Canadian psychologist, best-selling author and media commentator Jordan Peterson is taking time off for medical reasons, according to his daughter. Read More

The 911 calls started pouring in to Montreal police ​around 4:40 p.m. Friday, as the Jewish shabbat neared: A man wearing a long white robe and a keffiyeh-style headscarf was threatening people on a residential street in the city's Saint-Laurent borough. Read More

OTTAWA — The federal government is intervening to resolve a labour dispute between Air Canada and the union representing flight attendants. Read More

KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will meet Monday in Washington with U.S. President Donald Trump, who has shifted to saying an overall peace agreement — and not a ceasefire — is the next step in ending the 3 1/2-year-old war. Read More

Passengers around the world are feeling the effects after the union representing more than 10,000 flight attendants with Air Canada announced its members were walking off the job after it was unable to reach an eleventh hour deal with the airline. Read More

More than 1,000 entertainment leaders have signed an open letter released by the non-profit entertainment industry organization Creative Community For Peace (CCFP) critiquing how the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) handled the film, The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue. Read More

Friday was host to a much-anticipated summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin. Held in Anchorage, Alaska, the idea was to “set the table” for a tripartite summit with Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyy and a possible end to the Russia-Ukraine War. Read More

TULSA, OKLAHOMA — Over the past few weeks, my inbox has been flooded with frightened and heartbreaking messages from Canadian Jews. Many are scared and looking for ways out of Canada, telling deeply personal stories of fear, marginalization, and hopelessness. Read More

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Whatever happened in the Trump-Putin meeting, just after this column was written, we are finally getting close to the only satisfactory end to the awful Ukraine war. President Donald Trump deserves credit for being the only western statesman who audibly made the point that the West had two objectives in this war. Of course, Russia could not be permitted to occupy and reabsorb Ukraine. If it had done so, it would in one stroke have regained the largest single piece of what it had lost in its total defeat in the Cold War, which caused the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the collapse of international communism, (and the realignment of the left of the world as spontaneous environmental militants attacking capitalism from a new angle in the name of saving the planet). Ukraine is next to Russia itself the largest and most strategically important component of the former USSR. Apart from being a strategic disaster and a terrible injustice to Ukraine, the Russian conquest of Ukraine would have exposed the Western Alliance as a paper tiger that no aggressive state need take seriously. Read More

Last week, while visiting the U.K., United States Vice-President JD Vance warned Foreign Secretary David Lammy that his country’s government shouldn’t proceed down the “very dark path” of restricting speech. This week, the U.S. State Department released its latest reports on human rights practices around the world, calling out several European countries, particularly France, Germany, and the U.K., for “serious restrictions on freedom of expression” as well as growing antisemitic violence.   Read More

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VICTORIA -- A British Columbia legislator said he went from "disappointed" to "enraged" after receiving a pitch from a Republican state senator for Canada's four western provinces to join the United States. Read More

Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin’s summit in Alaska started with a very stage-managed opening — each leader descending from their respective airplanes, a visibly warm handshake on the tarmac. Pats on the arm. Read More

JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — President Donald Trump failed to secure an agreement from Vladimir Putin on Friday to end Russia’s war in Ukraine, falling short in his most significant move yet to stop the bloodshed, even after rolling out the red carpet for the man who started it. Read More

The federal government spent more than $170,000 to bring Canadian women and their children back to the country after they went overseas to join the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, documents show. Read More

Quick — name the five best costume designers in television. OK, the three best. Still can’t get there? We’re not surprised. There’s arguably only one costume designer who’s changed the visual language of television in the last quarter-century and become a household name in the process: Patricia Field. Read More

In the wake of a stormy stretch in Canada-U.S. relations, the Canadian view of American leadership has plummeted. Read More

VANCOUVER -- A British Columbia nurse has been suspended and fined nearly $94,000 for what a disciplinary panel said were "discriminatory and derogatory statements" about transgender people. Read More

BEIRUT -- The leader of Lebanon's terrorist group Hezbollah on Friday vowed not to disarm, saying last week's decision by the national government to remove the Iran-backed group's weapons by the end of the year serves Israel's interests. Read More

Five years into his term as Canada’s UN Ambassador, Bob Rae says it’s been an incredibly busy time fraught with crises, but that it’s also been a wonderful opportunity. Read More

An air passenger rights advocate says that customers shouldn't be afraid to enforce their own rights as a possible strike between Air Canada and its flight attendants looms ahead of the weekend. Read More

A Federal Court judge has temporarily stopped the deportation of a man from India over Ottawa's handling of health concerns by his Canadian wife who has ADHD, and financial problems his departure would cause his sister. Read More

A proposed class action lawsuit has been filed in the B.C. Supreme Court against Amazon over its Alexa technology. Read More