Good news from the hockey world: Plans for the 2028 World Cup are proceeding apace. NHL commissioner Gary Bettman was in Calgary on Tuesday, where Mayor Jeromy Farkas made his pitch for the city to play host in its brand-new arena, Scotia Place, which is set to open at the beginning of the 2027–28 NHL season. But it doesn’t really matter where they hold the tournament; the vast majority of us will watch on television. And it should be terrific. Read More

Ontario’s sex offender registry law will need to be overhauled by the legislature after it was ruled unconstitutional by the Ontario Court of Justice in a January 29 ruling. Read More

Back at the end of November when Prime Minister Mark Carney and Premier Danielle Smith signed their memorandum of understanding (MOU), it was presented as the best of all possible worlds: Canada would get a new oil pipeline and reduced carbon emissions. Read More

As if navigating landlord-tenant relationships isn't tricky enough, the mayor of Hamilton, Ont., is suing her own city and her former common-law partner in an attempt to empty the dilapidated home where her ex now lives that she owns and aims to demolish. Read More

If enduring harsh conditions while fishing the ruthless waters of the Atlantic doesn’t dry out your hands, nothing will. Annapolis Valley’s Les Falconer and his uncle Perley Beairsto founded Nova Scotia Fisherman with these Maritimers in mind. One of their go-to products is Deck Hand Cream, a concoction of Nova Scotia sea kelp, cacao, aloe, shea, castor oil, bayberry and sunflower to relieve calluses, cracks and sores. Lightly scented with lime, grapefruit, bergamot, lemon grass, patchouli, cedarwood and juniper, it’s “so rich you just need a smidgen” according to their website. Read More

The Pentagon's policy chief on Tuesday distanced the United States from the death of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, saying he was killed by an Israeli strike. Read More

RIP Canada’s Indo-Pacific Strategy, we hardly knew you. As Prime Minister Mark Carney alights in Australia this week, fresh from a trade mission to India, the basic premise of the strategy — “to seize opportunities in the national interest of Canadians, while defending the values they hold dear” — has been junked in favour of realpolitik: doing business with countries other than the United States, even if their values don’t quite align with ours. Read More

U.S.-Israeli strikes in Iran, and Tehran's retaliation, are set to trigger a surge in U.S. gas prices with a potential knock-on inflationary hit that could pile pressure on President Donald Trump domestically as midterm elections approach. Read More

Auston Matthews, captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs and a recent gold medal winner for the U.S. men's Olympic hockey team, got a round of boos from fans when he was introduced at the Leafs' first home game since the conclusion of the Milano-Cortina Games. Read More

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday lashed out at Britain and Spain for not fully backing his attack on Iran, as he threatened to end "all trade" with Spain. Read More

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday boasted of wide damage on Iran inflicted by the US-Israel attack, while denying that Israel had forced his hand into launching the war. Read More

A man whose teenage son shot dead four people at a U.S. high school was found guilty of murder and manslaughter on Tuesday in a rare case of a parent charged over a shooting carried out by their child. Read More

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA — Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to take questions from reporters for the first time since embarking on a 10-day trip to India, Australia and Japan last week. Read More

LONDON, U.K. — Pierre Poilievre will deliver his first keynote speech abroad as Conservative leader on Tuesday in London during which he is expected to advocate for closer ties and fewer trade barriers between Canada and the U.K. in the face of U.S. tariffs. Read More

Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei's death is "historically significant" but will not "automatically" lead to the fall of the Iranian system, said the widow of the country's last shah in an interview Tuesday. Read More

Iranian negotiators had boasted about their ability to produce 11 nuclear bombs in talks that were designed to avert a U.S.-Israeli military intervention in Iran, Steve Witkoff, one of the two U.S. negotiators who took part in the meetings, said on Monday. Read More

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The war in the Middle East triggered by US and Israeli strikes on Iran has raised the question of whether the Iranian national team will take part in the World Cup later this year, during which it is due to play group games in the United States. Read More

Former President Bill Clinton told the House panel investigating Jeffrey Epstein that former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers introduced him to the disgraced financier after Clinton departed the White House. Read More

A Toronto synagogue was hit and damaged by gunfire Monday night in what police are investigating as a “targeting incident” and potential hate crime. Read More

The US-Israeli war on Iran reverberated across the region for a fourth day, with oil and gas prices surging and the world adjusting to a conflict that President Donald Trump says has no fixed timeline. Read More

An 86-year-old B.C. man and former teacher recently given an eight-year federal sentence for historic sexual crimes against young boys will have to await the outcome of his appeal from a prison cell, a B.C. judge has ruled. Read More

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA — Canada's defence minister says the Liberal party is a "big tent" as divisions emerge over its decision to back the U.S. strikes against Iran, calling its supreme leader who was killed in the assaults a "force for evil." Read More

British Columbians, particularly those in Vancouver, have learned that another agreement was signed behind their backs, this time by the federal government and First Nations authorities. On Feb. 20, Ottawa inked three “historic” agreements with the Musqueam Indian Band, whose traditional land covers the City of Vancouver and its inner suburbs like Burnaby and North Vancouver. Read More