Prime Minister Mark Carney is going to China next week to discuss trade with President Xi Jinping, just as American power is moving hard and fast to curtail or eliminate Chinese influence in the Western Hemisphere. Canada has nothing to gain from isolating itself from the United States or the West in the short term, just to stick it to Donald Trump. Read More

General Motors will be hit with charges of about $6 billion as sales of electric vehicles sputter after the U.S. cut tax incentives to buy them and also eased auto emissions standards. Read More

Meta has cut a trio of deals to power its artificial intelligence data centers, securing enough energy to light up the equivalent of about 5 million homes. Read More

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump is meeting with oil executives at the White House on Friday in hopes of securing $100 billion in investments to revive Venezuela's ability to fully tap into its expansive reserves of petroleum -- a plan that rides on their comfort in making commitments in a country plagued by instability, inflation and uncertainty. Read More

ALTADENA, Calif. (AP) -- A huge black bear that made its den in the crawl space under a Los Angeles area man's house for more than a month has finally been evicted. Read More

CAIRO (AP) -- Yemen's main separatist group and its institutions will be dismantled effective Friday, the group's secretary-general said, following weeks of unrest in areas of southern Yemen and a day after its leader fled to the United Arab Emirates. Read More

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- Demonstrations broke out in Iran on Dec. 28 and have spread nationwide as protesters vent their increasing discontent over the Islamic Republic's faltering economy and the collapse of its currency. Dozens of people have been killed and thousands arrested as the daily protests have grown and the government seeks to contain them. While the initial focus had been on issues like spikes in the prices of food staples and the country's staggering annual inflation rate, protesters have now begun chanting anti-government statements as well. Read More

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Another round of protests were planned for Friday in Minneapolis over the killing of a local woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer during the Trump administration's latest immigration crackdown on a major city, a day after federal immigration officers shot and wounded two people in Portland, Oregon. Read More

As anger and outrage spilled out onto Minneapolis' streets Thursday over the fatal shooting of a woman the day before by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer, a new shooting by federal officers in Oregon left two people wounded and elicited more scrutiny of enforcement operations across the country. Read More

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Federal immigration officers are pulling out of a Louisiana crackdown and heading to Minneapolis in an abrupt pivot from an operation that drew protests around New Orleans and aimed to make thousands of arrests, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press. Read More

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Friday insisted that the Islamic republic would "not back down" in the face of protests after the biggest rallies yet in an almost two week movement sparked by anger over the rising cost of living. Read More

U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said a trade deal with India did not materialize last year because Prime Minister Narendra Modi did not call President Donald Trump. Read More

NASA will conduct a medical evacuation in the coming days of an astronaut suffering an undisclosed ailment aboard the International Space Station, agency officials said. Read More

Tear gas burning his eyes, his voice hoarse from shouting anti-government slogans as cars honked around him, Majid joined crowds of Iranians taking to the streets in defiance of a crackdown on a swelling protest movement. Read More

Our cookbook of the week is A Kitchen in Italy by Mimi Thorisson. Read More

Russia carried out a strike near Ukraine’s western border with an intermediate-range ballistic missile known as Oreshnik, sending a threatening signal to Kyiv’s allies amid a widespread air attack that targeted energy infrastructure and damaged apartment buildings. Read More

Welcome to the era of the "Donroe Doctrine" — a reinterpretation of a 19th-century foreign policy used to justify the United States' attack on Venezuela and assert dominance in the Western Hemisphere, encompassing North and South America and the surrounding waters. On Jan. 5, the U.S. Department of State posted to X, "This is OUR Hemisphere, and President Trump will not allow our security to be threatened." A photo of U.S. President Donald Trump with a text overlay — "THIS IS OUR HEMPISPHERE" — was attached. Read More

A Toronto man found not criminally responsible for killing his own father with a hammer a decade back has been approved for 14 days of international travel even though he "continues to represent a significant threat to the safety of the public." Read More

It appears Iranians have had enough of the terrorist regime that rules their lives. After nearly two consecutive weeks of protests, and the murder of over 30 people by the Mullah’s henchmen, videos circulating widely on X show that Iranians are still marching in the streets, more intent and with vigour. By the time this article finds its way to print, the Ayatollah may be in Moscow having Turkish coffee with Bashar Assad. Read More

If this past year's generational shift in the popular Canadian attitude to immigration can be pinpointed in hindsight on the calendar, it was somewhere around the beginning of November, when Canada's population peaked and began to decline. Read More

In 2013, Toronto lawyer Avvy Yao-Yao Go described herself as a “loudmouth activist for politicians to contend with.” She was an advocate of chain migration, a former member of the Ontario law society’s equity committee, a vocal critic of journalists and politicians, and once, she even tried to force the government to pay reparations to descendants of Chinese-Canadians impacted by the head tax (after losing one appeal in this process, her organization accused an appeal judge of racism; the complaint was tossed out). Read More

Minnesota is all over the news this week, but for all of the wrong reasons. Yesterday, 37 year-old Renee Nicole Good was shot and killed by ICE agents during a round-up of illegal immigrants. Meanwhile, the North Star State is at the centre of a massive billion-dollar social services fraud centered around its large Somali immigrant community. And this week, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz announced that he is ending his bid for a third term as the fallout from the fraud scandal reaches to the highest levels of state politics. Read More

David Eby admits drug decriminalization in his province was “wrong” but the B.C. premier just can’t bring himself to outright kill the deadly social experiment. Read More

As America levies consequences on the United Kingdom for its free speech transgressions, Canada must see this as a cautionary tale. Read More