In the hundreds of pages of transcripts from Justice Department interviews of Ghislaine Maxwell, the former girlfriend of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein spoke glowingly of President Donald Trump, called him a "gentleman in all respects" and describing him as "friendly" with Epstein. Read More

An Ontario family is calling on the provincial government to introduce legislation that would set maximum emergency room wait times for children after their teenage son died following an eight-hour wait for a doctor in a hospital last year. Read More

Just think of it as doomsday prepping gone chic. In the past few years, the ultrarich have been quietly getting their homes ready for the next big disaster by building luxury underground bunkers. Read More

Researchers have confirmed it. Your morning cup of joe gives you a morning mood bump. Read More

RCMP say an Ontario truck driver accused of evading police for nine months has been arrested in a Manitoba crash that killed a woman and her eight-year-old daughter. Read More

Washington — National Guard troops will soon carry weapons in Washington, DC, where U.S. President Donald Trump ordered their deployment as part of a crackdown on crime, a U.S. defense official said Friday. Read More

The Federal Court of Appeal ruled on Thursday that a cull of about 400 ostriches can proceed at a British Columbia ostrich farm that suffered an avian flu outbreak. Read More

The next time humans fly to the moon, there will be a Canadian among the crew. Astronaut Jeremy Hansen has been chosen to fly on the Artemis II mission, slated for liftoff as early as next April. Read More

The FBI on Friday searched the Maryland home and Washington office of former Trump administration national security adviser John Bolton as part of a criminal investigation into the potential mishandling of classified information, a person familiar with the matter said. Read More

HALIFAX -- Newly released court documents are revealing unreported details of the investigation into the disappearance of two young children from their home in rural northeastern Nova Scotia. Read More

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney said it's no longer time for "elbows up" as he announced Friday that Canada will remove retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods covered by the existing trade agreement between the countries minus those on steel, aluminum and autos. Read More

Following last week’s Alaska summit, the Trump administration boasted that Russian President Vladimir Putin had made the concession of allowing Ukraine to receive “NATO-style” security guarantees from the West, a development that was initially widely praised. However, Moscow clarified Wednesday that this would be conditional on giving Russia and China the power to veto any future efforts to defend Kyiv, rendering these guarantees useless. Read More

The Ontario public school network is a systemically polluted ecosystem. This isn’t my opinion. The evidence is in, and it stinks to high heaven. Read More

(Bloomberg) — The slide in Cracker Barrel Old Country Store Inc.’s shares deepened on Thursday as a conservative backlash to the restaurant chain’s logo change intensified across social media. Read More

Cookbook dinner clubs are a great way to bring friends together while sampling new dishes and reducing food prep and cost. It’s essentially a monthly potluck, and typically everyone picks recipes from a single cookbook. Read More

Our cookbook of the week is Green Mountains by travel writer Caroline Eden. Read More

Fewer Canadians are taking a trip to Las Vegas, which is contributing to an overall decline in the city's revenue this summer, with recent data showing a drop in visitors to resorts and convention centres. Read More

We live in an upside-down world where logic, at least when it comes to Israel, has been turned inside out. But perhaps we should not be surprised. Antisemitism has never been about reason. It has always been an emotional impulse — irrational, contradictory and destructive. Read More

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Here we go again. More announcements that “graves” have been found at former Indian Residential Schools, more flags lowered in mourning and more uncritical press coverage. Read More

On paper, it seemed like a sure win for Air Canada. Its flight attendants would strike, paralyzing air transportation in the country. The strike would be extremely unpopular, as Canadians would accuse the flight attendants of disrupting their travel plans for exaggerated salary demands. The government would intervene to force the flight attendants back to work, to the public’s applause. Binding arbitration would enforce a settlement that the company could very well live with. Read More

The United States is Israel’s main ally and the largest country where the world’s single majority-Jewish state enjoys the greatest support. But even here, Israel’s popularity is eroding. And no wonder, with prominent news outlets publishing photographic evidence of children starving in Gaza as a result of Israel’s forceful military response to Hamas’s murderous October 7 attack. But those photos don’t stand up to scrutiny, with one after another revealed as depicting kids with chronic diseases. In fact, the media seems to be letting itself be used as a tool for Hamas’s cruel propaganda campaign. Read More

A law firm specializing in workplace human rights, harassment investigations and diversity training is being sued by a former lawyer at the firm who alleges she was bullied out of her job through racism and failure to accommodate a medical crisis. Read More

OTTAWA — When the latest results of the biennial Public Service Employment Survey arrived on Daniel Rogers’ desk earlier this year, the new head of Canada’s intelligence agency was angry.  Read More