For the second time in one week, Russia has violated the air space of a NATO member. On Sunday, a Russian drone flew through Romanian airspace, coming just days after a Russian drone incursion over Poland. Both incidents represent an unprecedented provocation between Vladimir Putin and NATO with the potential to cast the West into armed and prolonged conflict. There is no playbook for theatrics such as these; Putin’s antics — although momentarily contained — reveal an official disregard for sovereignty and statecraft without clearly-defined objectives, ambitions or outcomes. Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump filed a $15 billion defamation lawsuit against the New York Times on Monday, accusing the outlet of a "decades-long pattern" of smears driven by feelings of "actual malice." Read More

Luigi Mangione will not go on trial for state terrorism charges in connection with the ambush-style killing late last year of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a judge in Manhattan ruled Tuesday. Read More

OTTAWA —  Transport Minister Chrystia Freeland is expected to resign from cabinet Tuesday, marking the first departure from Prime Minister Mark Carney's cabinet. Read More

Israel started a long-threatened push into the heart of Gaza City after U.S. President Donald Trump’s top diplomat warned Hamas there’s a “very short window” for negotiations to end the war. Read More

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Robert Redford, the quintessentially handsome leading man who starred in acclaimed movies, won an Academy Award as a director and was hailed as the “godfather of indie films” for founding the Sundance Film Festival, has died. He was 89. Read More

Costco has issued a recall for a Kirkland brand sparkling wine due to a risk of the glass bottles spontaneously shattering. Read More

Charges are expected to be filed Tuesday against the accused, Tyler James Robinson in the assassination of Charlie Kirk and Donald Trump hopes he gets the death penalty. Read More

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The Ontario College of Teachers should send all of us scurrying to find alternatives to this and other like-minded associations and school boards. It is bent on commitments that should bring parents and others to demand change. Read More

Every five years, as the anniversary of the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team’s victory over the Soviet Union in Lake Placid, N.Y., rolls around, Al Michaels is on the circuit reminiscing about his play-by-play call that christened the "Miracle on Ice": “Do you believe in miracles? Yes!” Read More

In his provocative new book The CBC: How Canada’s Public Broadcaster Lost Its Voice (And How to Get It Back) — set for release with Sutherland House Books on September 16, 2025 — veteran producer and broadcaster David Cayley examines the decline of the institution he served for more than four decades. He argues that the CBC has abandoned its duty to speak to and for the whole country, retreating instead into narrow ideological echo chambers. In this excerpt, Cayley recalls how the broadcaster’s response to the 2022 Freedom Convoy crystallized its inability to engage with Canadians across political divides.  Read More

Former NDP MP Charlie Angus, for example, said he was “appalled” at Kirk’s death, but he also spent much of the last year demonizing conservative voices in Canada by alleging they are illegitimate Trumpian actors. Read More

The recent report issued by the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU), “Dismantling Public Futures,” criticizing the Ford government for pivoting its approach to funding skilled trades programs paints a skewed picture of the training landscape for apprentices in Ontario. It’s purposefully designed to ignore the benefits of union training halls in the skilled trades which are nowhere to be found in its thirteen page report. Read More

More people in Canada who land in an emergency room with symptoms like belly pain or unexplained weight loss are being told "this may be cancer" — and sent home without knowing how long they'll be waiting to get the follow-up care they need, a new study suggests. Read More

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President Donald Trump said the U.S. struck a second vessel ferrying drugs from Venezuela, showing his determination to proceed with an aggressive strategy that’s ratcheted up tensions with the country and prompted questions about the legality of targeting non-combatants. Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump said he would speak with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Friday as American and Chinese officials reached a framework deal on keeping the TikTok app running in the U.S.. Read More

Senior White House official Stephen Miller vowed Monday that the Trump administration would dismantle an alleged "vast domestic terror movement" that he said led to the killing of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk last week. Read More

So long, summer — it’s time to hit the books. Luckily, September’s slate is packed with CanLit stars. Read More

Prime Minister Mark Carney has been trying to frame his October budget without inducing panic. Read More

OTTAWA — Conservatives wasted no time going on offence as question period returned Monday, grilling the Liberals over emails that contradict their messaging on BC Ferries' controversial deal with a Chinese state-owned shipyard. Read More

To say Bonnie Crombie left the Liberal Party of Ontario better off than she found them is definitely faint praise, considering she found the party as a minivan’s worth of seven MPPs crashed into a ditch with the air bags deployed and steam pouring out of the engine. But still: In February’s election she brought home five more seats than her woeful predecessor Steven Del Duca managed — enough to regain the party official status in the legislature — and 381,000 more votes across the province. Fundraising efforts rebounded impressively: The party claimed $2.9 million in contributions in 2024, Crombie’s first year on the job, up roughly 40 per cent from the year before and more than double what Del Duca managed, even adjusted for inflation, at the party’s nadir in 2019. Read More