Monday must have been painful for President Donald J. Trump. On the tenth anniversary of his escalator descent from the gaudy heights of Trump Tower, he was confined to a modest conference table, one amongst the G7, in a Kananaskis, Alberta room decorated in modest alpine themes, rather than late-Saddam gilded baubles. By evening he was gone, back to Washington to preside over the Israel-Iran war. Given that his G7 counterparts are perpetually on tenterhooks should he launch an eruption, his early leave-taking was likely unlamented. Read More

President Donald Trump said Tuesday the U.S. knows where Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is hiding during the Israel-Iran conflict but doesn't want him killed "for now." Read More

Ontario Premier Doug Ford says masked men tried to steal a vehicle from his home overnight. Read More

HALIFAX, N.S. — A parole board hearing scheduled for June 18, will give a Nova Scotia convicted killer a chance to persuade members and the public that she is not the same person who admitted to packing twine in the trunk of her car in 2008 before murdering her 12-year-old daughter. Read More

Well, at least he didn’t walk out. While U.S. President Donald Trump left the G7 meeting in Kananaskis Monday night, it wasn’t in the huff the world witnessed at Charlevoix in 2018. This time, after a day of huddles and the signing of a U.K.–U.S. mini-deal that slashed auto tariffs, Trump hurried back to the White House because of “what’s going on in the Middle East.” His exit left Prime Minister Mark Carney and the remaining five leaders to hammer out the rest of the agenda, from trade to security to artificial intelligence, while keeping a nervous eye on the Iran-Israel war.  Read More

Ontario's police watchdog is investigating after a man fell from an elevated highway in Toronto while he was allegedly fleeing police on Monday night. Read More

OTTAWA — The minority Liberal government’s major projects bill is headed to a House of Commons committee to be studied on Tuesday and Wednesday, after the Conservatives voted to fast-track the legislation and for it to pass second reading late Monday evening. Read More

BANFF, ALTA. — Prime Minister Mark Carney announced wide-ranging new support for Ukraine as he met with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, including new sanctions against Russia and $2 billion in military funding. Read More

A Canadian citizen trying to enter the U.S. last week was turned over to the RCMP and the Canadian border agency after it was discovered he was driving a stolen vehicle. Read More

A shipwreck that has been part of Vancouver Island's history for more than a century is a charred skeleton after a fire this month. Read More

Hockey fans in Sunrise are preparing for a trophy-hoisting party inside Amerant Bank Arena tonight as the Florida Panthers aim to wrap up the Stanley Cup final series against the Edmonton Oilers. Read More

Ten people were lightly injured running to shelters during a Tuesday morning missile barrage from Iran that triggered alarms across Israel, with at least two impact sites reported in the centre of the country — including a bus parking lot in Herzliya, north of Tel Aviv, where vehicles caught fire. Read More

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he he won't call Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz after the targeted shootings of two state lawmakers because it would "waste time." Read More

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Mark Carney’s election platform did not include giving himself the power to suspend the entirety of federal law and, by extension, democracy. But that’s what he aims to do with Bill C-5, which he hopes to ram through by Canada Day. Read More

Emergency departments are seeing a spike in visits owing to a once unusual, highly unpleasant and, in rare cases, potentially life-threatening side effect of chronic cannabis use: severe bouts of vomiting lasting hours, even days. Read More

It’s not just the so-called Iron Dome that’s protecting Israel from hundreds of Iranian missiles. Read More

A direct military confrontation between Israel and Iran has been decades in the making, but some in the media are naively trying to make the case that the Islamic Republic didn't pose much of a threat to the Jewish state. Read More

The United States Supreme Court is seen to be sharply divided between conservative and liberal jurists so it is noteworthy when it speaks with one voice. In Ames v. Ohio, liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote a unanimous decision that is viewed by some as resetting the diversity, equity and inclusion debate. Read More

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s surprise pledge to meet NATO’s defence spending target is long overdue, but without real reform, leadership and a shift away from bureaucracy and social experimentation, it risks falling short of what the moment demands. Read More

NEW YORK — If Trump watches or sneakers or bibles aren’t your thing, the family business just added another product to show your support for the U.S. president: mobile phones. Read More

OTTAWA -- A union official who represents marine search and rescue crews said Monday the union was surprised and "blindsided" by Ottawa's decision to move the Canadian Coast Guard from the control of the fisheries minister to the defence minister. Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump will leave the G7 Summit in Alberta early, with the rising tensions in the Middle East cited as the reason. Read More

CALGARY -- Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe is pitching the idea of a "port-to-port corridor" that would connect energy and other goods to Canada's northern Pacific and Arctic coasts. Read More

When Buzz Hargrove spoke, you listened. He was an electric public speaker that drove his message through compassion and wisdom. He could carry the room with his knowledge. Read More

OTTAWA — Conservatives will be supporting the Liberal government’s internal trade and major projects bill that is expected to be passed before Canada Day, revealed Leo Housakos, the leader of the Opposition in the Senate. Read More

Peel Regional Police said more than $4.2 million in assets were seized and 18 people were arrested, including two men alleged to be the bosses behind a network involved in two streams of criminality: one dedicated to extortion and violence, and the other to systematic fraud through staged car collisions rooted in the towing industry. Read More

It used to be that my agenda contained reminders of upcoming events like lunches, bridge games or concerts at Place-des-Arts, but no more. Nowadays I see reminders of upcoming medical appointments, food or pharmacy deliveries and other health-related items. From head to toe, each part of me seems to be clamouring for attention. Here are some of them. Read More

It’s a bright spring morning at Nuestra coffee shop on Edmonton’s north side. While it looks like an ordinary café in an urban neighbourhood, with sun streaming through sparkling windows and the buzz of caffeine-fuelled conversation in the air, the coffee shop means something extraordinary to Jayne Galanka. Read More

Summertime and the living is easy ... especially if you’re grooving to seasonal music. Read More

BANFF — When world leaders gathered for the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings, it was an awkward situation: Just months before, Vladimir Putin's Russia had invaded Ukraine, annexing Crimea. Read More

French president Emmanuel Macron has come out strongly against U.S. President Donald Trump's musings about annexing Greenland, making his comments during a stop in Denmark's island territory ahead of the G7 meeting. Read More

The G7 meeting in Kananaskis, Alta. hadn’t even kicked off in earnest when Mark Carney began to wear the look of a man who had lost control of events that were starting to control him. Read More

A U.S. man who accidentally crossed the border into Canada was arrested when he turned around and came back after authorities found 78 pounds of illegal marijuana in his supposedly empty vehicle. Read More

The last federal election was not an honest conversation about Canada’s place in the world. It was a performance — slick, poll-tested, and ultimately hollow. Mark Carney presented himself as a principled adversary to Donald Trump, a steward of Canadian sovereignty who would stand up to a dangerous and unpredictable United States. And now, just months into his premiership, he insists “the G7 is nothing without U.S. leadership,” his government has resisted retaliating against American tariffs, and has even expressed desire to join Trump's Golden Dome missile defence program. Read More

BANFF, Alta. — As U.S. President Donald Trump stepped onto a podium for a photo with Prime Minister Mark Carney and his wife Diana, he wore two lapel pins on the left side of his suit. Read More

Ordering a "proffee" at your local café may still elicit quizzical looks, but protein coffee is gaining momentum. In March, Tim Hortons launched a new range of high-protein dairy beverages, including a latte containing 20 grams of the nutrient in a medium-sized cup. Now, Starbucks is entering the fray. The coffee giant announced at a leadership conference in Las Vegas on June 10 that it's testing protein coffee at select locations in the United States. Read More

Israel and Iran exchanged fire for the fourth consecutive day on Monday, stoking fears of an all-out war with the potential to drag in others in the oil-rich region and force the U.S. into a more hands-on stance. Read More