Justin Bieber released a surprise seventh studio album on Friday, posting the album title, tracklist and cover on social media just a few hours before the release of SWAG. Read More

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney will have to recuse himself from any discussions directly involving Brookfield Asset Management, payment processing giant Stripe and dozens of companies owned or controlled by them as part of an extensive conflict-of-interest screen. Read More

Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew has pushed back against U.S. lawmakers who recently sent a letter to Canada’s ambassador complaining that wildfires are sending smoke across the border and making it difficult for Americans to enjoy the summer. Read More

OTTAWA — Canada’s largest public sector union is warning that any cuts to federal employees, as the Liberal government looks to shrink spending, will mean slower, lower-quality services for people seeking passports, employment insurance and veterans benefits. Read More

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OTTAWA – As Avril Lavigne was about to take the stage at the Festival d’été de Québec (FEQ) last week, many other Canadian artists were no doubt wondering why the organizers of Canada’s largest outdoor music festival had to go make things so complicated for them. Read More

The mother accused of abandoning her three-year-old daughter in a field near a highway in Ontario has been denied bail. Read More

Canadian border officials say two brothers have pleaded guilty to several charges after attempting to smuggle large amounts of tobacco into the country. Read More

What if the NDP had a leadership race and no one showed up to vote? While this is an obvious exaggeration on my part, it may not turn out to be that far from the truth. Read More

Manitoba is under a provincewide state of emergency as wildfires continue to rage, forcing even more evacuations out of northern communities. Read More

A music festival in Slovakia has been cancelled after thousands signed a petition against the performance of rapper Kanye West, who was referred to as "one of the world's most famous anti-semites." Read More

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney said the deadline for a new economic and security deal between Canada and Ottawa has been pushed back to Aug. 1 as U.S. President Donald Trump threatened late Thursday to increase tariffs on Canadian products to 35 per cent. Read More

PARIS (AP) -- Sketched out on an air sickness bag, the first Birkin handbag -- the prototype for fashion's must-have accessory _ sold for a staggering 8.6 million euros ($10.1 million), including fees, on Thursday in Paris to become the second most valuable fashion item ever sold at auction. Read More

Never say never! Justin Bieber surprised fans Friday by releasing "Swag," his seventh studio album, hours after he teased it on billboards and social media posts. Read More

President Donald Trump has sent letters this week outlining higher tariffs countries will face if they don't make trade deals with the U.S. by Aug. 1. Read More

Most Canadians support Prime Minister Mark Carney’s new legislation to fast-track infrastructure projects deemed in the "national interest," according to a new poll, but the federal government has a long way to go if it wants to convince voters that it should be able to unilaterally approve such big projects without buy-in from other groups. Read More

For over a year before the November 2024 presidential election, Donald Trump had been signalling plans to impose across-the-board tariffs if he won the United States presidency. Read More

Our cookbook of the week is Every Salad Ever by award-winning author Greta Podleski of Looneyspoons fame. Read More

Sometimes, superheroes fight supervillains. And sometimes they fight an even more insidious force — critics. Last week, the Daily Beast broke a studio embargo and released its review of the new Superman movie five days early, calling it “the final nail in the grave for the superhero genre.” Read More

Just months after the atrocities of October 7, I wrote to the dean of a Canadian university expressing outrage. The university’s sexual assault centre director had publicly questioned whether the rapes of Jewish women and girls by Hamas terrorists had even occurred. To its credit, the university swiftly dismissed her. But the moment left a bitter aftertaste — a disturbing confirmation of something I had long feared: when Jewish women are raped, the outrage dies in silence. Read More

Thursday marked the 100th anniversary of the commencement of the “Monkey Trial” of science teacher John T. Scopes in Dayton, Tennessee. It is one of many candidates for the title of “American trial of the (20th) century,” perhaps the best-deserving up until the O.J. Simpson fiasco. In some ways the Scopes trial can be seen as an early warning to judges about the warping effects of mass media attention on the courtroom, a warning that was perhaps misplaced by the time O.J. came to be tried. Read More

OTTAWA — One of the key barriers that seemed to be facing the Carney government’s plans to fast-track big projects designed to boost the Canadian economy — namely, climate concerns — appears now to be not much of an obstacle at all when it comes to public opinion. Read More