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Following a summer of horrific crimes — a fatal domestic assault in the street by a man on release, the stabbing of a grandmother in front of a grocery store, the execution of a loving father in front of his children during a break-in, to name a few — the Liberals want you to know that they’ve got a plan for justice reform.  Read More

As the recent military parade and meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Beijing demonstrated, the global power structure is unravelling. The magnetic pull of the western alliance is cracking while that of our authoritarian adversaries is intensifying. In the words of the Wall Street Journal's Yaroslav Trofimov, the image of China’s Xi Jinping, flanked by leaders of fellow nuclear powers Russia and North Korea, as ICBMs rolled through flag-waving crowds in Tiananmen Square, “marked a new phase in the redrawing of the international order." Read More

As the Herald’s incomparable Don Braid reported on Friday, there was an extraordinary moment of ecumenical outreach in Alberta last week, as Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, leader of the resurgent Parti Québécois, visited Calgary and pressed the flesh with some Alberta separatists. Plamondon was invited for a “fireside chat” by the University of Calgary School of Public Policy, and rehearsed familiar arguments for Quebec separatism. Quebec never asked for the constitutional settlement of 1982, or for that matter the one of 1867; the French language is, as ever, in precipitous decline on this continent; the federal government, unhealthily dependent on ethnic clientele-building, makes lunatic policy decisions and implements them crookedly, etc., etc. Read More

Health Canada has launched its third legislative review of the Tobacco and Vaping Products Act (TVPA), which is the perfect opportunity to rethink the country's failing approach to nicotine regulation. Read More

OTTAWA — Newly released documents show federal public safety officials quietly expressed concern over the tech industry's ability to curb the spread of extremist and terrorist content online after sector-wide layoffs. Read More

LOS ANGELES -- Lyle and Erik Menendez, who have spent more than three decades behind bars for murdering their parents with shotguns at the family's Beverly Hills mansion, have lost their bid for a new trial. Read More

LONDON -- Britain will roll out a supersized royal welcome for Donald Trump's unprecedented second state visit on Wednesday, with the king to greet the U.S. president who has compared himself to a monarch. Read More

Police interviewed suspect Tyler Robinson's roommate and romantic partner, who identifies as transgender, according to officials, after Charlie Kirk was assassinated at Utah Valley University. Read More

OTTAWA — Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe said Tuesday that Ottawa must work in tandem with the provinces to relieve tariff pressures being placed on Canada's economy by both the U.S. and China. Read More

Charlie Kirk’s alleged killer left messages etched on cartridges that are meant to speak to the slang of popular video games and online culture. Read More

Chrystia Freeland’s exit from cabinet, while not expected, is no great surprise. Read More

Utah authorities have formally laid seven charges against the suspect in the assassination of political influencer Charlie Kirk. Read More

The Utah County Sheriff's Office has released information on the arrest and booking of George Zinn, aged 71, on charges of obstruction of justice and possession of child sex abuse material. Read More

Twenty-seven people have been infected in a new salmonella outbreak, according to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. Most are in Alberta (13) and B.C. (12). One is in Ontario and another in Northwest Territories. Read More

While globally cherished children’s author Robert Munsch still suffers from a degenerative disease from which he’s chosen to escape through Medical Assistance in Dying, his daughter made it emphatically clear Tuesday that her father “IS NOT DYING.” Read More

Have you watched Severence yet? It’s the most nominated show going into this year’s Emmys! What about The Studio — I hear Seth Rogen is a revelation! No? Well, surely you’ve caught up on The White Lotus, finished Succession, or figured out why everyone is talking about Adolescence. If not, then what are you even doing with your life? Read More

The KGB once lauded Chrystia Freeland as someone who was “inventive” in achieving her goals.  Read More

Ottawa bureau chief Stuart Thomson talks to Brian Lee Crowley, the managing director of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, about the big challenges ahead for Prime Minister Mark Carney and Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre. Read More

Monday's first session of Question Period opened with Prime Minister Mark Carney and Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre displaying common courtesy toward each other, and a bit of humour from Poilievre, who, after thanking the constituents of his new riding, Battle River-Crowfoot, also thanked Carney for calling a prompt byelection, playfully quipping, "I wonder if one day he might regret that decision." Read More

OTTAWA — Canada's top oil and gas executives are giving Prime Minister Mark Carney partial marks on his first six months in office, acknowledging baby steps in the right direction but stressing he has a long way to go to fulfill his vision of making Canada an energy superpower. Read More

A Canadian citizen is facing federal charges in the U.S. after allegedly trying to smuggle nearly a thousand pounds of methamphetamine into Canada through the Port-Huron-Sarnia crossing last week. Read More