Sean "Diddy" Combs, who is serving a four-year prison sentence for prostitution-related crimes, has asked Donald Trump for a pardon, but the U.S. president said he does not plan to grant clemency to the hip-hop star. Read More

Russia on Thursday slammed a plan for European peacekeepers to be deployed to Ukraine as "dangerous" and dubbed Kyiv and its allies an "axis of war," dousing hopes the plan could be a step towards ending the almost four-year-war. Read More

Alberta member of Parliament Garnett Genuis is claiming an attack “on free speech” after the York University Student Center (YUSC) rejected a request for him to bring his public discussion forum to the campus on Friday. Read More

Ontario Premier Doug Ford has built his political career on being in touch with the concerns of ordinary people, but is that still the case? Ford’s performance Tuesday at his first press conference of the year displayed a remarkable disconnect between his priorities and what ordinary Ontarians are telling pollsters about their own. Read More

Doug Ford said Monday that Ontarians should "stock up" on Crown Royal, as it will be pulled from the shelves of LCBO stores next month. The decision was made in response to British liquor company Diageo announcing that it would be shuttering one of its factories in Ontario and moving it to the United States. Read More

Security forces used tear gas to disperse protesters in Iran as people angered by the economic situation in the Islamic republic kept up their challenge to the authorities and the exiled opposition Thursday urged them to step up their actions. Read More

The murder trial for Damian Hudson, the man charged with fatally shooting Karolina Huebner-Makurat in front of a Toronto injection site on July 7, 2023, appeared at its outset to be the criminal justice equivalent of a foregone conclusion. Read More

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Usually, if a child swats another child with a toy dinosaur, it does not cause catastrophic injury. Read More

Less than a day after the U.S. launched air strikes against Venezuela and captured its president, U.S. President Donald Trump started spouting off about his desire to take over Greenland, highlighting the fundamental problem with his approach to foreign affairs: while many of his policies — such as imposing tariffs on China and toppling Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro — could strengthen the West and weaken its enemies, his propensity to impose equally punitive measures on friendly nations has us continually fighting among ourselves, playing right into the hands of our adversaries. Read More

The Danish people are feeling shocked, and not a little betrayed, by President Donald Trump’s threats to annex Greenland, a constituent part of the Kingdom of Denmark, says one of the country’s most senior diplomats. Read More

A New Brunswick paper mill worker fired for equating Zionists to Nazis has seen his dismissal replaced with four months of unpaid leave. Read More

On Tuesday, Albertans learned (thanks to CP’s Jack Farrell) of an interesting data point in labour’s quiet voter-recall war against the United Conservative government. In October, the Alberta assembly passed a statute ordering striking schoolteachers back to work — something that was routine throughout Canada until 2015, when the Supreme Court discovered an unwritten and previously undetected right to strike in the Charter. The back-to-work bill invoked the Charter’s notwithstanding clause, overriding the novel Charter right, in order to get schools open before autumn turned into winter. Read More

In space, no one can hear you fight. Read More

The endless stream of YouTube videos and articles about how to detach from the social media’s digital quicksand in the new year suggest a turning point: we’ve officially had it with our phones. Read More

Did the Liberal government lie about the effects of mass immigration, or simply get it wrong? It is almost certainly a heady mix of both. Canadians were told not to notice what was happening right in front of them, and they have every reason to be angry about the impact it had on their lives, most notably on affordability or the sudden emergence of shady “career” colleges in strip malls. Read More

President Donald Trump has ordered the U.S. government to pull out of 66 international organizations that the White House said “no longer serve American interests.” Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump levelled fresh criticism toward NATO, days after Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said his desired takeover of her nation’s territory of Greenland would mean the end of the military alliance. Read More

OTTAWA — With time ticking down until the Liberals launch their long-awaited "buyback" program for government-banned firearms, the federal government confirmed on Wednesday that only 25 guns were turned over as part of a test run.  Read More

The Trump administration released updated nutrition guidelines that bring back a revamped version of the food pyramid, while urging people to eat less sugar and more protein. Read More

Policing issues in the United Kingdom’s third-largest urban area wouldn’t normally interest Canadians. But Craig Guildford, chief constable of the West Midlands Police (Birmingham being the biggest city under his watch) is currently in very hot water of a sort that some Canadian police chiefs should be, perhaps, as well. A Nov. 6 Europa League soccer match between storied Birmingham club Aston Villa and storied Israeli club Maccabi Tel Aviv, which was contested in front of roughly 43,000 empty seats, has become emblematic of Jews in the U.K. essentially being punished for their own persecution. And it happens here too. Read More

The owner of a Toronto sex toy shop says the business has received two letters from the U.S. Department of War asking it to stop sending butt-plugs to its Bahrain naval base in the Persian Gulf.  Read More

OTTAWA — The federal government estimates there are nearly 2,500 businesses or people in Canada working surreptitiously on behalf of foreign states to influence local politics and governments who will need to register publicly. Read More

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer fatally shot a woman during a confrontation in Minneapolis, sparking anger from local officials over the presence of ICE agents in the city. Read More