Parenthood and pet ownership should not be conflated, says an Alberta judge about a case involving a bad breakup between a former couple and their fight over four cats they once owned together. Read More

Chinese-made electric vehicles are almost invisible in Canada and the United States, but elsewhere around the globe they are a huge hit, dominating international production and sales for battery-powered cars. Read More

The last 20 days in Iran have been deadly, violent, and unbearable to witness. The authoritarian regime in Tehran has indiscriminately targeted peaceful protesters with guns and live ammunition, cut off internet access, and imprisoned thousands. Read More

This week a judge of the B.C. Supreme Court (reminder: that’s a superior trial court, not an appellate court) heard a case that has the potential to further expand the Canadian empire of assisted suicide. The new battleground is “institutional religious objections,” or IROs, which is what the pro-euthanasia forces call them because they love acronyms so much. Most Catholic hospitals (and some hospices) have rules against administering euthanasia on the premises, which sometimes leads to very sick people undergoing what Dying with Dignity calls “forced transfers” to other facilities at the eleventh hour. The parents of one such patient are now suing B.C.’s Providence Health Care, the umbrella agency that operates the province’s legacy Catholic health institutions. Read More

Canadians have not heard much about why negotiations with the United States seem to have gone nowhere. One has to ask: was Mark Carney really the best choice to negotiate with Donald Trump? All signs point to "absolutely not." Read More

The violent cavalcade of events in Iran is starting to reveal the new range of aggressive-responsive policy options that U.S. President Donald Trump has developed to replace the obsolete concept of most of his recent predecessors. For 80 years from 1941 the basic framework was defined by Franklin D. Roosevelt in two addresses he gave at the beginning and end of that year in the Congress. In the State of the Union message in January, he warned against those who, “With sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal would preach the 'ism' of appeasement.” Read More

On Friday, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced a three-year China deal that will relax tariffs on canola, peas and seafood in exchange for allowing the import of 49,000 Chinese-made electric vehicles per year. Before announcing it, Carney said that this new friendship “sets us up well for the new world order.” Read More

If La Belle Province votes for independence, 58 per cent of Quebecers believe they should be allowed to retain their Canadian citizenship, according to a new poll. Read More

Using the common painkiller acetaminophen during pregnancy is not linked to neurodevelopmental disorders in children, according to a study published in the Lancet on Friday. Read More

BEIJING AND OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney will accept a role on U.S. President Donald Trump's newly formed Gaza "Board of Peace," according to a senior Canadian government official. Read More

NUUK, Greenland -- Greenlanders were putting cautious hope in all-out efforts to contain U.S. President Donald Trump's designs on their Arctic island, as European soldiers arrived in their streets and U.S. lawmakers visited Denmark. Read More

OTTAWA — While Parliament Hill swirls with speculation about potential floor-crossings, one Conservative MP is raising his hand, but for a different reason: To assist Prime Minister Mark Carney's government navigate the Canada-U.S. relationship. Read More

Toronto and Montreal's major airports continue to recover from Thursday’s snowstorm and travellers should expect some delays. Read More

OTTAWA — Caroline Elliott has never run for office, or even put her name on a ballot, but she arguably became the early favourite in the British Columbia Conservative Party leadership race before even officially jumping into the fray. Read More

MONTREAL — This week, Quebec Premier François Legault announced his resignation ahead of the province's October election, because he knows that voters want a new premier, and he wants them to cast their ballots based on economic and language issues. Read More

“I am branded in Quebec as a traitor to the French, and in Ontario as a traitor to the English. In Quebec I am branded as a jingoist, and in Ontario as a separatist. In Quebec, I am attacked as an imperialist, and in Ontario as an anti-imperialist. I am neither. I am a Canadian. Canada has been the inspiration of my life.” Read More

It’s one of the most familiar tropes in cinema — the fish out of water. But it gets a refreshing twist in the movie The Mother and the Bear, a surreal-flavoured comedy-drama in which an overbearing Korean mother travels to windswept, frigid Winnipeg to be by the side of her comatose daughter, Sumi, injured by a fall on the city’s slippery streets. Once there, she hits on a scheme to catfish an eligible Korean-Canadian man to be Sumi’s boyfriend when she recovers. Read More

Cheryl Petruk never planned to become a magazine publisher or the founder of a not-for-profit organization. She was working as a HR professional in 1991 when her husband, Eugene Petruk was diagnosed with a rare slow-growing blood cancer that is in a group of blood cancers known as myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs). Read More

Even if you don’t make New Year’s resolutions, January is a natural reset point, whether you want to focus on health, finances or your spiritual well-being. Look to some of these Canadian authors for advice, inspiration or motivation. Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump took a swipe at Canada during a White House event to mark the Stanley Cup victory by the Florida Panthers, their second win in as many years over the Edmonton Oilers. The last time a Canadian team won the cup was in 1993, when the Montreal Canadiens were victorious over the L.A. Kings. Read More

How about instead of becoming the 51st American state, Canada becomes the 23rd Chinese province? Read More

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BEIJING AND OTTAWA — Ontario Premier Doug Ford responded furiously on Friday to a trade deal announced by Prime Minister Mark Carney to allow some Chinese electric vehicles into Canada. Read More

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