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TOKYO — Prime Minister Mark Carney, on an ongoing mission to bring together the world's middle powers, brought out his rusty Japanese skills as he met his counterpart and enjoyed a Canadian-inspired birthday cake in Tokyo.  Read More

A Toronto lawyer linked to a mortgage fraud later cited as motive in a deadly 2024 triple shooting has failed to convince the Law Society of Ontario to lift his suspension. Read More

On Tuesday morning, a fresh shockwave passed over Canadian pediatric medicine, which has had a difficult start to the year 2026. In January, the New Yorker published an investigative piece by Pulitzer-winning feature writer Ben Taub. Taub’s article describes a long-running feud between the disgraced doctor Gideon Koren, founder of the ill-fated Motherisk lab at Toronto Sick Kids, and his former colleague and co-author David Juurlink, a Sunnybrook Hospital and U of Toronto pharmacologist. Read More

Quebec is moving forward with plans to shield its poutine cheese curds with protected geographical status. Read More

A fight for ownership of the trademark for an outlaw motorcycle club’s patch — a logo notorious from a biker war that killed more than 160 people — has been settled by federal bureaucrats at the Canadian Intellectual Property Office. Read More

Like the Members of Parliament in Ottawa, the 105 members of Canada’s Senate are getting a pay raise on April 1. Read More

"Violence is not the path to achieving peace." This is what we are hearing, mainly from the left, about the U.S./Israel-led attack on Iran. I believe diplomacy and peace are preferred to violence and war, but sadly, sometimes force is the only way stop very bad people. When confronting absolute evil, we must never forget the lessons of the Holocaust.   Read More

History will not judge governments solely by quarterly economic data, polling swings or even administrative missteps. It judges them by whether they reshaped the moral and civic architecture of society. By that standard, the legacy of Quebec Premier François Legault will endure long after today’s headlines fade. Read More

Journalistic tradition dictates that the New Democratic Party be treated as an organization of consequence, with lengthy historical roots and some significant achievements. Lately it hasn't been acting like it, though. Its standing in the House of Commons slipped to fourth place three elections ago and shows little sign of revival. Its seven paltry seats aren't enough to qualify for official recognition. Its finances are dire. To its more successful provincial cousins it's become an unwelcome distraction. Read More

For years, Europe has endured President Donald Trump’s complaints that it is a complacent continent hiding under America’s security umbrella. Now, as he launches the first open-ended military campaign of his presidency, its leaders find themselves holding something he still needs: their bases, airspace and strategic geography. Read More

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy -- Organizers of the Milan-Cortina Paralympics confirmed on Thursday that seven countries will boycott the opening ceremony in protest at Russian athletes being allowed to compete under their own flag for the first time since 2014. Read More

OTTAWA — Canada's Chief of the Defence Staff General Jennie Carignan said she will be meeting with her European counterparts on Friday morning to discuss military options to support Gulf states. But Carignan ruled out any Canadian military involvement in Operation Epic Fury, the U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran. Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump is facing a major legal challenge to the fresh global tariffs he imposed on goods entering the U.S. after the Supreme Court struck down his earlier sweeping duties last month. Read More

Iran launched a fresh wave a missile and drone strikes across the Gulf on Thursday evening with attacks reported in the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Qatar. Read More

OTTAWA — Violent crime and property theft rates remain stubbornly high across multiple provinces and territories, and Canadians are losing confidence in the authorities to do anything about it, finds a new report on the state of criminal justice in Canada.  Read More

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President Donald Trump removed Kristi Noem as Homeland Security secretary after months of controversy and announced he would replace her with Oklahoma Senator Markwayne Mullin. Read More

Pop superstar Britney Spears was released from police custody Thursday morning after being arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated near Los Angeles, according to legal filings and US media reports. Read More

Passengers who refuse to use headphones while travelling with United Airlines may find themselves removed from their flights. Read More

A dollar-for-dollar Canada-U.S. exchange rate offer introduced by three off-strip Las Vegas casinos earlier this year resulted in more than 15,000 Canadian visitors in the first month of the promotion. Read More

A Canadian tourist in Las Vegas is facing four counts of felony animal abuse after police say he stole a flamingo from a hotel and casino where he was staying, took the bird back to his room and injured it. Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Expect more tariffs. Read More

BERLIN — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre will make his pitch for more Canadian natural gas exports to Germany to the country's foreign minister while in Berlin on Thursday. Read More