Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin will pause tourist flights to space for “no less than two years” in order to shift resources to accelerating the development of its moon lander and other lunar technologies, the company announced. Read More

Paul Calandra, Ontario’s education minister, was in London this past week for an international conference. Its mission: “to change the game for education worldwide by equipping education institutions and governments with the knowledge and tools they need to be effective users and buyers of technology.” I’m not sure what that means, to be honest. But by far the most interesting part of Calandra’s junket, from an Ontario parent’s point of view, was certainly his visit to London's Michaela Community School. Read More

CALGARY — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre will speak to party faithful on Friday evening in Calgary ahead of a leadership review that will decide his future. Read More

OTTAWA — British Columbia Premier David Eby sparked a firestorm of legal speculation about the foreign outreach of Alberta separatists on Thursday when he called the activities "treason" ahead of a first ministers' meeting in Ottawa. Read More

Canadian-American actress Catherine O'Hara has died at 71, according to multiple reports. Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — “‘Tariffs’ is the most beautiful word to me in the dictionary,” President Donald Trump liked to say early last year, calling it his favourite word and promising they would help usher in a new “golden age” for America. Read More

The hottest Olympic merchandise isn't from the Team Canada collection, but a fleece jacket sported by fictional hockey player Shane Hollander in Heated Rivalry. Prime Minister Mark Carney even got in on the action, posing in the original fleece with star Hudson Williams (Hollander) on the red carpet at the Canadian Media Producers Association's annual Prime Time conference in Ottawa on Jan. 29. Read More

A payments director at the Minneapolis-based retail giant Target Corp. said her fast-track credentials for airport security were revoked following an interaction with a federal border patrol agent who claimed he had facial recognition and was recording with a “body cam.” Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump announced Friday that he is nominating Kevin Warsh, a former Federal Reserve governor, to be the next U.S. central bank chief. Read More

A grieving Toronto-area mother is pushing for answers after her 26-year-old diabetic son, who was struggling with vision loss and depression, was granted a doctor-assisted death in British Columbia in December after his family says he was deemed ineligible for euthanasia in his own province. Read More

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said she ordered the arrest of former CNN anchor Don Lemon in connection with a protest against federal immigration enforcement activities in Minnesota, escalating the Trump administration’s clash with the press and protesters. Read More

Hospitals are no longer places of safety as Iran's crackdown on anti-government protests impacts all aspects of life, rights groups say, with authorities arresting wounded protesters and even the medics who treat them. Read More

After a striking speech at Davos, Mark Carney opted for a different tone as he supported the Canadian film industry in Ottawa. Read More

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Mark Carney received worldwide praise for his speech at Davos, in which he threw down the gauntlet against Donald J. Trump’s destructive politics. His speech, a couple days later on Canadian unity at the Plains of Abraham will not receive such international attention, but it is far more revealing of the fundamental flaw of Carney as a politician. For all his intelligence and credentials, Carney simply doesn’t know much about the country he governs. Read More

Our cookbook of the week is Rome: A Culinary History, Cookbook, and Field Guide to the Flavors that Built a City by Katie Parla. Read More

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Another Holocaust Remembrance Day came and went as the world continues to tear itself apart. If anything, October 7 proved to be a continuum of the violent antisemitism of past centuries — the Inquisition, Crusades, pogroms — all paving the way to the genocide of six-million Jews. Around two-thirds of European Jews were murdered in gas chambers, by bullets in killing fields and by their own non-Jewish neighbours. Read More

Pierre Poilievre took an economy class flight to Calgary for this weekend's Conservative Party of Canada Convention, and his fans went wild, sharing photos taken by other passengers and praising the move online. His detractors have, of course, refered to Poilievre’s cabin choice as nothing more than a successful public relations stunt. Read More

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CALGARY— More than 2,500 delegates will answer the question today that Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has been waiting months to hear.  Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump and Senate Democrats have reached a tentative deal to avert a disruptive U.S. government shutdown as the White House continues to negotiate with Democrats on placing new limits on immigration raids that have provoked a national outcry. Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump said he would charge a 50 per cent tariff on aircraft from Canada sold in the U.S., and decertify all planes made in Canada until Ottawa agreed to approve certain jets made by Gulfstream Aerospace Corp., an American firm. Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump said Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin agreed to halt attacks on Kyiv and other cities for a week, as Moscow's strikes leave Ukraine facing its toughest winter since the start of the war. Read More