So you thought curling was Canada's game? Calgary writer and comedian John Cullen, a semi-professional curler for more than 20 years, explains how a former U.S. football star and his buddies are helping popularize the sport, in this excerpt from Curling Rocks! Chronicles of the Roaring Game. Read More

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — Canada’s contingent at the Milan-Cortina Games is loaded with decorated athletes in the twilight of storied Olympic careers: Sidney Crosby, speedskater Ted-Jan Bloemen; a Golden generation of curlers vying to go out on a high note. Read More

Universities clearly have a “trust deficit.” From left to right, faith in higher education has cratered as the search for evidence-based knowledge has been replaced with McCarthyite pursuits and litmus tests. By serving as platforms for pseudo-academic ideological campaigns, universities have surrendered their core credibility. Read More

Canada has a productivity problem. And it’s not a small one. Read More

Laura Cooper (not her real name) headed to Edmonton International Airport on Sunday with the intention of travelling to the East Coast of the U.S. to work for four days. Read More

By the time repeat violent offender Oral Carver Lewis threatened to kill an Ontario Crown prosecutor, he had already been under a deportation order for two years. Read More

MILAN - Players working on collecting pucks off boards is not unusual. The same cannot be said of the main rink at the Milan-Cortina Games, where the furious rush to complete construction meant there has been precious little time for anyone to learn how the playing surface might behave in a game. Read More

By entering into negotiations with Ottawa, Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, has tacitly conceded that it needs news content and that it is valuable for Meta. You might think that, having conceded this, Meta would do what normal companies do and pay for this vital input to its business. Instead, Meta appears to be actively lobbying the Government of Canada to gut the Online News Act so that it can reinstate news on its services without having to pay for it. Having Canadian news back on Meta would be good, but not at the cost of massively damaging Canadian journalism. Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to block a new bridge from Detroit to Canada followed a meeting between his commerce secretary and a billionaire who owns an existing border-crossing bridge just miles from the new span, according to two people familiar with the matter. Read More

What is your favourite Marie-Philip Poulin moment? Read More

A New Brunswick MP says he’s asked the House of Commons to freeze his salary before parliamentarians are set to get an annual pay raise in April. Read More

MILAN — It's been building for a while now, this formidable red, white and blueprint that is threatening to squash Canada's dominance in Olympic women's hockey. Read More

The case of six Ontario men charged with trying to lure girls under the age of 18 for sex is raising the ire of justice critics and frustrating cops after all six of the accused men were released from custody on the promise that they’ll return to court. Read More

Prime Minister Mark Carney spent at least $300,000 on in-flight catering during his travels since taking office last March, plus at least another $472,000 when he got where he was going, records from Global Affairs Canada show. Read More

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick minimized his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein Tuesday even as he acknowledged visiting the disgraced financier at his private island in 2012 after Epstein was a convicted sex offender — and years after he previously said their relationship ended. Read More

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An individual who the authorities described as a person of interest has been taken into custody regarding the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie in Arizona more than a week ago, a person familiar with the matter said on Tuesday night. Read More

Olympic organizers have apologized after several medal-winning figure skaters complained that the podium had damaged their carefully calibrated skates. Read More

There’s more to the relationship between Macklin Celebrini and Steve Kerr than the fact that both are sports stars located in the Bay Area. Read More

If you or your partner’s love language is snacks, you simply can’t go wrong with a Valentine’s Day charcuterie compilation proudly made in Canada. Here’s our step-by-step guide to the goods (the artful arranging is up to you): Read More

Tune in to any of Team USA’s matches at Cortina Curling Olympic Stadium and the young rink’s lead will likely be the first to catch your eye. Read More

MILAN — Sidney Crosby, Connor McDavid and Nathan MacKinnon. It's hard to imagine a team with that spine of centres won't be a dominant force at the 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympics. Read More

Piper Gilles, the Canadian figure skater, stayed away from designing her own costumes for the 2026 Olympics. Read More

Dear President Donald J. Trump, on behalf of all Canadians, I would like to say: You're welcome for building you a $6.4-billion bridge. You can thank us later. Read More