VENICE, Italy — The Venice wedding bonanza of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez Bezos reached its third and final day Saturday after the couple tied the knot a day earlier in front of around 200 celebrity guests in a secluded area of the lagoon city. Read More

OTTAWA — Justice Minister Sean Fraser says the Liberal government will press ahead with plans for new criminal provisions against blocking access to places or worship, schools and community centres. Read More

Anyone who works Monday to Friday and is keen for a long weekend this Canada Day has likely had to do a bit of calendar juggling to cope with the ill-timed holiday. Read More

TORONTO — Artin Avaznia says he was transformed the first time he saw a group of Iranians marching in Toronto’s Pride parade. Read More

Defense Minister Israel Katz on Friday directed the IDF to formulate an enforcement plan against Iran, including steps to preserve Israel’s aerial superiority, prevent the advancement of Tehran’s nuclear and missile programs, and respond to the Islamic Republic’s support for terrorism. Read More

The Carney government is under growing pressure to drop what is known as the “EV mandate.” This is a policy first introduced in 2022 wherein Canadian auto manufacturers will be mandated to sell a minimum quantity of EVs each year until 2035, when the sale of new gas-powered cars will be banned entirely. Read More

A dual citizen of Italy and Ethiopia who brought her two Italian children to Canada more than a decade back, using aliases and falsely claiming they were Eritrean citizens subject to religious persecution, has won another chance for her family to stay here. Read More

There is a growing backlash after the RCMP announced this month it is investigating whether Canadian citizens involved with clashes in or around Israel were in contravention of this country’s Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act. Read More

Last week, Nippon Steel Corp. of Japan formally completed a takeover of U.S. Steel (USS), the venerable but diminished American industrial giant created by J.P. Morgan in 1901. The Japanese company originally placed its bid for USS in late 2023, but it ran into immediate trouble with the Biden administration. U.S. Steel, once widely regarded as an overmighty pollution-spewing relic of Gilded Age cartelization, had magically evolved to become a vulnerable “national champion” of morally superior things-making industries; and the company still has a powerful unionized workforce in U.S. rust-belt states that are electorally pivotal. Pennsylvania-born President Joe Biden wasn’t going to let a corporate brand virtually synonymous with the city of Pittsburgh be raffled off without a tussle. Read More

In 2018, the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) staff estimated the cost of air conditioning all its schools at roughly $400 million — so, nearly $500 million in 2025 dollars — plus millions more in annual maintenance and electricity bills. It described the task as “virtually impossible.” Last week, the Hamilton Wentworth District School Board (HWDSB) staff pegged the cost to air condition its own schools at $200 million, while describing the job as only “relatively impossible.” Read More

In light of the poor showing by separatist candidates in recent Alberta byelections, pundits and politicians will be tempted to again dismiss threats of western separatism as over-hyped, and too tiny to be taken seriously, just as they did before and after the April 28 federal election. Read More

Trump then announced on Friday through his Truth Social account that he was "terminating ALL discussions on Trade with Canada, effective immediately." Why? This was due to Canada's decision to introduce a "Digital Services Tax on our American Technology Companies." Trump believed the Carney Liberal government was "obviously copying the European Union" with this tax, and felt it was a "direct and blatant attack" on the U.S. Read More

EDMONTON -- An Alberta judge has put on hold a provincial law that bans doctors from providing gender-affirming care to youth. Read More

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Supreme Court's decision Friday limiting federal judges from issuing nationwide injunctions threatens to upend numerous lawsuits that have led to orders blocking Trump administration policies. Read More

The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling curbing the power of judges to block government actions on a nationwide basis has raised questions about whether dozens of orders that have halted President Donald Trump’s policies will stand. Read More

OTTAWA -- A 46-year-old man has been charged after Canada's National Holocaust Monument was vandalized earlier this month. Read More

The Ontario government announced it will be appointing supervisors to oversee four school board districts in the province after an investigation raised concerns about the financial stability of the institutions. Read More

A B.C. firefighter says he was denied entry into the United States, where he was going to take part in a competition for First Responders from different countries around the world. Read More

OTTAWA — U.S. President Donald Trump announced Friday he is putting an end to trade discussions with Canada and slapping new tariffs within the next seven days in reaction to the federal government’s digital services tax (DST) coming into force next week. Read More

“Death to America” has been the defining chant of the Islamic Republic of Iran since 1979, when radical Shi’ite clerics overthrew the ruling Pahlavi monarchy. Read More

A non-binary Ontario resident's years-long battle for a publicly funded, out-of-country surgery to have a vagina surgically created while maintaining a penis is over. Read More

The sky itself is no limit for billionaire Jeff Bezos and fiancee Lauren Sanchez, who have traveled into space -- and expectations are just about as high for their wedding in Venice. Read More

There is a burning mass of hydrogen and helium, with core temperatures of up to 15 million C, blasting radiation across cities and towns in Canada. Read More

OTTAWA — Canada’s cyberintelligence agency doesn’t just go after violent extremist group leaders’ computers and networks, it also attacks their reputation, credibility and trustworthiness to undermine them, according to a new report.  Read More

A 70-year-old man has been deported from the United States after kicking a U.S. Customs and Border Protection dog at an airport in the Washington, D.C. area on Tuesday. Read More

Oslo police on Friday announced charges against Marius Borg Høiby, the eldest son of Norway's crown princess, on multiple counts including rape, sexual assault and bodily harm after a months-long investigation of a case that involved a "double-digit" number of alleged victims. Read More

Ontario's alcohol and gaming regulator says a Toronto casino is facing a $350,000 fine after a performer hosted an impromptu party on the gaming floor following a concert marked by "widespread intoxication, disorderly behaviour" and numerous incidents. Read More

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Anna Wintour is stepping down as Vogue editor-in-chief but will retain editorial control over the storied magazine. Read More

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- Six Americans were detained Friday in South Korea for trying to send 1,600 plastic bottles filled with rice, miniature Bibles, $1 bills and USB sticks toward North Korea by sea, police said. Read More

Our cookbook of the week is Made By Marcus, Made By You by Marcus Purtzki, the Calgary-based owner and operator of Made By Marcus, an ice cream shop with soon-to-be seven locations in Alberta. Read More

October 7th, 2023, was the most defining moment for Israel since the Holocaust. For a generation two or three times removed from the Shoah, the horrors of that day shattered the illusion of safety. It was not just a brutal terrorist attack — it was an existential wake-up call. Read More

Formula One racing is, depending on your vantage, either an exciting, adrenaline-fuelled sporting event that brings together humans and machines at the pinnacle of performance perfection or a bloody waste of time. F1: The Movie can be seen in the same way. Read More