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

WASHINGTON -- U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs on most countries around the world can remain in place while a federal appeals court decides on their future. Read More

OTTAWA -- The U.S. Justice Department says a Pakistani citizen who was living in Canada has been extradited to New York, where he's accused of plotting to carry out a mass shooting at a Jewish centre. Read More

OTTAWA — As ministers settle into their new roles, discussions are underway about who is best suited to steer the government's efforts to legislate against online harms, said cabinet minister Steven Guilbeault. Read More

When it comes to COVID-19 post-mortems, inquiries and audits, scrutinizing the ArriveCan debacle shouldn’t really be at the top of the list. But beggars can’t be choosers: If we can’t get a proper reckoning for having kept schools, summer camps, playgrounds, skate parks, golf courses and restaurant patios closed for reasons that look highly suspect in hindsight, even to quite cautious people, we might as well appreciate the feds getting pilloried for their spectacular failure in producing what ought to have been a very simple app. Read More

In his speech pledging to meet NATO’s two per cent spending target, Mark Carney expanded on his plan to rearm the Canadian military. Read More

A cross-border drug smuggling network using commercial truck drivers to haul large loads of cocaine across the border from the United States into Canada has been revealed by police in southern Ontario, leading to the arrest of nine men and the seizure of 479 kilograms of bulk cocaine bricks. Read More

Unless you are willing to calculate your Tax-Free Savings Account contribution room, you’ll have to wait for the Canada Revenue Agency to get caught up. Read More

OTTAWA — Chief Justice Richard Wagner, who promised a new era of transparency for the Supreme Court, could not say who donated a lifelike bronze bust of him that sits prominently in the building’s grand entrance hall. Read More

An American-based Canadian men's fashion writer who shared his story of being an undocumented immigrant in the U.S. put himself in the crosshairs of conservative critics questioning his legal status to remain in the country, including perhaps U.S. Vice-President JD Vance. Read More