President Donald Trump is demolishing the entire East Wing of the White House to build a ballroom at the property, he said Wednesday, in a move exceeding the original scope of the project and prompting controversy over the extent of the construction. Read More

OTTAWA — A schism opened between two of the top contenders in the NDP leadership race on Wednesday night, as Avi Lewis jabbed rival Heather McPherson over her use of a term he says has right-wing roots. Read More

The Trump administration announced sanctions on Russia’s biggest oil producers, rolling out its first major package of financial punishments on President Vladimir Putin’s economy as part of a fresh bid to end to the war in Ukraine. Read More

A woman who was fatally shot in a parking lot in Brampton, Ont., on Tuesday has been identified by her family as Savannah Kulla, aged 29. Meanwhile, the suspect in the murder, Anthony Deschepper, died early Wednesday after an interaction with police officers at a gas station in Niagara Falls. Read More

A U.S. missionary working for evangelical Christian organization SIM has been abducted in Niger's capital Niamey, officials said Wednesday. Read More

OTTAWA — NDP leadership candidate Rob Ashton says that he'd be open to lifting the federal moratorium on coastal tanker traffic as prime minister, if he saw clear support for shipping heavy oil through British Columbia's northern coast. Read More

They were two young women from out of town. They were shot dead at an Airbnb in small-town Ontario in mysterious circumstances. A Scarborough rapper is now on trial for the double murder. Read More

Many months into a trade war brought on by tariffs and economic threats brought on by U.S. President Donald Trump and his administration, Canadian consumers have continued to fight back by supporting and promoting a “buy Canadian” movement. Read More

Before it wrapped last year, Blue Bloods star Donnie Wahlberg didn’t want his time on the popular cop drama to end. Read More

Berlin -- The German company that made the furniture hoist used in the Louvre heist has been taking advantage of the scandal to promote the device, posting tongue-in-cheek adverts about the quality of its equipment. Read More

OTTAWA — With its next budget just a couple of weeks away, the Liberal government has received a lousy report card from a leading think tank for poor fiscal accountability. Read More

A five-year-old girl who fell overboard on a Disney cruise ship in June had been posing on a railing in an open porthole at the behest of her mother, a Florida police report published in mid-October revealed. Read More

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre sought on Wednesday to insert further clarity into comments he made about the RCMP, denying that he suggested the scandals that plagued former prime minister Justin Trudeau should have led to jail time.  Read More

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with U.S. Vice-President JD Vance at his Jerusalem office on Wednesday morning, the second day of Vance’s visit to the Jewish state. Read More

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney is busy meeting with opposition leaders on Wednesday to discuss the upcoming federal budget as Liberal MPs urge opposition parties to support the government's agenda. Read More

(Bloomberg) — Russia launched multiple drone and missile strikes on Ukraine as the latest peace attempts by U.S. President Donald Trump appeared to be floundering. Read More

The maker of the world's most popular chatbot, ChatGPT, launched a web browser this week that promises to make surfing the internet smarter. In exchange, ChatGPT Atlas wants permission to watch and remember everything you do online. Read More

Tens of thousands of people who received or were approved for dental care courtesy of the federal government’s highly touted plan were not eligible, Health Canada announced Tuesday. Read More

From Darfur to Donbas, growing numbers of Colombian soldiers-for-hire are leaving their South American home to fight and die in foreign wars, placing Colombia’s mercenaries at the centre of intense controversy at home and abroad. Read More

OTTAWA — Canada’s financial intelligence agency has imposed its largest penalty ever on a Vancouver cryptocurrency company for failing to report suspicious financial transactions suspected of being connected to laundering money from trafficking in child sexual abuse material, fraud, ransomware payments and evading sanctions. Read More

OTTAWA — A Canadian organization focused on combatting the spread of child sex abuse images says a new analysis has found the presence of such images in a dataset used to train AI models. Read More

On Monday, Alberta Conservative House Leader Joseph Schow mentioned to reporters that the province’s government has legislation in the works to protect the Alberta electoral system from the shenanigans of the Longest Ballot Committee (LBC). That’s the protest group that has been flooding some federal election ballots with spurious candidates — most recently in the federal riding of Battle River-Crowfoot, where Elections Canada had to desperately improvise an all-new write-in system after the LBC persuaded more than 200 people to contest an August by-election. Read More

Alberta’s top court has quashed the contempt conviction for a Crown attorney who ran afoul of a justice of the peace who wouldn't listen to him at a bail hearing. Read More

On Oct. 10, a U.S.-brokered peace deal, backed by Egypt and Qatar, was signed by representatives of Israel and Hamas in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, though fragile ever since, came into effect. Read More