OTTAWA — As Canada approaches a critical starting point for its electric vehicle goals, pressure is building on Prime Minister Mark Carney's government to rethink its plan. Read More
President Donald Trump said the U.S. would hold a meeting with Iran next week but cast doubt on the need for a diplomatic agreement on the country’s nuclear program, citing the damage that American bombing had done to key sites. Read More
OTTAWA -- Three people have been found ineligible to remain in Canada in recent years for being senior officials of the Iranian regime, the federal border agency says. Read More
The Middle East has entered a precarious calm. On June 24, a ceasefire brokered by United States President Donald Trump brought a sudden halt to a week of escalating hostilities between the U.S., Israel, and the Islamic Republic of Iran. The missiles have stopped — for now — but the implications of what unfolded are still reverberating across the region, and far beyond it. Read More
OTTAWA — Senate debate on the federal government’s major projects bill was briefly suspended after a senator collapsed on the floor of the chamber. Read More
The Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist organization that has declared "jihad against the Jews," has established a vast network of charities and fundraising across Canada, a new think-tank report finds. Read More
Two Toronto drivers who saw their red light camera tickets put on hold because it took too long to get their cases into court are out of luck because the justice of the peace who handled them initiated the stays himself and didn't give the city a heads-up that he was going to press pause on the charges. Read More
Provincial police are urging residents of an eastern Ontario community to keep a close eye on their small children after a suspected animal attack left a young child with serious injuries. Read More
OTTAWA — Alberta is pitching that provinces collect more tax dollars and Ottawa less, in its latest volley against the federal equalization program.Read More
Jerusalem, 25 June, 2025 (TPS-IL) -- Hamas are controlling the food supply as a tactic to garner more teenage recruits, an aid worker in Gaza and experts have told The Press Service of Israel. Read More
It's the stuff of bureaucratic nightmares. Earlier this month, the City of Toronto announced that 15 of its outdoor pools would be opening a week early as part of a planned extended season, with the rest slated to start operations on June 27. Read More
On Sunday morning, June 23, 1985, shortly after 8 a.m local time, Air India Flight 182 disappeared from the air traffic control radar screens at Ireland’s Shannon Airport. The Boeing 747 Kanishka was heading east towards London at an altitude of 9,400 metres, roughly 100 nautical miles southwest of County Cork’s Sheeps Head Peninsula, and then, suddenly, it was gone. Read More
NATO leaders are set to sign off Wednesday at their Hague summit on a defence spending pledge to satisfy US President Donald Trump's demand for a headline figure of five percent of GDP. Read More
Efforts to vaccinate children globally have stalled since 2010, leaving millions vulnerable to tetanus, polio, tuberculosis and other diseases that can be easily prevented. Read More
He's already the world's most powerful man, but U.S. President Donald Trump got a new nickname on Wednesday from NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte -- the "Daddy". Read More
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OTTAWA — Even before it hits the 2014 NATO target of two per cent, Canada is committing to a new target of boosting its defence and military spending to five per cent of its GDP — or $150 billion each year — within 10 years. Read More
New York — Tens of millions of Americans sweltered outside or sought air-conditioned refuge as an "extremely dangerous" heat wave blanketed the eastern United States on Tuesday with record high temperatures. Read More
Making matters worse, the Teẑtan Biny area is not even within the established Tsilhqot’in Aboriginal title area. The area is clearly Crown land, which makes the B.C. NDP’s decision not to defend these public lands, or the users of that land, even more troublesome. Read More
Thursday or Friday, the Senate will hold its final vote on bill C-5, which contains two bills in one, one on internal free trade, the other the Building Canada Act. By all indications, a large majority of senators will vote in favour of the bill. They shouldn’t. Read More
In the photograph, the young soldier looks past the camera lens. Blood stains his face from shrapnel wounds. Grenades hang from his belt, his rifle is beside him. He is leaning against sandbags, but appears somehow coiled for action, resting but not at ease, his expression enigmatic, as if he had just witnessed something barely believable for the first time. Read More
On Monday, the Alberta provincial riding of Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills gave us a clear, unmistakeable snapshot of the elusive Alberta-separatist Sasquatch — and it turns out he’s about the size of a Yorkshire terrier. In 1982, Olds-Didsbury, as it then was, became the only Alberta riding ever to elect a separatist legislator, the still-living and still-radical Gordon Kesler. In 2025, Kesler’s latter-day successor, Conservative MLA and Assembly Speaker Nathan Cooper, resigned to take a job as Alberta’s official agent in Washington. Read More
A Toronto-area conman skipped his sentencing hearing in a U.S. court, for helping swindle more than $21 million from hundreds of victims, after prosecutors alleged he kept scamming people even after his arrest and guilty plea. Read More
TOKYO -- Japan's military test-fired a missile on Japanese territory for the first time Tuesday, as the country accelerates its military buildup to deter China. Read More
WASHINGTON -- A U.S. intelligence report suggests that Iran's nuclear program has been set back only a few months after U.S. strikes and was not "completely and fully obliterated" as President Donald Trump has said, according to two people familiar with the early assessment. Read More
Alexander Mogilny's long wait for the Hockey Hall of Fame is over, as the high-scoring Russian winger was selected Tuesday as part of the eight-member class of 2025. Read More
THE HAGUE -- Canada will reach an even higher NATO spending target in part by developing its critical minerals and the infrastructure needed to get them to market, Prime Minister Mark Carney said as the annual leaders' summit of alliance members got underway in the Netherlands. Read More
Los Angeles — At his grocery store in an Iranian neighbourhood of Los Angeles, Mohammad Ghafari is worried sick about his brothers and sisters since the United States bombed the Islamic republic's nuclear sites. Read More
The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) announced Thursday that it had made "a significant seizure" of cocaine at the Blue Water Bridge port of entry in Point Edward, Ont. Read More
As tensions returned to a simmer between Israel and Iran amidst a ceasefire agreement, a new poll conducted before the shaky armistice found that far more Canadians are distrustful of Iran than those who have faith in the Islamic Republic. Read More