To hear the critics talk, the tax provisions in President Donald Trump’s One, Big, Beautiful Bill (OBBB) are a gift to the uber-wealthy who are, they insist, already undertaxed. Never mind that the law prevents a huge tax hike at the end of the year on most Americans; somehow, it’s bad that the rich will prosper at all. But, while it’s true that the OBBB is more than a bit of a mess and adds cost and complexity to an already excessively bureaucratic state, its tax provisions do some good. Importantly, successful Americans are already paying a disproportionate share of the bill for the bloated U.S. government. Read More

Mark Carney has been prime minister of Canada since March. He’s been called many things by many people in this short time period. It never came to mind that he would be described as a “progressive conservative” along the lines of Brian Mulroney. Read More

We are approaching the end game of the current round of negotiations between Canada and the U.S. on a new comprehensive trade deal. Read More

Re: Gasps in court as all five players acquitted in Hockey Canada sexual assault trial — Jane Sims, July 24 Read More

Harold Terens fought in World War II. He's lived almost 102 years, celebrating his birthday a couple weeks early with family and friends in Florida. But he has something more to look forward to. Read More

The City of Montreal has fined a local church for hosting a concert by the U.S.-based Christian musician Sean Feucht. Read More

Tea, a provocative dating app designed to let women anonymously ask or warn each other about men they'd encountered, rocketed to the top spot on the U.S. Apple App Store this week. On Friday, the company behind the app confirmed it had been hacked: Thousands of images, including selfies, were leaked online. Read More

Most Canadians believe the country is making good progress on reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples, a new poll from Leger suggests. Read More

Alberta resident Shamaila Akram says she can handle the increase in racial slurs and derogatory comments being thrown at her, but she worries about her newcomer and immigrant clients. Read More

A key House committee is looking into the investigation of the late Jeffrey Epstein for sex trafficking crimes, working to subpoena President Donald Trump's Department of Justice for files in the case as well as hold a deposition of Epstein's former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell. Read More

The federal auditor general is planning to study the recruitment, retention and promotion of people with disabilities in the federal public service. Read More

In a clever and completely unexpected public relations move as it seeks to move on from the infamous Coldplay concert “kiss cam” scandal, Astronomer has temporarily hired celebrity Gwyneth Paltrow as a spokesperson. Read More

French authorities are trying to establish whether a group of young French citizens were removed from a plane bound for Paris from Spain this week because they are Jewish. Read More

Protesters and police faced off outside a Plateau church Friday evening as Sean Feucht, a pro-Trump and Christian singer, performed a concert as part of his “Revive in 25” Let Us Worship tour. The show went ahead despite a warning from the city that the venue, Église MR, did not have the required permit to host the event. Read More

The back-from-the-dead Law Commission of Canada is a distinctly Liberal institution that serves to churn out “independent and non-partisan” policy advice that coincidentally supports government priorities — or pulls them to the left. The genius in all this? It hides in plain sight. Read More

Thirty-nine years ago, on the first night of the Calgary Stampede, Hulk Hogan wrestled King Kong Bundy at the Saddledome. In 1986, Hogan, who died Thursday at age 71, was at the peak of his global fame and I, along with my teenage friends, were there to watch him defeat Bundy in a “house show,” meaning a non-televised match. Hogan and Bundy had been the main event at WrestleMania II just a few months previous. Read More

Donald J. Savoie has spent decades studying the inner workings of Canada’s federal bureaucracy. He’s watched Ottawa grow more centralized and more crowded with what he calls “poets,” policy thinkers and advisers, while the “plumbers,” the front-line workers delivering services to Canadians, have not been prioritized. In an interview with National Post about the concept, as discussed in his recent book Speaking Truth to Canadians About Their Public Service, Savoie explains why that imbalance matters. Savoie is Canada Research Chair in Public Administration and Governance at Université de Moncton. Read More

SDEROT, Israel — Each day, it seems, we wake to a fresh horror. Read More

Ozzy Osbourne, the original voice of Black Sabbath, died on Tuesday, thus leaving an enormous Ozzy-shaped hole in the world. He is recognized as one of the founding fathers of heavy metal for his decade in Sabbath; went on to have a solo career which, contrary to all expectations, yielded further classics; founded Ozzfest, the lucrative festival/touring series which fertilized a dozen sub-genres of guitar rock; and then, somehow, became a beloved and universally recognized “reality TV” star, mostly by just being a good-natured zillionaire drug casualty tottering around expensive estates and cursing colourfully in front of hand-held cameras. Read More

Despite the sun bearing down on him and the sweat beading across his face, President Donald Trump still lingered with reporters lined up outside the White House on Friday. He was leaving on a trip to Scotland, where he would visit his golf courses, and he wanted to talk about how his administration just finished "the best six months ever." Read More

BOSTON -- A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from ending birthright citizenship for the children of parents who are in the U.S. illegally, issuing the third court ruling blocking the birthright order nationwide since a key Supreme Court decision in June. Read More

MONTREAL -- A convicted murderer who escaped from a Quebec prison nearly three weeks ago was recaptured early Friday in Montreal, Correctional Service Canada said. Read More

OTTAWA -- A former City of Ottawa lawyer has pleaded guilty after defacing Canada's National Holocaust Monument. Read More

Five former world junior hockey players acquitted in a high-profile sexual assault case will remain ineligible to play in the NHL, according to the league. This move has drawn backlash from the NHL Players’ Association (NHLPA), which says the players deserve to return to work. Read More