One Canadian was on board an Air India flight bound for London that crashed with more than 240 people on board shortly after takeoff in India's northwestern city of Ahmedabad, according to Prime Minister Mark Carney. Read More

Hamas attacked a bus carrying about two-dozen members of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation team at about 10 p.m. in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, with “at least five fatalities, multiple injuries and fear that some of our team members may have been taken hostage,” the aid group stated. Read More

A plane bound for London, U.K., and carrying more than 200 people crashed on Thursday, Air India said. Officials say there are no survivors. Read More

After several days of riots and rabble-rousing in response to the Trump administration’s ham-fisted determination to round up illegal immigrants, downtown Los Angeles was placed under curfew on Tuesday. The disorder has spread to more than a dozen American cities. There have been scores of arrests. Read More

Judih Weinstein Haggai was a Canadian. A teacher, a poet, a peace activist. She was also a victim of Hamas’s October 7 massacre, murdered — alongside her husband Gadi Haggai — by terrorists who violated every principle of humanity and international law. Read More

Starting Sunday, seven of the most powerful people in the world will be at the G7 Summit in Kananaskis, Alta., where they will discuss economic instability and security issues, including Russia's war on Ukraine. Read More

The massive surgical backlogs left after rolling pandemic lockdowns are clearing but Canadians are still waiting longer than they were pre-COVID for new hips and knees, cancer surgeries and other "priority” procedures, new data show. Read More

A man is in hospital with life-threatening injuries after he was shot by police in a Markham, Ont., condominium early Wednesday morning following a reported dispute, the province’s police watchdog said. Read More

WASHINGTON -- The United States is reducing the presence of staffers who are not deemed essential to operations in the Middle East and their loved ones due to the potential for regional unrest, the State Department and military said Wednesday. Read More

OTTAWA — Government House Leader Steven MacKinnon rejected the Bloc Québécois’ proposal to split Bill C-5 in two parts, so that the sections on lifting internal trade barriers and the fast-tracking of major projects can be studied separately. Read More

TORONTO -- The Sir John A. Macdonald statue outside the Ontario legislature is back in full view after spending the past five years in a box. Read More

Mounties searching for two young Nova Scotia siblings who went missing more than a month ago say they’ve administered lie detector tests, collected hundreds of hours of surveillance video from the area around the children's home, fielded 488 tips and formally interviewed 54 people. Read More

Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys' visionary and fragile leader whose genius for melody, arrangements and wide-eyed self-expression inspired "Good Vibrations," "California Girls" and other summertime anthems and made him one of the world's most influential recording artists, has died at 82. Read More

OTTAWA — BC Ferries set off a tidal wave of controversy on Tuesday after announcing a major shipbuilding deal with a Chinese state-owned enterprise, with the ripple effects of the decision reaching Ottawa. Read More

OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Mark Carney is tapping Michael Sabia, a veteran of the public and private sector, to head up the Privy Council Office in Ottawa. Read More

A B.C. man who admitted to police he was aroused by child pornography found in his home but later denied sexual interest in children, will serve his sentence at home, partly due to the “relatively modest size” of his stash — six images. Read More

The share of Canadians who view the United States favourably has dropped 20 percentage points since last year. Read More

The parliamentary budget officer says an eligible first-time homebuyer would save an average of $26,832 in sales tax on the price of a newly built home under Ottawa's latest housing proposal. Read More

A shooting near the Jewish Community Centre (JCC) in Vaughan, Ontario on Wednesday morning is not being ruled a hate crime, York Regional Police said during a midday press conference. Read More

OTTAWA — A Liberal MP says he met with Prime Minister Mark Carney to raise concerns about the decision to invite India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Canada to attend the upcoming G7 summit.  Read More

James McDonough served in the U.S. Army for 27 years, fighting in Vietnam and delivering humanitarian aid to Rwanda. For him, Saturday's military parade in Washington for the Army's 250th anniversary -- coinciding with President Donald Trump's birthday -- is about the resilience of a vital institution and the nation it serves. Read More

Attorney General Sean Fraser jumped into a vat of hot water last week when he asserted that First Nations do not have final veto over new resource projects. Read More

OTTAWA — Former NDP MP Charlie Angus says he does not intend to run for party leadership, but called the recent election "an unmitigated disaster" for New Democrats.  Read More

As the final fists were thrown and players were being ejected from Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final Monday night, the wife of the game’s biggest star, the Edmonton Oilers’ Connor McDavid, subtly chirped the Florida Panthers team on their way to a convincing 6-1 win. Read More

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will visit Ottawa between June 14 and 15 ahead of the G7 summit in Alberta next week. Read More

Cyclic Materials, a startup backed by Amazon.com Inc. and Microsoft Corp., announced plans to build a rare-earths recycling plant and research center in Canada. Read More

Khaby Lame, the world's most popular TikTok personality with millions of followers, has left the U.S. after being detained by immigration agents in Las Vegas for allegedly overstaying his visa. Read More

Russian forces launched a new drone assault across Ukraine overnight on Wednesday, killing three people and wounding 64 others, Ukrainian officials said. Read More

Elon Musk, who served as a close adviser and confidant to President Donald Trump until a bitter public falling out last week in a series of social-media posts, issued his strongest sign of contrition yet over how he handled the rupture. Read More

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While Christians remained the world's largest religious group at the end of the decade that ended in 2020, Christianity's growth did not keep up with global population increase. But Islam - the world's fastest-growing major religion - increased its share of the world population, as did the religiously unaffiliated, the Pew Research Center found in a report released Monday. Read More

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Not only is President Donald Trump attempting to revive the American steel industry with tariffs — raised to 50 per cent last week — but he is personally (with taxpayer funds) increasing demand. Read More

A majority of Canadians reject the idea they live on stolen Indigenous land, and the older people are, the more likely they are to say they don’t, according to a new public opinion poll. Read More