The Israel Defence Forces attacked roughly 20,900 targets in 2025 as part of the seven-front War of Redemption, the military said on Wednesday, as it released its annual operational figures covering all sectors. Read More
The FBI released photos this week of motorcycles, artwork and two gold medals seized by Mexican authorities during raids last month and suspected of belonging to former Canadian Olympian-turned alleged narco boss Ryan Wedding. Read More
A Canadian tourist was stabbed in the leg near Bryant Park late Monday afternoon in an attack described as random by the New York police department. Read More
Queen Camilla has spoken for the first time publicly about fighting off an attacker on a train when she was a teenager, in an interview broadcast Wednesday. Read More
Ontario’s solicitor general wants the Toronto Police Service to urgently step up its enforcement of “hate, intimidation and harassment-motivated offences” plaguing the city. Read More
O Canada faced some serious backlash as it was front and centre on an international stage when the Toronto Blue Jays took part in the World Series. Canada's army was dubbed a "boutique" military, only capable of niche operations and deployments due to inadequate funding and slow procurement. A Canadian symbol, the goose, once considered a honking nuisance is given some grace. Women in Afghanistan shared their heartbreaking and hopeful stories about life with the Taliban back in charge. Read More
In 2025, Cook This travelled from the Caribbean to Eastern Europe, and the Greek Islands to Nigeria. Some of the year's best cookbooks found reasons to gather. There were plenty of ways to eat your vegetables — and enjoy doing it. Salads, especially, took centre stage with authors proving the dish truly has no boundaries. Read More
Bear attacks have loomed frighteningly large in the headlines this year. The most terrifying was a grizzly attack on a group of B.C. schoolchildren and teachers out on a hike in late November. Four people — three children and an adult — from Acwsalcta School near Bella Coola were seriously injured and airlifted to Vancouver for treatment.Read More
They were contentious, unprecedented and among the policies that drove long-haul truckers from across Canada to overtake Ottawa’s downtown core for nearly a month. Read More
The United States has a political violence problem to which the Trump administration is responding with a focus on domestic terrorism. Unfortunately, and not for the first time, federal officials define “terrorism” broadly enough to include protected activities, and they’re once again going after adherents of specific ideologies that are out of favour with the powers that be. This isn’t a new problem; presidents from both major parties have engaged in the persecution of political opponents in the name of fighting extremism and violence. The result is always the same: the violation of constitutionally protected rights. Read More
Montreal — On New Year’s Eve 250 years ago, Brig.-Gen. Richard Montgomery of the Continental Army, headquartered here in Montreal at the Château Ramezay, ordered a multi-pronged attack on Quebec City. The future existence of Canada hung in the balance; Quebec may have become the 14th state at the conclusion of the American Revolution. Read More
American economist and social theorist Thomas Sowell once wrote about the political compulsion to assess bad events “one day at a time" — as if events sit in a sealed jar, hermetically inert to antecedent and consequence alike. Read More
OTTAWA — Federal officials say that Alberta separatists going around Ottawa and repeatedly meeting with U.S. officials to advance their cause is legal for Canadians, within certain limits, even though similar behaviour could be prohibited elsewhere. Read More
As a new year nears, Canadians can look forward to more money from Ottawa. Annual increases in some federal government benefits and credits are coming based on its practice (since 2018) of indexing these amounts to keep up with inflation. Read More
Elkana Bohbot, one of the Israelis abducted during the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas massacre, was held in Gaza for 738 days. In an interview with Ynet on Monday, he revealed some of the horrors he endured at the hands of his captors. Read More
Robbers used a large drill to break into a German bank's vault room during the extended Christmas break and steal cash, gold and jewellery worth 30 million euros (US$35 million), police and the bank said Tuesday. Read More
More than 18 months after Canada labelled Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) a terrorist organization, the Middle East nation has done the same to the Royal Canadian Navy. Read More