A former Canadian Olympic snowboarder turned top FBI fugitive is expected to appear in federal court Monday on charges he allegedly ran a billion-dollar multinational drug trafficking ring and orchestrated multiple killings. Read More

Canada's federal government on Monday gave Marineland conditional approval to sell its 30 imperilled beluga whales to parks in the United States, after rejecting an export request to China. Read More

Our friends at the Investigative Journalism Bureau (IJB) published some important data over the weekend with respect to Indigenous female victims of crime. This is perhaps the most-discussed group of crime victims in recent Canadian history, culminating in the 2019 report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG). And yet, the IJB analysis found, their criminal assailants tend to get off easier than when the victim is non-Indigenous. Read More

Rapper Kanye West on Monday denied being a Nazi and expressed regret over his antisemitic rants, blaming such behaviour — which included recording a song that celebrates Hitler — on his bipolar disorder. Read More

OTTAWA — The federal Liberal government says gun owners have so far declared their willingness to turn over more than 22,000 firearms in exchange for money under its newly launched compensation program.  Read More

Canada is likely to see more F-35 fighter jets one way or another, according to U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra. Read More

On Saturday, U.S. President Donald Trump threatened Canada with 100 per cent tariffs on all goods if Prime Minister Mark Carney proceeds with his China trade deal. The president’s language was characteristically blunt: Canada would become a “drop off port” for Chinese goods, and “China will eat Canada alive, completely devour it.” This is the predictable consequence of Carney's reckless foreign policy. Read More

OTTAWA — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she's losing patience with what she views as the reticence of federal officials to give her a "number" indicating how much in assets Alberta would receive if it were to exit Canada Pension Plan (CPP) and transition to its own provincial fund. Read More

A Jamaican permanent resident who stabbed an Alberta man 50 times in a "lengthy and brutal" attack in April 2022, put the victim into the trunk of his own car, then drove it deep into a wooded area before abandoning it, leaving the area on foot and hiding his clothes in a swamp has been sentenced to 11 years in prison. Read More

Acting President Delcy Rodríguez said Venezuela has “had enough” of US interference as the government faces growing pushback from public-sector groups and leftist parties over plans to overhaul the oil industry. Read More

In a statement on Monday, Ye apologized for a history of "impulsive" behavior, including using antisemitic imagery and describing himself as a Nazi. Read More

The Israel Defense Forces on Monday confirmed its soldiers recovered the body of Master Sgt. Ran Gvili, the last remaining hostage, from the Gaza Strip. Read More

NATO chief Mark Rutte warned Monday Europe cannot defend itself without the United States, in the face of calls for the continent to stand on its own feet after tensions over Greenland. Read More

OTTAWA— Members of Parliament on the House of Commons' justice committee voted Monday in favour of pausing work on a controversial government hate crimes bill, to instead turn attention to the Liberals' bail reform package.  Read More

Vowing to put "more money back in Canadians' pockets," Prime Minister Mark Carney announced a new GST rebate in Ottawa on Monday. Formerly known as the Goods and Services Tax (GST) credit, here's what you need to know about the new Canada Groceries and Essentials Benefit. Read More

Canadians are sharing photos of wintery weather after record-breaking snowfall blanketed the Greater Toronto Area on Sunday. Read More

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OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney said his government is not considering a federal election this spring as Parliament resumed on Monday. Read More

A retired couple's trip from London, Ont., to Kelowna, B.C., to visit family and do a little skiing turned into a "trip from hell" with multiple delays and lost luggage on both the outbound and homeward journeys, they say. Read More

Politicians rarely say anything very interesting in speeches. At most, there might be a kernel of news slipped in between the banalities and outpourings of self-congratulation. Read More

The bromance between U.S. President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Mark Carney is over. The president is back to jeering at the prime minister after Carney’s “hegemon” speech in Switzerland. And Liberals are back in their election comfort zone, acting as defenders of Canada against American hostility, as Brian Lilley discusses with Stuart Thomson and Tasha Kheiriddin, editors of Postmedia’s Political Hack newsletter. It worked so well for Carney during the last election, they say this could be just the thing for him to call an election to try for a majority. They get into the advantages and risks, and the problem for Conservatives, who are still trying to regroup from the last time they got flattened by this drama. (Recorded Jan. 23, 2026.) Read More

Ukraine said it hit a small oil refinery in southern Russia, the third attack this month on its foe’s fuel-producing industry. Read More

Donald Trump lauded the UK’s military after Prime Minister Keir Starmer urged the US president to apologize for downplaying the role of NATO troops in the war in Afghanistan. Read More

Paris — A U.S.-based rights group said on Monday it had confirmed the deaths of nearly 6,000 people during a wave of protests in Iran suppressed by security forces, as Tehran warned Washington against intervening. Read More