OTTAWA — Next week’s federal budget will include a broad plan to reduce the size of the federal public service that will include layoffs, government sources say, part of Ottawa’s effort to deal with a massive deficit and a host of other priority spending areas. Read More

An elderly couple has lost their life savings to online scammers, even after their bank warned about potential fraud. Read More

An American man, named as a member of a whites-only group and twice turned away from Canada, complained border agents were aggressive and mean to him after finding “Nazi memorabilia” in his truck as well as animal skins painted with symbols authorities believed were rooted in European paganism. Read More

The story of a former Vice Canada journalist who led an international drug smuggling ring made headlines a number of years ago, in part due to the notoriety of the person charged. Read More

Donald Trump may not have wanted to meet with Mark Carney “for a while,” but the U.S. President had no choice but to face the Canadian Prime Minister at a state dinner in South Korea on Wednesday. Read More

SANTA CRUZ, SAINT ELIZABETH, Jamaica — A demolished church, roofs blown off homes, shattered windows and debris-strewn, impassable roads: Hurricane Melissa dealt a direct hit to Jamaica's southwestern coastal communities that face a long haul picking up the pieces. Read More

Ontario Premier Doug Ford has called on U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra to apologize for shouting and cursing at Ontario's trade representative to the United States. Read More

It's long been known that darkness improves the length and quality of sleep. Studies have shown that even the phase of the moon can affect our sleeping patterns. Read More

OTTAWA — Liberal members of Parliament lined up Wednesday to say Canadians are in no mood to go to the polls for a second time this year, as the government warns it lacks the votes needed to pass next week's federal budget. Read More

RICHMOND, B.C. — “We’re having a sit down and talk with the First Nations — but so far, all that they’ve said is ‘we’re overreacting,’” Richmond mayor Malcolm Brodie told a gaggle of reporters — his tone indignant — before Tuesday night's Richmond public hearing on the B.C. supreme court decision, Cowichan v. Canada, that jeopardizes private, fee simple property rights in the province, and perhaps all of Canada.   Read More

Artificial intelligence startup Character.AI will ban kids from having conversations with chatbots on its platform following growing pressure from lawmakers and a raft of lawsuits alleging the company’s so-called characters are responsible for harms to children. Read More

OTTAWA — Former senator Don Meredith was found not guilty of all charges of sexual assault and criminal harassment that were brought forward by a former employee, according to a decision read by Superior Court Justice Narissa Somji on Wednesday. Read More

Like most major sporting events in Los Angeles, Tuesday night’s World Series game between the host Dodgers and the Toronto Blue Jays lured a menagerie of celebrities, among them were Meghan Markle and Prince Harry. Read More

A plane from Chicago to Germany was diverted after a man allegedly stabbed two teens with a metal fork. Read More

Hurricane Melissa is barreling northeast toward the Bahamas, after leaving a trail of destruction across Jamaica and the eastern side of Cuba. Read More

The Israel Defense Forces on Wednesday morning reaffirmed its commitment to the U.S.-brokered ceasefire in Gaza, which had been jeopardized after a deadly Hamas attack on Israeli forces the previous day prompted retaliatory strikes. Read More

Hurricane Melissa thrashed Cuba, unleashing landslides and flooding in the nation’s second-largest city, as the storm tracked northeast toward the Bahamas. Read More

Aboard Air Force One — U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday he is "not allowed" to run for a third term, acknowledging the limits laid out in the U.S. Constitution. Read More

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A week before New York City’s mayoral election, every poll shows Zohran Mamdani with a double-digit lead. The Democrat and “democratic socialist” is almost certain to be the city’s next top elected official. But before the disproportionately young and prosperous voters who are driving his success start celebrating his victory, let’s consider the radical and hateful movement he’s leading and why his looming win is bad news for America’s leading city. Read More

I asked my new best friend ChatGPT to drum up some examples of government "investments" in climate change projects that went disastrously wrong. Read More

William Lyon Mackenzie King (who had been the Liberal prime minister since 1921) decided that his government would seek re-election on Oct. 29, 1925. He felt he had no choice. The rumbling inside the cabinet was driving him crazy and he was so tired that he even welcomed the idea of being defeated. He was 51 years old. Finally, he told his diary, he could get some rest. Read More

The problem with simply cramming never-before-seen volumes of students who can’t speak English into overcrowded classrooms is that, one day, the teachers will snap. And that’s kind of what we’re seeing in Alberta — though neither the government nor the teachers’ association has made a point of trying to solve the issue. Read More