Canada’s financial intelligence agency is reporting that it easily set a new mark last year in the number of cases that it sent to police for possible criminal investigation, just one metric in the broader picture of a country facing escalating problems with money laundering and terrorist financing. Read More

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Ottawa hitting the brakes on population growth by drastically cutting incoming immigration has eased the pressure on social and economic infrastructure, according to a newly released report from TD Economics. Read More

Brigitte Macron, the wife of French president Emmanuel Macron, was at the centre of a cyberbullying trial in France. Read More

NEW YORK - Alan Dershowitz, the prominent American lawyer, had a blunt assessment about Canada and the Carney government at a recent pro-Israel gathering in New York. Read More

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith invoked the notwithstanding clause when she ordered striking teachers back to work. You'd think that would be the end of the story, since Section 33 allows laws to operate "notwithstanding" certain rights guaranteed by the Charter. Read More

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At least two Canadian airports, in Kelowna, B.C., and Winnipeg, are so short of air traffic controllers (ATCs) that they have had to occasionally shut down their towers. Air Canada has gone so far as to tell its pilots "not to operate into these airports during short term ATC staffing shortage closures." Read More

The Carney government tried to inoculate itself against charges of austerity on Wednesday as François-Philippe Champagne promised “sustained funding” for gender equality programs. Read More

Had 27,145 voters checked YES instead of NO on Oct. 30, 1995, the government of Québec, led by Parti Québécois leader Jacques Parizeau, would have started on the road towards declaring Quebec an independent country. That’s how close we came from Canada breaking up after its relatively short history of 128 years. The source of Québécois dissatisfaction with the rest of the country was then what it always had been and is still today: the perception that most Canadians have little time for the province’s specific identity. Read More

Thirty years after Quebec voted on whether or not to leave Canada and form its own country, Canadians increasingly see themselves as one nation, despite talks of separation by some provincial leaders, according to a new poll. Read More

OTTAWA — A Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) report on federal service delivery to small businesses found that Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) received the highest level of dissatisfaction from small business owners. Read More

OTTAWA — A stark June memo from the director of Canada’s spy agency highlighting culture and morale issues at the service was applauded by employees relieved that management was no longer sugar-coating longstanding workplace issues. Read More

President Donald Trump said the U.S. would accelerate its nuclear weapons testing, after Russia in recent days announced trials of a nuclear-powered underwater drone and nuclear-capable cruise missile. Read More

The Republican-controlled Senate narrowly passed a bill to end Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canada, highlighting GOP divisions over the duties just days after the president threatened to increase them further to punish the U.S.’s northern neighbour. Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump claimed victory Wednesday over what he called the "hoax" of climate change, after billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates said a warming world would not end civilization. Read More

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