OTTAWA — U.S. President Donald Trump says he has "terminated" trade talks with Canada, taking issue with an anti-tariff ad taken out by Ontario Premier Doug Ford's government featuring former U.S. president Ronald Reagan that the president says was "fake." Read More

Prime Minister Mark Carney hopes to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping next week as he tries to offset U.S. tariffs by easing trade tensions with the world’s second-largest economy. Read More

The Ontario government is looking to reform the way that development charges are collected from homebuilders in a bid to get more homes built faster in Canada's largest province. Read More

We are an excitable lot aren’t we? Much of the Canadian media, I mean, and a certain class of Canadians who fall for implausible nationalist distractions like “Canada first” and “buy Canadian” and “elbows up.” It wasn’t long ago that a brief Central Canadian spasm of performative patriotism saw Alberta Premier Danielle Smith widely pilloried (in certain circles) for displaying insufficient nationalist fervour in countering President Donald Trump’s tariffs. She wanted to protect Alberta’s oil-and-gas industry. Read More

Bill C-14, Justice Minister Sean Fraser’s proposed bail reform law, was marketed as a bundle of “sweeping reforms.” In reality, we’re getting no such thing. This bill is just a facade, giving only the appearance of grand change. Read More

OTTAWA — Despite Ontario Premier Doug Ford saying it is time to “fight back” against U.S. tariffs and Prime Minister Mark Carney ruling out retaliation for now, both men claim they are on the “same page” when it comes to dealing with the Trump administration. Read More

OTTAWA — NDP leadership hopeful Rob Ashton qualified his support for reversing the federal tanker ban on Wednesday night, yet still won a shout-out from Alberta Premier Danielle Smith. Read More

The lease for a whale sanctuary in Nova Scotia has been approved as the fate of 30 belugas at Marineland in Ontario is still unknown. Read More

ROME - Pope Leo XIV prayed Thursday with King Charles III and Queen Camilla under the frescoed ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, marking a first time a British monarch publicly worshipped with a sitting pontiff since Henry VIII broke with the Vatican and formed the Church of England in 1534. Read More

A new report released by the BBC has found major issues when it comes to AI agents answering questions about news and current events. Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump has pardoned one of Canada's richest businessmen, the co-founder of Binance Changpeng Zhao. Read More

Canada’s practice of Indigenous land acknowledgements, viewed by many as a pivotal component of reconciliation, is not without its critics, including some Indigenous leaders and scholars who see them as a performative token gesture. Read More

This week’s Calgary mayoral election turned into a real nail-biter. Independent candidate Jeromy Farkas won with 91,071 votes, or 26.1 per cent, finishing slightly ahead of Communities First candidate Sonya Sharp with 90,488 votes and 26 per cent. The results are still unofficial and will likely lead to a recount. Read More

A Canadian refugee claimant who is in ICE custody after accidentally entering the U.S. is prohibited from re-entering the country, the Canada Border Services Agency says. Read More

Finnair, the government-owned national airline of Finland, has grounded 10 per cent of its fleet this month over an issue with seat covers. Read More

Mark Carney announced his "ambitious goal" to double "non-U.S. exports" on Wednesday night, but he didn't mean it, and no one should take it as a serious government objective, no matter how many professorial hand gestures the prime minister makes. Read More

Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier and Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups were arrested Thursday morning and charged as part of a sprawling sports gambling probe, federal prosecutors said. Read More

OTTAWA — The Liberal government tabled its long-awaited bail reform bill Thursday that it promises will make it more difficult for violent and repeat offenders to be released before trial in the hopes of increasing trust in the oft-maligned bail system.  Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Following the murder of Charlie Kirk, the Heritage Foundation’s Liana Graham, a research assistant for domestic policy, was inspired by headlines she saw in the Canadian press about Kirk’s assassination to write an op-ed arguing that Canadian censorship and silencing of dissent lead to a dehumanizing culture that invites political violence. Read More

Small modular reactors offer a way to create simpler and cheaper nuclear energy, according to the federal government, and are part of Canada's plan to achieve a low-carbon future. Read More

An awkward-to-watch moment unfolded at an international beauty pageant in Thailand last weekend when a contestant from Panama misheard the announcer and inadvertently stole the spotlight from a Paraguayan woman. Read More

Somewhere along the congested streets of Canada's biggest and most traffic-clogged city, Ontario Premier Doug Ford careened dramatically out of his lane as a law-and-order, cops-are-tops sort of guy. Read More

There is a staggering hypocrisy at the heart of Canada’s housing crisis. From Ottawa to provincial legislatures and down to city halls, politicians of all stripes declare their unwavering commitment to affordability. They launch multibillion-dollar strategies, promise to cut red tape, and speak of the urgent need to build millions of new homes. Yet, on the ground, where shovels meet dirt, this grand consensus evaporates. Municipal gatekeepers, bowing to "Not In My Backyard" pressure, deploy a dizzying array of procedural roadblocks, soaring fees and endless delays to kill the very housing the country desperately needs. Read More