U.S. popstar Taylor Swift announced her 12th album, titled "The Life of a Showgirl," for "pre pre-order" just after midnight Tuesday in posts on her website. Read More

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The questions came fast to the mayor of the nation's capital, many of them designed to get her to say something harsh about Donald Trump — in particular, the president's freshly announced plan to take over the Metropolitan Police Department and call in the National Guard. Read More

Almost half of Canadians believe the federal government is providing the right amount of support to Ukraine in the war against Russia, while 14 per cent think Canada is not supportive enough, according to a new poll. Read More

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There are dozens of quotes on the lessons of history and the consequences of failing to learn from it. They generally conclude that while history is a valuable teacher, people make unreliable students. It's one the less appealing elements of human nature, one we have a very uneven record of addressing. Read More

History’s tragedies are not always found in what happened. Sometimes they lie in what could have been — visions abandoned, possibilities squandered, peace betrayed not by inevitability, but by choice. Read More

VANCOUVER -- On Monday, members of the Cowichan Nation praised elders and those who have gone before them as they celebrated victory in a years-long legal fight to reclaim land on the Fraser River used by their ancestors as a summer home in what is now the Metro Vancouver municipality of Richmond, B.C. Read More

New York -- A federal judge on Monday rejected the Trump administration's request to unseal grand jury transcripts from the criminal case against Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted accomplice of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Read More

OTTAWA -- A panel of three Ontario Court of Appeal judges unanimously affirmed the constitutionality of Canada's first-past-the-post electoral system in a ruling released on Monday. Read More

The RCMP is introducing a drone corridor along part of the Canada-U.S. border in an effort to boost security. Read More

MANILA, Philippines -- A Chinese navy vessel collided with one from its own coast guard while chasing a Philippine patrol boat in the South China Sea on Monday, Manila said, releasing dramatic video footage of the confrontation. Read More

An Ottawa man who served in Afghanistan helping the Canadian Armed Forces during its NATO mission is begging the prime minister and the immigration minister to help save his sister and nephew from the Taliban’s imminent revenge. Read More

Air Canada flight attendants were planning to picket at airports in four major Canadian cities on Monday in what the union is calling a national day of action. Read More

A Jewish advocacy group released a report on Monday with recommendations to depoliticize Ontario classrooms. It called on the ministry of education to build a curriculum based on achievement, rather than identity. Read More

OTTAWA — More than half of Canadians think the size and cost of the federal public service should be reduced in the coming years, a new Leger poll suggests. Read More

On Thursday, a B.C. superior court judge gave at least half a billion dollars’ worth of government land in an 800-acre zone in southeast Richmond to the Cowichan First Nation, and lit a fuse that could lead to the obliteration of private landowners’ legal title in the area. Read More

An iconic French brand dating back more than 160 years, Perrier's reputation has been rocked by a scandal. Last year, a joint investigation by Le Monde and Radio France revealed that at least a third of the country’s mineral water brands — including Perrier, Contrex, Vittel and Hépar, owned by Nestlé Waters — had been illegally treated. Read More

Canadians are overwhelmingly in favour of mandatory national service for young adults but are less united about what form that service should take, a new survey has found. Read More

Helsinki — The captain and two senior officers of a ship believed to belong to Russia's so-called shadow fleet have been charged with sabotage for cutting five Baltic Sea cables in December, Finnish prosecutors said Monday. Read More

President Donald Trump said Monday that he's deploying the National Guard across Washington and taking over the city's police department in the hopes of reducing crime, even as the city's mayor has noted that crime is falling in the nation's capital. Read More

Road trips to the U.S. decreased for a seventh straight month as Canadians ramped up their American boycott. Read More

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