OTTAWA — A trade deal with the United States will likely include some tariffs, Prime Minister Mark Carney indicated on Tuesday ahead of a meeting with his cabinet. Read More
OTTAWA — An Alberta Conservative MP said she thinks the measles outbreak in her province can be traced back to the COVID pandemic and loss of trust in vaccines due to the federal government's lack of transparency about their risks.Read More
B.C. billionaire Ruby Liu and her bid to buy up to 25 Hudson's Bay leases was due to come under further scrutiny in court Tuesday -- but the battle was waylaid when she showed up with no lawyer or materials to aid in making her case. Read More
Environment Canada offers some reasonable-sounding advice for living with poor air quality caused by smoke from wildfires, which is currently afflicting several parts of Canada — and causing hysteria in one part of Canada, or at least in its media, or at least in one particular newspaper. Read More
The City of Nanaimo, B.C., is considering building a 1.8-metre-high fence to protect its staff from "congregations" of people, violence and disorder associated with an overdose prevention site next to city hall. Read More
The diplomats' union and former ambassadors are raising concerns about Prime Minister Mark Carney's planned cuts to the foreign service, just as Global Affairs Canada is looking to expand its presence abroad. Read More
Having grown disillusioned with Russia, U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday that he will expand arms shipments to Ukraine and tariff Moscow’s trading partners if no peace deal is signed by September. While this is a welcome development, Trump should’ve seen through the Kremlin’s lies much earlier, and the depth of his foreign policy pivot remains unclear.Read More
Police in Metro Vancouver say they have yet to identify a suspect in a targeted assault that sent a woman to hospital for urgent treatment of "severe burns" resulting from exposure to an "unknown substance." Read More
Over 40 per cent of antisemitic incidents targeting Ontario Jewish students since the October 7 terrorist attacks have included a Nazi salute or statements such as, “Hitler should have finished the job,” according to a new federal report published Monday. Read More
In December 2023, Akashkumar Khant, 30 (plus or minus some months), made the mistake of arranging to have sex with a 15-year-old at a Mississauga Holiday Inn for $140. Read More
If Prime Minister Mark Carney is truly serious about making sure he does not breach the Conflict of Interest Act then he is going to be exiting cabinet meetings on a regular basis. Read More
BRUSSELS -- EU trade ministers agreed Monday that U.S. President Donald Trump's announcement of 30% tariffs on the European Union was "absolutely unacceptable," and they are studying a new set of countermeasures to respond to the move. Read More
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump on Monday threatened Russia with steep tariffs and announced a rejuvenated pipeline for American weapons to reach Ukraine, hardening his stance toward Moscow after months of frustration about unsuccessful negotiations for ending the war. Read More
An independent voting panel of 512 experts from 60 countries has recognized what locals already knew. Ryan Baddeley of Toronto's Pizzeria Badiali and Cédric Toullec of Halifax's Lou Pécou Artisanal Pizzeria make some of the best pizza in the world. Read More
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that the letters he sent to Prime Minister Mark Carney and other leaders about new tariff rates are "the deals," as Carney prepares to meet with his cabinet on tariffs and the trade negotiations. Read More
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre accused Prime Minister Mark Carney of “numerous falsehoods” about his financial portfolio Monday, and called on him to sell all of his personal investments to avoid conflicts of interest. Read More
In 2023, Maria Reva and her sister were on a train hurtling through a Ukrainian night toward the battle-scarred city of Kherson. They were hoping to reach their grandfather, still there in the midst of carnage. It was crisis time for Reva in more ways than one. The novel she had started to write back in Canada was in jeopardy: what she had originally envisaged as a lighthearted romp satirizing Ukraine’s controversial “romance” tours had been upended by Russian aggression. Read More
OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre was slammed by several separatist opponents in Alberta Monday after he said that the province should stay part of Canada, no matter what. Read More