President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order on Friday designating English the official language of the United States, according to the White House. Read More

OTTAWA — Conservatives went back on the attack against Liberal leadership frontrunner Mark Carney on Thursday, releasing a short digital ad saying Carney "sold out Canada" by overseeing the move of Canadian investment house Brookfield's head office to New York while the company's chair. Read More

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OTTAWA -- Large numbers of public servants working in the federal government's three biggest departments aren't following Ottawa's three-days-per-week office work rule, federal data shows. Read More

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will meet with President Donald Trump in Washington on Friday at a pivotal moment for his country, one that hinges on whether he can persuade Trump to provide some form of U.S. backing for Ukraine's security against any future Russian aggression. Read More

(Feb. 28, 2025 / JNS) -- Negotiations between Israel and Hamas on the next phase of the Gaza ceasefire began late Thursday, Egyptian authorities said, in an “intensive” effort to extend the truce. Read More

Our cookbook of the week is Souk to Table by Amina Al-Saigh, Toronto-based author, former engineer and founder of the Middle Eastern food blog Hungry Paprikas. Read More

An empire is a single state that contains a variety of peoples, one of which is dominant. As a form of political organization, it has been around for millennia and has appeared on every continent. Read More

Having won his third-consecutive majority government on Thursday night, Ontario Premier Doug Ford has successfully positioned himself, as a recent Guardian headline put it, as “Canada’s anti-Trump.” It’s a remarkable transformation considering that a mere seven years ago, the left was trying to brand Ford as a homegrown version of U.S. President Donald Trump. Read More

President Donald Trump’s latest public statement is that the tariffs proposed on Canada will go into effect as scheduled on March 4th. Read More

Ontarians have cast their ballots, re-electing Doug Ford's PC's with a historic third majority after calling an early election in order to secure a strong mandate to face potential tariffs from U.S. President Donald Trump. This was, more or less, expected. Read More

Under Chief Justice Richard Wagner, the Supreme Court of Canada has become an institution obsessed with publicity. Which is why its decision to leave Twitter/X, where it has the strongest following, is clearly a political move — and an inappropriate one, considering the court’s supposed commitment to neutrality. Read More

For the first time in more than half a century, the leader of an Ontario party has scored a third consecutive majority win. Read More

No one can fault us for believing that a complete reset is necessary in our future dealings with the Palestinians. Not just a reset, but a fundamental severing and distancing. This perspective comes from someone who has long supported the two-state solution — not out of any illusion that the Palestinians truly desire peace, nor that peace was entirely possible, but because I was willing to give them a chance to take responsibility for their own future. I wanted to believe they wanted a better life for themselves, for the sake of all of us. Read More

OTTAWA — Opposition parties are pushing for stricter financial disclosure rules, warning that Liberal leadership candidate Mark Carney could become prime minister before revealing his assets or potential conflicts of interest. Read More

Ontario Premier Doug Ford captured an historic, third-straight majority government in a rare mid-winter election that revolved around crippling tariffs threatened by the U.S. president. Here is his victory speech, in full: Read More

The Israel Defense Forces presented on Thursday night the findings of its internal probes into the failures leading up to and during the Hamas-led cross-border terrorist attacks and the resulting massacre of 1,200 people in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. Read More

Ontario Liberal Leader Bonnie Crombie lost in her riding of Mississauga East-Cooksville Thursday night, but vowed to stay on as party leader. Read More

For Sarah Jama, the incumbent independent MPP for Hamilton Centre, the night was over within minutes. Read More

OTTAWA -- Members of diaspora communities are urging Ottawa to get its planned foreign influence transparency registry up and running before the coming general election. Read More

OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has rejected NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh's call for the federal government to bar U.S. President Donald Trump from coming to Canada for the G7 summit this June. Read More

Some of us thought Doug Ford might be playing with fire by calling an election in the middle of a crisis — especially since it was so obvious for so long that he (or at least some of his senior advisers) had been eager for any pretext to go early. Read More

There have been close elections in Canada that have burned the midnight oil. This wasn’t the case in Ontario, where the candle wick barely required a lit match. Read More

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday released government documents related to wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein, but the first wave of files posted on the Justice Department website have largely been circulating in the public domain for years and didn’t include any new bombshells about the sex trafficking case that has been a favorite subject of conspiracy theorists. Read More

Elon Musk suggested on Monday that the corruption trial of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was orchestrated by the “deep state.” Read More

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It took only minutes Thursday night for media projections to declare Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives the winners of an historic, third-straight majority government, ending a rare mid-winter contest that revolved around crippling tariffs threatened by the U.S. Read More

OTTAWA — From the billionaire financier who dined with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to the adviser who warned there was "a special place in hell" awaiting Trudeau, some key figures have emerged in U.S. President Donald Trump's administration as the faces redefining Canada's relationship with its closest ally. Read More

Wayne Gretzky has faced significant criticism from some Canadians for his association with U.S. President Donald Trump. He has shown himself to be a friend and supporter of Trump, attending his election night party as well as the inauguration. Read More

OTTAWA - Leadership candidate Mark Carney and the federal Liberals are being accused of “appropriation” by Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet for using a flagship slogan of the province's Quiet Revolution. Read More

(Feb. 27, 2025 / JNS) -- Thirteen people were injured, including one critically, in a terrorist car-ramming attack at a bus stop near the Karkur Junction, east of Caesarea, according to police and medical officials. Read More

WASHINGTON -- Public Safety Minister David McGuinty said Thursday Canada has acted on U.S. concerns about border security and fentanyl trafficking -- even as U.S. President Donald Trump insists economy-wide tariffs will go ahead next week as planned. Read More

(Feb. 27, 2025 / JNS) -- Defense Minister Israel Katz revealed on Thursday that security forces recently discovered Hamas files proving the terrorist group had plans to carry out a large-scale assault on communities in Judea and Samaria and along the Seam Line security barrier. Read More

Oscar-winner Gene Hackman, his wife and one of their dogs were apparently dead for some time before a maintenance worker discovered their bodies at the couple’s Santa Fe home, according to investigators. Read More

Ontario's snap election is today. Here's what you need to know about casting a ballot. Read More

A travel ban was lifted on influencer brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate, who are both charged with human trafficking in Romania, and they are headed to the United States, officials said Thursday. Read More

After a month-long campaign, it's election day in Ontario. Polls opened across the province this morning and close at 9 p.m. ET. Read More

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While many Canadians may find it difficult to remember a Canada-U.S. relationship that wasn't defined by free trade between the two countries, it's a relatively recent development. Read More

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