Alberta’s new man in Washington, D.C., is Nathan Cooper, the 44-year-old former MLA from the rural heartland of the province. Nathan just wrapped up six years as Speaker of the Alberta legislature, an all-around nice fellow credited with keeping partisan shenanigans in the legislature to a minimum. Read More

Arsenic in rice isn’t a new concern, but a recent report published by Healthy Babies Bright Futures (HBBF) brought the issue back into the spotlight. The study found arsenic in all 145 rice samples bought at stores across the United States. More than a quarter surpassed 100 parts per billion (ppb) of inorganic arsenic, the Canadian and American federal limits for infant rice cereal. Read More

As global instability grows and international threats evolve, Canada can no longer afford to underinvest in its national defence. The government’s renewed commitment to strengthening the Canadian Armed Forces is timely — and long overdue. But as we debate where to allocate dollars, we must remember one fundamental truth: national defence isn’t just about equipment or infrastructure. It’s about people. Read More

Last week, some 4,000 participants from over 40 countries demanded humanitarian aid access to Gaza, via Egypt’s heavily fortified border crossing at Rafah. An advance group of 200 (including a number of Canadians) was stopped by Egyptian police, indifferent to emotional pleas for their cooperation on behalf of their Gazan “brethren.” The incident ended with casual brutality meted out to some, others detained or deported. Read More

Re: Mark Carney is demanding power to suspend all federal laws. What will he use it for? — Jamie Sarkonak, June 17 Read More

The U.S. military struck three sites in Iran, directly joining Israel’s effort aimed at decapitating the country’s nuclear program in a risky gambit to weaken a longtime foe amid Tehran’s threat of reprisals that could spark a wider regional conflict. Read More

OTTAWA — Hundreds of events are planned across the country on Saturday to mark Indigenous Peoples Day. Read More

LIMA, Peru — Pope Leo XIV has said there should be no tolerance in the Catholic Church for any type of abuse — sexual, spiritual or abuse of authority -- and called for “transparent processes” to create a culture of prevention across the church. Read More

MONTREAL — Quebec provincial police launched a search operation Saturday after a helicopter crash in northeastern Quebec that left four people unaccounted for. Read More

The world has a moral obligation to end the war between Israel and Iran — and only the United States can achieve this. Donald Trump may have campaigned on a pledge to undo America’s wartime entanglements, but the election is over — it’s time to be president now. Read More

PORTICELLO, Italy — A British-flagged luxury superyacht that sank off Sicily last year, killing U.K. tech magnate Mike Lynch and six others, was lifted fully out of the water on Saturday afternoon as salvage recovery crews completed the operation to bring it ashore for further investigation. Read More

OTTAWA — Defence Minister David McGuinty’s office says it’s considering a “combination of approaches” to boosting pay for armed service members, including introducing retention bonuses for “stress trades.” Read More

Israeli Air Force fighter jets overnight Friday killed several senior Iranian officials, including Saeed Izadi, commander of the Palestinian division within the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ elite Quds Force, the IDF said. Read More

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We are at a decisive moment in the history of the Jews. “Never Again!” was the rallying cry of the Jewish people after approximately half the world’s Jews were gassed and incinerated in the death camps of the Third Reich, six million Jews, along with at least six-million non Jews who were also murdered by the Nazis (including three million Soviet POWs and as many as 500,000 Romani). The Jews did not have a state in the 25 centuries between the Persian occupation of the kingdom of Judea of Saul and David and Solomon, and the creation of the State of Israel as an explicitly Jewish country in 1948. For all of that time, the Jews were reviled as “rootless cosmopolitans, usurers and sharpers” because they were excluded from the professions. They had no place of safety from the perennial evils of antisemitism. As Jewish scholar Dara Horn has written, the world “loves dead Jews.” Those that retained a sense of optimistic goodwill, like Anne Frank, expiated the rest of us. Read More

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Natasha Hausdorff, the British barrister who has become an outspoken defender of Israel’s legal rights on global news networks, warns that a “vicious cycle of disinformation” — fuelled by media self-censorship and terrorist propaganda — has warped the world’s understanding of the Gaza conflict, and put Jewish lives at risk. Read More

OTTAWA — Cameron Davies, the leader of the separatist Republican Party of Alberta and the party's candidate for Monday's Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills byelection, admits that his party's name and MAGA red branding are causing some confusion at the doors. Read More

JENA, La. -- Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil was released Friday from federal immigration detention, freed after 104 days by a judge's ruling after becoming a symbol of President Donald Trump 's clampdown on campus protests. Read More

VICTORIA — Federal Transport Minister Chrystia Freeland says she is “dismayed” that BC Ferries has contracted a Chinese state-owned shipyard to build four new vessels in the current geopolitical context that includes “unjustified” tariffs on Canada. Read More

OTTAWA -- Music streamer Spotify says Canada's federal broadcast regulator shouldn't impose rules meant for radio on streaming services. Read More

A flock of nearly 400 British Columbia ostriches that gained international fame after they were ordered killed due to an avian flu outbreak have been given a stay of execution — at least for now. Read More

An Iranian whose refugee claim was turned down in Canada because he was convicted in England 16 years ago of a serious assault that left one person dead and another two injured will get another shot at arguing he should be allowed to stay here because his bisexuality, Kurdish ethnicity, conversion from Islam to Christianity and identity as a Westerner would all put him at risk back home. Read More

An incredible 16 billion passwords have been leaked in what tech experts are calling the largest data breach ever. Read More

Police in California have made several arrests and laid charges in what they are calling the largest jewellery heist in U.S. history. The 2022 crime is said to have resulted in the theft of more than US$100 million worth of gold, diamonds, rubies, emeralds and luxury watches. Read More

Thirty years ago, the Sacred Assembly, a national meeting on Indigenous affairs organized by Elijah Harper, called for a “National First Peoples Day,” the first of which was observed the following year on June 21, 1996. It coincides with the summer solstice, highlighting the importance of the sun in various Indigenous religious beliefs. It has been observed ever since, now using “Indigenous Peoples” rather than “First Peoples.” Read More

OTTAWA — If you blinked, you might have missed it. Read More

MONTREAL -- The Montreal mother who allegedly abandoned her three-year-old daughter in rural Ontario, triggering a four-day hunt for the child across two provinces, will remain detained until her bail hearing early next month. Read More

In the span of just a few days, the ground has shifted beneath the feet of over 90 million Iranians. The sky above roars with the sound of warplanes, sirens, and explosions. Roads are jammed with families fleeing Tehran. Shelters are improvised in metro stations and mosques. The heavy-handed and repressive regime is suddenly exposed, wounded by foreign airstrikes, panicked at the top, and fraying at the edges. And the Iranian people, long silenced, find themselves standing at a rare and dangerous crossroads. Read More

Ontario Premier Doug Ford has commented on a Netflix documentary about his late brother and former mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford. Read More

Canada Post and its second-largest union have reached an agreement in the ongoing labour dispute between the postal service and its workers. Read More

A painful symptom that has been linked to the latest strain of COVID-19 is being called "razor blade throat." Read More

A Pennsylvania man has been sentenced to more than seven months in prison after an elaborate hoax in which he injured himself and then accused his neighbours of trying to kill him. Read More

Thousands more wildfire evacuees in Manitoba will start making the trek home in the coming days as officials in two northwestern communities lift their evacuation orders. Read More

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Mike Pemberton has been named the new leader of the Yukon Liberal Party and will be the territory's 11th premier. Read More

Our cookbook of the week is Arthurs: Home of the Nosh by Raegan Steinberg and Alexander Cohen, co-owners of Montreal's Arthurs Nosh Bar, with writer Evelyne Eng. Read More

The United States will make its own decision about whether to enter the war against Iran, and Israel will not pressure the Trump administration to do so, Minister of Diaspora and Combating Antisemitism Amichai Chikli told JNS on Thursday. Read More