It’s a bright spring morning at Nuestra coffee shop on Edmonton’s north side. While it looks like an ordinary café in an urban neighbourhood, with sun streaming through sparkling windows and the buzz of caffeine-fuelled conversation in the air, the coffee shop means something extraordinary to Jayne Galanka. Read More

Summertime and the living is easy ... especially if you’re grooving to seasonal music. Read More

BANFF — When world leaders gathered for the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings, it was an awkward situation: Just months before, Vladimir Putin's Russia had invaded Ukraine, annexing Crimea. Read More

French president Emmanuel Macron has come out strongly against U.S. President Donald Trump's musings about annexing Greenland, making his comments during a stop in Denmark's island territory ahead of the G7 meeting. Read More

The G7 meeting in Kananaskis, Alta. hadn’t even kicked off in earnest when Mark Carney began to wear the look of a man who had lost control of events that were starting to control him. Read More

A U.S. man who accidentally crossed the border into Canada was arrested when he turned around and came back after authorities found 78 pounds of illegal marijuana in his supposedly empty vehicle. Read More

The last federal election was not an honest conversation about Canada’s place in the world. It was a performance — slick, poll-tested, and ultimately hollow. Mark Carney presented himself as a principled adversary to Donald Trump, a steward of Canadian sovereignty who would stand up to a dangerous and unpredictable United States. And now, just months into his premiership, he insists “the G7 is nothing without U.S. leadership,” his government has resisted retaliating against American tariffs, and has even expressed desire to join Trump's Golden Dome missile defence program. Read More

BANFF, Alta. — As U.S. President Donald Trump stepped onto a podium for a photo with Prime Minister Mark Carney and his wife Diana, he wore two lapel pins on the left side of his suit. Read More

Ordering a "proffee" at your local café may still elicit quizzical looks, but protein coffee is gaining momentum. In March, Tim Hortons launched a new range of high-protein dairy beverages, including a latte containing 20 grams of the nutrient in a medium-sized cup. Now, Starbucks is entering the fray. The coffee giant announced at a leadership conference in Las Vegas on June 10 that it's testing protein coffee at select locations in the United States. Read More

Israel and Iran exchanged fire for the fourth consecutive day on Monday, stoking fears of an all-out war with the potential to drag in others in the oil-rich region and force the U.S. into a more hands-on stance. Read More

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A Canadian embassy worker in Tel Aviv needed to be rescued from a building hit by an Iranian missile over the weekend, according to Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand. Read More

I don’t know if Canadians have the interest or the patience to submit themselves yet another time to another chapter of the interminable saga of the conflict that I have been embroiled in for what seems like forever with the relatively newly renamed Ontario College of Psychologists and Behaviour Analysts. I know I’m sick and tired of the whole affair, having moved out of the country in no small part in consequence of the prejudice, ideologically-motivated shenanigans, false morality and petty power mongering of that august body. Read More

A man who was believed to be part of a peacekeeping team for the "No Kings" protest in Salt Lake City shot at a person who was brandishing a rifle at demonstrators, striking both the rifleman and a bystander who later died at the hospital, authorities said Sunday. Read More

OTTAWA — It may not be his favourite team but Prime Minister Mark Carney is now the proud owner of a Washington Capitals jersey emblazoned with his name and the number 24 thanks to U.S. President Donald Trump. Read More

TORONTO — Canada's largest private-sector union says former Canadian Auto Workers president Buzz Hargrove has died. Read More

Navin Chaudhary had just begun eating his meal when a loud bang startled him. He turned back to see a massive fire taking over the dining area where he and other trainee doctors had assembled for lunch. Read More

There are many lingering questions about the two-day killing spree by Gabriel Wortman that killed 22 people in Nova Scotia in 2020, even after a joint federal/provincial commission wrapped up its inquiry. Investigative journalist Paul Palango joins Brian Lilley to discuss why he thinks all signs point to the RCMP covering up that Wortman was working undercover for them before his rampage, as he alleges in his new book, Anatomy of a Cover-Up. He suggests it’s why police did nothing about reports that Wortman had illegal guns, and why the story of Wortman’s eventual killing by cop, and the account of his girlfriend, don’t line up with the evidence. If he’s right, then Canadians have been fed a lot of stories by officials — and we finally deserve the truth. (Recorded June 12, 2025.) Read More

Canadian fighter jets were deployed to intercept a private, civilian plane that violated restricted airspace above Kananaskis, Alta., where G7 leaders are gathering for meetings. Read More

WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah (AP) — Three people, including an 8-month-old infant, were fatally shot at a Utah carnival after two groups got into an argument, police said. Read More

Eight people were killed and nearly 300 wounded in the early hours of Monday by an Iranian ballistic missile barrage on Israeli civilian population centers in the central and northern regions of the country. Read More

An Air India flight returned to Hong Kong on Monday shortly after takeoff due to a midair technical issue, days after another of the airline's flights crashed and killed at least 270 people. Read More

The man suspected of killing a Minnesota lawmaker and wounding another crawled to officers in order to surrender Sunday after they found him in the woods near his home, bringing an end to a massive, nearly two-day search that put the entire state on edge. Read More

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The University of Saskatchewan’s law school allows some of its Indigenous students to take more time on exams for the purpose of “equity.” So, when this blew up into a faculty controversy in 2022, with proponents of the benefit aghast that anyone would ever question the idea as others quietly made their concerns known to student leaders, one member of the law school tried to make peace between the factions — only to be punished by the university for his efforts. Read More

At the beating heart of every woke institution lies an ideology so powerful and sacred that everything, including truth, must be subservient to it. Read More

British Columbia's transportation minister claimed Friday that buying new ferries from European shipyards would have cost roughly $1.2 billion more than buying them from a Chinese government-owned shipyard in Weihai, Shandong province, which is a city roughly the size of Montreal that I had never heard of until this week. China knows how to build cities. They burst into existence from nothing, like popcorn. China also knows how to build ships, and highways, and high-speed rail, and just about anything else you would care to name, better and more efficiently than the Canadian public service can realistically comprehend. Read More

President Donald Trump arrives in Canada as the center of attention for a Group of Seven summit of world leaders whose main purpose will be to mollify him — and one where spiralling conflict in the Middle East offers another test of its unity. Read More

BANFF, Alta. — The heads of the world’s richest economies are converging on Alberta today for one of the most high-stakes G7 meetings in recent memory amid a U.S.-led global tariff war and the growing crisis in the Middle East. Read More

The U.K. will seek to restart trade negotiations with Canada, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said, as he strives to strengthen commercial ties around the world to better insulate Britain’s economy from the fallout of U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff war. Read More

Hundreds of wildfires are burning in Canada — and they could change the way the country looks. Read More

The search for the man wanted in the shootings of two Democratic Minnesota lawmakers led to the discovery Sunday of a vehicle authorities believed he was using in a rural area outside Minneapolis as residents on edge struggled to make sense of the brazen political violence. Read More

President Donald Trump vetoed a plan presented by Israel to the U.S. to kill Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, according to a U.S. official familiar with the matter. Read More

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says her government's new policy forcing many Albertans to pay out of pocket for a COVID-19 vaccination is about focusing on those who need it the most. Read More

The Quebec Liberals have chosen longtime federal politician Pablo Rodriguez to lead the provincial party on Saturday and to carry it into the October 2026 provincial election. Read More

The grand military parade that President Donald Trump had been wanting for years barreled down Constitution Avenue on Saturday with tanks, troops and a 21-gun salute, playing out against a counterpoint of protests around the country by those who decried the U.S. leader as a dictator and would-be king. Read More

KANANASKIS, Alta. — It’s an odd thing to be asked your business in your own country, in your own province, in an area where you’ve spent plenty of time hiking and climbing and skiing. Read More

At least 11 people were killed overnight Saturday in a wave of Iranian missile attacks on civilian areas across Israel. Read More

Stephen Buffalo is a very constructive guy. He's a man who seeks solutions, and he's open to Prime Minister Mark Carney’s ambitious nation-building campaign. He also wants Carney and all Canadians to understand, though: Indigenous consent to these projects has a price tag. Read More

No one knows how the second Trump administration will ultimately turn out for the U.S. and for the wider world. Perhaps it will end with foreign dictators humbled, America resurgent, and the long march of the left through the institutions finally in reverse. But so far, the new Trump ascendancy could easily leave conservatism discredited. Certainly, it’s already been a key factor in the defeat of conservative parties in Canada and Australia. Hence the question: how should conservative political parties respond to the Trump phenomenon in order to keep their character while maximizing their chances of electoral success? Read More