Another Justin Trudeau-era policy, the EV mandate, has been scrapped. That’s great news for consumers, because ultimately the market should decide the vehicles we buy, not Ottawa claiming some moral high ground. But while this is obviously a good move, let us not forget what came to those who opposed these Trudeau-era climate measures over the last decade. Read More

Catherine O'Hara, the actress and comedian who got her start on the Canada's Second City Television and then went on to play iconic moms in Beetlejuice, Home Alone and Schitt's Creek, died last week at age 71. Read More

Calgary-born singer Tate McRae would like "y'all" to know she's "Canada down," after starring in an ad for NBC that hypes both the U.S. winter Olympics team and the upcoming Super Bowl. Read More

The World Economic Forum, which organizes the Davos summit, said Thursday that it would conduct an independent review into its chief executive's interactions with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Read More

U.S. news anchor Savannah Guthrie tearfully pleaded with kidnappers to share proof that her 84-year-old mother was still alive in a video posted to her social media Wednesday night. Read More

Auston Matthews. Connor McDavid. Eileen Gu? Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Nothing zaps consumer and investor confidence quite like a trade war.  Read More

Wearing a red jacket and matching red toque, with a snowcapped mountain over his shoulder, Canadian snowboard veteran Mark McMorris looked level into the camera and made a sombre announcement: An injury was forcing him from at least one event at the Milan-Cortina Games. Read More

Iran and the United States are holding talks on Friday in Oman, with Tehran pushing to focus squarely on its nuclear programme, while Washington's demands go beyond that. Read More

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, battling for his political future, apologized Thursday to victims of Jeffrey Epstein for appointing disgraced Peter Mandelson as US ambassador. Read More

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney will announce he is scrapping the controversial electric vehicle mandate implemented by his Liberal predecessor, replacing it with a 75 per cent tailpipe emissions reduction target by 2035 and a new purchase incentive for electric vehicles priced under $50,000. Read More

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MILAN - Canada will have to wait two more days to begin defence of its Olympic title in women's hockey. Read More

Cassie Campbell-Pascall knew her playing days were nearing an end as she prepared for what would be her final Olympics, at the 2006 Winter Games in Turin. There had been a few signals that it was time: From her aching bones to the names that began to appear on the roster. Read More

MILAN - Jennifer Heil knows about injuries. As a Canadian freestyle ski star – and Olympic gold winner; a world champion – she went through a stretch of her career where she needed injections in her knee just to stay upright on the mountain. Read More

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In Salt Lake County, Utah, which is home to more than 1.2 million, parents interested in signing their children up for youth hockey are directed to one of three local ice rinks. Aly Mossberg is a high-scoring 14-year-old who practises three times a week with her all-girls team. Read More

Food inflation in Canada has been increasing relentlessly, even more than inflation on other goods, spiking again at the end of 2025. Read More

An Alberta judge recently discounted the prison sentence for a former university football player with Indigenous roots who bled profusely while sexually assaulting a woman, despite her repeated protests over the attack. Read More

Calgary — Pierre Poilievre’s convention success here last week and the Stephen Harper celebrations in Ottawa this week pose an old-as-Laurier question for Canada’s Conservatives: What is the party for? Read More

There’s a lot of Thucydides quoting at the moment — specifically the infamous line from the Melian Dialogue: "the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must" — to describe the realist parameters of the renewed Great Power politics we now again live with. Read More

There are few policy areas in Canadian politics as tortured as the CF-18 replacement program, now entering its 16th year and undergoing its fifth evaluation — which is likely to once again recommend continuing with the purchase of F-35s. Read More

The person who gets to appoint every judge on Alberta’s two highest courts — King’s Bench and the Court of Appeal — is Prime Minister Mark Carney. He also decides who to send up to the Supreme Court to represent Western Canada. Alberta wants better judges, and Premier Danielle Smith is completely right in seeking change. It is disappointing that Justice Minister Sean Fraser has already dismissed the premier's proposal. The entire judicial appointment process, not just for the West, needs an overall, one that puts competence and justice ahead of politics. Read More

More than a century ago, when Toronto built the Prince Edward Viaduct to connect Bloor Street to the Danforth, a lower deck was built to accommodate a future subway line that was still decades away from starting construction. Unfortunately, that sort of ambition is in short supply today. Read More