WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump said he will double the tariffs on steel and aluminum imports to 50 per cent next Wednesday. Read More

OTTAWA — Canada Post says it has asked Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu to force a union membership vote on the proposals the Crown corporation put forward earlier this week. Read More

NEW YORK — Loretta Swit, who won two Emmy Awards playing Major Margaret Houlihan, the demanding head nurse of a behind-the-lines surgical unit during the Korean War on the pioneering hit TV series M*A*S*H, has died. She was 87. Read More

The Toronto District School Board has been stopped from erasing the names of Sir John A. Macdonald, Egerton Ryerson and Henry Dundas from its schools. Read More

The Canadian military's Cyclone helicopters weren't flying for 27 days in May due to a lack of spare parts, and only one of them is now able to take to the skies. Read More

OTTAWA – Quebec is joining the Canadian internal trade party. One of the most regulated provinces in the country has introduced "the most ambitious bill in Canada" aimed at removing its trade barriers. Read More

Canadians who bought packaged bread in the past two decades may be eligible for a cash payout from a $500-million bread-fixing class action settlement. Read More

A teenage boy has been charged with first-degree murder after a woman was fatally stabbed in Pickering, Ont. Read More

OTTAWA — With a wave of his black cowboy hat and a call for all Parliamentarians to “fight for Canada," Alberta Conservative MP Damien Kurek made a heartfelt final address in the House of Commons Thursday before stepping aside for leader Pierre Poilievre. Read More

A 31-year-old Canadian man has been found dead at Mexico's Zicatela Beach in Puerto Escondido. Read More

This week’s throne speech had a particulary royal twist with King Charles in Canada to deliver the breakdown of the government’s agenda. Read More

The mayor of Flin Flon, Man., says fierce, shifting winds are threatening to propel a nearby raging wildfire into the city and begin burning structures. Read More

Ontario members of provincial parliament are getting big raises and access to a pension plan, under legislation introduced by Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy and passed with the support of all parties at breakneck speed. Read More

A driver charged with multiple counts of intentionally causing grievous bodily harm for ramming into a crowd of Liverpool soccer fans celebrating their team's Premier League championship was ordered held in custody Friday at his first court appearance. Read More

An American lawyer stripped of his security clearance by U.S. President Donald Trump says Canadians need to be vigilant about attacks on political freedom south of the border. Read More

Our cookbook of the week is Family Style by fashion designer Peter Som. Read More

All eyes will be on Toronto later this summer — or they should be, because it could be darkly hilarious. That's when Queen’s Park undertakes a bold, interdisciplinary experiment in Canadian history, policing and law: The province is going to let Sir John A. Macdonald’s statue out of the plywood prison it has inhabited for five years. The monument had been restored after previous vandalism, only to find itself in a box to prevent future vandalism. Read More

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The U.S. Court of International Trade (CIT) issued a decision Wednesday that annuls various salvos of surprise economic tariffs, including ones on Canada, that have been enacted by President Donald Trump since his inauguration in January. I won’t lie to you: I had the same initial reaction to this consequential news that you probably did, which was “Hooray!” and then “Huh, there’s a U.S. Court of International Trade?” Read More

There was no greater demonstration of Canada's unique system of government than hearing King Charles III, in all his regal dignity, discuss during the Speech from the Throne Tuesday, relatively mundane matters of government, such as dental care and the amount of GST charged on new homes. Read More

OTTAWA — Think of it as the premiers' edition of Dragon's Den.  Read More

Some Canadian academics are accusing the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) of straying from its core mission of advocating for academic rights and fair working conditions to pursue a politicized agenda that undermines its fundamental purpose. Specifically, they accuse CAUT of betraying its founding principles by issuing an unsubstantiated U.S. travel advisory, producing a likely skewed academic freedom report with soon-to-be added anti-Israel rhetoric, and encouraging administrative overreach into equity-based hiring that risks faculty autonomy. Read More

This past week, The Abraham Global Peace Initiative hosted a powerful and inspiring gala at Toronto’s historic Casa Loma. The keynote speaker, former Israeli UN Ambassador Gilad Erdan, addressed a sold-out crowd made up of proud Canadians — many of them children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors. They gathered to counter hate, intolerance and to promote human rights and peace in the Middle East. But outside, a dangerous scene unfolded: a mob of radicalized agitators, emboldened and hateful, hurled slurs and threats at our guests simply for being Jewish. Read More

OTTAWA — Porter Airlines’ CEO is fighting the CRA over a six-figure tax bill linked to an unsuccessful incursion into “high risk” trading in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic that cost him over $5.7 million. Read More

PICKERING — Police in Durham Region say they have arrested a 13-year-old after a fatal attack on an elderly woman in Pickering, Ont. Read More

As the Jewish state facilitates aid entry via the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation into the Strip, the United Nations is running a “mafia-like” shakedown and is spreading “panic” and making “declarations detached from reality,” Danny Danon, the Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, told the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday. Read More

BOSTON — A federal judge on Thursday extended an order blocking the Trump administration's attempt to bar Harvard University from enrolling foreign students. Read More

The Canadian Dental Care Plan is undergoing an expansion this month. Read More

OTTAWA — Separatist winds are lifting the political sails of Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, according to a study from an Alberta pollster. Read More

Any potential link between social media use and kids’ mental health often comes down to a what-came-first conundrum: does more time glued to TikTok, Snapchat or Instagram make youth more depressed, or are distressed kids just more likely to spend more time on social media?  Read More

Ontario Premier Doug Ford wants to break up the status quo of process, endless consultation and delay that has bogged down major infrastructure project approvals in the province. It’s about time. Read More

The provincially owned Northlander train between Toronto and northern Ontario is set to make a comeback. Read More

A new poll suggests nearly 70 per cent of Canadians support mandatory childhood vaccinations. Read More

OTTAWA — First there was Bill C-216, then C-282, and now C-202. The Bloc Québécois has, once again, introduced a private member's bill aimed at ensuring "full protection for supply management" in trade agreements. Read More

Already with one of the most iconic nicknames in professional sports history — The Great One — it’s easy to forget that Wayne Gretzky was briefly bestowed with a different title: the White Tornado. Read More

As negotiations continue between the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) and the Canada Post, the corporation revealed its operating loss for 2024 was nearly $1.3 billion. Read More

Wayne Gretzky didn’t predict an outcome for this year’s Stanley Cup Finals, but the former Edmonton Oilers and hockey’s all-time Great One does expect his former club will be there in a rematch with the defending champion Florida Panthers. Read More

OTTAWA — Canada was only able to breathe a sigh of relief on tariffs for a few hours, as a U.S. federal appeals court has temporarily reinstated some tariffs on Canadian goods. Read More