BEIJING -- North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Russia's Vladimir Putin are expected to flank President Xi Jinping at a massive parade in Beijing on Wednesday morning, in a historic moment capping a week of diplomatic grandstanding against the West. Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday dismissed social media rumours that have swirled about his health — including that he had died — as "fake news" during a press conference at the White House. Read More

What do you do when you recognize the village doctor’s vehicle pulled over on the side of the road? You stop to see if he needs help of course. When you find out he’s trying to build a mountain bike trail with all the wrong tools, you head back to your house to get some tools and start helping — even though you don’t own a mountain bike and you’re pretty sure this is a harebrained idea. Read More

British Columbia's top court has substituted a five-year prison sentence for house arrest for a Langley man caught with nearly $250,000 worth of ecstasy and fentanyl after his luxury car was seized as "an instrument of illegal activity." Read More

OTTAWA — Prospective federal NDP leadership candidates will have to raise $100,000 and amass 500 signatures from members — most of which cannot come from cisgender men — to be officially in the running, according to rules that were released on Tuesday. Read More

It is an almost immutable law of politics that as a leader’s reputation flourishes abroad, it deteriorates at home. Read More

Ontario Premier Doug Ford is reacting angrily to news of the closure of a plant that bottles Crown Royal, pouring out a bottle at a press conference and encouraging others to dump the whisky as well. Read More

It is hardly surprising, in the year 2025, to see a public figure strung up — figuratively, thank goodness — for something he didn’t quite say or mean. If cinema is “a machine that creates empathy,” as critic Roger Ebert once said, then social media is something like the opposite: a machine for grinding people into the radioactive dust of their own presumed worst intentions. Read More

Canadian author Margaret Atwood penned a satirical short story "suitable" for teens over the weekend in response to the Edmonton school board following a government directive to crack down on sexually explicit material for students. The directive was paused Tuesday afternoon. Read More

Mark Carney’s been busy these past few months, hosting the G7, pursuing foreign trade pacts, and talking with Trump on the telephone. But instead of a reset, he’s had a summer of discontent, putting us back at square one with the Americans and facing a host of challenges for the fall.  Read More

An Air Canada flight from Denver to Toronto was forced to return to Denver International Airport on Sunday morning after reports of an "acrid smell" due to a possible electrical fire in a galley area. Read More

A 46-year-old father killed in Vaughan, Ont., was shot dead in front of his wife and children after he tried to protect them during a home invasion Sunday morning. Read More

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is on track to gain access to controversial spyware designed to hack phones and read private messages after the Trump administration jettisoned a Biden-era order. Read More

Graham Greene, who was Oscar-nominated for his role in Dances with Wolves and was appointed a member of the Order of Canada, has died at the age of 73. Read More

Police in Toronto say they are looking for a man believed to have thrown a bicycle off a bridge and onto one of the city's busiest expressways. Read More

The tragic deaths of teens who died by suicide after forming intimate relationships with AI chatbots — interactions their parents allege pushed their children over the edge — are raising warnings about how validating, nonjudgmental and uncannily lifelike bots have become. Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — At a steel plant in Pennsylvania in May, U.S. President Donald Trump promised workers a new era of domestic steel production. Read More

JNF Canada President Nathan Disenhouse told National Post that the newly founded Friends of JNF Canada will lead the charge for now. Read More

It's tomato season and Lidia is harvesting on farms in California's Central Valley. Read More

Pope Leo XIV met Monday with one of the most prominent advocates for greater LGBTQ+ inclusion in the Catholic Church and encouraged his ministry, sending a strong signal of welcome in the early months of his pontificate. Read More

A 25-year-old man who police allege forced his way into a home during the night in Welland, Ont., and violently sexually assaulted a toddler inside has been arrested and charged — and neighbours and friends say they are outraged that the man had been released from jail in March from a previous child sex offence. Read More

Fierce Mediterranean winds forced a Gaza-bound flotilla carrying humanitarian aid and hundreds of activists, including environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg, to return to Barcelona, organizers said on Monday. Read More

John Hutton starts every White House portrait with an egg-shaped frame. Read More