Just think of it as burl power. Burls, the outgrowths on trees caused by injury or infection, are having a moment in the design world. Proponents admire the distinctive knots and swirls in the wood that comes from them, and when fashioned into furniture, it has a smooth texture with visual complexity. Read More

OTTAWA — Foreign Minister Anita Anand says Canada's imminent recognition of Palestinian statehood does not mean the government will immediately normalize diplomatic relations with the Palestinian Authority. Read More

Canada is seeing a sharp increase in asylum-seekers entering through a border crossing between New York and the province of Quebec, as President Donald Trump’s policies drive away migrants and even some U.S. citizens. Read More

A woman travelling to Las Vegas on an American Airlines flight was restrained with duct tape after she allegedly assaulted a flight attendant. Read More

MPs returned to Ottawa this week for what’s expected to be a busy legislative session, as Mark Carney’s Liberals look to make headway on its lofty agenda. Read More

OTTAWA — With a short, 20-odd page Supreme Court submission on Wednesday, the federal government struck a match and threw it onto a pile of Constitutional gasoline that was growing for years and primed to blow. Read More

OTTAWA — Justice Minister Sean Fraser said Friday the government's new bill targeting the use of hate and terror symbols is not a "blanket ban" on any particular imagery. Read More

One of the rude awakenings of aging is the deterioration of reading vision. And with that, the daily hunt for reading glasses, which are an obvious sign a person is getting older. Read More

On the night of May 22, 1979, the prime minister of Canada was getting his three boys ready for bed. It was election day, and hours later Pierre Elliott Trudeau’s embattled Liberal government would fall to Joe Clark’s Tories — but at the moment family was priority. Read More

Summer’s embarrassment of riches is spilling over my kitchen counter — punnets of raspberries, bundles of fresh herbs, and enough garden produce to stock a farmers' market. But I’m not frantically sterilizing Mason jars for winter preserves. I’ve discovered a far more civilized way to capture this fleeting abundance: turning it all into custom craft gin. Read More

A federal judge in Florida has tossed out U.S. President Donald Trump’s $15-billion defamation lawsuit against the New York Times days after it was filed, finding the president’s lawyers failed to follow court rules requiring “short, plain, direct” claims. Read More

Paris — Painting zebra stripes on cows to fend off flies, lizards' favourite pizza toppings, and how booze helps you speak another language: these were some of the winners at the Ig Nobel prizes, which celebrate the sillier side of science. Read More

Legal manoeuvres in the Supreme Court of Canada may soon land the country in another constitutional crisis. Earlier this week, the Carney government, through Attorney General Sean Fraser, filed an intervention in the upcoming appeal on Quebec’s secularism legislation (Bill 21) at the Supreme Court. Read More

Dance is a powerful expression of culture and there was a time in Canada when it was illegal for Indigenous People to perform traditional dances. Read More

OTTAWA — Filmmaker and activist Avi Lewis entered the NDP leadership race on Friday with a populist message, promising to champion "the many" over "the money." Read More

For the first time, Mounties intend to bring in specialized cadaver dogs to search for two young children who went missing more than four months ago from their home in rural northeastern Nova Scotia. Read More

Irish rap group Kneecap says they will take legal action after being deemed "ineligible to enter" Canada. Read More

Authorities say the remains of Travis Caleb Decker, accused of killing and abandoning the bodies of three young sisters in the U.S. wilderness, have been located. Read More

Walt Disney Co. executives were scheduled to meet Thursday with suspended talk-show host Jimmy Kimmel to discuss the future of his program, according to three people with knowledge of the matter. Read More

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Our cookbook of the week is The Greek Islands Cookbook by Athens-based chef and food historian Carolina Doriti. Read More

If you type “defense.gov” into a browser to check the status of America’s military might, you’ll be redirected to “war.gov.” The country’s ability to project force around the world is again under the control of the Department of War — sort of. The return to the old name was accomplished by presidential executive order and could be undone by the next White House resident. Until then, or unless a court nixes the change, the rebranding from “Defense” to “War” will continue at great expense. The Trump administration and its recent predecessors have done much of their work through decrees issued by chief executives who have little patience for the legislative process. Read More

Prime Minister Mark Carney brings a lot of new or rare traits to the job. He's one of the richest men to take the post. He's the first to be appointed prime minister despite no prior experience of elected office. And, as is becoming clear every time he speaks French, he has an unusually poor grasp of Canada's other official language. Read More