Canadian sports fans continue to voice their displeasure at American economic policies despite a pause in a trade war between Canada and the United States. Read More

New defence documents filed in New Jersey’s superior court Tuesday indicate that Johnny and Matthew Gaudreau’s blood alcohol levels as they rode bikes along a road near their home last summer were higher than that of the driver charged with fatally hitting them. Read More

Donald Trump: Thank you, very much. That's a lot of press. Congratulations, you bring them out, you really bring them out. Today I'm delighted to welcome Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu back to the White House. It's a wonderful feeling and a wonderful event. We had fantastic talks. And thank you very much, with your staff. Read More

Ontario NDP Leader Marit Stiles promised Wednesday to end homeless encampments, calling them Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford's "greatest failure." Read More

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will host a Canada-U.S. economic summit in Toronto on Friday, days after President Donald Trump said he would hold off on his threatened tariffs against Canada for a month. Read More

International students who graduated from Canadian schools are more likely to be underemployed than their Canadian peers and many are living with lower incomes as a result. Read More

Pierre Poilievre says a Conservative government would bring in mandatory life sentences for those convicted of trafficking, production and distribution of over 40 mg of fentanyl. Read More

On Saturday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau admitted that he and the Liberal party had failed in its negotiations to protect Canadians from 25 per cent tariffs, except that's not how he framed the situation. Instead, he made it look like his government was powerless to address American concerns about securing our border from potential security threats posed by the crossing of illegal migrants and drugs from Canada into the U.S. Read More

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A majority of Israeli Jews support as a practical plan U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposal to relocate Gazans to other countries, according to a survey published on Monday. Read More

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The threat of U.S. tariffs on Canadian imports is driving governments across the country to look inward to see how we can improve shared productivity and boost the country's economy. Read More

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During the past several weeks, federal cabinet ministers have claimed that we did not know what United States President Donald Trump wants to accomplish by threatening Canada with tariffs. Some pundits have claimed that the president of the U.S. has no substantial understanding of what impact these tariffs will have, and that they are some sort of a vanity project. Read More

The pausing of tariffs against Canada is a good thing for the national economy, but it’s unclear what it means for those party leaders vying for votes in the Ontario election. This was supposed to be the tariff election. How will it unfold now that there are no tariffs? Read More

You have no choice but to be a spectator of Mark Carney’s astroturfing. After all, the Liberals have suspended Canadian parliamentary democracy to make it happen. Read More

VICTORIA -- The British Columbia government has released a list of 18 critical mineral and energy projects worth roughly $20 billion that it said it's working to accelerate in the face of ongoing tariff threats from the United States. Read More

EDMONTON -- Take Back Alberta, the third-party advertiser that made headlines for its role in the high-profile ouster of former premier Jason Kenney, has been fined more than $100,000 by Elections Alberta. Read More

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Tuesday suggested that displaced Palestinians in Gaza be permanently resettled outside the war-torn territory and proposed the U.S. take “ownership” in redeveloping the area into “the Riviera of the Middle East” Read More

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Canadians have been “more united than ever” in the face of the threat of U.S. tariffs, which President Donald Trump agreed to pause for 30 days on Monday in exchange for extra border measures. Read More

The Giller Foundation ended its relationship with its main sponsor Scotiabank on Monday, following a prolonged pressure campaign by anti-Israel activists, who are still calling for the organization to drop additional sponsors. Read More

OTTAWA — A judge erroneously concluded it was unreasonable for the federal cabinet to use the Emergencies Act in 2022 to quell protests in the national capital and at key border points, says a lawyer for the government. Read More

The Aga Khan, the spiritual leader of the world's Ismaili Muslims, has died at the age of 88. Read More

OTTAWA — Quebec Premier François Legault said the threat of American tariffs means Quebec's world is "changing" and asked people the province to "fight." Read More

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An Indian national refused permanent residency in Canada by a visa officer who believed he had links to an outfit behind Indian "disinformation campaigns," and fake news reports will get another shot at obtaining the status. Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump is demanding that Canada and Mexico beef up border security and stem the flow of illegal migrants and drugs into his country, and suggesting similar retaliation in the form of a broad 25-per-cent tariff on imports if they don't. Read More

OTTAWA — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said Tuesday there's no point in Canada reviewing its free-trade agreement with the United States and Mexico until after an election, which she hopes will happen soon. Read More

A congressman from Tennessee wants to alter the 22nd Amendment, which outlines presidential term limits, to allow U.S. President Donald Trump to serve a third term. Read More

The Federal Court of Appeal is hearing a once-in-a-generation civil liberties case Feb. 4 and 5 — the appeal in the legal challenge to the Emergencies Act. This is the appeal of a landmark decision of the federal court from January 2024. In that lower court decision, Justice Richard Mosley sided with the legal charity, the Canadian Constitution Foundation, which had challenged Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s invocation of that extraordinary legislation in response to the 2022 Freedom Convoy. Read More

What does it mean to be Canadian? Is it honouring our maple syrup? Knowing more French than the average English speaker? A dedication to ketchup chips? An above-average passion for hockey? A dedication to defending our (troubled, but universal) healthcare system? Being able to list off all the Canadian actors that made it big in Hollywood? Apologizing when other people step on your foot? Or perhaps we define it simply as “not American.” Read More

Can we stop pretending that the Ontario election has only one issue, which is authorizing Premier Doug Ford to spend tens of billions of dollars to protect Ontario from American tariffs? Read More

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's "Choose Canada" message came through loud and clear. Even with a 30-day tariff reprieve, many Canadians are committed to buying locally, sharing their favourite homegrown brands on social media and flooding the buy-Canadian website, madeinca.ca, with thousands of new user submissions. Read More

Doug Ford's early election gamble seems to be paying off: With more than three weeks to go, polling shows that almost half of Ontario voters are seriously considering a vote for the Progressive Conservatives. Read More

American hockey fans in Nashville put their country on the board in the anthem booing contest that’s been an unexpected fallout of recent U.S.-Canada trade tensions. Read More

MAYVILLE, N.Y. — In 2022, Salman Rushdie was about to deliver a lecture before a live audience in western New York when a man ran towards him and plunged a knife into the author's hand as he raised it in self-defence. Read More

OTTAWA — The Canadian Armed Forces will not be sent to the Canada-U.S. border, but it will sending more drones to the RCMP and assist with logistics, according to National Defence Minister Bill Blair's office.  Read More

Amid an ongoing trade war with the United States, Canada is set to appoint a so-called "fentanyl czar" in an effort to mitigate an escalating situation between the two countries. Read More