OTTAWA — The federal government’s plan to eliminate the GST on first-time homebuyers’ purchases of most new homes may actually lead to higher prices, a new report says.  Read More

Damn the torpedoes! Canada’s Liberal government is taking aim at defence — and it’s about time. Read More

A Quebec Superior Court judge has stayed criminal charges against Montreal billionaire Robert Miller. Read More

Thanks to his good looks and fancy breeding, California Gov. Gavin Newsom has done remarkably well in Democratic politics. The one-time husband of one-time Donald Trump Jr.-paramour Kimberley Guilfoyle has survived sex scandals and COVID scandals and six separate recall efforts to somehow emerge as a 2028 front-runner for his party’s presidential nomination. Read More

OTTAWA — Canada joined the United Kingdom and other allies on Tuesday in announcing sanctions against two members of Israel's government who they say have incited violence against Palestinian civilians in the West Bank. Read More

A couple in London, U.K., stole back their car after they experienced a lack of police support in recovering the stolen vehicle, the wife said in a post on LinkedIn. Read More

New to the city, I'd heard whispers of Toronto's angry birds. I'd even mocked signage on the waterfront warning me to beware their avian wrath. Read More

Canadians continued to avoid making trips to the U.S. in May, according to preliminary data from Statistics Canada. Read More

The RCMP lost a memory key containing personal information about victims, witnesses and informants, and later learned it was being offered for sale by criminals, the federal privacy watchdog says. Read More

OTTAWA — Another report, this time from Auditor General Karen Hogan, blames the federal government for repeatedly violating procurement policies by awarding dozens of contracts to the IT company that built the ArriveCan application. Read More

At least 10 people were killed in a shooting at a school in the Austrian city of Graz on Tuesday, and the suspected perpetrator also died, the city's mayor said. Read More

Israel says it has been informed that the United Kingdom will sanction two of its Cabinet ministers. Read More

Falling behind early, parading to the penalty box and losing grip of their composure, the Edmonton Oilers find themselves in an all-too-familiar position: trailing the Stanley Cup Final against the Florida Panthers. Read More

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A federal judge in New York dismissed Justin Baldoni's $400 million defamation lawsuit against Blake Lively on Monday, a significant step in the sprawling legal saga between the two "It Ends With Us" stars. Read More

A French middle school employee was stabbed to death by a 15-year-old student during a bag check Tuesday at their school east of Paris, the national gendarme service said. The student was detained. Read More

Canadian teen Summer McIntosh set her second world record in three days at the Canadian swimming trials on Monday night. Read More

Israel attacked the Houthi-controlled port of Hudaydah in Yemen on Tuesday, reportedly marking the first time that naval forces were used in an operation against the Iranian-backed terror group instead of the air force. Read More

Ontario left American banks out of a US-dollar bond sale for the first time in almost 14 years, choosing Barclays Plc as its foreign bank to help manage a $2 billion debt issue. Read More

Swedish activist Greta Thunberg was deported from Israel on Tuesday morning after she and 11 other activists were stopped at sea by Israeli forces on Monday while attempting to break the Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip, according to Hebrew media. Read More

I recently took a stroll from the B.C. Legislature to the site where the Sir John A. Macdonald statue used to reside in front of Victoria’s City Hall. I did so because I am increasingly contemplative about nation-building as it relates to the critical juncture in history, we, as Canadians, currently face. Read More

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Never since he became Quebec Premier in 2018 has François Legault come back from a meeting with a prime minister with such positive things to say. “We had an excellent meeting, the premier said of the First Ministers meeting in Saskatoon. I have never talked as much about the economy with a prime minister of Canada as yesterday. It’s refreshing.” Read More

The plight of American universities right now — Harvard in particular — is a striking example of everything that can go wrong with the politicization of education. Read More

British Columbia Premier David Eby says it's not him standing in the way of Alberta counterpart Danielle Smith's longed-for oil pipeline from Alberta to B.C.'s north coast -- it's that there's no proponent, no money and "no project right now." Read More

MONTREAL -- A government push to steer Canada Post and the union representing 55,000 mail workers toward common ground hit a big pothole Monday. Read More

OTTAWA — The Liberal government is mulling arming the Canadian Coast Guard as it launches a significant reform of the civilian maritime agency to give it a bigger role in the country’s security apparatus. Read More

Canada's plan to add more than $9 billion to defence spending this year was praised by military watchers Monday, but they cautioned that the country is shooting at a moving target. Read More

NEW YORK -- Sly Stone, the revolutionary musician and dynamic showman whose Sly and the Family Stone transformed popular music in the 1960s and '70s and beyond with such hits as "Everyday People," "Stand!" and "Family Affair," died Monday at age 82. Read More

In an ever-more insecure world, Canada’s federal government has announced it will spend two per cent of its GDP on military spending. That’s the standard that members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization all agreed to back in 2006, but Canada has long been a laggard, to the extent that other governments, particularly the United States, have browbeaten the country for its meagre military spending. Read More

Justin Trudeau went to Washington for last year’s NATO summit and unveiled what he called a “credible, verifiable path” to spending two per cent of Canada’s GDP on defence … by 2032. Read More

The RCMP's “structural investigation” into whether Canadian citizens serving with the Israel Defense Forces in Gaza may have committed war crimes has sparked outrage in the Jewish community and its leaders, who accuse Ottawa of political targeting. Read More

Before the Ottawa Police Service confirmed that graffiti found at the National Holocaust Monument on Monday morning would be investigated as a hate crime, the vandalism had already drawn condemnation as an antisemitic attack. Read More

Prime Minister Mark Carney is to be applauded for laying out a bold and ambitious vision for Canada’s military. Read More

Canada's competition watchdog is suing DoorDash Inc. and its Canadian subsidiary, accusing it of marketing its online delivery services at a lower price than what consumers actually wind up paying. Read More

OTTAWA — Steven Guilbeault may no longer be federal environment minister, but Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she still sees him as a threat to the province's oil and gas industry. Read More

OTTAWA — A group of Canadian Sikh organizations is calling on members of Parliament to denounce Prime Minister Mark Carney's invitation to India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the G7 leaders' summit and plan to directly make that case when they meet with parliamentarians this week.   Read More

For generations, children have read the story of Hansel and Gretel, where choices have consequences, whether motivated by selfishness or kindness. Today, a new story unfolds on the Mediterranean Sea. But it is no fairy tale. It is real, dangerous, and wickedly told by those who claim to champion truth and justice. Read More

As tensions boiled over for a third-straight day in Los Angeles, an Australian television reporter covering the unrest was hit with a rubber bullet during a live broadcast on Sunday. Read More

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney is pledging that Canada will achieve NATO's spending target of two per cent of GDP on defence this year — five years ahead of his prior commitment which promised to meet the mark by 2030. Read More