A 10-year-old New Brunswick girl suffered an apparent seizure after buying, and quickly gulping back, two large energy drinks, terrifying her family and spurring calls for a federal ban on the sale of the caffeinated beverages to minors. Read More

Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow professes herself perplexed as to the motivation behind a petty, mean, cowardly thief stealing sacred scrolls from the doors of Jewish seniors. Read More

Frank Gehry, the greatest star in the firmament of starchitects, searched for transcendence. Gehry, who died on Friday at age 96, was born in Toronto but moved with his family to Los Angeles at age 18 and remained there the rest of his life. Read More

The struggling food bank has been a recurring motif in the news in recent weeks. Food aid agencies across the country are presenting various regional hunger reports to the public, and the results are consistently depressing: usage is higher than ever, donations are down and “we don’t know how we’re going to keep up.” Read More

WINNIPEG — Maintaining a Jewish identity demands time, spirit and energy: connecting with millennia worth of history, studying the traditions, passing them to our children and contributing to the wider society while never abandoning who we are. Yet in the midst of all this, Jews are constantly forced on the defensive, fending off attacks from all sides. The latest example: the Canadian Museum for Human Rights' (CMHR) plan to open a new exhibit called "Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present." Read More

Eileen Higgins won Miami’s mayoral runoff, beating a candidate backed by President Donald Trump while becoming the first woman ever and the first Democrat in nearly three decades to lead the city. Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump said people were “starting to learn” the benefits of his tariff regime as he sought to convince voters his administration was moving to address affordability concerns, taking to the road in hopes of countering a mounting political vulnerability. Read More

Canada on Tuesday launched a $1.7 billion program to recruit leading global researchers, part of the effort to poach intellectual talent looking to leave the United States because of President Donald Trump's policies. Read More

Indigenous artifacts taken from Canada by Catholic missionaries to Rome a century ago were unveiled at the Canadian Museum of History on Tuesday, repatriations that have sparked calls for the Vatican to return other treasured items. Read More

Canada’s ambassador to Washington is preparing to leave office, and Prime Minister Mark Carney is considering a former BlackRock Inc. senior executive for the job ahead of crucial trade talks with the U.S. and Mexico. Read More

A Chinese-born Canadian citizen who lives in Mississauga, Ont., was arrested in Virginia by the FBI and charged with trying to smuggle restricted high-tech Nvidia computer chips used in AI processing to China Read More

There are certain phrases that properly arouse immediate suspicion. “The dog did it,” for example. “Trump apologizes.” Or, “Jean Chrétien declines to talk about himself.” The latter is in play because the former Liberal prime minister has declined to appear before a parliamentary committee to discuss certain rather unsavoury directives he might have given his immigration minister in 1995 with an eye to winning the Quebec independence referendum. Read More

Who wouldn’t want to find Margaret Atwood under the tree on Christmas morning? Read More

A politician’s worst nightmare is to be thought of as yesterday’s breakfast by voters. When prime minister, Mark Carney, signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on energy development with the premier of Alberta two weeks ago, federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre was made to look as relevant to the big issue of the day as the leader of the NDP. Read More

French prosecutors have indicted a 42-year-old Algerian woman for allegedly trying to poison the Jewish family that had employed her, Le Parisien newspaper reported on Monday. Read More

It's not exactly something to brag about, but Toronto leads the nation with the title of "rattiest" city, according to Orkin Canada. Read More

At the FIFA World Cup draw in Washington, D.C., on Friday, American, Canadian and Mexican leaders smiled together in a tableau of hemispheric partnership. But imperial strategy rarely announces itself at press conferences — it announces itself in doctrine. Read More

Mark Carney talked about his memorable Washington trip and how it was the first time he didn't dance to Y.M.C.A. The quip came during a conversation hosted by Ottawa Mayor Mark Sutcliffe on Monday where the prime minister spoke about new government initiatives. Read More

The latest annual report from real estate company Royal LePage is forecasting a modest hike in home prices of one per cent by the fourth quarter of 2026. But that overall figure is hiding a significant drop in two of Canada's most expensive cities, Toronto and Vancouver. Read More

The battle over Bill C-9, the federal government’s proposed anti-hate law, has blown up a cultural divide that not only pits Quebec against the rest of Canada, but seriously questions Ottawa’s willingness to tackle hate crimes. If Prime Minister Mark Carney gets the balance wrong, he risks both empowering hatemongers and fanning the flames of Quebec separatism — at a time when national unity is more crucial than ever. Read More

OTTAWA — After a week of delays and uncertainty, the Liberals say a deal is back on the rails with the Bloc Québécois to remove religious exemptions from Canada’s hate-speech laws in exchange for support to help pass the government's bill targeting hate and terror symbols. Read More

The U.S. authorities released two photos of former Canadian Olympian Ryan Wedding, alleged to be the leader of a violent narco cartel on Monday. Read More

A federal judge in New York ruled that the Department of Justice can release grand jury materials from the criminal prosecution of Ghislaine Maxwell. Read More

OTTAWA — Federal Justice Minister Sean Fraser tabled a new crime bill on Tuesday, seeking to stiffen punishments for offences committed against children and women, while also proposing to restore mandatory minimum sentences for a slew of offences.  Read More