Personal stories from seven women scheduled to testify at the trial of Canadian billionaire business titan Frank Stronach will reveal a pattern of his unbridled sexual aggression that not only proves each attack but also forms circumstantial proof of each of the other attacks, the prosecution told court Thursday. Read More

Nobody likes to see an athlete choke under pressure. But after they’ve already been awarded their Olympic medal, you would think that it shouldn’t be an issue. Read More

MILAN -- Normally, Connor McDavid missing scoring on a 2-on-1 might be worth noting. Read More

As part of his trip to Beijing last month, Prime Minister Mark Carney met with Zhao Leji, the third-ranking member of the 20th Chinese Communist Party Politburo and chair of the standing committee of the National People’s Congress. Read More

For those Canadians who deplore Quebec’s supposed excessive influence on our country’s politics, I am the bearer of what they would consider good news: that era is slowly but surely coming to an end. Read More

If Ontario Premier Doug Ford has his way, there will be no inquiry into Toronto’s Eglinton Crosstown debacle: 19 kilometres of light rail, roughly half underground and half at grade, for a cost of roughly $13 billion, over 15 years of construction. I, on the other hand, can scarcely think of anything more befitting an inquiry. But since there's no functional opposition at Queen’s Park, the people — Ford’s lodestar, forever and always — will have to  demand it. Read More

On Monday night, after American figure skaters Christina Carreira and Anthony Ponomarenko completed their rhythm dance, they skated to the edge of the rink for a customary hug with their coaches. Read More

MILAN — Russian and Belarusian teams have been excluded from international competition for four years because of Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine, but the head of international hockey's governing body says the time may have arrived for their return. Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — ​​As Canada reels from another round of tariff threats and White House ultimatums, many in Ottawa and the business community are watching Washington for a different reason: U.S. President Donald Trump says he won’t run again in 2028, raising the question of whether his final years in office will finally bring relief — or more turmoil — north of the border. Read More

Axel Dumas, an heir to one of Europe’s biggest fortunes, said Jeffrey Epstein met with him once despite the Frenchman’s efforts to avoid him. Read More

For what it's worth (admittedly not much): The 5-0 score matched the American's margin over Finland, who now advances to a quarterfinal with their fiercest rival, Group B winner Sweden. Read More

A large white tent is blocking the entrance to Nancy Guthrie's home and front porch in Arizona, multiple news outlets are reporting. Read More

More information is emerging about those killed in the Tumbler Ridge, B.C., mass shooting. Read More

Ukrainian drones hit another Russian refinery owned by Lukoil PJSC, as Kyiv’s attacks on its foe’s energy infrastructure resume after a lull last month. Read More

WATCH BELOW: For the first time since the 2014 Sochi Winter Games, NHL players are back at the Olympics. Canadian players spent some of their pre-tournament downtime exploring the highlights of Milan. Postmedia's Rob Wong explores the history behind professional hockey players competing in the Olympics: Why they left, why they're returning and what the future holds for NHLers at the tournament. Read More

Snowboarder Eliot Grondin collected Canada’s sixth medal at the Milan-Cortina Games, winning a silver in the men’s snowboard cross Thursday. Read More

New York — U.S. actor James Van Der Beek, star of the popular TV series Dawson's Creek, died on Wednesday at age 48 after a battle with colorectal cancer. Read More

Democratic lawmakers accused Attorney General Pam Bondi of using the US Justice Department to target enemies of President Donald Trump and bungling the release of files on disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein during a fiery hearing Wednesday. Read More

Canadian Mikael Kingsbury has won silver at the Milan-Cortina Games, earning the fourth medal of his stories Olympic career. Read More

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The new mayor of Bruderheim, Alta. hopes the tiny bedroom community northeast of Edmonton will soon erect a “Proud Home of Emerance Maschmeyer” sign to honour its homegrown hockey heroine. Read More

That was certainly true for Team Rachel Homan, who opened the Milan-Cortina women's bonspiel on Thursday with a 10-4 rout of Denmark. Read More

No serious policymaker in Washington is proposing an explicit default on U.S. debt. That would be reckless and unnecessary. Instead, the United States appears to be pursuing a more subtle strategy: a soft default, reducing the real value of its obligations through currency depreciation, negative real interest rates and accounting choices that quietly transfer costs to creditors and households. This is not a conspiracy theory. It is a well-worn playbook that has been used by heavily indebted states across history. What is notable today is the scale, coordination and global implications. Read More

A disturbing new investigation detailing the expansion of Beijing’s overseas influence infrastructure reveals there are now more than 2,000 organizations in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany that the Chinese Communist Party is capable of mobilizing to advance its agenda. Read More