In the middle of the night on Jan. 3, my WhatsApp lit up with hundreds of messages, videos and reports describing unfolding events in Caracas and other cities throughout Venezuela. Confusion gave way to elation when the news finally broke: Nicolás Maduro was in U.S. custody. Read More

Shortly after the American military operation to capture left-wing Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, a key regional ally of Cuba, large-scale protests were organized in front of the American embassy in Havana, encouraged by the Cuban government. Read More

A drunk driver who killed a Somali immigrant and severely injured her daughter when he ran them over as they were walking across a Niagara Falls intersection, then fled the scene only to crash into two parked cars a short distance away, has been sentenced to eight years in prison. Read More

“Living next to you, is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.” — Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, 1969.  Read More

A major geopolitical fault line shifted Saturday morning, as the United States arrested Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro after a quarter century of socialist tyranny. Read More

Although Latin Americans are widely celebrating the United States’ abduction of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro, some voices, predominantly western progressives, have condemned the operation as destabilizing, illegal and immoral. Don’t listen to them: their arguments are specious and rife with contradictions.   Read More

Leslie Burns and her husband Michael have wintered in Tavernier, a small, laid-back community in the Florida Keys, since 2010. The Collingwood, Ont., couple doesn't see themselves as tourists anymore. "We stay in a residential neighbourhood and do our best to blend in," Leslie said from their long-term winter rental where the weather reached 21 degrees Celsius this week under "Windex-blue" skies. Read More

Would Jews be safer from intimidation and harassment if they told the police that their synagogues, community centres and schools were abortion clinics? Canada is vigilant about the serene operation of the latter, and somnolent about safety at the former. Read More

OTTAWA — Referendum talk is heating up in both Quebec and Alberta to start the year, but the pro-independence talk is coming from opposite sides of the political spectrum. Read More

PARIS — Ukraine's Western allies on Tuesday agreed key security guarantees for Kyiv including a U.S.-led monitoring mechanism and a European multinational force that would be deployed after a ceasefire in Russia's war against its neighbour. Read More

It is unfortunate that Chrystia Freeland decided to accept an economic-development position from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy with a quintessentially flaky Trudeauvian flourish: Instead of resigning her seat in the House of Commons immediately after taking on a role in a foreign government, as anyone halfway sane would have advised her to, she first said nothing about it, and then 12 hours later said she would step down “in the coming weeks.” So the MP for University—Rosedale is now at least nominally in a position of stewardship over the economic redevelopment of a war-ravaged country halfway around the world with roughly the same population as Canada’s. Read More

Police have charged a 47-year-old Barrie woman with first degree murder in the death of a 10-year-old child. Read More

In the past days and weeks, we have witnessed the Finlandization of Canada. Read More

A video taken on a WestJet flight leaving Edmonton has passengers decrying the shrinking size of airplane seats, but a passenger rights advocate says that aside from a change in the law there's little travellers can do except fight back. Read More

Air Transat and its pilots have announced the ratification of a new five-year contract that represents the groups' first negotiated agreement in more than a decade. Read More

Holiday party libations are fancier than the rest — so why not amp things up and support one of these classy Canadian brands while you’re at it? Cheers. Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday accused Nicolas Maduro of imitating his dancing, among other crimes, as he celebrated the capture of the Venezuelan leader in a freewheeling speech to Republican lawmakers. Read More

It might seem counterintuitive, but American Airlines is experimenting with making travel faster and more efficient by sometimes delaying its flights. Read More

A Canadian man was arrested in Florida last week after allegedly molesting a nine-year-old boy at an oceanfront hotel while his mother sat nearby. Read More

The lawyer defending deposed Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro is a veteran trial attorney who previously represented WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Read More

Red swastikas were spray-painted on the windows and walls of a synagogue in Winnipeg on Friday, a move that its executive director says was a "a very cowardly act" that was "meant to intimidate us." Read More

Marie-Philip Poulin prepared for the Beijing Olympics four years ago without a team. Read More

When U.S. naval officer Matthew Perry showed up in Edo Bay in July 1853, his "black ships" were not bringing a message of peace but a simple ultimatum: trade or deal with our gunboats. Over 200 years of Japanese isolation under the Tokugawa shogunate was swiftly concluded. Read More

Happy New Year. Or not, depending on where you find yourself these days. If you’re deposed Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro, that’s in a cell in Brooklyn, N.Y. If you’re U.S. President Donald Trump, that’s on the catbird seat in Washington, D.C. And if you’re Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, that’s on a tightrope in Ottawa, trying to strike the right note with an ally that looks more like an aggressor every day. Read More