Flames roared through an assisted-living facility in Massachusetts, killing nine people and trapping residents inside, including some who were hanging out of windows screaming for help, authorities said Monday. At least 30 people were hurt. Read More

The CEO of TikTok is asking Industry Minister Melanie Joly for an urgent meeting about the federal government's order directing the company to shut down its Canadian operations. Read More

A small plane crashed shortly after takeoff Sunday at London Southend Airport, which was closed until further notice, officials and witnesses said. No information on any casualties was immediately available. Read More

Two major commercial pilots' associations have rejected claims human error caused an Air India crash that killed 260 people after a preliminary investigation report found the plane's engine fuel switches had been turned off. Read More

Police say they are looking for a group of migrants who were inside a vehicle that collided near the Canada-U.S. border in southern Quebec. Read More

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A “cascade of preventable failures” within the U.S. Secret Service nearly cost President Donald Trump his life during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania last year, according to a Senate committee report released Sunday. Read More

President Donald Trump prides himself on being a dealmaker, but his negotiating style is more ultimatum than compromise. Read More

Mexico is projecting confidence that it will fend off a new set of 30 per cent tariffs that President Donald Trump threatened Saturday to impose next month, with talks already underway to avert the worst. Read More

The European Union will suspend retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods scheduled to take effect Monday in hopes of reaching a trade deal with the Trump administration by the end of the month. Read More

Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says the economy is becoming the primary focus of Canada's relationships in the Indo-Pacific — a shift that appears linked to Canada's recent moves to overcome its security dispute with India. Read More

Don Cherry said his departure from Hockey Night in Canada in 2019 was not an orchestrated “exit strategy” related to health concerns, as was recently suggested by Ron MacLean, his ex-longtime on-air partner. Read More

Residents of a tiny rural community in eastern Ontario pressed police on Saturday for answers about a disturbing attack on a young girl that investigators believed was caused by an animal — until they arrested a teenager in the case. Read More

Brent Secondiak served as a front-line cop in the southern Alberta city of Medicine Hat for 25 years, and understands the futility of dismantling homeless encampments and otherwise dislodging itinerants who decide to bunk down in public spaces. Read More

As Canada ramps up defence spending in an effort to meet its NATO commitments, a pollster suggests the military may struggle to find the people it needs. According to a new Angus Reid Institute poll, just under half of Canadians say they’d be willing to serve if war broke out, and younger adults were the least likely to say they would volunteer. Read More

Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow believes that her city will suffer no consequences for reneging on an agreement with the federal government. The city was supposed to amend zoning rules to allow sixplexes as of right across the city in exchange for federal funding, and is refusing, but the mayor doesn't think Ottawa will pull its subsidy. This despite the fact that Prime Minister Mark Carney’s first housing minister, Nate Erskine-Smith, already told the city that the federal government would claw back 25 per cent of roughly $120 million if the city didn’t approve the measure. Read More

The CBC didn’t become broken overnight. For decades, concerns were quietly raised about bias, lack of viewpoint diversity, and leadership more focused on an agenda than journalism. Read More

Forty years ago today — July 13, 1985 — everyone who was anyone in the music world was at Live Aid, the benefit concert for Ethiopian famine relief. Not everyone, to be precise. The two biggest stars of 1985, Michael Jackson and Bruce Springsteen, took a pass. But everyone else was there — from the legends Mick Jagger and Paul McCartney to the then-new stars, Madonna and U2 and Bryan Adams. Read More

Canadian observers are mistaken when they seize upon Donald Trump’s attack on DEI in American universities as support for its place in their university policies. Their disdain for Trump obscures underlying issues about the impact of DEI in academic decision-making. Read More

Re: Boycotting U.S. has had little effect so far — Philip Cross, July 9 Read More

FREDERICTON — Daniel Oliker held a 33-year-old puffin from Machias Seal Island in his hands and was in awe about how it was a decade older than him. It felt like he was holding a world of knowledge and history in that puff ball of black and white feathers. Read More