MONTREAL -- A climate activist group says one of its supporters sprayed pink paint this morning on a Pablo Picasso painting at a Montreal museum. Read More

SDEROT, Israel — On Feb. 1, 1979, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the leader of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, stood at the top of the stairs of an Air France jet that had just landed in Tehran. This stern, robed man had been whisked from his country villa provided by the French government (then led by President Valery Giscard d’Estaing) to a waiting jet. During his 14 years in exile, Ayatollah Khomeini was treated reverentially by the French. Before descending the stairs, the 40 year old cleric paused, triumphantly. Read More

OTTAWA — Ontario Premier Doug Ford has apologized to Ontario First Nations for saying they cannot “keep coming hat in hand all the time to the government” for more money. Read More

A flight this week from Amsterdam to Toronto spent more than five hours in the air before landing — in Amsterdam. The cause was a missed scheduled maintenance that was discovered while the plane was over the Atlantic Ocean, requiring it to do a U-turn and return home. Read More

Canada's top sailor is so fed up with the dearth of Cyclone helicopters available to fly off this country's warships, he'll replace them with drones if he must. Read More

OTTAWA — Justice Minister Sean Fraser says that while he does not believe in using labels like "soft on crime," which critics employ to describe the justice system, he says it is important not to dismiss the concerns of those who use them.  Read More

A reward of up to $150,000 is being offered by the Nova Scotia Department of Justice to anyone with information about the disappearance of Lilly and Jack Sullivan. Read More

Some hockey fans are understandably bent out of shape over the Florida Panthers damaging the Stanley Cup this week, but the coveted trophy has been through worse. Read More

Along with joy and relief at finding three-year-old Claire Bell alive in eastern Ontario after four days of searching come questions of how she survived and why she was alone at the side of a rural highway 150 kilometres from her home in Montreal. Read More

The City of Burlington, Vt., has announced it will rename one of its central avenues from Church Street to Canada Street, from now until Labour Day (or Labor Day as it's known there). Read More

Professional basketball’s often contentious greatest of all time debate will likely never be settled, but the conversation about the greatest Canadian to play in the NBA could very well be resolved as early as this week. Read More

Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says Ottawa is helping Canadians leave the Middle East once they reach countries bordering Israel and Iran. Read More

The City of Vancouver describes its new name for Trutch Street, “šxʷməθkʷəy̓əmasəm Street,” as a gift, but it’s more like a curse. Read More

The parliamentary budget officer says he can't properly assess whether the federal government is on track to meet its fiscal targets because the Liberals' new budget benchmarks haven't been defined. Read More

A jury found Karen Read not guilty of second-degree murder and manslaughter charges Wednesday in the 2022 death of her Boston police officer boyfriend, a case that attracted legions of true crime followers who erupted in cheers when word of the acquittal spread outside court. Read More

A SpaceX Starship rocket exploded on a test stand in Texas, adding to a series of setbacks to Elon Musk’s space ambitions that include return trips to Mars. Read More

CALGARY — The Federal Court overstepped its authority when it ordered the government to fill an “unacceptably high” number of judicial vacancies within a "reasonable time," the Federal Court of Appeal ruled Wednesday. Read More

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Five members of a Ukrainian family, including an 8-year-old girl undergoing cancer treatment at an Israeli hospital, were among the nine people killed by an Iranian missile impact on a Tel Aviv suburb this week, a city spokesperson said on Wednesday. Read More

At least six people were seriously wounded by an Iranian missile barrage on Israel on Thursday morning. Beersheva’s Soroka Medical Center sustained a direct hit, and impacts were also reported in Tel Aviv, Ramat Gan and Holon. Read More

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Last Saturday, close to three years after suffering its worst election defeat in 155 years, the Quebec Liberal Party (QLP) elected a new leader. Former federal Cabinet minister Pablo Rodriguez won a closely fought battle on the second ballot, with 52 per cent of the vote. The result was much closer than expected as his main rival was a young, dynamic but little-known businessman, Charles Milliard. Read More

Scientists at the University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates have devised a simple test that they can say can predict an increased risk of developing a host of health problems in older adults. All you have to do is try to pick up a five-kilogram weight. Read More

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Israel’s demolition of the Iranian regime shows our government at its finest. Unfortunately, because it’s pompously paralyzed amid platitudes. It took hours to say anything, then said nothing. Which illustrates the importance of ideas. Read More

The sudden, explosive rift between President Trump and Elon Musk was ostensibly over differences about the “One Big Beautiful Bill” moving through Congress — legislation that would re-enact the Trump tax cuts from 2017, raise the debt ceiling, fund the border and increase the deficit by $2.4 trillion dollars. Read More

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OTTAWA — Canada’s helicopter industry is charging the federal government with a “serious breach” in allowing the RCMP to patrol the Canada-U.S. border with antiquated military helicopters that don’t meet the government’s own safety regulations, National Post has learned. Read More

OTTAWA -- Indian officials and their proxy agents in Canada engage in a range of activities that seek to influence Canadian communities and politicians, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service said Wednesday in its annual report. Read More

TORONTO -- Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he is willing to give First Nations what they want for their support in developing mines, but they cannot "keep coming hat in hand all the time to the government" for more money. Read More

OTTAWA — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe agree that Moe's predecessor Brad Wall is the right man to repair Canada-India relations, amidst news that Canada will soon be sending a new high commissioner to New Delhi. Read More

The Father’s Day disappearance of three-year-old Claire Bell was bizarre from the start, and as the frantic search for the missing Montreal girl stretched into its fourth day the escalating strangeness of the case was pointing to a dark ending. But then came joyful news. Claire had been found alive. Read More

OTTAWA — The Bloc Québécois’ long and often rocky road to protect supply management from any concessions in future trade negotiations has come to a successful end. The Senate has adopted Bill C-202, making it the first bill set to receive royal assent in the new session of Parliament. Read More

A Nova Scotia woman serving a life sentence for strangling her own daughter to death has been granted a 60-day unescorted temporary absence from prison, but was denied day parole. Read More

A new survey finds less support among Canadians for the privatization of Canada Post, but many are open to large-scale changes. Read More

The Florida Panthers won the Stanley Cup but in the process of celebrating the historic win have seemingly dented and "cracked" the Cup, as seen in photos shared by various sports news outlets Wednesday morning. Read More

OTTAWA — Alberta's point man on a massive western corridor project says he's "cautiously optimistic" about getting rid of a major roadblock to the construction of a new West Coast oil and gas pipeline after visiting British Columbia's northern coast. Read More

OTTAWA — More progressive Liberal MPs expressed cautious concerns about their government’s decision to ram through the internal trade and major projects bill in a matter of days, with some of them saying it could lead to legal issues down the road. Read More

The Princess of Wales canceled plans to attend Royal Ascot on Wednesday as she continues to balance the demands of her public duties against the realities of her recovery from cancer. Read More