A rumoured summer romance between Justin Trudeau and Katy Perry was confirmed last week via photos of the pair reportedly canoodling atop her yacht in California recently, vaulting them into the stratosphere of the most talked-about celebrity couple conversation. Read More

A new study published this week in the Lancet Journal of Health Longevity is reinforcing the negative effects of smoking on cognitive health and offering new evidence to support quitting among seniors. Read More

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Film buffs will tell you that Frankenstein, the newest tale from writer/director Guillermo del Toro, is the movie he’s been working on his whole life. And the filmmaker, who just turned 61 last week, confirms it. Read More

Someone presenting themselves as a Montreal professor took to social media on the weekend to suggest a peculiar approach to dealing with “hardcore Zionists.” The advice: “Kill them all.” Read More

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Skepticism of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s stated desire to fast-track development in Canada is warranted. But we don’t have to wait forever, or even for long, to see how genuine he is: all he has to do is greenlight Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s plan for a new pipeline, and it’ll be clear where he stands. Read More

The erosion of liberal education in Canada’s kindergarten to Grade 12 schools is no longer a matter for speculation — it is now undeniable. Thirty years ago, Peter Emberley and Waller Newell’s Bankrupt Education (1994) offered a prophetic warning. They diagnosed a “crisis of public confidence” in our schools, highlighting the rise of a “vague and value-laden” curriculum in which “substance” was giving way to “social experimentation.” Students and teachers, they claimed, were reduced to guinea pigs in a system steadily abandoning knowledge, intellectual rigour, and preparation for higher education. Read More

OTTAWA — A new national poll finds that most Canadians see securing a new trade deal with the U.S. as crucial for domestic jobs and economic growth. Read More

OTTAWA — NDP leadership candidate Avi Lewis is promising to lower grocery bills across the country by bringing in a national "public option" to compete with corporate supermarket chains, but economists say this could be a hard row to hoe for a meagre yield. Read More

Washington (AFP) -- Flawed engineering and inadequate testing contributed to the catastrophic implosion of a private submersible during a 2023 expedition to the Titanic wreckage, the US National Transportation Safety Board said Wednesday. Read More

This week’s Newfoundland and Labrador general election was a political earthquake that virtually no pundit or polling firm saw coming. It’s led to yet another right-leaning victory in what has been traditionally regarded as a Liberal stronghold. Read More

Operations at the Kelowna, B.C., airport (YLW) were disrupted Tuesday evening after its passenger information screens and public address systems were overtaken in a terrorist cyberattack. Read More

The owner of a piece of Vancouver real estate that was assessed at over $19 million managed to knock nearly a million dollars off the amount used to calculate property taxes, but the Property Assessment Appeal Board of British Columbia says Fu D. Ren breached its code of conduct and may have used artificial intelligence to make his argument. Read More

Justin Trudeau and Katy Perry were the punchline of some of Jimmy Kimmel's jokes in his opening monologue on Tuesday night. Read More

OTTAWA — Ontario Premier Doug Ford says Canada needs to get tougher with the U.S. as two of Prime Minister Mark Carney's top trade negotiators returned to Washington to continue trade talks in hopes of securing a deal that would see U.S. tariffs either removed or lessened. Read More

President Donald Trump ordered a strike on a boat of alleged narco-traffickers off the coast of Venezuela, killing six people, the latest in a series of attacks the White House says are needed to protect Americans but have raised questions from legal scholars. Read More

OTTAWA — The head of Canada’s Parliamentary Press Gallery denounced the Liberals’ “unprecedented” exclusion of Canadian media from Prime Minister Mark Carney’s trip to Egypt on Sunday, while the government said it had no choice due to last minute travel.  Read More

To no one’s surprise, fault lines are already emerging in the Israeli-Palestinian ceasefire. Epochal conflicts don’t often resolve themselves without some violent hiccups. But this remains the latest, greatest hope for peace in the Levant. Anyone who believes Gazans have suffered more than enough, anyone who believes in any kind of two-state solution, should at least be much happier today than they were two weeks ago. Read More

Ontario Premier Doug Ford is serious about reducing crime in his province, fiercely advocating as of late for Ottawa to swiftly enact bail reform and more punitive sentences for offenders. Read More

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The visas of six foreign nationals in the United States were revoked over comments about Charlie Kirk, says the Trump administration. Read More

Last week, Quebec Premier François Legault’s Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) government tabled Bill 1, which aims to provide the province with a constitution. Yet the text of the document and the process that led to it are so controversial that they constitute a masterclass in how not to write a constitution. Read More

The Hamas terror group on Tuesday night transferred the bodies of three hostages to Israel, along with the remains of an unidentified fourth individual, amid growing pressure over its failure to return all 28 deceased captives as required under the Trump administration-brokered ceasefire agreement. Read More