Afghanistan launched a large-scale military operation along the border targeting Pakistan army centres, escalating tensions between the neighbours after air strikes by Pakistan. Read More

The Trump administration’s move to ease fuel shipments to Cuba’s nascent private sector is part of a plan to make the island more reliant on the U.S. for supplies, increasing Washington’s leverage to bring about political and economic change, according to people familiar with the strategy. Read More

Netflix Inc. dropped out of the fight to buy Warner Bros. Discovery Inc., clearing the way for rival bidder Paramount Skydance Corp. to clinch its US$111 billion deal for the historic Hollywood studio. Read More

Iran said nuclear talks with the U.S. have progressed “very intensely and very seriously” as the two sides continued negotiations over a deal into the early evening in Switzerland. Read More

At an event in Toronto on Wednesday, International Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc said Canadians are pretty much on the same page when it comes to our current, let's say, basic situation. Not just the Donald Trump and trade situation, but the much larger one. The one that recently caused our friends at the other national newspaper to investigate “how Canada became poorer than Alabama.” Read More

Parliamentary Budget Officer Matthew McGoey is anticipating the number of non-permanent residents allowed into the country will continue to fall sharply, a downward trend that has been ongoing since 2024. Read More

OTTAWA — Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree said there are still "outstanding" security issues with India, the day after a senior government official stated that Indian agents are no longer linked to violent threats in Canada. Read More

Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre and Prime Minister Mark Carney share a common vision: a desire to see Canada a strong, independent country that is master of its own house. Read More

A B.C. man who smuggled a “relatively small” amount of drugs out of Canada and into Mexico by hiding them in his rectum was found not guilty of smuggling much of the same drugs back into the country upon his return, albeit this time in his suitcase and evidently unbeknownst to him. Read More

Hate crime investigators are probing a recent incident where a stranger wearing a balaclava and sunglasses threw an open carton of milk at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) students supporting Israel. Read More

Last week, the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal ordered Barry Neufeld, a former school board trustee, to pay $750,000. Neufeld had boldly criticized curriculum for young children that embedded gender ideology. LGBTQ teachers in the Chilliwack school board, who make up about 16 per cent of the staff, will get the money. Blasphemy laws have returned to Canada. Read More

A British Columbia court has ruled that Porter Airlines must reimburse a woman for the cost of rebooking her travel, after it refused to let her board a flight because her ticket did not include her date of birth. Read More

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said trade with China is no substitute for trade with the United States and Canada should build on its leverage to secure a tariff-free trade deal with our neighbour to the south. Read More

OTTAWA — Conservative MP Jamil Jivani said that $8 million worth of Canadian aid to Cuba announced this week was sparked by a "moral panic" that is distracting the government from helping Canadians. Read More

A Toronto man was sentenced to a decade in U.S. federal prison this week after travelling to Virginia last year to meet a girl he thought was 15 and had been trying to coerce into a sexual relationship, but who turned out to be an undercover police officer. Read More

I don’t need another reason to bemoan my long-suffering Toronto Maple Leafs; nor does anyone need a reason to dislike the Ottawa Senators. But thanks to the U.S. men’s Olympic hockey team, I am as awash in reasons to shun Auston Matthews (captain of the Leafs) and Brady Tkachuk (captain of the Senators) as their FBI pal Kash Patel was awash in beer with them on Sunday.  Read More

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Increasing global uncertainty is motivating Canadians to enlist in the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF), according to federal Minister of National Defence, David McGuinty. Read More

An Indigenous man who bragged to an undercover cop about the Gladue "discount" that would cut his penalty in half for helping to clean up after a Calgary murder has been sentenced to 6.5 years in prison, even though the Crown was looking for as much as 10. Read More

This month, the Supreme Court of Canada released its first, and likely only, major decision addressing COVID-era restrictions. The case, Taylor v. Newfoundland and Labrador, considered the fundamental constitutional question of whether Canadians have a right to move freely within their own country. Read More

Canadians woke up last Wednesday to the news that Matt Jeneroux, a Conservative MP, had decided to join the Liberal party. With the two other turncoats, Michael Ma and Chris d’Entremont, that makes three defections from Pierre Poilievre’s party since the federal election in April. Many pundits are predicting that the Liberals are going to achieve a majority through by-elections and possibly more defections. Fair-weather conservatives are continuing to wonder whether Poilievre is the right man to lead the party into the next election. Read More