OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney's government is setting the stage to end the proposed oil and gas emissions cap and promising to do away with certain rules aimed at penalizing companies accused of "greenwashing." Read More

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney is billing his first budget as bold, but it won’t come cheap. Read More

OTTAWA — The federal government is taking a hatchet to temporary immigration levels, cutting the number of temporary students it will let in next year by half. Read More

British Columbia has pulled a planned anti-tariff advertising campaign. Read More

Canada’s young people are falling behind. According to Statistics Canada, the unemployment rate for those aged 15 to 24 sits at 14.2 per cent, more than double the national average. The unemployment rate among youth attending school is 17.1 per cent, up 3.1 percentage points from last September. Among those youth who are working, many are under-employed, bouncing between short-term contracts or part-time jobs that barely cover the costs of rent or school. Add to that, AI eliminating entry level jobs and an economy braced for more tariffs, and the employment prospects for young people look increasingly bleak. Read More

Donald Trump says that "any Jewish person" voting for "Jew hater" Zohran Mamdani in New York City's mayoral election is "stupid." Read More

Mystery novelist Mick Herron has a knack for crafting stories that make for good TV. But before he became a household name thanks to the success of Apple’s adaptation of his Slow Horses series, Emma Thompson said she had long been a fan of the Gold Dagger winner’s books. Read More

Even if you live in a city not victimized by the time change, chances are the nights are getting darker and the climes are getting colder. Do you know what you’ll be wearing on your head this winter? We have a few Canadian-made ideas. Read More

OTTAWA — After 18 months without a budget, the minority Liberals tabled their "Canada Strong” plan containing nearly $126 billion in new spending and $60 billion in savings, which they hope will convince at least one opposition party to prevent an early election. Read More

Children’s author Robert Munsch has arranged to donate his papers and archives, including a career's worth of fan mail to which he diligently responded, to the Guelph Public Library. Read More

A violent knife-wielding woman was tasered and “inadvertently” run over twice by a Toronto police SUV during her arrest next to a Tim Hortons drive-thru on Saturday. Read More

Prince Harry is coming to Canada this week. Read More

OTTAWA — Federal Justice Minister Sean Fraser has ruled out using the notwithstanding clause to reverse a recent Supreme Court ruling throwing out mandatory minimum sentences for crimes involving child pornography. Read More

The usually loquacious president of the United States was unusually brief when responding to a question last week about his intentions in Venezuela. Read More

When you dine at a restaurant, how do you know if the dish you order is being prepared in a safe manner, that the kitchen is clean, and that staff have appropriate food safety training. Read More

Asian e-commerce giant Shein on Tuesday pledged to "cooperate fully" with French judicial authorities after an uproar over it selling childlike sex dolls, and said it was prepared to disclose the names of people who bought them. Read More

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Dick Cheney, whose campaign for a military response to the 9/11 terror attack cleared the path for an unpopular war in Iraq and established his reputation as one of the most powerful and polarizing vice presidents in U.S. history, has died. He was 84. Read More

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Prime Minister Mark Carney — celebrated flag bearer for decarbonization — has boldly declared Canada can compete as an energy superpower in a net-zero world. Ahead of Carney's government's first budget Tuesday, however, there's a question being asked by many serious people: “Is this even a net-zero world anymore?” Read More

In a groundbreaking move towards greater transparency, the Law Society of Ontario (LSO) has committed in principle to publicly disclosing details when lawyers and paralegals commit crimes or professional breaches. Read More

Just one-third of Ontarians say their province is heading in the right direction, according to a new Leger poll. Read More

When the pitcher, batter, catcher, umpires and video-replay officials all have no idea what the call should be, that means it’s time to fix the rule book. Read More

I guess it’s official: I’ll never quite be able to describe myself as a Toronto Blue Jays fan. I say this by way of paying tribute to the particular team we all just watched fall short in an epic World Series. Like many Canadian lovers of baseball, I’m a middle-aged Montreal Expos widower who has stubbornly resisted getting on board the Jays bandwagon as a matter of identity. I’m not buying the merch. I’m not bothered when they’re lousy. Read More