 2035, in line with NATO targets.  Read More

Canada has been playing international hockey long enough that it's a bit odd we don't have a more consistent cheering presence. Read More

Olympic curling’s raging controversy, with Canadians in the unusual role of foul-mouthed villains, seems to have been put on ice. The special umpires summoned into action on Saturday to watch for the dreaded “double touch” were gone by Monday. The last time there was such careful attention to fingers on stone in Italy Michelangelo was sculpting the Pietà. Read More

The Swiss commentator who made remarks about Israeli-American bobsleigher AJ Edelman being "in favour of genocide in Gaza" while he was competing at the Olympics is a "bully," says the president of the Israeli Olympic Bobsleigh Skeleton Federation. Read More

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney unveiled his government’s defence industrial strategy on Tuesday, promising to build up Canada’s defence industries and seek out partnerships beyond the United States. Read More

Johnny Gaudreau never got the chance to play in the Olympics, but Team USA is doing everything it can to make sure he and his brother Matthew won't be forgotten. Read More

Four days after his dream of winning Olympic gold in men’s figure skating ended in heartbreak, Team USA’s Ilia Malinin said it’s possible he might not have been ready to “handle” the pressure and expectations of the Milano-Cortina Games. Read More

A Sydney man who tried to post native lizards, dragons and other reptiles out of Australia in bags of popcorn and biscuit tins has been sentenced to eight years in jail, authorities said Tuesday. Read More

MILAN -- She arrived at the podium shortly before 1 a.m. here on Tuesday morning, weary and battle-worn but with the smile and resolve a country has come to cherish. Read More

Authorities investigating the kidnapping of US TV anchor Savannah Guthrie's mother said Monday the woman's family members were "cleared as possible suspects" in the case, as the search for the 84-year-old stretched into its third week. Read More

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy — As Team Rachel Homan conferred about how to use their second-to-last stone in the eighth end of Tuesday's game against Sweden, the play-by-play announcer on the Olympic feed said he'd never seen the Canadian skip look so uncertain. Read More

MILAN — Isabelle Weidemann, Valérie Maltais and Ivanie Blondin are still the reigning champions of the long-track team pursuit at the 2026 Olympics, winning gold again. Read More

Jesse Jackson, one of the most prominent U.S. civil rights leaders of the 20th century who ran credible campaigns for the White House two decades before America elected its first Black president, has died. He was 84. Read More

Not many people can do what Jamil Jivani did — maybe not even the prime minister. In a whirlwind trip to Washington, D.C., the Conservative MP met Vice President JD Vance, the secretary of state, the U.S. trade representative, and even chatted with President Donald Trump. As he tells Brian, he saw his longtime friendship with Vance as helpful in ending the trade war devastating automaking jobs in his riding. You’d think everyone wants that, yet Liberals attacked and mocked him. Jivani discusses what he discovered on his trip, why he’s concerned the Liberal government doesn’t really have the auto sector’s back, and how they seem alarmingly blithe about an imminent CUSMA review that could make things here much, much worse. (Recorded February 13, 2026) Read More