In addition to hearts and lungs, wildfire smoke may mess with the human brain, emerging research suggests. Read More

OTTAWA — An acquittal is the appropriate outcome for a British Columbia woman whose conviction in the drowning death of a toddler was set aside two years ago, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled. Read More

A new bill introduced in the House of Commons is offering a way for some to obtain Canadian citizenship. Read More

The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is asking the public for tips on hospitals or practitioners who are performing “gender-affirming” surgeries on minors. It’s illegal, and it’s mutilation, says the FBI. Read More

A new study reveals what drinking tea and eating dark chocolate and berries did for a group of more than 120,000 people. Read More

Hla Wynn was looking forward to his annual trip to New York this summer, eager to spend time with family and help his brother recover from surgery. But the retired college professor said his long-standing plans are on hold until further notice now that U.S. President Donald Trump has announced a travel ban on residents of more than a dozen countries, including his birthplace of Myanmar. Read More

Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew says the province is playing the waiting game as it looks to get thousands of wildfire evacuees into hotels. Read More

Against a backdrop of fresh talk of Alberta separation and the constant spectre of Quebec’s sovereignty movement, a new national opinion poll found that most Canadians say breaking up will be hard to do. Read More

OTTAWA — An organization representing Sikh Canadians is expressing shock over Prime Minister Mark Carney's invitation to India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who confirmed on Friday he would be attending the G7 meeting in Alberta this month. Read More

Six weeks before UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was gunned down outside a Manhattan hotel in December, suspect Luigi Mangione mused about rebelling against "the deadly, greed fueled health insurance cartel" and said killing the executive "conveys a greedy bastard that had it coming," prosecutors revealed Wednesday. Read More

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s first major piece of legislation certainly offers the appearance of change. Whether it will actually deliver, well, that’s less certain. Read More

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney said his government will “do everything" to pass its “One Canadian Economy” legislation before the start of the summer break. If it fails, he said MPs might have to sit over the summer to get it adopted. Read More

As President Donald Trump and Elon Musk argued on social media on Thursday, the world's richest man threatened to decommission a space capsule used to take astronauts and supplies to the International Space Station. Read More

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Our cookbook of the week is Lugma by Bahrain-born, London-based cook, author and recipe developer Noor Murad. Read More

Vancouver police say it's a "miracle" no one was injured after a vehicle crashed into the Pacific Coliseum arena on Thursday evening. Read More

Russia bombarded six regions of Ukraine in one of its largest aerial attacks of the three-year war, Ukrainian officials said Friday. The nighttime assault lasted for hours and killed three emergency responders in the capital Kyiv, according to authorities. Read More

Some Manitoba residents who have taken refuge in Niagara Falls, Ont., after fleeing wildfires raging in their province say they're grateful for the hospitality but worry they won't have a home to return to once the flames die down. Read More

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This week, John Ivison discussed the Carney government’s plans for nation-building projects with Dr. Heather Exner-Pirot, a senior advisor for the Business Council of Canada. Read More

Last week on these very pages, I wrote that Canadian media — with the notable exception of the National Post — either refuses to report the truth or deliberately distorts facts about Gaza and the Middle East. I warned that this climate of misinformation, coupled with our government’s tolerance of radical Islamist narratives, would lead to violence. Tragically, I was right. Read More

Elon Musk and Donald Trump had been inseparable for some time now. Read More

The Canadian Medical Association (CMA) has launched a legal challenge to Alberta’s recent ban on puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for youth under 16 who identify as transgender. The CMA argues that Alberta's Bill 26, enacted in December last year, violates physicians’ Charter right to freedom of conscience. This raises a pertinent question: If a doctor is compelled by conscience to subject vulnerable youth to unproven treatments despite growing evidence of harm, should governments intervene to protect patients? Read More

WASHINGTON -- Governments of 12 countries whose citizens will be banned from visiting the United States beginning next week scrambled on Thursday to understand President Donald Trump's latest move to resurrect a hallmark policy of his first term. Read More

MONTREAL -- The founder of Montreal's Just for Laughs festival broke his silence on Thursday about sexual assault allegations, accusing reporters of denying him justice as he emerged from a second day on the stand at a civil trial. Read More

OTTAWA -- A national coalition of civil society groups says the Liberal government's new border security bill poses a serious risk to liberties and human rights. Read More

OTTAWA -- Ottawa is reviewing its spending "from top to bottom" as Canada's closest allies call on Canada to hike defence spending to levels not seen since the height of the Cold War, Defence Minister David McGuinty said Thursday. Read More

A shocking mass shooting inside a Toronto pub in March, when three masked men shot wildly into the crowd during the establishment’s grand opening, is linked to an ongoing tow truck turf war that included other shootings and a robbery, Toronto police said when announcing charges against 11 people. Read More

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney is directly involved in the negotiations with U.S. President Donald Trump for a new trade and security deal in exchange for the lifting of all tariffs on Canadian goods — in particular the crippling levies on steel and aluminum. Read More

Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s alliance took off like one of SpaceX’s rockets. It was supercharged and soared high. And then it blew up. Read More

Less than two weeks after becoming a non-affiliated member of Canada’s Senate, New Brunswick Sen. David Adams Richards elected to join the Conservative Party of Canada’s caucus in Parliament’s Upper House this week. Read More

OTTAWA — Meili Faille couldn't believe her ears when she heard the news. Marc Garneau, the first Canadian to have visited space, was preparing to run against her in the 2006 election. Read More

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney's Liberal government used an obscure parliamentary maneuver to sidestep its first major test of confidence on Wednesday, adopting its reply to the throne speech by division. Read More

Halifax's "little ball of hate" delivered free donairs to about 1,500 people Wednesday night. Read More

Ontario Premier Doug Ford says Prime Minister Mark Carney is in "deep, deep discussions" on trade with U.S. President Donald Trump. Read More

Sex confirmation testing results for Olympic gold medalist Imane Khelif, an Algerian who has racked up numerous medals defeating women in boxing, were leaked Sunday. The results proved what many around the world already suspected — that Khelif is a biological male who had no business being in a boxing ring with women, and a letter on a passport won't change that. Read More

It is a measure of the man that in a world where values, virtue, and self-sacrifice seem anachronistic, Marc Garneau embodied them. Read More

Ontario Premier Doug Ford has done something truly conservative. His government’s proposed rule changes for colleges, universities and school boards are aimed squarely at shifting power away from the diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) crowd and weakening their control over education. Read More

Shoppers at Loblaw Cos. Ltd.'s stores will soon no longer be able to get a coffee fix by purchasing Folgers-brand products after a pricing dispute prompted the grocer to pull them from its shelves. Read More

It's been 49 years since Martha Stewart left Wall Street, and the lifestyle maven is as influential as ever. According to the 2025 Pinterest Summer Report, the "Martha Stewart aesthetic" is poised to take over, with searches up 2,889 per cent on the platform. From her vegetable garden (+72 per cent) to dinner recipes (+45 per cent) and chicken coop (+22 per cent), Stewart continues to inspire. Read More