A new report from Statistics Canada says just over two-thirds, or 68 per cent, of Canadian household are reporting use of air conditioning or cooling systems such as heat pumps to beat the heat of summer. That's up from 64 per cent in 2021. Read More

The Conservative party is calling for a parliamentary committee to investigate the CBC after journalist Travis Dhanraj resigned over the public broadcaster's alleged “performative diversity, tokenism, a system designed to elevate certain voices and diminish others." Read More

July is the start of the fiscal year for the Ontario Trillium Benefit (OTB), which means those who are registered and qualified to receive it should be seeing a deposit in their bank accounts on Thursday, July 10. Read More

This week, Ontario Provincial Police arrested four men and charged them with stealing copper wire from 33 decommissioned hydro police that were cut down in a rural region in northern Ontario. Read More

OTTAWA — The David Suzuki Foundation has repeatedly used false and alarmist imagery to exaggerate the ecological impacts of natural gas development in northeastern British Columbia, a new complaint to Canada's Competition Bureau alleges. Read More

Red Deer Minor Hockey says it is conducting an internal investigation after a video surfaced showing one of its coaches, former NHL player Nick Tarnasky, involved in a fight at a golf course. Read More

This past Monday, Travis Dhanraj, the host of CBC’s Canada Tonight, resigned in dramatic fashion when he circulated an all-staff email across the CBC accusing the broadcaster of “performative diversity, tokenism, and a system designed to elevate certain voices and diminish others.” Read More

Despite journalist Travis Dhanraj's very public resignation from CBC, the national broadcaster says that he is an employee. Read More

A teenager who died in a house fire in Missouri two weeks after beating cancer has left the family and local fire authorities "heartbroken." Read More

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company said Wednesday that it's taking down "inappropriate posts" made by its Grok chatbot, which appeared to include antisemitic comments that praised Adolf Hitler. Read More

The airport in the northern Italian city of Bergamo briefly suspended flights Tuesday due to a runway incident that local media said involved someone running onto the tarmac, getting sucked into an airport engine and dying. Read More

There has been a nationwide effort among Canadians to buy local and travel domestically this year, as a strained relationship with the United States continues. And now, a new report is suggesting that the number of Canadians interested in U.S. real estate has declined. Read More

In a fit of blatant intimidation, Donald Trump abruptly announced on June 27 that he was suspending trade talks with Canada immediately. The U.S. president also threatened to impose additional tariffs within seven days. In an interview with Fox News, he explained his decision saying, “People don’t realize Canada’s very nasty to deal with … There’s been things going on that we don’t like and things where they took advantage.” Read More

Until further notice, transgender medical treatments for minors will continue in Alberta. Read More

If Liberal MPs experience the “long hot summer” of protest that some Aboriginal activist groups have promised in response to the federal government’s new major-projects legislation, they won’t be feeling that heat anywhere close to Parliament Hill. Read More

LONDON -- French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday urged Britain to stick close to its neighbours despite its exit from the European Union, saying France and the U.K. will "save Europe" by standing for democracy, law and international order in a dangerous world. Read More

TORONTO -- The number of homeless people in Toronto has more than doubled between the spring of 2021 and last fall, a newly released survey showed. Read More

WASHINGTON -- As U.S. President Donald Trump pursues his global trade war and talk of annexation, a new poll suggests the percentage of Canadians who view the United States as a top threat has tripled since 2019. Read More

The U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is easing off the policy requiring travellers to take their shoes off for separate scanning while going through the airport security. Read More

One of the results of the Liberals’ long-unexpected election win earlier this year is that the issue of CBC’s future immediately came off the boil — and it wasn’t even all that big of an issue during the campaign, despite Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s unambiguous promise to defund CBC’s English-language operations entirely. Travis Dhanraj, a balanced and energetic reporter and until recently host of CBC's Canada Tonight, who mysteriously vanished from CBC’s airwaves earlier this year, dropped a bomb this week that could bring the issue back to life very quickly, and perhaps very usefully. Read More