Making matters worse, the Teẑtan Biny area is not even within the established Tsilhqot’in Aboriginal title area. The area is clearly Crown land, which makes the B.C. NDP’s decision not to defend these public lands, or the users of that land, even more troublesome. Read More

Thursday or Friday, the Senate will hold its final vote on bill C-5, which contains two bills in one, one on internal free trade, the other the Building Canada Act. By all indications, a large majority of senators will vote in favour of the bill. They shouldn’t. Read More

A distaste for Trump has robbed the common sense of too many commentators, even otherwise sensible ones. Read More

In the photograph, the young soldier looks past the camera lens. Blood stains his face from shrapnel wounds. Grenades hang from his belt, his rifle is beside him. He is leaning against sandbags, but appears somehow coiled for action, resting but not at ease, his expression enigmatic, as if he had just witnessed something barely believable for the first time. Read More

On Monday, the Alberta provincial riding of Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills gave us a clear, unmistakeable snapshot of the elusive Alberta-separatist Sasquatch — and it turns out he’s about the size of a Yorkshire terrier. In 1982, Olds-Didsbury, as it then was, became the only Alberta riding ever to elect a separatist legislator, the still-living and still-radical Gordon Kesler. In 2025, Kesler’s latter-day successor, Conservative MLA and Assembly Speaker Nathan Cooper, resigned to take a job as Alberta’s official agent in Washington. Read More

A Toronto-area conman skipped his sentencing hearing in a U.S. court, for helping swindle more than $21 million from hundreds of victims, after prosecutors alleged he kept scamming people even after his arrest and guilty plea. Read More

TOKYO -- Japan's military test-fired a missile on Japanese territory for the first time Tuesday, as the country accelerates its military buildup to deter China. Read More

WASHINGTON -- A U.S. intelligence report suggests that Iran's nuclear program has been set back only a few months after U.S. strikes and was not "completely and fully obliterated" as President Donald Trump has said, according to two people familiar with the early assessment. Read More

Alexander Mogilny's long wait for the Hockey Hall of Fame is over, as the high-scoring Russian winger was selected Tuesday as part of the eight-member class of 2025. Read More

THE HAGUE -- Canada will reach an even higher NATO spending target in part by developing its critical minerals and the infrastructure needed to get them to market, Prime Minister Mark Carney said as the annual leaders' summit of alliance members got underway in the Netherlands. Read More

OTTAWA — More than 250 prominent Canadians have signed a letter calling on Prime Minister Mark Carney to dial up the pressure against Iran. Read More

Los Angeles — At his grocery store in an Iranian neighbourhood of Los Angeles, Mohammad Ghafari is worried sick about his brothers and sisters since the United States bombed the Islamic republic's nuclear sites. Read More

The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) announced Thursday that it had made "a significant seizure" of cocaine at the Blue Water Bridge port of entry in Point Edward, Ont. Read More

As tensions returned to a simmer between Israel and Iran amidst a ceasefire agreement, a new poll conducted before the shaky armistice found that far more Canadians are distrustful of Iran than those who have faith in the Islamic Republic. Read More

OTTAWA — David Parker, the founder of conservative activist group Take Back Alberta, said on Monday morning that, by the end of the day, Albertans would know the strength of the province's budding independence movement. Read More

A total of 17 people have been arrested over three days in what police say is an effort to "improve community safety" in a Windsor, Ont., neighbourhood. Read More

LOS ANGELES — A woman who masterminded the killing of her husband, an internationally known Canadian-born hairdresser and beauty company executive, at their Los Angeles home eight years ago was sentenced Monday to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Read More

A video shows the moment a vehicle was launched into the air as a heat wave reportedly caused the road to buckle in Missouri, a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Read More

Quebec provincial police continued to search Tuesday for missing occupants of a helicopter that crashed in a lake on Quebec’s North Shore last week. Read More

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Raymond Laflamme, a Canadian pioneer in the field of quantum information processing who once worked with Stephen Hawking, has died after a lengthy bout with cancer. Read More

The high-profile trial of Sean "Diddy" Combs is approaching its final stretch, with both teams poised to rest their cases as soon as Tuesday. Read More

Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says a Canadian chartered flight will leave Jordan this evening with more than 100 people on board. Read More

Russian drones, missiles and artillery killed at least 18 civilians and injured almost 200 others in Ukraine, officials said Tuesday, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy sought guarantees of further Western help for his country’s efforts to repel Russia’s invasion. Read More

A London, Ont., man has been charged after police allege he sexually assaulted a nine-year-old girl in the city's south end over the weekend. Read More

Scientists have found a way to use the bacteria E.Coli to convert plastic waste into a popular painkiller, a study said Monday, though outside experts doubted the technique would make a dent in the fight against plastic pollution. Read More

SUTTON WEST, Ont. — Don't be alarmed if you see a Zamboni-like rover roaming Ontario's shores this summer — it's a beach-cleaning robot being tested in some provincial parks. Read More

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A survivor of a rockfall last week in Banff National Park is remembering his 33-year-old roommate, who didn't make it out alive from under the rubble, as a kind and generous friend. Read More

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Alberta NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi has won a seat in the legislature after a year of sitting on the sidelines. Read More

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A tentative truce faltered Tuesday when Israel accused Iran of launching missiles into its airspace after the ceasefire was supposed to take effect and vowed to retaliate. Read More

An elected Ontario school board councillor has been suspended by her board for expressing an opinion about land acknowledgements. It was not explained to her the exact offence she had committed, or who complained, only that the opinion she expressed apparently caused harm. Read More

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A Jamaican man sentenced to life in prison for an "execution style" killing north of Barrie in 2007 will get a shot at early release under Canada's "faint hope clause." Read More

As the sun shines over the ghost town of Metula which abuts the Israel-Lebanon border, blue jacaranda petals softly fall from their trees to blanket its missile-torn streets in a vibrant lavender hue. It is a scene of heartbreaking juxtaposition — nature's relentless beauty blooming against the backdrop of human devastation, where time stands still in an eerie dance between lush abundance and complete war-torn destruction. Read More

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RCMP are hailing the conviction and sentencing of man in Nigeria who tried to blackmail a Surrey, B.C., teenager by posting his intimate images online, saying "sextortions and fraud" will not be tolerated by society. Read More