Hopeful news emerged on Friday with a draft list of 32 potential major infrastructure projects slated to be fast-tracked by federal authorities under the Building Canada Act. Though by no means approved, the projects are the first indication of how the Mark Carney Liberals intend to fulfil campaign pledges made in May. Read More

TORONTO -- Ontario Premier Doug Ford wants municipalities to get rid of automated speed cameras -- or else he will. Read More

Despite calling the service provided by Canada Revenue Service call centre agents “completely unacceptable” and hitting “rock bottom,” Wayne Long, secretary of state responsible for the CRA and the country’s financial institutions is reluctant to say whether there will be future cuts at the agency. Read More

Nepal's prime minister resigned Tuesday as protests against a short-lived ban on social media grew increasingly violent and expanded into broader criticism of his government and accusations of corruption among the Himalayan country's political elite. Read More

Is Mark Carney the new Jean Chrétien? Last Wednesday, Carney used the “a word” — austerity — to describe the future of Canada’s finances in the era of Trump’s tariffs. Carney had already ordered a 15 per cent cut to Ottawa’s operational spending in July, implying a downsizing of the civil service and possibly program cuts. Then on Friday, he paused Canada’s costly EV mandate while creating a $5 billion “strategic response fund” to help Canadian businesses find new markets. Read More

The mayor of Barrie, Ont., has declared a state of emergency over homeless encampments in the city, citing concerns about public safety as a justification for the decision. Read More

OTTAWA — Liberals say they're keeping a close eye on the rollout of a new Alberta law that prohibits transgender athletes from competing in female-only athletic divisions. Read More

The notion of using surgery to address chronic mental health concerns can conjure up some pretty frightening images of days gone by, when practitioners would use crude methods to remove or alter parts of people’s brains. Read More

Former Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau marked his debut in Korea in what is believed to be his first major private speaking engagement since stepping down as the Liberal leader earlier this year. Read More

Although the York Regional Police chief walked back his advice to "just comply" during a home invasion, the initial message was criticized by many, including by actors south of the border. Read More

"We can be monsters together.” Read More

The Israel Defense Forces and Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) on Tuesday carried out a targeted strike against senior members of Hamas’s leadership in Doha, Qatar. Read More

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A British Columbia man has been arrested for allegedly driving a pink toy Barbie truck down a city street while impaired. Read More

Tunisian authorities have disputed the claim by activists aboard a Gaza-bound humanitarian flotilla on Monday that one of its boats had been struck by a drone. Read More

Walking through Boston, Mass. — where I visited in August — I couldn't help but find Vancouver, B.C., on my mind. Read More

By all accounts, growing canola requires careful management: the small, shallow-planted seeds are sensitive to moisture, extreme temperatures and competition from weeds. Read More

Fascism is in the air, on television and print. We read about American progressive celebrities and academics fleeing to other countries like the United Kingdom, Ireland and Canada to exercise their notion of a free society. In her campaign, after all, Kamala Harris called Donald Trump a “president of the United States who admires dictators and is a fascist.” Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Canadian and American leaders have long touted the idea of North American energy dominance, building one of the world’s most deeply integrated energy markets, complete with cross-border pipelines and power grids. Read More

WASHINGTON — U.S. and European officials met at the U.S. Treasury Department on Monday evening to discuss various forms of economic pressure to exert on Russia, including new sanctions and tariffs on Russian oil purchases, a person familiar with the meeting told The Associated Press. Read More

A Michigan woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for her alleged role in an international smuggling conspiracy that brought migrants, including children, from Central America across the northern border into the United States. Read More

NEW YORK -- Howard Stern, the popular and highly paid radio host, returned to SiriusXM's airwaves Monday after trolling listeners into thinking he had departed his long-running show. Read More