Snow and dangerously bitter cold are expanding across the U.S. Great Plains as the country’s largest winter storm prompts cascading travel disruptions and threatens widespread power outages. Read More

The nominees for the 98th Academy Awards have been announced with Ryan Coogler’s vampire drama Sinners leading the way with a record-setting 16 nominations. Read More

President Donald Trump has revived his threats to use military force against Iran’s senior leadership amid a violent crackdown on nationwide protests. Late Thursday he said an armada of U.S. Navy vessels is en route to the Middle East. Read More

A Jamaican immigrant denied permanent residency because the Canadian wife who sponsored him was 17 years his senior has won another shot at staying here. Read More

Measles is surging across the U.S. with five new states reporting cases this week, including California, Minnesota and Washington. Read More

This week Mark Carney applied for the job he really wants: leader of a new "rules-based international order" centred around "middle powers." It is pretty much the same job that every Canadian prime minister, chafing at American power, has wanted. John Diefenbaker bristled at U.S. expectations that Canada host nuclear weapons, or support its Latin America strategy, and so hoped the British Commonwealth of Nations could exist as almost a rival to the United Nations. Pierre Trudeau embarrassed Richard Nixon by normalizing relations with China first, and Paul Martin oversaw the creation of the G20. Justin Trudeau, of course, tried to lecture the world about how Canada could lead the way on lowering greenhouse gas emissions. Read More

The Danish prime minister is travelling to Greenland on Friday for talks on the island’s future after President Donald Trump seemingly deescalated his threats to take over the Arctic territory. Read More

Every January, gym memberships surge, only to plummet by February as cancellations roll in. We’ve all resolved to shed a few pounds with the New Year, tempted by the latest miracle diet, metabolism hack, or injectable fix. Still, obesity rates and diet burnout continue to climb. Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump says a large bruise on his left hand was caused by bumping it on furniture while in Davos, Switzerland for the World Economic Forum. Read More

Nearly 30 years ago, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon shocked the movie industry when the then-unknown writer-actors sold their script for Good Will Hunting for US$600,000. Read More

Agatha Christie professed a dislike of the cinema, which made for a one-sided relationship. Read More

Much of the country is facing hazardous or severe cold weather warnings going into the weekend, as a "destructive" winter storm from the United States is expected to hit Canada. Read More

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Ryan Wedding, a former Canadian Olympic snowboarder who became a most-wanted fugitive accused of being the boss of a billion-dollar transnational drug trafficking organization has been captured, according to U.S. officials. Read More

QUEBEC CITY — Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand said on Friday that Canada will continue to stay true to its “values” in helping the people of Gaza. Read More

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s well-crafted and eloquently delivered speech at Davos has been widely noted, and I want to start by offering some praise of my own. The Prime Minister is right to restate what many have said for years: Canada must become more self-reliant, less dependent and work with like-minded countries to advance our interests. Conservatives are, as always, willing to work with him to turn these words into results. Read More

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The family of a Canadian backpacker Piper James received preliminary results investigating her death after her body was found on an Australia beach earlier this week. Read More

Our cookbook of the week is Family Thai: Bringing the Flavors of Thailand Home by Arnold Myint and Kat Thompson. Read More

A retired Ottawa business consultant and father has taken on Air Canada and won — twice. Read More

Indigenous women and girls are killed at rates six times higher than non-Indigenous women — yet the perpetrators are frequently convicted of lesser offences than those guilty in the deaths of non-Indigenous victims. Read More

Canadians are divided over whether government support should be offered to protesters in Iran, according to a new poll. Read More

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s address in Davos was polished, ambitious, and deceptively fluent. But it cannot be read in isolation from his remarks in China last week, where he spoke approvingly of a coming “new world order.” Those words are not neutral. They carry a long and troubling history, particularly when invoked in Beijing, where the phrase is often used to justify the erosion of liberal norms in favour of hierarchy, managed markets and political control. Read More

Mark Carney’s speech this week at the World Economic Forum was impactful, if not masterful. It was a state of the union of sorts not only for Canadians, but for the international community to come to grips with what Carney sees as the new world order. By all accounts, he is doing his job — marketing Canada to new trading partners. But in the same breath, he has turned his back on our biggest ally and trading partner (even with tariffs) — the United States. Read More