Authorities in Los Angeles say a Quebec water bomber is out of service after colliding with a drone while fighting wildfires Thursday. Read More

January serves a healthy dose of action as leading ladies are kicking ass this month. One that many are looking forward to is Nightbitch on Disney+. Amy Adams earned a Golden Globe nomination for her raw, unfiltered work in this film, and might even score an Oscar nod next month. Read More

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is revealing details from his meeting with U.S. president-elect Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago in November. Read More

OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly says it is out of a “deep sense of duty” to her country that she is bowing out of the race to replace Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Read More

The tiny pieces of plastic that synthetic clothes shed when washed and car tires leave behind on roadways as they wear are making their way into the seafood people eat, according to a new study by Portland State University (PSU) researchers. Read More

Our cookbook of the week is The Chinese Way by author, surgery resident and photographer Betty Liu. Read More

One of the side-effects of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau proroguing Parliament is that a whole bunch of contentious legislation might never see the light of day. Read More

The University of Toronto has started building a new “mass timber” tower, 14 storeys and 77 metres high. It will be the tallest academic timber structure in Canada and one of the tallest mass timber and steel hybrid buildings in North America. Read More

Four years to the day that Antony Vo was part of the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol building, the 32-year-old from Indiana was arrested in Whistler, B.C., and will be sent back to the U.S. where a prison sentence awaits him for his part in the 2021 insurrection. Read More

Now that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s political career is coming to an end, some of his fans are romanticizing his economic track record. Yet it is indisputable that, under his leadership, the economy sputtered and Canadians, robbed of a decade of growth, were left relatively poorer than their global peers. Read More

Among the vivid memories Nate Leipciger has of Auschwitz is his arrival at the Nazi death camp on Aug. 2, 1943, with his father, Jack, from the Jewish ghetto in Sosnowiec, 35 kilometres to the north. Read More

A little late to the game, perhaps, but accurate nonetheless, CNN’s Fareed Zakaria noted over the weekend that progressive politicians are in retreat throughout the West. His comments came roughly two weeks before Donald Trump's scheduled inauguration after an election campaign that he and his populist-right Republican Party handily won, despite expectations of a close election believed to slightly favour Kamala Harris and the Democrats. Instead, Americans turned out to repudiate what Zakaria rightly recognized as the arrogance and authoritarianism of the left. Read More

A planned event by Hizb ut-Tahrir in Ontario has sparked widespread concern due to the extremist ideology of this organization and its potential to incite division. Read More

Hassan Diab, the Ottawa sociology professor who was convicted in absentia in 2023 of a deadly synagogue bombing in France, is "not currently employed" at Carleton University, the school says. Read More

At a time when the federal government is already mired in a laundry list of scandals, it might be hard to focus much on tax policy, but what the Trudeau government has done with capital gains should be an enduring stain on their record. Read More

OTTAWA — A day after many Liberal MPs argued that their next leader must speak French and understand Quebec, one of their caucus colleagues — who doesn't speak the language — announced his candidacy in the party's leadership race. Read More

The federal Liberals say a new party leader to replace Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be announced March 9 after a leadership vote. Read More

WARSAW, Poland — Tech billionaire Elon Musk livestreamed his chat with a leader of Germany's far-right party on Thursday, using the power of his social media platform, X, to amplify the party's message ahead of an upcoming national election — and raising concerns across Europe about the world's richest man trying to influence foreign politics. Read More

WASHINGTON — A sharply divided Supreme Court on Thursday rejected U.S. president-elect Donald Trump's final bid to put his New York hush-money case on hold, clearing the way for him to be sentenced for felony crimes days before he returns to the presidency. Read More

KANNAPOLIS, N.C. — A man who fired a gun inside a restaurant in the nation's capital after a fake online conspiracy theory called "Pizzagate" motivated him to do so nearly a decade ago was shot and killed by North Carolina police during a weekend traffic stop. Read More

Many federal Liberals are expressing concern about foreign interference in their upcoming leadership contest. But mischief-makers are presenting a different challenge: furry interference. Read More

B.C. Children's Hospital says a 13-year-old girl with avian flu was discharged Tuesday after weeks in hospital. Read More

Meghan Markle is mourning the death of her beloved rescue dog Guy. The Duchess of Sussex announced the beagle’s death on Instagram this week — 10 years after adopting him as a rescue in Toronto. Read More

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told CNN anchor Jake Tapper that President-elect Donald Trump's repeated digs about Canada becoming the 51st state are a distraction from real issues in a short sit-down interview on Thursday. Read More

OTTAWA — The Canada Revenue Agency says a Tax Court judge made multiple errors when siding with former Toronto Blue Jays all-stars Josh Donaldson and Russell Martin in a recent decision excluding millions of dollars from their taxable incomes. Read More

A cavalry of firefighters and supplies from across Canada is adding to the efforts underway by weary L.A. fire crews battling several fires across the City of Angels. Read More

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An increasing number of overdose deaths in Ontario involves the use of more than one drug, with the combination of opioids and stimulants proving to be especially dangerous, a new report says. Read More

American president-elect Donald Trump’s tariff threat is a high-stakes problem for Ontario and Premier Doug Ford. Read More

OTTAWA — Former British Columbia premier Christy Clark will announce she is running as a candidate in the federal Liberal leadership race, once the rules are finalized. Read More

Jimmy Carter, who considered himself an outsider even as he sat in the Oval Office as the 39th U.S. president, was honoured Thursday with the pageantry of a funeral at Washington National Cathedral before a second service and burial in his tiny Georgia hometown. Read More

Last week, the University of Alberta probably received too much praise for announcing the end of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) at the institution. Why? Nothing has actually changed, nor is it about to. Read More

Massive wildfires continue to rage through parts of Los Angeles, destroying entire communities and forcing thousands to evacuate. Read More

In the face of repeated economic provocations and talk of Canada becoming the 51st U.S. state from president-elect Donald Trump, some prominent Conservatives on this side of the border aren’t exactly rolling out the welcome mat. Read More

For years, the British establishment ignored the mass rape of thousands of English girls by predominantly Pakistani-Muslim men — a crime it still refuses to confront. Embarrassment over the ethnic profile of both abusers and victims enabled networks of rapists, known as “grooming gangs,” to prey on vulnerable children with impunity. Driven partly by racial and religious contempt for their mostly white victims, these men exploited girls across northern and central England in an atrocity without parallel in modern British history. It continues to this day. Read More

Amazon’s vast online marketplace can be difficult to navigate. That’s why we’ve scoured through hundreds of online deals to find the best ones available in Canada this week. Read More

A sentencing hearing is set to start today for three men convicted of helping co-ordinate a blockade at the Canada-U.S. border at Coutts, Alta., in protest of COVID-19 rules and restrictions. Read More

A young Jamaican immigrant who successfully fought off a deportation order during a decade-long string of crimes is now facing his most serious charge yet: second-degree murder. Read More

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