Ottawa's ramped up defence-spending plans will give the economy a lift, but not enough to save it from a recession, a newly released report forecasts. Read More

A fire tore through a newly opened shopping mall in the eastern Iraqi city of Kut overnight, killing at least 61 people, authorities said Thursday, as grief-stricken families searched for missing relatives. Read More

The day before the suspected hijacking of a light aircraft triggered a security scare at Vancouver's airport this week, former commercial pilot Shaheer Cassim posted on social media that he was a "messenger of Allah" sent to save humanity from climate change. Read More

A cockpit voice recording of doomed Air India Flight 171 indicates the younger co-pilot asked his more experienced colleague why he turned off the plane’s fuel-supply switches, according to people familiar with the matter. Read More

Trade talks are reportedly continuing between Canada and the U.S., with formal meetings having taken place since U.S. President Donald Trump revealed more threats and demands last week, a source close to the White House said. Read More

It’s possible that no politician has defied the expectations of the chattering class as successfully as has Argentina’s libertarian President Javier Milei. Expected to remain in political obscurity, he rose to lead a political movement. Anticipated to lose a presidential election to a candidate from the country’s dominant authoritarian political party, he won. And predicted by a cabal of academic economists to lead Argentina to ruin with free-market policies, he instead turned around the long-suffering country, resulting in lower inflation and rapid economic growth. Read More

In less than two weeks this month, a Quebec border crossing saw more than 1,500 asylum applicants coming from the United States, an unusual surge considering overall asylum claims are down by 50 per cent across Canada. Read More

Hockey Canada's 2022 Gender Expression and Gender Identity Policy states that players "must be able to participate in the sport in the Gender with which they identify," and be provided with "access to such facilities in accordance with their Gender Identity or Gender Expression." But never before have coaching staff been given a nationwide, certification-required test, seemingly aimed at implementing the policy. Read More

Antisemitism is iniquitous in all its forms, but it is especially wicked when it is teachers directing the ancient hatred at innocent children.  Read More

The largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth was sold for just over $5 million at an auction of rare geological and archaeological objects in New York on Wednesday. But a rare young dinosaur skeleton stole the show when it fetched more than $30 million in a bidding frenzy. (All figures are in US dollars.) Read More

VANCOUVER — A man who allegedly seized a light aircraft in Victoria, setting off a security scare at Vancouver International Airport on Tuesday, has been charged with hijacking and terrorism offences. Read More

Canada's convenience store giant backed away from a blockbuster bid set to dramatically expanded its convenience store empire, when it pulled its proposal to buy the parent company of rival 7-Eleven on Wednesday. Read More

More than two months after two young siblings went missing in Nova Scotia, the RCMP say they have received thousands of videos and found a pink blanket belonging to one of the children, but the case remains unsolved. Read More

OTTAWA— Assembly of First Nations National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak said the federal government will need to present a plan for how to get more infrastructure built on First Nations reserves as it tries to soothe concerns from chiefs over new powers to fast-track major infrastructure projects.  Read More

NEW YORK — A former New York City interim police commissioner filed a civil racketeering lawsuit Wednesday against his one-time boss, Mayor Eric Adams, and other top department officials, alleging they showered loyalists with unearned promotions, buried allegations of misconduct, and gratuitously punished whistleblowers. Read More

OTTAWA — The Federal Court of Appeal reserved its decision in a case involving two B.C. farmers who are fighting an order from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to destroy around 400 ostriches after an outbreak of avian flu. Read More

There is nothing quite so parochial in Canadian foreign-policy debates as the recurring imbecility that the weight of this country’s heavy economic reliance on the United States should be lifted by securing advantages in deeper trade relationships with China. Lately, the proposition can even be made to appear sensible, now that the growing costs of doing business with Donald Trump’s America can’t be properly calculated from one day to the next. So there’s a lot of it going around nowadays. Read More

The Montreal-Trudeau International Airport and surrounding area is set to undergo a $10-billion transformation over the next decade. Read More

Olive Garden, the Italian-inspired chain restaurant found in all 50 U.S. states — including Hawaii and Alaska — with unlimited soup, salad, and breadsticks, will soon be expanding across Canada. Read More

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney announced his government is significantly restricting foreign imports of steel — Chinese ones in particular. He also said he was increasing spending on subsidies for Canada’s domestic industries and workers affected by U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs. Read More

Authorities in Florida have revealed what caused a young girl to fall from a balcony aboard a Disney cruise in late June, putting an end to online speculation about what really happened and accusations against the father. Read More

OTTAWA -- A prominent Jewish organization is pushing for Canada to deny entry to two bands being investigated in the U.K. after their appearance at a popular British music festival last month. Read More