Ontario Premier Doug Ford is reacting angrily to news of the closure of a plant that bottles Crown Royal, pouring out a bottle at a press conference and encouraging others to dump the whisky as well. Read More
It is hardly surprising, in the year 2025, to see a public figure strung up — figuratively, thank goodness — for something he didn’t quite say or mean. If cinema is “a machine that creates empathy,” as critic Roger Ebert once said, then social media is something like the opposite: a machine for grinding people into the radioactive dust of their own presumed worst intentions. Read More
Canadian author Margaret Atwood has penned a satirical short story "suitable" for teens, calling out a decision made by an Edmonton school board following a government directive to crack down on sexually explicit material for students. Read More
Mark Carney’s been busy these past few months, hosting the G7, pursuing foreign trade pacts, and talking with Trump on the telephone. But instead of a reset, he’s had a summer of discontent, putting us back at square one with the Americans and facing a host of challenges for the fall.Read More
An Air Canada flight from Denver to Toronto was forced to return to Denver International Airport on Sunday morning after reports of an "acrid smell" due to a possible electrical fire in a galley area. Read More
A 46-year-old father killed in Vaughan, Ont., was shot dead in front of his wife and children after he tried to protect them during a home invasion Sunday morning. Read More
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is on track to gain access to controversial spyware designed to hack phones and read private messages after the Trump administration jettisoned a Biden-era order. Read More
Graham Greene, who was Oscar-nominated for his role in Dances with Wolves and was appointed a member of the Order of Canada, has died at the age of 73. Read More
Police in Toronto say they are looking for a man believed to have thrown a bicycle off a bridge and onto one of the city's busiest expressways. Read More
The tragic deaths of teens who died by suicide after forming intimate relationships with AI chatbots — interactions their parents allege pushed their children over the edge — are raising warnings about how validating, nonjudgmental and uncannily lifelike bots have become. Read More
WASHINGTON, D.C. — At a steel plant in Pennsylvania in May, U.S. President Donald Trump promised workers a new era of domestic steel production. Read More
Pope Leo XIV met Monday with one of the most prominent advocates for greater LGBTQ+ inclusion in the Catholic Church and encouraged his ministry, sending a strong signal of welcome in the early months of his pontificate. Read More
A 25-year-old man who police allege forced his way into a home during the night in Welland, Ont., and violently sexually assaulted a toddler inside has been arrested and charged — and neighbours and friends say they are outraged that the man had been released from jail in March from a previous child sex offence. Read More
Fierce Mediterranean winds forced a Gaza-bound flotilla carrying humanitarian aid and hundreds of activists, including environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg, to return to Barcelona, organizers said on Monday. Read More
Desperate Afghans clawed through rubble in search of missing loved ones after a strong earthquake killed some 800 people and injured more than 2,500 in eastern Afghanistan, according to figures provided Monday by the Taliban government. Read More
A man found dead in a pool of blood is being investigated as a homicide at the annual Burning Man art and music festival in the northwestern Nevada desert, authorities say. Read More
Ontario is removing interprovincial barriers for workers in regulated professions, allowing them greater mobility when searching for work across the country, the province said Monday. Read More
A plane carrying EU chief Ursula von der Leyen was hit by GPS jamming as it readied to land in Bulgaria and Russia was suspected to be behind the incident, the European Commission said Monday. Read More
Since the fall of Bashar Assad's government in December, some 850,000 Syrian refugees have returned home from neighboring countries and the figure could reach 1 million in the coming weeks, a top official with the U.N. refugee agency said Monday. Read More