Israel Defense Forces troops located the bodies of hostages Youssef and Hamza Ziyadne during military operations in the Gaza Strip, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz confirmed on Wednesday evening. Read More

Jagmeet Singh is about to be relegated to a footnote in Canadian history. And the footnote will probably read like a joke. Read More

The driver charged with killing NHL hockey player Johnny Gaudreau and his brother, Matthew, as they cycled on a rural New Jersey road pleaded not guilty to the indictment Tuesday after turning down a prosecution offer of 35 years in prison. Read More

So it turns out Donald Trump doesn't really want to annex Canada. Seriously. Anyone who watched his news conference Tuesday, and not just the short clip shared on social media, should come away assured, as much as one can be with Trump anyway, that his comments about this country becoming the 51st state really are little more than trolling. Certainly, the U.S. president-elect repeatedly musing about absorbing Canada has never been funny, and the words themselves undermine Canadian sovereignty, but nothing Trump said Tuesday was much different than what he's been saying for weeks. Read More

A Toronto lawyer and opponent of COVID-19 public-health measures has suffered another in a string of legal defeats, with an Ontario court tossing out his “outlandish” lawsuit over vaccine mandates and ordering his clients to pay $190,000 in legal costs. Read More

Instead of Canada becoming the 51st state, as U.S. president-elect Donald Trump has repeatedly reiterated, Ontario Premier Doug Ford is proposing a different plan: Fortress Am-Can. Read More

OTTAWA — Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc has officially ruled himself out of the race to succeed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Read More

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Multiple massive wildfires tore across the Los Angeles area with devastating force early Wednesday, destroying more than 1,000 structures and killing at least two people as desperate residents escaped through flames, ferocious winds and towering clouds of smoke. Read More

The bird flu virus that brought a Canadian teen to the "brink of death" may have mutated while inside her body to become more efficient at spreading among humans. The case, and the death of a Louisiana resident over the age of 65 who was hospitalized with a severe H5N1 avian flu infection in December, are stark reminders "that this is not a mild virus," said Matthew Miller, Canada Research Chair in viral pandemics at McMaster University in Hamilton. The Louisiana fatality marks the first U.S. death from highly pathogenic avian influenza. The B.C. girl's infection is Canada's first domestically acquired case of H5N1. Read More

Mark Zuckerberg wore a rare Swiss watch worth about $900,000 (over $1.2 million in CAD) in a video explaining his company’s decision to end third-party fact checking on its social media platforms in the U.S. Read More

In an interview with a longevity YouTuber, 91-year-old former prime minister Jean Chrétien advised young people to get married, dress better, work hard and stop trying to be “something you’re not.” Read More

While most Canadians resent having to pay for parking at hospitals, airports or simply to go to work there are some who won’t bat an eye at shelling out over $100,000 just to park closer to a ski hill. Read More

It’s far from the craziest thing about the current state of federal politics, or of the Liberal Party of Canada specifically, but it was still amazing to see someone from the party asserting that Liberals intend to head into their woefully ill-timed leadership campaign under the same rules, if they can be so called, that they adopted in 2016. Read More

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The protracted, often precarious two-and-a-half-month transition between the election and inauguration of a new U.S. president needs reform. The contrast with the timing of transitions in parliamentary democracies like Britain (two days) or Canada (about two weeks) is striking. Both are more efficient in ensuring peaceful transfers of power and orderly deliveries of campaign promises. Read More

OTTAWA — The upcoming race to replace Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is a chance for Liberals to return the party to the political centre, some of its members of Parliament say, with others hoping his exit means Liberals can turn the page on what has become one of its most controversial legacies: the consumer carbon tax. Read More

SAN FRANCISCO — When he was still a boy making long, tedious trips between his school and his woodsy home in the mountains during the 1980s, JoeBen Bevirt began fantasizing about flying cars that could whisk him to his destination in a matter of minutes. Read More

LAS VEGAS — The highly decorated soldier who exploded a Tesla Cybertruck outside the Trump hotel in Las Vegas used generative AI including ChatGPT to help plan the attack, Las Vegas police said Tuesday. Read More

OTTAWA — A legal advocacy group is spearheading an unprecedented legal challenge against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s request for prorogation, asking a Federal Court judge to cancel the “incorrect and unreasonable” demand to reset Parliament. Read More

A British Columbia woman permanently banned from being a midwife in the province more than two decades ago has been charged with killing a baby while helping with a birth in 2023. Read More

GUWAHATI, India — At least nine workers are trapped inside a flooded coal mine in India's northeastern Assam state, officials said Tuesday, as authorities summoned the army to help in the rescue operation. Read More

U.S. president-elect Donald Trump is once again urging hockey great Wayne Gretzky to run for prime minister — or "governor" — of Canada. Read More