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VICTORIA -- A British Columbia legislator said he went from "disappointed" to "enraged" after receiving a pitch from a Republican state senator for Canada's four western provinces to join the United States. Read More

Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin’s summit in Alaska started with a very stage-managed opening — each leader descending from their respective airplanes, a visibly warm handshake on the tarmac. Pats on the arm. Read More

JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — President Donald Trump failed to secure an agreement from Vladimir Putin on Friday to end Russia’s war in Ukraine, falling short in his most significant move yet to stop the bloodshed, even after rolling out the red carpet for the man who started it. Read More

The federal government spent more than $170,000 to bring Canadian women and their children back to the country after they went overseas to join the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, documents show. Read More

Quick — name the five best costume designers in television. OK, the three best. Still can’t get there? We’re not surprised. There’s arguably only one costume designer who’s changed the visual language of television in the last quarter-century and become a household name in the process: Patricia Field. Read More

In the wake of a stormy stretch in Canada-U.S. relations, the Canadian view of American leadership has plummeted. Read More

VANCOUVER -- A British Columbia nurse has been suspended and fined nearly $94,000 for what a disciplinary panel said were "discriminatory and derogatory statements" about transgender people. Read More

BEIRUT -- The leader of Lebanon's terrorist group Hezbollah on Friday vowed not to disarm, saying last week's decision by the national government to remove the Iran-backed group's weapons by the end of the year serves Israel's interests. Read More

Five years into his term as Canada’s UN Ambassador, Bob Rae says it’s been an incredibly busy time fraught with crises, but that it’s also been a wonderful opportunity. Read More

An air passenger rights advocate says that customers shouldn't be afraid to enforce their own rights as a possible strike between Air Canada and its flight attendants looms ahead of the weekend. Read More

A Federal Court judge has temporarily stopped the deportation of a man from India over Ottawa's handling of health concerns by his Canadian wife who has ADHD, and financial problems his departure would cause his sister. Read More

A proposed class action lawsuit has been filed in the B.C. Supreme Court against Amazon over its Alexa technology. Read More

Novelists who deliver a profound sense of place in their writings are worth their weight in gold. Read More

OTTAWA — Days after Cogeco’s CEO blasted Industry Minister Melanie Joly for authorizing Canada’s three major telecommunications companies to resell fibre optics to internet service providers on their respective networks, the only member of the big three telecoms in favour of the measure came to the minister's rescue. Read More

PORTLAND, Ore. — Nike co-founder Phil Knight and his wife, Penny Knight, have pledged to donate US$2 billion to Oregon Health & Science University's Knight Cancer Institute, the school announced Thursday, describing it as the largest single gift to a U.S. university. Read More

By August, summer has hit its stride. Patios are packed, festivals are in full swing, and if we have strong social bonds, our calendars overflow with invitations. The season vibrates with possibility. But what if, between saying yes to every barbecue and cramming in one more weekend adventure, we tapped into summer’s most underrated gift: doing absolutely nothing at all. Read More

Mark Carney has been Canada’s Prime Minister for slightly over 100 days. Yet, he still hasn’t done the one thing his predecessors did in short order: open a constituency office. Read More

PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron pledged Friday that no effort will be spared to track down and prosecute unknown attackers who chopped down an olive tree planted in homage to a French Jew murdered in 2006. Read More

Our cookbook of the week is Eat to Love by nutritional chef Mikaela Reuben. Read More

A plurality of Canadians believe Canada's move to recognize a Palestinian state is a good idea, while nearly one-third of Canadians are against it, according to recent polling. Read More

Canadians are waking up to just how much power American tech companies have over their digital life. In April, Microsoft confirmed that U.S. law can override foreign privacy protections, even for data stored on servers outside the United States. That means if Canadian data is hosted by Microsoft, Amazon or Google, it can be accessed by U.S. authorities. Read More

The Korean War’s fighting ended in 1953 without a formal treaty -- one of the original "frozen conflicts." Its end, after years of bloody stalemate, came through exhaustion and with the spectre of nuclear war. Read More

In 1867, Russia sold Alaska to the United States. It was, territory-wise, a historically big, beautiful real estate deal. Read More