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When I first wrote about Sydney Sweeney in March 2024, it was because a blaring culture war discourse was forming around the topic of the young actress’ Saturday Night Live appearance. It happened again this summer, with her infamous American Eagle “good jeans” campaign. Read More

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney's government is proposing to scrub the law targeting companies making environmental claims of the requirement that the evidence they present must be based on "internationally recognized" policy.  Read More

OTTAWA — A free-market think tank is warning Canadian air travellers to expect higher ticket prices if proposed changes to passenger compensation rules are implemented. Read More

Food inflation continues to top Canadians' financial concerns, according to the fall 2025 edition of the Canadian Food Sentiment Index by Dalhousie University's Agri-Food Analytics Lab (AAL), and they're adapting their diets and shopping behaviours as a result. Read More

Donald Trump and New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani are set to meet at the White House on Friday, the president said in a social media post. Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump signed legislation to compel the Department of Justice to release files on the late, disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. Read More

PORT-AU-PRINCE -- Fireworks and dancing erupted across Haiti in a reprieve from gang violence as people came together to celebrate their national team punching its ticket to the 2026 World Cup. Read More

Canada and its 13 provinces and territories agreed to knock down more hurdles to trading internally, as the country tries to reduce its reliance on the U.S. amid a punishing trade war. Read More

BELEM, Brazil -- A row over the definition of gender risks complicating the outcome of COP30 climate talks in Brazil, after six governments moved to attach their own interpretations as footnotes to a key text. Read More

OTTAWA — The clerk of the Privy Council, Michael Sabia, who is one of two senior aides managing Prime Minister Mark Carney’s extensive conflict-of-interest screen, was informed by the ethics commissioner weeks into his new job in Ottawa he had investments in Brookfield Corporation. Read More

The respective opposition leaders had a straightforward task at Monday’s budget vote. See to it that the government did not fall, as no opposition party was confident that a snap election would be to its advantage, but not appear too accommodating, lest they be thought weak. They pulled it off admirably, with exacting precision, allowing the budget to pass by the narrowest of margins, 170-168. Elegant execution, but risky, as it left no margin for error. Read More

A prominent Canadian defence lawyer was arrested Tuesday and accused in the United States of helping murder a witness who was set to testify against Ryan Wedding, a former Canadian Olympic athlete wanted as a top-tier global narco boss. Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. and OTTAWA — Would you rather sip drinks poolside in Palm Beach, Fla., or trudge through the snow of Alberta? Read More

An Indiana man who shot and killed a house cleaner who mistakenly showed up at his residence early one morning was formally charged with homicide this week. Read More

OTTAWA — A Liberal MP and former Trudeau-era cabinet minister says the oil tanker ban the party imposed off British Columbia's northern coast was out of "huge public demand" and predicts that the debate around the possibility of lifting it will be controversial.  Read More

A new Gallup poll has found that in the past two years, more Americans want to leave their country than at any other time in the past two decades. And young women are more than twice as likely to want to get out than young men, with 40 per cent saying they'd like to go. Read More

Tom Cruise has been “running in movies since 1981.” So when Glen Powell was tapped to star in a reboot of The Running Man, he of course reached out to his Top Gun: Maverick co-star for advice. Read More

Harvard University will undertake a new investigation into its ties to Jeffrey Epstein after correspondence between the late sex offender and the school’s former president was made public by U.S. lawmakers. Read More

The Israel Defense Forces on Tuesday evening struck a training compound of the Palestinian Hamas terrorist group in Southern Lebanon, the military said. Read More

An Ontario woman found not criminally responsible for killing her mother by running her over repeatedly with a car recently bought herself a car without telling her treatment team. Read More