Last week on these very pages, I wrote that Canadian media — with the notable exception of the National Post — either refuses to report the truth or deliberately distorts facts about Gaza and the Middle East. I warned that this climate of misinformation, coupled with our government’s tolerance of radical Islamist narratives, would lead to violence. Tragically, I was right. Read More

Elon Musk and Donald Trump had been inseparable for some time now. Read More

The Canadian Medical Association (CMA) has launched a legal challenge to Alberta’s recent ban on puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for youth under 16 who identify as transgender. The CMA argues that Alberta's Bill 26, enacted in December last year, violates physicians’ Charter right to freedom of conscience. This raises a pertinent question: If a doctor is compelled by conscience to subject vulnerable youth to unproven treatments despite growing evidence of harm, should governments intervene to protect patients? Read More

WASHINGTON -- Governments of 12 countries whose citizens will be banned from visiting the United States beginning next week scrambled on Thursday to understand President Donald Trump's latest move to resurrect a hallmark policy of his first term. Read More

MONTREAL -- The founder of Montreal's Just for Laughs festival broke his silence on Thursday about sexual assault allegations, accusing reporters of denying him justice as he emerged from a second day on the stand at a civil trial. Read More

OTTAWA -- A national coalition of civil society groups says the Liberal government's new border security bill poses a serious risk to liberties and human rights. Read More

OTTAWA -- Ottawa is reviewing its spending "from top to bottom" as Canada's closest allies call on Canada to hike defence spending to levels not seen since the height of the Cold War, Defence Minister David McGuinty said Thursday. Read More

A shocking mass shooting inside a Toronto pub in March, when three masked men shot wildly into the crowd during the establishment’s grand opening, is linked to an ongoing tow truck turf war that included other shootings and a robbery, Toronto police said when announcing charges against 11 people. Read More

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney is directly involved in the negotiations with U.S. President Donald Trump for a new trade and security deal in exchange for the lifting of all tariffs on Canadian goods — in particular the crippling levies on steel and aluminum. Read More

Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s alliance took off like one of SpaceX’s rockets. It was supercharged and soared high. And then it blew up. Read More

Less than two weeks after becoming a non-affiliated member of Canada’s Senate, New Brunswick Sen. David Adams Richards elected to join the Conservative Party of Canada’s caucus in Parliament’s Upper House this week. Read More

OTTAWA — Meili Faille couldn't believe her ears when she heard the news. Marc Garneau, the first Canadian to have visited space, was preparing to run against her in the 2006 election. Read More

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney's Liberal government used an obscure parliamentary maneuver to sidestep its first major test of confidence on Wednesday, adopting its reply to the throne speech by division. Read More

Montreal police say they have arrested five people this week related to a number of recent distraction thefts involving seniors, the latest in a rash of similar incidents that have prompted warnings from police forces across the country. Read More

KYIV, Ukraine — Russia and Ukraine exchanged hundreds more prisoners on Saturday as part of a major swap that amounted to a rare moment of cooperation in otherwise failed efforts to reach a ceasefire. The exchange came hours after Kyiv came under a large-scale Russian drone and missile attack that left at least 15 people injured. Read More

Judy Frank says no longer getting mail at her door would make life harder. Read More

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has written a letter to the president of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency asking that ostriches at a B.C. farm be spared from a planned cull. Read More

Hudson’s Bay says it plans to sell up to 28 of its store leases to a B.C. mall owner who wants to launch “a new modern department store.” Read More

A new analysis of immigration data released by the federal government reveals that while the number of new permanent residents dropped after the federal government announced that it would cut immigration levels, the number of temporary foreign workers actually increased, while other temporary permits declined. Read More

Majdal Shams, Golan Heights — At first, the kids thought it was a drone. Read More

Canadian postal workers may once again go on strike. After a one-month strike over the winter that effectively stranded tens of thousands of Christmas parcels, the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) is set to do it all again. After a midnight deadline expired without an agreement, the union announced a ban on overtime Friday and said they may escalate. Read More

… but, of course, one almost couldn’t help flashing back to our recent election campaign, wherein the prime minister had half-boasted to a Radio-Canada reporter that he doesn’t buy his own groceries and has no earthly idea how the stuff in his fridge gets there. It struck me at the time that this was a classic mistake for an electoral neophyte like Mark Carney. Fans of the legendary American columnist Michael Kinsley will surely think of it as a “Kinsley gaffe,” i.e., an obviously true statement that is nevertheless bound to get a politician in trouble. Read More

On May 19, a joint statement was issued by the governments of the United Kingdom, France, and Canada whose principal points were: ”We call on the Israeli government to stop its military operations in Gaza and immediately allow humanitarian aid to enter Gaza. This must include engaging with the UN to ensure a return to delivery of aid in line with humanitarian principles." "Israel suffered a heinous attack on October 7. We have always supported Israel's right to defend Israelis against terrorism. But this escalation is wholly disproportionate." "If Israel does not cease the renewed military offensive and lift its restrictions on humanitarian aid, we will take further concrete actions in response." "It is a ceasefire, the release of all remaining hostages and a long-term political solution that offer the best hope of ending the agony of the hostages and their families, alleviating the suffering of civilians in Gaza, ending Hamas's control of Gaza and achieving a pathway to a two-state solution.” Read More

OTTAWA — The federal government says its new online system for collecting import duties is a step forward for business because it streamlines the entire process. Read More

OTTAWA — As an institution that has for centuries employed symbolism with surgical precision, the timing of the King's visit to Canada may be more revealing than the itinerary itself. Read More

NEW YORK — Billy Joel has cancelled all his upcoming concerts across North America and England, including one at Toronto's Rogers Centre, after being diagnosed with fluid buildup in his brain that has affected his "hearing, vision and balance." Read More

Canadian investment pioneer James O’Donnell died on May 20 at the age of 88 after a battle with dementia. He was the chairman and founder of the O’Donnell Investment Management Corporation, headquartered in Toronto. Read More

BERLIN — A stabbing attack at the busy central train station in the German city of Hamburg left multiple people injured, some of them in life-threatening condition, authorities said. A woman was arrested as the suspect. Read More

A U.S. judge has provided Harvard University a temporary reprieve from the Trump administration's move to block enrolment of foreign students, including Canadians. Read More

On Thursday Toronto city council passed a bylaw allowing schools, daycares and places of worship to apply for a 50-metre “bubble zone” in which protesting would be prohibited. The impetus, obviously, is the anti-Israel protesters who have been targeting synagogues since Oct. 7, 2003. They and their supporters naturally complained bitterly about this new bylaw — a violation of the Charter, they said confidently. (Typically, council voted down a motion that would have made public the legal advice it had received on the matter.) Read More

Let me introduce myself. I am a car and my family name is Buick. My given name is Allure which I really like. I am a member of the General Motors family and my owner calls me Maximilian. That is because that’s what she called all her transport vehicles. In fact her first Maximilian was her bicycle in Hungary. The rest were new cars, all members of the General Motors family except the first one, a used car whose odometer was reset and that emitted smoke front and back. Read More

PARIS — A Paris court on Friday found the ringleader and seven other people guilty in the robbery of Kim Kardashian at her residence in the French capital in 2016. But none of them will face prison time. Read More

(Bloomberg) — Canada’s economy is likely in the early stages of a recession, according to forecasters, as unemployment rises and exports fall because of a trade war with the U.S. Read More

A woman who was busted in Spain last year with ancient artifacts is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to art trafficking across Europe. Read More

Hundreds of Canadians could potentially be caught up in the fight between President Donald Trump and prestigious Harvard University over international student enrollment. Read More

The robbery was over in minutes, the fallout long: Nearly a decade after robbers stormed Kim Kardashian's luxury residence and tied her up at gunpoint, a Paris court will decide the verdict Friday in one of the most audacious celebrity heists in modern French history. Read More

TD Bank Group said Thursday that it's cutting about two per cent of its workforce as the bank works to reduce costs and refocus spending under new leadership. Read More