BOSTON -- The Canadian national anthem was booed loudly ahead of the 4 Nations Face-Off final against the United States on Thursday night. Read More

The body that Israel redeemed from Hamas, which the terror organization said is Shiri Bibis, belongs to an unidentified person and not the 33-year-old mother of Ariel and Kfir Bibas, the Israel Defense Forces said on Friday morning. Read More

OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy Thursday as Washington and Moscow talk about a possible end to Russia's war. Read More

Forget about that crunchy apple he ate in an orchard once: Pierre Poilievre’s hyper-nationalist rebranding, unveiled at last weekend’s Canada First Rally in Ottawa, is pitch perfect. Or so Conservatives should hope.   Read More

OTTAWA — Dominic LeBlanc is endorsing Mark Carney to replace his childhood friend Justin Trudeau as prime minister and Liberal leader, saying the former Bank of Canada governor “has what it takes to steer a G7 economy through choppy waters.” Read More

KYIV, Ukraine — A news conference that was planned to follow talks between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and U.S. President Donald Trump’s Ukraine envoy was canceled Thursday as political tensions deepened between the two countries over how to end the almost three-year war with Russia. Read More

For more than 500 days, the Bibas family has been a symbol of hope and resilience in the face of the horrors of the Israel-Hamas War. At the time of their kidnapping by Hamas terrorists on October 7, Kfir was nearly nine months old, his brother Ariel was four, and their mother Shiri was 32. Read More

OTTAWA — The Liberals want Canadians to pay more for their public broadcaster, saying the country's "national security" depends on it. Read More

Prince Edward Island Premier Dennis King will resign as premier and leader of the Progressive Conservative party effective Friday at noon. Read More

After U.S. President Donald Trump offered encouraging words to Team USA ahead of tonight’s 4 Nations Face-Off final against Team Canada, Vice-President JD Vance weighed in on the game that’s transcended the hockey world into the political spectrum. Read More

The Ontario NDP unveiled a bespoke “plan for Toronto” this week, and it’s not hard to see why. Poll analyst Philippe J. Fournier’s seat model shows the party in serious danger of losing official party status once the votes are counted on Feb. 27. Read More

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said he will be more focused on cheering team Canada than booing the U.S. national anthem when both countries’ hockey teams face off on the ice for the 4 Nations final game on Thursday evening. Read More

Donald Trump said this week that he intends to impose auto tariffs "in the neighbourhood of 25 per cent," with similar duties on semiconductors and pharmaceutical imports. He said the auto tariffs could come as soon as April 2, one day after his cabinet is set to deliver reports outlining his options. Read More

President Donald Trump said Wednesday he is considering buying used Boeing aircraft — perhaps from an overseas seller — to use as Air Force One when he's aboard, as he fumes over the U.S. planemaker's delays in producing two specially modified ones for presidential use. Read More

An emergency room physician at the Timmins and District Hospital in Timmins, Ont., had an "aha" moment while helping a man who was suffering from a massive heart attack. It turned out the doctor had the same condition as the patient. Read More

I am frequently asked what to make of President Trump’s intentions towards Canada and what we are to do about them. On the former, I do not know, and I suspect there is no way of really knowing. On the latter, however, Canada must have a plan. Read More

If you catch Sasha Ivanov at the supermarket these days, chances are he'll be snapping a photo of something on the store's shelves. Read More

President Donald Trump's administration on Wednesday ordered a halt to congestion pricing tolls in New York City, which thin traffic and fund mass transit by making people pay to drive into Manhattan's core. Read More

Montreal police say they've arrested a second suspect in a shooting at a Montreal Jewish school in November 2023. Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump won’t attend tonight’s politically-charged 4 Nations Face-Off final between Team USA and Team Canada, but he’s invited “Governor Trudeau” to watch it with him. Read More

On Wednesday, our lame-duck PM quacked out the news that “Canada is getting high-speed rail”: this is of course duckspeak for “the usual engineering firms are being handed billions of dollars to devise a plan for high-speed rail in a 1,000-kilometre strip of Ontario and Quebec.” In the new spirit of national unity, I suppose I am not allowed to object to the idea on behalf of any of the other eight provinces. But, like a troll in a riddle, I have questions three before this railroad you will see. And the first is the Inevitable Mike Moffatt Question, already asked by the economist and tribune of southwestern Ontario: Read More

A Toronto fraudster who was born into a prominent Ontario medical family has been sentenced to five years in a U.S. prison for a lofty diamond investment scam that stripped hundreds of victims of more than $21 million. Read More

A 15-year-old boy is facing first-degree murder charges in the shooting deaths of four people on a First Nation in southern Saskatchewan. Read More

A woman in the United States is suing a fertility clinic after she gave birth to a baby — who she raised as her own for five months — but then had to surrender him to his biological parents. Read More

Canadian grocers, large and small, are seeking alternatives to U.S. products ahead of a potential trade war, while highlighting homegrown products already available on their shelves. Read More

Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) wrote following the news: “There is no moral universe in which a terrorist organization of baby-killers can remain in power. None. Every vestige of Hamas must be eradicated from the face of the earth. The acceptance of anything less is an unforgivable moral failure.” Read More

A new poll suggests that more than a quarter of Canadians — 27 per cent — now see the United States as an "enemy" country, while another 30 per cent still say they consider the U.S. an ally. Read More

The wreck of a crashed Delta Air Lines jet has been cleared from a runway at Toronto's Pearson International Airport. Read More

Advance voting in the Ontario election opens today as party leaders continue to make campaign stops in the Greater Toronto Area and Kitchener. Read More

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It’s possible, as President Donald Trump flings executive orders hither and yon, that he may sign one to regulate the flow of waters in the Gulf of America, or the tides in what may become the American Ocean. After all, did not King Canute do the same? Read More

An army captain demoted from the rank of major for getting drunk and making “comments of a sexualized and homophobic nature” as well as racist remarks to four of his subordinates has won a chance to regain his title. Read More

A dead letter law is one that remains on the books but can be ignored because it is not enforced; this includes legislation that has not been repealed but has fallen into disuse or irrelevance with the passage of time. However, a recent study by the Aristotle Foundation suggests that Section 15(1) of Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedom may be comparable to dead letter law in university appointment processes because individual equality and freedom from discrimination are sidelined in the interests of affirmative action. Read More

OTTAWA — As Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre promises to cut foreign aid that he says is flowing to "dictators and terrorists," his office is silent as to whether that includes assistance to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. Read More

OTTAWA -- The government's fiscal watchdog says a guaranteed basic income program at the federal level could cut poverty rates in Canada by up to 40 per cent. Read More

OTTAWA -- More Canadians have expressed an interest in joining the military since U.S. President Donald Trump took office on Jan. 20 -- but the Canadian Armed Forces isn't attributing that spike to Trump and his talk of annexing Canada. Read More