OTTAWA -- Over 800 special ballots cast during the recent federal election were mistakenly kept at the office of a returning officer in B.C., Elections Canada says. Read More

OTTAWA -- Canada's premiers and Prime Minister Mark Carney will meet in Saskatoon on June 2 to discuss ways to work together to make the country stronger. Read More

REGINA -- Saskatchewan's Opposition NDP introduced legislation Wednesday that, if passed, would make it tougher for the province to separate from the rest of Canada. Read More

One of the challenges Prime Minister Mark Carney faced in the Oval Office on Tuesday was stickhandling around President Donald Trump's insults of other politicians, including Canada's minister of transport and internal trade, Chrystia Freeland. Read More

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney could soon be facing a national unity crisis after Alberta Premier Danielle Smith lowered the bar for a referendum on the province's independence in 2026. Read More

OTTAWA — As Prime Minister Mark Carney left his meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump, officials left behind gifts seen as fit for a president with whom Canada is trying to forge better relations. Read More

VATICAN CITY -- Black smoke is pouring out of the Sistine Chapel chimney, indicating no pope was elected on the first ballot of the conclave to choose a new leader of the Catholic Church. Read More

An alligator has attacked and killed a 61-year-old woman who was canoeing at a Florida lake with her husband on Tuesday. Read More

Quebec became the first Canadian province to enact legislation stipulating that recommended tip amounts on payment terminals must be calculated using the subtotal — the price before the GST (five per cent) and the province’s sales tax (9.975 per cent) are applied. Read More

The federal election has done more than just choose a prime minister. Several party leaders failed to secure a seat in the House of Commons, leading to a shakeup at the parties' top levels. Read More

Canadian actor and comedian William Shatner had a counter-offer to President Donald Trump's suggestion of turning Canada into the 51st state. Read More

A new study is questioning the existence of “an alleged ‘mystery’ neurological illness” that emerged in New Brunswick six years ago. Read More

India fired missiles into Pakistani-controlled territory in several locations early Wednesday, as the overall death toll increased to 31 people in what Pakistan's leader called an act of war. India also claims there are casualties from Pakistani fire in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir. Read More

LONDON — Joe Biden said in his first post-presidential interview that President Donald Trump's pressure on Ukraine to give up territory to Russia amounts to "modern-day appeasement," a historically fraught term that refers to a failed effort to stop the Nazis from annexing land in Europe in the 1930s. Read More

Catholic cardinals will sequester themselves Wednesday behind the Vatican's medieval walls for the start of a conclave to elect the 267th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church, a successor to Pope Francis who died in April at the age of 88. Read More

India fired missiles at Pakistan early Wednesday, in what it said was retaliation for last month's massacre of Indian tourists. Pakistan called the strikes an act of war and said more than two dozen people, including children, were killed. Read More

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Prime Minister Mark Carney's invitation to King Charles III to give the Speech from the Throne this month is a powerful statement of Canada's independence. It is one clear way in which Carney is measurably better than his predecessor, Justin Trudeau, who would have recoiled at the thought of inviting the King over, for fear of appearing to endorse Canada's colonial past. Carney, for his part, is suggesting he understands that the projection of legitimate authority must be grounded in first principles. Read More

I must disclose my background here; I was employed by the University of Saskatchewan for 40 years including 13 years as president. The institution’s distinctive origins combined the development of liberal education with a responsibility to build the province’s agricultural industry, and it did the latter with world-class agricultural programs and research institutes, and with faculty and students of many backgrounds from around the globe. Read More

In a livestreamed address Monday, Premier Danielle Smith indicated that, though she doesn’t support Alberta’s separatist movement, she will certainly use it as leverage in negotiating a new deal for the province. It’s a bold strategy, but it’s hard to see it playing out. Read More

More than half of Canadians no longer feel welcome or safe travelling to the United States, according to a new poll. Read More

ISLAMABAD -- India fired missiles into Pakistani-controlled territory in several locations early Wednesday, killing a child and wounding two other people, Pakistani authorities said. India said it was striking infrastructure used by militants. Read More

WASHINGTON — Top U.S. officials are set to meet with a high-level Chinese delegation this weekend in Switzerland in the first major talks between the two nations since President Donald Trump sparked a trade war with stiff tariffs on imports. Read More

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that three more hostages held by Hamas in Gaza have died, leaving only 21 believed to be still living. Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump announced that the United States would halt strikes on the Houthi terrorists in Yemen, saying the Iran-backed group had “agreed to stop interrupting important shipping lanes in the Middle East,” Reuters reported. Read More

Prime Minister Mark Carney met U.S. President Donald Trump in person for the first time at the Oval Office on Tuesday. Carney arrived at about 11:55 a.m. and was greeted by Trump with a handshake, after which they both raised a fist to the cameras. Read More

Prime Minister Mark Carney met U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House on Tuesday for the first time since his election. Both made a point to make nice, praising each other as "transformational" leaders and pledging a friendship that will survive despite Trump's unchanged desire to make Canada an American state. Read More

A telling sign of how Prime Minister Mark Carney’s visit to the Oval Office was going was that JD Vance kept his mouth shut, except when required to provide the odd sycophantic guffaw. Read More

OTTAWA — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says that her United Conservative Party supports national unity, but adds that she won't stop members of her caucus from expressing different views on Alberta separation. Read More

The reviews have been flowing in for King Charles III delivering the throne speech in Ottawa on May 28, and they’re mostly appreciative. Such is the galvanizing power of President Donald Trump that even some skeptics of constitutional monarchy seem to think it’s a reasonable idea in the circumstances — to show America, and the world, that the foundations of Canadian democracy are too robust for any unhinged president to undermine. Read More

Howard Lutnick made headlines this week, ahead of Prime Minister Mark Carney's meeting with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office, by calling Canada "a socialist regime" that feeds off of America. Read More

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WestJet is suspending nine routes between Canada and the U.S. due to lower demand. Read More

PARIS — Russian journalist Ekaterina Barabash resurfaced in Paris Monday following an escape from Moscow last month after being put under house arrest and facing a 10-year prison sentence for posts condemning Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Read More

OTTAWA — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has an ally in Quebec and his name is Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, the Parti Québécois leader. Read More

The New Democratic Party of Canada has chosen Don Davies as its new interim leader, after Jagmeet Singh announced his resignation as head of the party. Singh lost his own Burnaby Central seat in British Columbia in the April 28 federal election. Read More

LEDUC, Alta. — A law firm representing women who sued an Alberta municipality over claims of sexual assault, harassment and discrimination says over $9.5 million has been paid out to 155 women whose claims were approved in a settlement. Read More

On the eve of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s critical trip to Washington to meet U.S. President Donald Trump, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith stole the spotlight and turned it firmly on herself. In a twenty-minute “address to Albertans,” she aired grievances against the federal Liberal government, from carbon taxes to Justin Trudeau’s infamous “no more pipelines bill,” C-69. Smith also presented a list of demands, from resource corridor development to greater provincial control over energy and immigration. And she pledged to hold a referendum on Alberta independence should “enough” citizens demand one — while insisting multiple times that she doesn’t support secession herself.  Read More

In the weeks of the election period, Canadian courts were busy preventing any legislation of controversy from taking effect — and they went relatively unnoticed. On March 28, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice blocked the Ontario government from banning supervised consumption sites near schools and daycares. It struck again on April 22, halting the Ontario government from removing Toronto’s bike lanes. Read More