OTTAWA — The federal justice minister says an upcoming bill will propose changes to restore mandatory minimum sentences for the possession and access of child pornography recently struck down by Canada’s top court.  Read More

Russia and Ukraine exchanged fire early Tuesday with heavy air raids on Kyiv and assaults on southern Russian areas, just hours after President Donald Trump struck a positive tone on prospects for a ceasefire deal. Read More

Those tiny, fluffy dogs walking down the street may look cute but beware — they probably have some wolf in them. Read More

Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith have agreed to the broad terms of a deal that would support a new oil pipeline to Canada’s west coast, the CBC reported Monday. Read More

The Justice Department again asked federal judges to unseal grand jury material from the criminal cases against Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, citing the recently enacted law on Epstein documents. Read More

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) announced on Monday that it is formally ending its emergency aid mission to the coastal enclave. Read More

President Donald Trump ordered his administration to study labelling some parts of the Muslim Brotherhood as foreign terrorist organizations, a step toward fulfilling his longtime goal of slapping the designation on the broader group. Read More

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OTTAWA — Brookfield chief operating officer Justin Beber appeared at the House of Commons ethics committee on Monday, but unlike the Canadian singer with a nearly identical name, his presence did not create waves of excitement. Read More

An analysis of dozens of studies involving almost 100,000 participants found that exposure to short-form videos (SFVs) like those on TikTok and Instagram is contributing to a host of mental health conditions. Read More

The Pentagon has started a probe into Democratic Senator Mark Kelly after U.S. President Donald Trump called for punishing a group of lawmakers who publicly advised intelligence community and military members to disobey orders that would break the law. Read More

A federal judge threw out the criminal charges against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, ruling that the prosecutor who brought the cases had been illegally appointed. Read More

The BBC on Monday formally launched its search for a new chief following the resignation of Tim Davie over a misleading edit of Donald Trump that sparked a row with the U.S. president. Read More

Mark Carney had a two-word response to a question about when he last spoke to Donald Trump: "Who cares?" Read More

Ottawa will no longer be imposing Canadian content quotas on the pornography sector, according to new guidelines released by the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission. Read More

Much as he'd like to concentrate on his plans to transform Canada, Mark Carney still finds it necessary to explain to people that he's not Justin Trudeau. Read More

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Chinese President Xi Jinping pressed US President Donald Trump on the status of the self-governing island of Taiwan and urged his counterpart to maintain improved ties, according to the Chinese Foreign Ministry. Read More

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday urged Beirut to disarm Hezbollah, speaking after an Israel Defense Forces strike in the Lebanese capital killed the Iran-backed terror group’s “chief of staff.” Read More

U.S. and Ukrainian officials said Sunday that they made progress in Geneva working through a new version of a controversial plan to end Russia's war in Ukraine ahead of a Thanksgiving deadline imposed by the United States, while President Donald Trump faced mounting criticism from lawmakers and his own base over the proposal. Read More

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India's hugely popular Bollywood star Dharmendra, who was equally at ease in romantic comedies and high-octane action blockbusters, died aged 89 on Monday. Read More

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For more than a decade a massive Ontario research lab has been importing dogs for scientific experimentation from a U.S. breeder with a history of serious animal cruelty allegations. Read More