A violent knife-wielding woman was tasered and “inadvertently” run over twice by a Toronto police SUV during her arrest next to a Tim Hortons drive-thru on Saturday. Read More

Prince Harry is coming to Canada this week. Read More

OTTAWA — Federal Justice Minister Sean Fraser has ruled out using the notwithstanding clause to reverse a recent Supreme Court ruling throwing out mandatory minimum sentences for crimes involving child pornography. Read More

The usually loquacious president of the United States was unusually brief when responding to a question last week about his intentions in Venezuela. Read More

When you dine at a restaurant, how do you know if the dish you order is being prepared in a safe manner, that the kitchen is clean, and that staff have appropriate food safety training. Read More

Asian e-commerce giant Shein on Tuesday pledged to "cooperate fully" with French judicial authorities after an uproar over it selling childlike sex dolls, and said it was prepared to disclose the names of people who bought them. Read More

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Dick Cheney, whose campaign for a military response to the 9/11 terror attack cleared the path for an unpopular war in Iraq and established his reputation as one of the most powerful and polarizing vice presidents in U.S. history, has died. He was 84. Read More

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Prime Minister Mark Carney — celebrated flag bearer for decarbonization — has boldly declared Canada can compete as an energy superpower in a net-zero world. Ahead of Carney's government's first budget Tuesday, however, there's a question being asked by many serious people: “Is this even a net-zero world anymore?” Read More

In a groundbreaking move towards greater transparency, the Law Society of Ontario (LSO) has committed in principle to publicly disclosing details when lawyers and paralegals commit crimes or professional breaches. Read More

Just one-third of Ontarians say their province is heading in the right direction, according to a new Leger poll. Read More

When the pitcher, batter, catcher, umpires and video-replay officials all have no idea what the call should be, that means it’s time to fix the rule book. Read More

I guess it’s official: I’ll never quite be able to describe myself as a Toronto Blue Jays fan. I say this by way of paying tribute to the particular team we all just watched fall short in an epic World Series. Like many Canadian lovers of baseball, I’m a middle-aged Montreal Expos widower who has stubbornly resisted getting on board the Jays bandwagon as a matter of identity. I’m not buying the merch. I’m not bothered when they’re lousy. Read More

The long-smouldering debate over the Supreme Court’s treatment of mandatory minimum sentences was reignited Friday by its 5-4 decision in Quebec (Attorney General) v Senneville, which struck down the one-year minimum sentences for possessing or accessing child pornography. The overarching principle for deciding whether a minimum sentence breaches the guarantee against “cruel and unusual treatment or punishment” in section 12 of the Charter attracts little controversy. It cannot be “grossly disproportionate” to the punishment that an offender would receive without the minimum. Read More

This past week, Gen. Jennie Carignan, Canada’s Chief of the Defence Staff, tearfully apologized for what she called “systemic racism and racial discrimination” in the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF). The intention was noble. Yet the sweeping assertion that the CAF is “systemically racist” demands closer scrutiny. Read More

OTTAWA — Canada's intelligence watchdog agencies have asked the Liberals to spare them from public service cuts in Tuesday's budget, warning that the organizations they are supposed to keep an eye on are only set to become more powerful. Read More

During a pre-budget speech last month, Prime Minister Mark Carney told the audience of mostly university students that his government would restore their future. Read More

China called on the U.S. to avoid four sensitive issues so a trade truce sealed between Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping can hold, highlighting the broad array of disagreements that will test ties. Read More

OTTAWA — Canadians might not be heading to a Christmas election after all, as the NDP is keeping all its options open — including abstention — on the budget vote. Read More

A B.C. woman who tried to kill her long-time social media enemy in a Vancouver courtroom four years ago will have to stay in prison, the province’s court of appeal has ruled. Read More

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney's government will be ending a program to plant two billion trees as part of its whole-of-government spending review to find billions of dollars worth of savings. Read More

It’s not often that you bump into a Canadian while walking the dog in my neck of the woods in Costa Rica. But when a lady in a Toronto Blue Jays ballcap meets a man sporting an Elbows Up hat (now as passé as the Yellow Pages), a dialogue on sport and politics is bound to ensue. Read More

Too often, emotion and ideology drown out fact. We hear claims that Indigenous peoples own all of Canada and that every acre of this country was stolen. That is not true, and repeating it does not make it true. The assertion rests on selective readings of history and law that ignore the foundation of our country: negotiated treaties, court rulings, and shared development built over 150 years. Read More