TORONTO -- The union representing Air Canada flight attendants says it has filed for conciliation with the federal labour minister after reaching an impasse in contract negotiations with the airline. Read More

Over a career spanning 30 years, Chloë Sevigny has defined herself as a champion of independent film. Witness a short list of notable movies: Kids (1995); Boys Don’t Cry (1999); The Brown Bunny (2004); Broken Flowers (2005); and Beatriz at Dinner (2017). Read More

One fundraising campaign on the popular crowdfunding platform GofundMe has been used to finance terrorist group ISIS under the guise of supporting Palestinians in Gaza, and it's not clear whether there could be more. Read More

OTTAWA — CBC/Radio-Canada says it will stop paying its executives and employees millions of dollars in controversial "performance pay" bonuses but will compensate by increasing their salaries instead. Read More

An Indonesian computer expert who processed 222 "bogus returns" at the New Brunswick Staples where he worked to get store gift cards that he exchanged for pre-paid, untraceable credit cards has been sentenced to 15 months behind bars, despite his lawyer’s argument that more than six months in jail will get him deported. Read More

OTTAWA — Canada Post says it's pressing pause on negotiations with the union representing postal workers with a little over a week before the deadline to get a deal. Read More

In this week’s show, John Ivison is joined by regular guests Eugene Lang and Ian Brodie to take a deep dive into Mark Carney’s post-election cabinet shuffle. Read More

The newly appointed cabinet of Prime Minister Mark Carney contains 28 ministers and 10 secretaries of state. Three of those 38 hail from ridings in Brampton. As Conservative writer and political campaigner Stephen Taylor has pointed out, that's more than the numbers from Saskatchewan and Alberta combined. Here's what to know about them. Read More

OTTAWA — Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne signalled Wednesday there will be no spring budget and only a fall economic statement, despite his predecessor announcing pre-budget consultations earlier this year. Read More

“We risk becoming an island of strangers, not a nation that walks forward together.” Read More

OTTAWA — Justice Minister Sean Fraser says he is not interested "in slinging mud" at his opponents after Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said he failed upward into his latest appointment.  Read More

The 1989 shotgun murders of Jose and Kitty Menendez in Los Angeles gripped the nation. Read More

OTTAWA — Minister of Canadian Identity Steven Guilbeault said Wednesday that Ottawa's stalled progress on oil and gas pipelines isn't a threat to national unity because demand for pipelines is petering out on its own. Read More

The Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday that it plans to weaken limits on some so-called forever chemicals in drinking water that were finalized last year, while maintaining standards for two common ones. Read More

OTTAWA — A Conservative MP is calling on the federal government to dedicate a full cabinet position to the issue of labour, saying Prime Minister Mark Carney must pay more than "lip service" to workers in his region affected by General Motors' planned shift cuts.  Read More

A prominent mural featuring Buffy Sainte-Marie at Toronto Metropolitan University is being removed, the university says amid an online discussion against the disgraced singer-songwriter. Read More

The R&B singer Cassie returns to the witness stand Wednesday after a day spent recounting grotesque and humiliating details of life with her ex-boyfriend, Sean "Diddy" Combs. Read More

WINNIPEG — The Manitoba government issued an evacuation order for one provincial park and shut down activities in others Tuesday, as dry, hot weather spurred more wildfires. Read More

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If you've ever referred to someone as having a "healthy glow," know that science backs you up on that observation. It turns out that plants, mice and (presumably) all living creatures emit tiny amounts of light as part of their metabolism. Read More

The first arbitration case of a CFL player alleging inadequate care after a concussion concludes that two teams violated the contract of a former elite wide receiver knocked out cold by a hit in 2012. Read More

To serve God or mammon? The Sermon on the Mount says to serve both is impossible. Read More

As the new prime minister reflects with pride on his unsullied cabinet, he should remember the words of P.G. Wodehouse’s Bertie Wooster: “It’s always when a fellow is feeling particularly braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up behind him with a bit of lead piping.” Read More

Donald Trump prides himself in being the consummate dealmaker but has yet to negotiate on anything significant in his second term as president, least of all a complex peace deal on Ukraine. He backpedalled on “terminating” U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell a week after seemingly threatening to do so, and erratically modified his blunderbuss approach to tariffs. Administration officials have described these walkbacks as negotiating tactics, but critics say they're evidence that Trump was never as deft or resolute as he had claimed, suggesting further that his drop in the polls may have been the cause. Read More

Depending on what happens over the coming days, the voters in a Quebec riding thought to be decided by a single vote could be headed back to the polls as a result of a tie. Read More

As readers will no doubt have heard, measles is back — especially in Ontario, which has reported 83 per cent of cases in Canada so far this year; and especially in southwestern Ontario, among largely unvaccinated Anabaptist communities, which Ontario’s chief medical officer of health, Dr. Kieran Moore, says account for 70 per cent of cases. Read More

Well, Canada isn’t completely unchained from the worst of its deadweight Trudeau-era cabinet ministers, but at least Prime Minister Mark Carney had the sense to prune some of them. Read More

While the recent federal election turned into a tight race between the Liberals and Conservatives that left other parties trailing far behind, a new poll suggests most Canadians don't want the country end up with a two-party system. Read More

OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Mark Carney is heading to Rome on Friday to attend Pope Leo's inaugural mass. Read More

Liberal MP Nate Erskine-Smith said it's "impossible not to feel disrespected" after he was left out of Prime Minister Mark Carney's cabinet announcement Tuesday. Read More

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said on Tuesday he's personally opposed to Alberta independence, but understands why the result of April's election has left some Albertans questioning the province's future in Canada. Read More

OTTAWA — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith didn't hide her dismay at Prime Minister Mark Carney's choice of Toronto-area MP Julie Dabrusin as his new environment minister on Tuesday. Read More

Mounties have fielded more than 180 tips from the public about two young children reported missing 11 days ago from their home in rural northeastern Nova Scotia. Read More

Prime Minister Mark Carney promised change, a new way of doing things at speeds never before seen. Yet to help him do this, he is relying on the same old, tired, incompetent ministers who got us into the mess we're currently in. Read More

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney's new cabinet includes many new faces and several notable names who have been left out, including several Trudeau-era cabinet ministers.  Read More

A B.C. man who raped his unconscious girlfriend has been sentenced to five years in prison for sexual assault and failure to provide the necessaries of life. The judge said the incident, "beyond being criminal, was horrific." Read More

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney has created Canada’s first cabinet post specifically responsible for artificial intelligence and digital innovation, a signal that improving Canada’s technological performance will be a key plank in the long-term plan to boost the sluggish economy. Read More