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Last Tuesday, thousands of Israelis took to the streets, blocking highways and setting tires on fire, to pressure the government to reach a deal with Hamas. Read More

After forcing the Liberals to scrap the consumer carbon tax earlier this year, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre pledged to get rid of "carbon tax 2.0." Read More

In August, Australia’s chief spy-catcher, Mike Burgess, revealed a startling figure: foreign espionage drained the country of an astounding $12.5 billion in the past year. Read More

If you’re a fellow fan of the comedian/writer/director/producer/action star Bob Odenkirk, you might already have gone to the theatres to see him in Nobody 2, the new sequel to his surprise 2021 hit Nobody. At any rate I’m keeping one eye on the box office numbers. As much as I love Odenkirk as a performer and writer, I’m also just fascinated by his career in itself, which is … Read More

Rudy Giuliani is recovering from a fractured vertebrae and other injuries following a car crash in New Hampshire, a spokesperson for the former New York City mayor said Sunday. Read More

A Liberal MP has issued a call to action amid growing antisemitism across Canada, highlighting the recent unprovoked attack on a Jewish woman shopping for groceries in Ottawa last week. Read More

Daniel Buchardt was about seven years into a sales career when he looked around the insurance company he worked for and realized that not only did the job feel monotonous, he also wasn't very interested in it. Read More

Hamas’s chief propagandist, Hudahaifa Kahlout, or Abu Obeida, was killed in a targeted killing on Saturday by the Israel Defence Forces and the Shin Bet security agency, Defence Minister Israel Katz said on Sunday. Read More

A pig that jumped a tall fence and escaped its deadly fate at a slaughterhouse more than three decades ago captured the imagination once again on Friday after an improved statue of the rebel was unveiled in the same central Alberta city where the ham was once on the lam. Read More

A disc jockey playing alt-rock tunes on Edmonton's airwaves on a late Sunday night introduces herself and jokes about being regularly asked about firmware updates. Read More

The Houthi prime minister in Yemen, Ahmed al-Rahawi, and several of his Cabinet members were slain in an Israeli airstrike on the capital city of Sanaa on Aug. 28, the Israel Defence Forces and the Iranian-backed group confirmed on Saturday. Read More

Greta Thunberg and hundreds of other anti-Israel activists were expected to depart from Spain and other countries on Sunday in what Reuters described as the largest Gaza flotilla to date, in an attempt to break Israel’s blockade of the Strip. Read More

Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel on Saturday urged the Canadian government to “do more to eliminate evil” antisemitic crimes, speaking in the wake of the police-confirmed hate-driven stabbing of a Jewish woman in Ottawa earlier in the week. Read More

Federal public servants were less likely to call in sick to work during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, new government data shows. Read More

Taylor Swift was in the news this week. Young as she is, it has almost been twenty years since her eponymous debut album. This week’s attention though is on Bruce Springsteen, whose breakthrough album Born to Run was released fifty years ago last Monday. Read More

Prime Minister Mark Carney and the Liberals have been enjoying a political honeymoon for a while. Virtually every party, leader and government experiences this for a few months, and sometimes up to a year. The polls mostly work in their favour. Policies and ideas are usually viewed favourably. They can seemingly do no wrong in people’s eyes. Read More

Antisemitism in systemic — if allowed, it finds its way in through government complacency, apathy and ignorance, which provides activists a license to act in lawless ways. This is not something that happened overnight. It is a direct result of Australia's choice to be on the wrong side of moral history when it comes to Israel’s just war against Hamas. Read More

TILBURG, Netherlands — The southern Dutch city of Tilburg is seeing more color than usual this weekend, as thousands of redheads from all over the world gather in the Netherlands for a once-a-year festival to celebrate their flaming locks. Read More

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has audaciously claimed virtually unlimited power to bypass Congress and impose sweeping taxes on foreign products. Read More

Israel took a gamble in 2005 — staking national security, ideology, and an entire way of life on the hope of peace. Read More

Prime Minister Mark Carney is enjoying a honeymoon in the polls, as all incoming leaders deserve. Less comprehensible are the celebrations that are quite audibly in progress about all that he is accomplishing. I have even seen adulatory references to his “first hundred days,” and favourable comparisons with the beginning of the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933 when he saved the collapsed financial system and reopened the banks and stock and commodity exchanges and set up the workfare programs that provided public works and conservation jobs for the 30 per cent of the population that was without work and received no federal assistance. Obviously, we do not have a similar state of urgency in Canada today. Nor do we have a government that as far as I can see has actually done anything except announce one or two good personnel appointments and proclaim a readiness in principle to expedite some large unspecified projects. Read More