A man who police have called Toronto’s top Mafia boss was highly respected by Mafia bosses in Italy, a senior police officer from Italy told an immigration hearing for the man Canada has been trying — and failing — to deport for more than 40 years. Read More

Five former Canadian world junior hockey players were found not guilty in a high-profile sexual assault trial related to a 2018 incident in London, Ont. The case had sparked a national reckoning over hockey culture, and what is and what isn't considered consent. Here’s how the lawyers for Michael McLeod, Carter Hart, Alex Formenton, Dillon Dube and Callan Foote reacted to Ontario Superior Court Justice Maria Carroccia's verdict, which was delivered in a London courtroom on Thursday. Read More

Five former members of Canada’s world junior hockey team were acquitted of sexual assault on Thursday following a high-profile trial involving one complainant, identified only as E.M. due to a publication ban. Ontario Superior Court Justice Maria Carroccia found Michael McLeod, Carter Hart, Alex Formenton, Dillon Dube and Callan Foote not guilty of sexual assault after saying that the complainant’s testimony was not found to be “either credible or reliable.” Read More

HALIFAX -- The Royal Canadian Navy plans to retire some of its older warships this fall. Read More

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney told Inuit leaders that his government’s major projects bill “fully respects treaty rights” a week after several Indigenous leaders left a recent meeting with him in a state of frustration , saying their treaties were being undermined. Read More

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Canadians are well aware of the trade pressures and annexation talk from south of the border. But what do Americans think? New York magazine has devoted a sizeable portion of a recent issue — and its cover, featuring an angry beaver with a chokehold on a scrawny bald eagle — to the topic. Its headline: You Have No Idea How Furious the Canadians Are. Read More

U.S. Christian musician Sean Feucht is continuing his Canadian tour in spite of having to find new venues for all six shows. Read More

OTTAWA — An internal government document reveals there was awareness among some officials that Ottawa ending its electric vehicle subsidies in January would lead to an "immediate" hit to EV sales and market uncertainty, as it coincided with the United States' rollback of its own electrification programs.  Read More

The sister of one of the victims of Bryan Kohberger, who killed four University of Idaho students, read her impact statement in court before he was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday. Read More

It makes for a stirring and uplifting story, and it’s been making the rounds quite a bit lately: Israel has rushed to the aid of a harmless minority that cowers in fear of genocide, besieged and vastly outnumbered by the savage army of a powerful jihadist demagogue. Read More

Hulk Hogan, the wrestler credited by many for pushing professional wrestling into mainstream media during his 1980s heyday, has died. Read More

The Supreme Court of Canada has rejected a constitutional challenge of the criminal law on sex work, upholding the convictions of two men who argued its provisions are overly broad. Read More

Columbia University announced Wednesday it has reached a deal with the Trump administration to pay more than $220 million to the federal government to restore federal research money that was canceled in the name of combating antisemitism on campus. Read More

Last Friday, the same day that Toronto police arrested the at-large 14-year-old alleged to have stabbed a grandmother to death as she loaded groceries into her car, the Supreme Court of Canada made it next to impossible to sentence him to a jail term longer than six years. Read More

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MOSCOW — A passenger plane carrying 49 people, including five children, crashed in Russia's Far Eastern Amur region Thursday, local emergency services said. Russian news agencies said that an initial aerial inspection suggested there were no survivors. Read More

In the weeks before Bryan Kohberger killed four University of Idaho students, there were strange happenings at their rental home near campus. Read More

A remote-controlled scoop has begun the work of removing a pile of debris 20 to 30 meters long and seven to eight metres high to gain access to three workers trapped at the Red Chris mine in northern British Columbia, a company statement says. Read More

The sentencing hearing for Freedom Convoy leaders Tamara Lich and Chris Barber continues in Ottawa today, months after the two were found guilty of mischief. Read More

PETERBOROUGH, ONT. — I’ve come to think that we Canadians are so polite that even though we now find ourselves living inside a real-life zombie movie, many seem afraid to raise a fuss for fear of offending the zombies. Read More

The inherent absurdity of President Donald Trump’s tariff mania was laid bare in the deal he has just announced with Japan. Read More

NEW YORK -- Columbia University announced Wednesday it has reached a deal with the Trump administration to pay more than $220 million to the federal government to restore federal research money that was canceled in the name of combating antisemitism on campus. Read More

OTTAWA -- Ottawa's outgoing envoy for tackling antisemitism is accusing Canada's business sector and civil society of failing to call out a rising tide of hate against Jews and other minorities. Read More