The posh digs of the Canadian ambassador to the United States are set to welcome a new tenant early next year, following the recent announcement that Ambassador Kirsten Hillman – the first woman to serve as Canada’s top diplomat in Washington — is stepping down. Read More

Justice Department officials were protecting victims of Jeffrey Epstein when they removed several images from the agency’s release of files tied to the notorious sex offender, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said. Read More

A German woman engineer on Saturday became the first wheelchair user to blast into space, taking a brief ride on a Blue Origin flight. Read More

The Kremlin on Sunday denied that three-way talks between Ukraine, Russia and the United States were on the cards, as diplomats gathered in Miami for talks on ending the conflict. Read More

The U.S. is still in pursuit of a third oil tanker near Venezuela, according to a U.S. official, as President Donald Trump intensifies an oil blockade on Nicolás Maduro’s government. Read More

Allegations of a fresh cover-up over the Jeffrey Epstein files grew Sunday, as Democrats accused President Donald Trump of trying to protect himself by defying an order to release all files on the convicted sex offender. Read More

Australia was observing a nationwide moment of remembrance on Sunday for the victims of the Bondi Beach Hanukkah terrorist attack, one week after the massacre, with vigils taking place at 6:47 p.m., the time the shooting started. Read More

A young girl and Holocaust survivors were among 15 people shot and killed when gunmen opened fire on a Jewish Hanukkah festival gathering on Australia's Bondi Beach a week ago. Read More

Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Sunday he has ordered a review into the police and intelligence services after two gunmen shot and killed 15 people at a Jewish festival on Bondi Beach. Read More

We’re nearing year-end, and there’s much doom and gloom. Canada’s economy is falling behind its OECD peers while projected equalization numbers show all provinces from Manitoba east on the receiving end of federal transfers next year. Read More

Sport, a great equalizer, transcends politics. Or at least it should. Read More

Judaism is a Mediterranean religion — thus too is Christianity — but we forget that Mediterranean means northern hemisphere. Hanukkah’s candles are lit in the darkest days of the year, just as Christ’s birth is marked just as the days begin to get longer. Lights come into the world when the darkness is darkest. Read More

A husband and wife travelling from British Columbia to Toronto for the holidays say they were prevented from boarding a Flair Airlines flight when they showed up at the gate with two dogs and their 10-month-old daughter. Read More

For students of history, watching coverage of the tragic shooting of Jewish Australians on Bondi Beach this past weekend was a reminder of how it all started in Nazi Germany before the Second World War. Read More

Canada’s post-October 7 antisemitism crisis mirrors Australia’s. It's small wonder that the Bondi Beach Hanukkah pogrom is perceived by numerous Canadian observers as a bullet dodged. Read More

Re: Bondi terror gunman charged with 15 counts of murder — Dec. 17 Read More

Deck the halls with discernment, say home experts, or risk doing devastating damage. Read More

The Trump administration reversed a Biden-era policy that prohibited the use of antipersonnel land mines except on the Korean Peninsula, according to a Dec. 2 document reviewed by The Washington Post. The previously unreported memo, signed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, says the reversal would give the U.S. military a “force multiplier” against enemies during “one of the most dangerous security environments in its history.” Read More

The U.S. can maintain close ties with Japan while pursuing productive engagement with China, even as tensions rise between Asia’s two largest economies, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said. Read More

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday that Washington had proposed the first face-to-face negotiations between Ukraine and Russia in half a year, as diplomats converged on Miami for fresh talks on ending the war. Read More

Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te pledged a full, public inquiry as he visited victims in hospital on Saturday after a deadly metro stabbing attack. Read More

The first major gathering of Turning Point USA since the murder of its influential founder was supposed to bring America's right-wing activists together to celebrate the life of Charlie Kirk. Read More

Matthew Miller recently had the "very unpleasant experience" of getting infected with influenza A. "Oddly enough, as someone who has spent their whole life studying flu, this was the first time that I know for sure it was a flu infection by virtue of a diagnostic test," said Miller, who holds a Canada Research Chair in viral pandemics at McMaster University in Hamilton. Read More

Last week I carefully read the statement of strategic purpose of the Trump administration, a document published by every recent incoming administration within a year of its inauguration. The strategic statement has been received with misgivings by members of the Fortress America school that holds that the United States should be ready at all times to repulse any initiative from any potential rival country or group of countries, and by Western Europeans always on the lookout for any softening commitment of the United States to the defence of Western Europe. Read More