TEL AVIV - Former IDF spokesman Alon Penzel is embarking on a Canada-wide speaking tour in coming weeks. He exhales deeply when asked why: he felt he had to, given the level of Oct. 7 denialism, minimalization and ignorance two years into the Gaza war. Read More

An immigrant pharmacist whose Canadian citizenship was revoked in November 2024, a decade after officials first suspected she hadn't met the requirements, has seen that decision set aside and revocation proceedings permanently stayed by a Federal Court judge who criticized officials for waiting so long to act on the allegations of "false representation, fraud, or knowingly concealing material circumstances." Read More

New York City's newly elected mayor, Zohran Mamdani, rang in the New Year and his term at city hall by saying in his inauguration speech that his administration will "draw this city closer together" and "replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism." But "rugged individualism" is the characteristic trait of Americans, especially New Yorkers. It's this nature of individualism that makes the United States the most innovative country in the world. Read More

The inferior national newspaper has seen fit to bid farewell to the old year by printing another op-ed bemoaning the uninhabitable state of the prime minister’s traditional primary residence at 24 Sussex Dr. I wonder if this is going to become an actual political cause in 2026 — whether our sudden Trump-era panic about state capacity and national self-reliance is going to be pressed into the service of rebuilding or rehabilitating 24 Sussex. Read More

There are coming-of-age stories and coming-of-a-certain-age stories. Small Achievable Goals is the latter. The CBC comedy centres on two women who are confronting menopause and all the horrors and hilarity that it brings. Read More

President Donald Trump suggested the U.S. is ready to aid protesters in Iran if authorities crack down on the unrest, prompting a top Iranian official to threaten retaliation against U.S. forces in the region. Read More

OTTAWA — Alberta Indigenous Affairs Minister Rajan Sawhney says vocal opposition from some Indigenous groups won't affect her government's timeline for proposing a new West Coast pipeline to Ottawa by mid-2026. Read More

A recent court decision out of Ontario reveals how judges' hands are tied when it comes to sentencing hard-core criminals. Read More

A 77-year-old woman who went overboard on a cruise ship north of Cuba has not been located after an eight-hour search on Thursday, according to authorities. Read More

It took less than 24 hours for Zohran Mamdani to prove he is the worst possible nightmare for already nervous New York Jews. Mere hours after becoming New York’s new mayor on Thursday, the 34-year-old Democratic Socialist began enacting the strident anti-Israel (and, many insist, antisemitic) ideological agenda that fuelled his election victory. Read More

The North Korean leader's daughter Kim Ju Ae has made her first public visit to a mausoleum housing her grandfather and great-grandfather, state media images showed Friday, further solidifying her place as likely next in line to run the nuclear-armed dictatorship. Read More

Critically injured victims of the deadly fire that engulfed a bar in the Swiss ski resort of Crans-Montana are being treated in specialist burns units as far afield as Stuttgart, Milan and Paris, underscoring the scale of the tragedy. Read More

A grizzly bear broke into Tanyss Munro’s home, tearing down walls, ripping out the furnace and destroying her kitchen. Read More

The Ukrainian army said Friday it only hit "military targets", a day after Russia accused Kyiv of firing drones at a hotel and cafe in Ukraine's occupied south, killing 27 people. Read More

Our cookbook of the week is Ferment: Everyday ferments and pickles, and how to eat them by Kenji Morimoto. Read More

As 2025 began, federal records showed that there were 4.9 million visas set to expire in the coming 12 months, with Conservatives pressing the Liberal government on how it would deal with those who didn’t leave willingly. Read More

The U.S.-Canada relationship had a trying year in 2025, and 2026 promises more drama with a coming U.S. Supreme Court decision on President Donald Trump’s tariffs, the scheduled renegotiation of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) and U.S. midterm elections in November. Read More

Last week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered the ultimate Boxing Day troll by recognizing the state of Somaliland — a country that few people have heard of, and even fewer have given a passing thought to — provoking widespread international condemnation. Read More

En route to power and absolutism in Germany, Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels spoke about the decline of the Weimar Republic: “The big joke on democracy is that it gave its mortal enemies the tools to its own destruction.” We should reflect on this observation today. Read More

The new year will be pivotal for Canada and its Jewish community. After two years of non-action by our government and criticism of law enforcement, the community has had enough. Its patience has waned. Its tolerance level for words over action, no longer forgiving. Our community’s usual tepid cool-headed response has turned into anger and frustration. Read More

In a TikTok video shared with her followers last year, Tiffany Kay described how the antidepressant Lexapro was, "poof," like magic, making life much better, "which I did not think was possible." Read More

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Protesters and security forces clashed in three Iranian cities on Thursday, with six people reported killed, the first deaths since the cost-of-living demonstrations broke out. Read More

When the Liberals first took power in 2015, one of their first legislative actions was an all-out drive to reverse seemingly everything that carried the stamp of the prior Conservative government. Read More