New South Wales, home to the massacre at Sydney’s Bondi Beach last Sunday, plans to ban hateful symbols and speech, as well as provide police greater powers to remove face coverings during public gatherings. Read More

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Attacks at subway stations in Taipei on Friday involving smoke bombs and stabbings killed at least three people, the Taiwanese city's fire department said, adding that the suspect was also dead. Read More

Is it really any wonder that three Toronto men who allegedly hunted women and targeted the Jewish community were using the very same tactics as Hamas? Read More

OTTAWA -- One of the main organizers of the 2022 Freedom Convoy won't have to forfeit a long-haul truck used in the 2022 protest, following a court ruling today. Read More

The U.S. Justice Department on Friday began releasing a long-awaited cache of records from its investigations into the politically explosive case of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein -- though much of the material remained heavily redacted. Read More

Users of Toronto transit may soon be compensated if they are left waiting too long for their ride. Read More

A 77-year-old woman with advanced Alzheimer’s has been granted protection "against the likelihood of death at the hands of her husband" by the B.C. Supreme Court. Read More

A 26-year-old Toronto man has been arrested and charged with ISIS-linked terrorism offences and two other men are charged for alleged hate-motivated extremism targeting women and members of the Jewish community. Read More

Skate Canada has said that it will no longer host major events in Alberta after the province banned all males — including transgender-identifying ones — from competing in female sports. This is disgraceful: female athletes should not be used as bargaining chips in an ill-advised campaign to undermine athletic fairness and sex-based rights. Read More

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The man believed to be behind a mass shooting at Brown University that left two people dead and wounded several others has been found dead, officials announced Thursday. And the breakthrough came in the form of a tip that led investigators to a Reddit post. Read More

The Jewish community is afraid to use Uber after "disturbing reports of mistreatment and intimidation by drivers," says the founder of Canadian Women Against Antisemitism, as the rideshare company tells National Post it's in "listening mode." Read More

The Trump administration halted the U.S. green card lottery program, which it said was used by the suspect in the Brown University shooting and killing of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor. Read More

Our cookbook of the week is Bread Etc.: Recipes + Techniques for Baking with Sourdough, Yeasted Dough, Pizza Dough + More by Ontario-based chef and baker Matthew James Duffy. Read More

The most basic job of government, at all levels, is to keep citizens safe. That is twice as true when it comes to government-operated transit systems. Unfortunately, the latest national investigation into transit violence paints a troubling picture that reflects what riders in Toronto and across the country experience every single day. According to new data released in a CBC feature story, the number of reported assaults on Toronto-area transit has risen by 160 per cent since 2015. Overall, violent incidents are up 127 per cent. Read More

If Canadians want to understand why our country faces persistent tensions on questions of Indigenous rights and belonging, we must move beyond the oversimplified narrative espoused by Tom Flanagan and Mark Milke in the National Post that everyone is a settler and therefore no one has obligations to First Nations. Read More

Good news, cheese lovers. A study out of Sweden has found that eating high-fat cheese is associated with a lower risk of all forms of dementia. Read More

Well, who needs some silly old king anyway? He’s only the head of state, right? Read More

Among the hundreds of Canadian leaders I have taken to visit Auschwitz, one prevailing question always emerges: "How could this happen?" The answer is quite simple, I reply: “People chose to look the other way while bad people murdered six million Jews in Europe.”  Read More

Ten months away from a crucial provincial election, the Quebec Liberal Party (QLP) finds itself without a leader. Pablo Rodriguez, elected head of the party just last June, was forced to resign following a series of internal disputes and allegations of improprieties in the funding of his leadership campaign. For Rodriguez, a kind, affable man, this is nothing short of a tragedy. I am certain that he was unaware of the schemes devised by a few bad apples amongst his supporters. In a court of law, his innocence would be easy to establish. But this is the court of politics, where perceptions alone matter. Unfair. Cruel. Sad. Read More

The world is still reeling from the heart-rending massacre of Jews attending a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, where on Dec. 14 at least 15 people were murdered and 40 were hospitalized. The youngest fatal victim was a 10-year-old girl. Read More

OTTAWA — Canada’s largest public service union is facing at least three separate lawsuits filed by sidelined executives at its component unions, court documents show. Read More

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Officials have found the dead body of the suspected shooter in a Brown University rampage and the murder of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor in his Boston-area home. Read More