MONTREAL — Quebec's language watchdog has changed its tune on whether it's acceptable to use the word "go" to cheer on sports teams. Read More

Mounties say a wildfire that has triggered evacuations near Lytton, B.C. was caused when a wheel fell off an RCMP trailer in a "tremendously unfortunate" incident. Read More

Brest, France — An 80-year-old U.S. novelist and her husband are among several people facing a possible trial in France over the illegal sale of gold bars plundered from an 18th-century shipwreck, after French prosecutors requested the case go to court. Read More

There is little question that Diddy — the mono-monikered rapper and producer whose trial for sex crimes concluded in New York yesterday — is a violent and despicable man. One look, which is all any decent person can stomach, at the 2016 video of him assaulting his then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura and Diddy’s innate odiousness becomes impossible to deny. Read More

Our solar system is playing host to a rare visitor. A comet from interstellar space is hurtling toward the sun at about 68 kilometres per second, or about 245,000 kilometres an hour. And like many a socially savvy out-of-town visitor, it will be visible on a livestream, beginning at 6 p.m. ET, July 3. Read More

The decision by the United States to pause some weapons shipments to Ukraine has come at a tough time for Kyiv: Russia's bigger army is making a concerted push on parts of the roughly 1,000-kilometer (620-mile) front line and is intensifying long-range drone and missile attacks that increasingly hammer civilians in Ukrainian cities. Read More

A Canadian musician who returned to Toronto from his birthplace of Ghana with millions of dollars' worth of heroin hidden inside false walls of his suitcases has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for what a court-appointed social worker called "an aberration of an otherwise 'simple life.'" Read More

A British singer was arrested in the United States after being denied entry into Canada. Read More

OTTAWA — The environment ministers of two of Canada's biggest provinces are calling on the Liberal government to scrap a host of Trudeau-era environmental and climate policies, saying the policies are holding the country back from meeting its economic potential. Read More

Inspector Drew Milne of the British Columbia Conservation Officer Service likened it to finding a needle in a haystack -- the haystack being a 137-hectare park on Vancouver Island, and the needle being a 1.5-metre-long boa constrictor. Read More

German police say a man attacked and slightly injured four people with an axe on a long-distance train in Bavaria on Thursday before he was detained by police. Read More

One funny thing about the “elbows up!” slogan of the New Canadian Nationalism is that in real life it’s pretty hard to hit yourself with your own elbow. But in the actual policy sphere, most of what we might do to put our elbows up against the United States involves self-harm or, at a minimum, self-denial. Read More

Airports are returning to normal operations after Canada’s air traffic control service said some received bomb threats early Thursday morning. Read More

The recent riots in Los Angeles, sparked by President Trump’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants, could be a harbinger to a new era of ethnic conflict not only in the U.S. but throughout the West, including Canada. Read More

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A criminal justice student who avoided a potential death sentence by pleading guilty Wednesday to the brutal stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students carefully planned the attack for months and took multiple steps to cover his tracks, the lead prosecutor said. Read More

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Portuguese football superstar Cristiano Ronaldo paid tribute to his international team-mate Diogo Jota, who was killed in a car crash on Thursday, saying "we will all miss you." Read More

Boys as young as 11 and 12 are "idolizing and parroting" the misogynistic rhetoric of Andrew Tate and other masculinist influencers at school, posing a risk to women teachers and the girls who witness it, Canadian researchers are reporting. Read More

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Now that Canada’s trade war with America has surged back into public consciousness like a blast from the recent past, a new poll suggests Canadian frustration with and mistrust of the U.S. remains high, despite a slight easing. Read More

OTTAWA — The RCMP has renewed the contracts for three Black Hawk helicopters to patrol the Canada-U.S. border, despite accusations by the industry association that the contracts are the opposite of the government’s “elbows up” approach and that the choppers don't meet the government's own safety regulations. Read More

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- Iran's president on Wednesday ordered the country to suspend its cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency after American and Israeli airstrikes hit its most-important nuclear facilities, likely further limiting inspectors' ability to track Tehran's program that had been enriching uranium to near weapons-grade levels. Read More

An Ontario woman was arrested twice in the same day for trafficking cocaine, police say. Read More

TORONTO -- Ontario is expanding the delivery of publicly paid orthopedic surgeries through private clinics in an effort to reduce wait-lists. Read More

One of the stupidest arguments to emerge during Canada’s pandemic experience was the idea that by flying the Canadian flag, the Freedom Convoy types had ruined the Canadian flag for everyone else. And that Canadians, as a result, were hesitant to display the flag lest they be thought of as anti-vaxxers, COVID-deniers or outright Nazis. Read More

A man who claimed $32,000 police found at his home was casino winnings, after he was allegedly spotted in the passenger seat of a car that killed a pedestrian in downtown Toronto in April 2022, has lost his bid to get the cash back. Read More

The full moon is a glorious sight, and the sliver of a brand-new moon a wispy delight, but tonight's first-quarter moon has its own unique treat — for a few hours, you can make out the letters X and V on the lunar surface. Here's how. Read More

A new Canadian study has found that a late-night cheese snack could lead to nightmares. Read More

A trailblazer in uniform, Critchley was just 17 years old when she became the second woman ever to serve as an armoured crewman in her unit. She and dad Steve later made history as the first father–daughter gunnery crew in the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps. Read More

Authorities are clearing the air after erroneous speculation online blamed a father for his daughter's fall from a Disney cruise ship on Sunday. Read More

THIS WAS TOM GREEN THEN. This is Tom Green now. Read More

NEW YORK — Sales of Tesla electric cars fell sharply in the last three months as boycotts over Elon Musk’s political views continue to keep buyers away, a significant development given expectations that anger with the company’s billionaire CEO would have faded by now. Read More

The Old Guard 2 is now streaming on Netflix. Read More

It may not have garnered a lot of attention in Canada, but America’s largest city and global financial centre appears set on choosing its very own version of Justin Trudeau as its next mayor. Read More

Del Monte Foods, the 139-year-old company best known for its canned fruits and vegetables, is filing for bankruptcy protection as U.S. consumers increasingly bypass its products for healthier or cheaper options. Read More

Microsoft is firing thousands of workers, its second mass layoff in months and its largest in more than two years. Read More

Australian airline Qantas said Wednesday that a hacker made off with a trove of its customers’ personal data including passenger names, emails, phone numbers, birth dates and frequent flyer numbers. Read More

OTTAWA -- Companies that paid the now-defunct digital services tax will have to wait for Ottawa to pass new legislation before they can get a refund, the Canada Revenue Agency has confirmed. Read More

Ukraine appealed to the United States for clarity on Wednesday after it was caught off guard by a White House announcement that Washington was halting some arms shipments to the war-battered country. Read More