Israeli police estimated that more than 300,000 haredim from all ultra-Orthodox streams gathered in what was dubbed a “million-man march” at the entrance to Israel’s capital on Thursday to protest efforts to enlist them to the Israel Defense Forces and to condemn arrests by the IDF of yeshiva students, who have ignored enlistment orders. Read More

OTTAWA — U.S. President Donald Trump said that Prime Minister Mark Carney has “apologized” for the Ontario government’s anti-tariff television ad featuring Ronald Reagan that reportedly derailed trade talks between both countries. Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump halted Canada-U.S. trade talks last week in an angry response to a TV ad run by Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s government featuring Ronald Reagan’s 1987 comments criticizing tariffs. “Ronald Reagan loved tariffs,” Trump said, labelling the ad “fraudulent.” Read More

Ford begins with a softball. "Canada and the United States are neighbours, allies and best friends," he writes. "We have stood shoulder to shoulder on the battlefield, defending shared values of freedom and democracy. Free trade between our two countries has ushered in decades of unprecedented wealth and prosperity, creating millions of jobs on both sides of the border." Read More

TORONTO -- Russian attacks on Ukraine’s natural-gas system are a deliberate bid to create a “humanitarian crisis,” Ukraine's energy minister charged Friday as Canada pledged to speed up support for the nation’s battered heating and lighting grid. Read More

Singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan isn’t surprised so many musical artists hailing from Canada found success worldwide. Read More

Carmelle Sly doesn’t just have a fire pit in her Edmonton backyard. She and her husband, Dan, have a fire cauldron. “It’s gigantic,” she admits. “But when that fire is roaring, we don’t feel like we’re in our backyard.” Read More

A CTV article published on Tuesday calling Alberta's choice to use the notwithstanding clause to get striking teachers back to work "a threat to democracy" has caused quite a stir — not for the reasons you might expect, namely, debates between the clause and Charter rights, but because of how CTV crafted the story. Readers complained that the story was biased, sensational, and lacked balance in its sourcing of expert interview subjects, one of whom revealed to the Post that they were recently interviewed by CTV on the topic, but his comments or comments like his, never made it into the article. If anything is a threat to democracy, it's an under-informed populace. Read More

Folks lucky enough to have a ticket to tonight’s World Series game at the Rogers Centre in Toronto are welcome to wear a Halloween costume. Read More

Andrew, son of Queen Elizabeth II and brother to King Charles III, is being stripped of his royal titles and will no longer be called Prince Andrew or His Royal Highness. Read More

The term “elevated horror” has been much discussed in genre circles in relation to filmmakers such as Ari Aster (Hereditary, Midsommar), Robert Eggers (The Witch, The Lighthouse), and Jordan Peele (Get Out, Nope). Read More

Canada’s uranium is a strategic asset, but recent industry choices suggest growing dependence on U.S. technology, enrichment, and markets — potentially limiting Ottawa’s control and future industrial benefits. SMRs require enriched uranium that Canada cannot supply, and the Cameco deal positions Westinghouse reactors under U.S. systems, raising questions about whether Canada is becoming a passive supplier rather than a nuclear leader — or, as Prime Minister Mark Carney puts it, an “energy superpower.” Read More

Prime Minister Mark Carney hailed a “turning point” in his nation’s ties with China after a meeting with Chinese Xi Jinping that marked the first formal sitdown in eight years between leaders of the two nations. Read More

OTTAWA — Canada's top court narrowly ruled Friday to strike down the one-year mandatory minimum sentence requirement for the possession and access of child pornography, after examining the punishment's impact on a hypothetical 18-year-old involved in sexting. Read More

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Lyon — Six people armed with military-grade weapons used explosives to break into a gold refining laboratory in Lyon, slightly injuring five employees in the latest high-profile daytime heist to hit France. Read More

There is arguably one problem with Ontario Premier Doug Ford's TV ads using the words of Republican icon Ronald Reagan against Donald Trump: It didn’t quote the Gipper enough. Read More

The Combatting Hate Act (Bill C-9) is officially making its way through parliamentary committee review to amend the criminal code. The legislation aims to strengthen our laws against hate propaganda, hate crimes and access to religious or cultural places. I have been a strong advocate of these reforms calling for a direct response to the rising tide of antisemitism and the extremism of pro-Hamas demonstrations since October 7 2023.  Read More

Our cookbook of the week is Setting a Place for Us by Hawa Hassan, a James Beard Award-winning author, TV host, and founder and CEO of Basbaas, a line of African-inspired sauces and condiments. Read More

If you are an average North American consumer, you will spend the equivalent of US$114 on Halloween this year. That makes Halloween one of the pricier holidays, and it didn't used to be this way. Read More

Most Canadians have some level of familiarity with this old saying, “every vote counts.” There are those who don’t necessarily agree with this sentiment. Most politicians win their ridings by either decent margins or significant blowouts, they argue, so why would one specific vote matter? Read More

Pope Leo XIV had two royal visits in the last week, King Charles III and Queen Camilla first and then, a few days later, Belgium’s King Philippe and Queen Mathilde. Careful watchers of protocol — and if protocol is not kept at the Vatican and by royal houses, who will keep it? — noted that Camilla wore all black in the presence of the Holy Father, a feminine tradition now often ignored. Mathilde, in contrast, wore all white, a privilege granted to Catholic queens, of which there are only about a half dozen remaining in the world. Read More

You likely won’t find a Toronto Blue Jays fan anywhere in Canada ready to count their chickens before they hatch when it comes to the team’s chance to win this year’s World Series. Read More

The sight of Prime Minister Mark Carney emerging from a South Korean submarine flying the Maple Leaf flag this week was symbolic of the urgency with which the prime minister appears intent on restoring the rusting Canadian Armed Forces. Read More