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Many Canadians go to great lengths to seek them out, traipsing through the forest with pocket knives at the ready as soon as the snow begins to melt. Yet, fiddleheads have their fair share of detractors. Canada's spring delicacy joins Finnish blood dumplings, an Italian cartilage-and-tendon salad and a halved Icelandic sheep's head on TasteAtlas's 100 Worst Rated Foods in the World list. Read More

In the week that Donald Trump’s inauguration ushered in a new world order, John Ivison is joined by Robert Asselin, senior vice-president at the Business Council of Canada and a former adviser to ex-finance minister Bill Morneau, to talk about the policy implications for Canada. Read More

A week after Doug Ford’s Ontario government passed legislation in early December ordering all supervised injection sites within 200 metres of schools and daycares to close, harm reduction activists did the expected and announced they were taking the province to court. Read More

POLAND — The afternoon sun broke through northern Poland's grey skies as we walked into a golden-yellow field hedged by massive evergreens. Birds quietly chirped in the brush. Some in the group were draped in Canadian and Israeli flags as we entered the clearing where Chełmno once stood. Read More

Last week, Brodie Fenlon, general manager and editor-in-chief of CBC News, announced that his organization plans to hire up to 30 local journalists in "underserved communities" with the $7 million in new funding it will receive from Google due to the Online News Act. Read More

The drug epidemic and addiction crisis have quickly become a defining issue of Canada’s relationship with the United States. President Donald Trump has committed to implementing a 25 per cent tariff on all Canadian goods, citing a need to stem the flow of the deadly and highly profitable drug fentanyl between the countries. Both Canada and the United States have seen a consistent increase in usage of the drug over the last 10 years, along with increased manufacturing, trafficking, and dealing of this deadly poison. Read More

The evidence surrounding the use of puberty blockers and cross sex hormones in children and teens identifying as transgender is of such low certainty it's impossible to conclude whether the drugs help or harm, Canadian researchers are reporting. Read More

As Canadian politicians try to come up with a response to Donald Trump's tariff threat, a sticking point has emerged over a significant Canadian retaliatory option: limiting exports of Canadian oil and gas to the U.S. Read More

OTTAWA — She smiles. She has wings. And she might be ready to guide you to your eternal resting place. Read More

OTTAWA — The idea of becoming prime minister of Canada in a matter of weeks despite having never won an election does not seem to worry former central banker Mark Carney, who says he has started at the top many times in his career. Read More

Kraft Heinz Co. said it’s “deeply disappointed” in Justin Trudeau after the prime minister threw a metaphorical tomato at the food manufacturer while discussing trade relations with the U.S. Read More

DALLAS -- President Donald Trump has ordered the release of thousands of classified governmental documents about the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which has fueled conspiracy theories for decades. Read More

LONDON — A teenager who stabbed three young girls to death at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in England was sentenced Thursday to more than 50 years in prison for what a judge called “the most extreme, shocking and exceptionally serious crime.” Read More

San Joaquin County sheriff’s deputies have arrested a woman after finding the bodies of 27 dead horses and other malnourished animals on her property in Clement, California, which is about 40 miles (64km) from Sacramento. Read More

President Donald Trump may have granted clemency to more than 1,500 people charged with crimes in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, but one of them, 71-year-old Boise, Idaho resident Pamela Hemphill is rejecting her pardon. Read More

OTTAWA — U.S. President Donald Trump's latest swipe at Canada in virtual remarks to the World Economic Forum, telling attendees that the U.S. economy could get along just fine without Canadian imports, drew a skeptical response from Canadian leaders. Read More

In the messy aftermath of the Toronto airport gold heist — that saw $24 million in gold bars and cash driven away by thieves from an Air Canada warehouse­ — the airline has been ordered by the Federal Court to pay Brink’s transport company just $18,600 in compensation for their huge loss because of poorly completed paperwork on the stolen shipment. Read More

TORONTO — Tesla Inc. is raising prices on its Canadian vehicles by thousands of dollars starting Feb.1 amid big shifts in incentives and rising trade tension. Read More

SEATTLE — A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order ending the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship regardless of the parents’ immigration status. Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump hasn’t imposed any tariffs on Canada yet, but he’s already dealt a potentially devastating blow to Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s signature industrial policy. Read More

Comedian Amy Schumer said that trolls on her social media accounts led her to get a diagnosis for Cushing syndrome. Read More

OTTAWA — Should she become leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, Chrystia Freeland is proposing to put in place a mechanism for the party to turf unpopular leaders in the future. Read More