MEITAR, Israel -- The parents of the last hostage in Gaza have been waiting for over two years for the return of their son, whom they described as "fighting to the last bullet" during the attack on Israel by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023. Read More

Paramount launched an all-cash tender offer Monday to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery for US$30 per share, challenging a previously announced deal between WBD and Netflix. Read More

Canada’s Superior Court judges are taking the federal government to the Federal Court, where one of the esteemed justices will rule on whether Ottawa owes all senior judges a $28,000 pay rise. Read More

A former masseur in Victoria who was found guilty of sexually assaulting several women during therapeutic massages has convinced the Court of Appeal for British Columbia to order funding for his “complex” appeal against his conviction and two-year jail sentence, which is long enough to force his deportation to India at the end. Read More

OTTAWA — After a week of controversy, Justice Minister Sean Fraser broke his silence Monday about his government’s floundering deal with the Bloc Québécois to remove the religious exemption for certain hate speech in exchange for passing bill C-9. Read More

The shockwave of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s decision to get behind a new pipeline connecting Alberta’s oil sands to the sweet, whale-infested West Coast tidewater continues to reverberate among several dozen people in Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and Quebec City. One of them is now-former heritage minister Steven Guilbeault, who resigned from cabinet over it. He alleged the pipeline would have “major environmental impacts,” that there had been “no consultation” with the First Nations affected, and that Carney’s willingness to exempt Alberta from clean-energy regulations was a “serious mistake.” Read More

Sophie Grégoire Trudeau stunned judges and an unsuspecting audience after she revealed herself to be the voice behind one of the characters on the Canadian French-language singing show, the Masked Singer. Read More

Police debated whether they needed a warrant to continue searching Luigi Mangione’s backpack after they arrested him and found a gun magazine wrapped in his underwear in the bag, an officer testified Monday. Read More

A new ad for the upcoming Winter Olympics from NBC is throwing some serious shade on Team Canada. Read More

OTTAWA — U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra says he does not believe the United States wants to "terminate" its trilateral trade agreement with Canada and Mexico. Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump offered mixed messages when asked pointedly on Sunday whether he would revive stalled trade talks with Canada. Read More

Rabbi Mendel Zaltzman says residents are "extremely upset" after mezuzahs were ripped from their doorways over the weekend in North York. By Monday afternoon, many had replaced the missing ones with help from the community. Read More

Listen to the premier of British Columbia, or the CBC, or the Association of First Nations and you’d think that Indigenous groups on the West Coast are determined to stop a new oil pipeline from Alberta. Yet as MP Ellis Ross, former chief councillor of the Haisla Nation near Kitimat, B.C., tells Brian Lilley, a lot of First Nations are open to the opportunity for resource development to help them break their dependency on Ottawa and find prosperity for their people. He also talks about how American anti-oil groups are exploiting First Nations by offering them much-needed funding in exchange for backing their activist campaigns — like the widely quoted “Coastal First Nations” group that doesn’t even represent the area’s First Nations. (Recorded Dec. 5, 2025) Read More

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In this week’s video, host John Ivison was joined by guests Ian Brodie and Gene Lang to review the tumultuous year in Canadian politics and to look at what might be ahead. Read More

Possible historic landmark whizzing past your window dep’t: early Wednesday morning, CNN announced that it is entering into a branding partnership with Kalshi Inc., one of the two leading companies in the emerging business space of “prediction markets.” Kalshi is an exchange, more or less exactly like a stock exchange or a betting market: it’s a place where you can bet on quantifiable outcomes of a very general variety of future events. It has become a market leader, and apparently worthy of the attention of CNN, by pursuing a strategy of legality and regulatory housebrokenness. It’s chartered in the U.S. and is subject to the American legal rules of commodity exchanges (after suing, with tentative success, to be recognized as such). Read More

OTTAWA — A potential pipeline to the West Coast has created strange political bedfellows. Read More

A water leak in late November damaged several hundred works in the Louvre's Egyptian department, the Paris museum told AFP on Sunday, weeks after a brazen jewel theft raised concerns over its infrastructure. Read More

Israel expects to move to the next phase of the Gaza ceasefire plan soon, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday, adding that he would discuss “opportunities for peace” with President Donald Trump when he meets him later this month. Read More

Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth doubled down on deadly U.S. airstrikes against alleged drug-running boats off the Venezuelan coast, saying he would have made the same call as the admiral who ordered survivors to be killed. Read More

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his office in Jerusalem on Sunday after arriving in Israel on Saturday night for his first visit to the Jewish state since taking office in May. Read More

Air Transat said it will gradually cease operations starting Monday after its pilots issued a 72-hour strike notice this weekend, raising the prospect of a walkout on Wednesday morning. Read More

Thomas Lukaszuk, leader of the successful Forever Canada citizens petition, has been invited to Ottawa by the Prime Minister’s Office to explain what exactly is going on in the province. Read More

The Liberal government’s plan, at the behest of the Bloc Québécois, to remove the religious faith exemption from the Criminal Code prohibition on hate speech ran into unexpected and formidable opposition this week. A House committee meeting was abruptly cancelled on Thursday, leaving the future of the amendment, and the Liberals' hate speech bill itself, in question. Read More