Mark Carney will be sworn in as Canada’s prime minister on Friday and there’s now a massive test that awaits him. Read More

Ontario Premier Doug Ford and federal Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc suggested Wednesday they want to come out of a meeting with a top U.S. official with a “coherent plan” for the tariff road ahead. Read More

OTTAWA — Justin Trudeau's last day as prime minister will be Thursday as Mark Carney and a new cabinet will be sworn in by Governor General Mary Simon on Friday morning. Read More

Shortly after an American Airlines flight left Savannah, Georgia, it turned back due to chaos caused by a passenger who thought a Satanic spirit had entered the cabin. Read More

Medical experts are urging Canadians to ensure they are vaccinated for the measles virus, especially if they intend to travel for March break. Read More

An FBI task force probing an enormous network smuggling cocaine, fentanyl, methamphetamine and heroin from Mexico into the United States and then hauling it north by truck to Canada was secretly watching a suspect’s home in Inglewood, a suburb of Los Angeles. Read More

Canadians planning to travel to the U.S. for more than 30 days will no longer have to be fingerprinted, after a change to an upcoming policy. Read More

Amid an ongoing trade war between Canada and the United States, this country's airlines are dealing with customers who are making the decision not to fly to America. Some of those pivots are cheekier than others. Read More

Pakistan's neglected southwestern province of Balochistan has been the scene of a yearslong insurgency, with a dramatic uptick in attacks in recent years underscoring the struggles the government in Islamabad faces in dealing with myriad security threats. Read More

A handful of Alaskan state-level politicians are opposing Donald Trump's "restrictive trade measures that would harm the unique Canada-U.S. relationship" with recent joint resolutions. Read More

Of all of Canada’s leaders, Ontario Premier Doug Ford has proven to be the best at hitting back against the United States’ increasingly enamoured views on annexation. Indeed, he’s like a father who accompanies his daughter to the car dealership to fend off the scams and slights of greedy salesmen. Read More

Pakistani forces were in a tense standoff Wednesday with hundreds of militants holding about 250 people hostage on a train they had hijacked in the remote southwest the day before, officials said. The security forces held off from full-out battles as militants wearing vests loaded with explosives had barricaded themselves inside the train with the hostages. Read More

It is often said that courage is contagious. So too, alas, is governmental economic stupidity, from which the United States and Canada now suffer in abundance, especially in the form of tariffs, which good economists have denounced as idiotic for approximately 250 years. Read More

OTTAWA — Canada will be imposing 25 per cent reciprocal tariffs on $29.8 billion of American imports after U.S. levies on all foreign imports of steel and aluminum went into effect early Wednesday.  Read More

The Bank of Canada lowered its benchmark interest rate by a quarter point on Wednesday as the tariff battle with the United States starts to weigh on the Canadian economy. Read More

A party that favors a gradual path to Greenland's independence from Denmark won a surprise victory in parliamentary elections, held in the shadow of U.S. President Donald Trump's stated goal of taking control of the island one way or another. Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump’s back-and-forth tariff threats are galvanizing an “invest in Canada” movement that’s prodding pensions to keep more of their cash at home. Read More

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Novelties test the stability and adaptability of institutions. Thus it will be this week with a new prime minister, for the first time never having held elected office. Not for the first time, the new PM is not an MP and, while anomalous, that is not at all a problem. There will be extra work at Rideau Hall this week, but not a whit of uncertainty about what to do. Read More

"We are fiercely opposed to any type of transport on Quebec territory of hydrocarbons from Western Canada to any market whatsoever. It does not serve Quebec." Read More

If you have an upcoming surgery and are able to book the date yourself, a new study suggests that Monday might be a better choice than Friday. Read More

World leaders from New Delhi to Brussels facing tariffs from President Donald Trump’s administration are watching Canada to get a preview of what happens when you hit back. Read More

MANILA, Philippines -- Philippine police arrested former President Rodrigo Duterte in Manila on Tuesday and sent him by plane to the Netherlands to face charges of crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court, President Ferdinand Marcos said. Read More

Lost somewhat amid the aftermath of Ontario’s Feb. 27 election was the Supreme Court of Canada’s March 7 decision declaring unconstitutional the third-party fundraising rules under which that election, and indeed the one before it, were held. Whoops! Read More

Even in Canada’s smaller communities, the cost of constantly policing anti-Israel demonstrations continues to take seven-figure sums from local police budgets. Read More

A college in Tennessee is set to become the first historically Black institution to ice an NCAA Division 1 hockey team. Read More

There was a narrow window for detente between the monomaniacal Captain Ahab at the helm of the U.S. federal government and the new prime minister-designate of Canada. Read More

OTTAWA — Incoming prime minister Mark Carney says he has put all his assets other than his “personal real estate” into a blind trust after months of Conservative questions about his potential conflicts of interest. Read More

OTTAWA — Mark Carney's victory in the Liberal leadership race puts the final nail in the coffin of Ottawa's controversial plan to hike the inclusion rate on capital gains. Read More

It’s official: Mark Carney has won the prize of prime minister. Now, he must figure out how to keep it. Carney comes to the job with a lot of pluses, chiefly his steady demeanour and economic experience, but also a pile of vulnerabilities. Already the Conservatives are gleefully exploiting them, branding him a liar, sellout, and globalist. They are saturating social media with memes and clever ads, trying to define him before he calls an election, which is likely imminent, considering the latest Nanos poll puts them a mere percentage point ahead of the Liberals.  Read More

Lawyers representing Sean M. Higgins, the driver accused of killing Johnny and Matthew Gaudreau last summer, want their client’s indictment tossed, saying the grand jury didn’t learn about the brothers’ intoxication at the time of the crash, which could amount to possible “contributory negligence” in their own deaths. Read More

Sophie Grégoire Trudeau reflected on her journey as a "simple human, a woman, a non-official First Lady" in a social media post the same day Justin Trudeau gave his farewell speech as the Liberal leader. Read More

How many weeks, or months, will the prime minister-designate, Mark Carney, be facing off with U.S. President Donald Trump in our current trade war? And how much damage could Carney do to Canada during this time? Does he know how to handle the whims of Trump’s ego-driven relationships with world leaders? Read More

OTTAWA — Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced Tuesday that he has agreed to suspend the 25 per cent tariffs he imposed on the United States and will meet with U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, alongside Canadian Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc, this week. Read More

Ontario is re-examining its trade strategy in the wake of American tariffs on Canadian goods, looking to focus on opening up new markets and attracting more overseas investment once the immediate economic threat passes. Read More

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Late Thursday night and into Friday morning, Canadians under clear skies will be able to watch a lunar eclipse, as the moon gets covered by the shadow of the Earth and turns a dark, smoky reddish-brown for a little over an hour. Here's what to know about this celestial event, also known as a "blood moon" for its colour. Read More

High-stakes talks between senior delegations from Ukraine and the United States on how to end Kyiv's three-year war with Moscow opened in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, hours after Russian air defenses shot down 337 Ukrainian drones over Russia. Read More

President Donald Trump shopped for a new Tesla on the White House driveway on Tuesday, selecting a shiny red sedan to show his support for Elon Musk ’s electric vehicle company as it faces blowback because of his work to advance the president’s political agenda and downsize the federal government. Read More

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