Milan, Italy — A branch of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sent to Italy for the Winter Olympics will not carry out patrols and will have only an "advisory" role, Washington's ambassador to Rome said on Wednesday. Read More

Operation Metro Surge, U.S. President Donald Trump’s urban immigration crackdown, is floundering. Gregory Bovino, the almost cartoonishly villainous head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been put out to pasture and will reportedly soon retire. Two American citizens are dead in Minnesota at the hands of ICE, and even many staunch Republicans are struggling to square ICE’s versions of events with the significant video evidence. Read More

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the Trump administration is prepared to use force to ensure that Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez cooperates with the U.S., while hoping that self-interest will motivate her to advance key American objectives. Read More

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has once again directed pointed remarks toward Canadian prime minister Mark Carney. Read More

A former Vice Media employee who was convicted of helping arrange cocaine smuggling into Australia — a plot that ended with the arrest of five drug mules carrying bricks of cocaine — spent a morning in jail Wednesday while three judges heard arguments on his appeal. Read More

OTTAWA — Ontario Premier Doug Ford said on Wednesday that the possibility of the separatist Parti Québécois winning the upcoming elections in the neighbouring province of Quebec would be a “disaster” for Canada. Read More

OTTAWA — Police and political leaders in more than half of Canada have so far rejected taking any part in the federal government's firearms compensation program.  Read More

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US Representative Ilhan Omar was charged at by a man who appeared to squirt an unknown liquid on her during a town hall gathering in Minneapolis, as she called for consequences for the federal officials overseeing President Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration policies. Read More

A minor earthquake with a magnitude of 3.7 was felt in parts of Ontario last night. Read More

U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra created the diplomatic equivalent to a sonic boom recently by stating that if Canada doesn’t go ahead with the purchase of 88 F-35 fighter jets, that will mean the United States would have to buy more of the advanced fighter aircraft for its own air force, and fly them more often into Canadian airspace to address threats approaching the U.S. Read More

I was thinking it would be funny to write a column in deadpan tone praising Donald Trump for his superbly executed four-dimensional-chess plan to revive the popularity of the Second Amendment. Sadly, I don’t have either the guts or the heart to do it. But we Canadians have already witnessed a period in which Rosedale Liberals openly fantasize about forming their own Viet Cong to resist American military incursion. Now an American city has become the scene of a simmering low-level civil war, and a gun owner with a license to carry has been disarmed and then slain by federal agents in the street in front of an entire panopticon of cameras. Read More

As the Conservatives prepare for their annual convention in Calgary this weekend, hostile voices are trying to undermine them. They are being told to be less hard-edged, to reject populism, to be respectable “team players.” Read More

SDEROT, Israel — Beijing, Doha, Davos. In just over a week, Prime Minister Mark Carney managed to tell the world that his geopolitical acumen is non-existent. Read More

Prime Minister Mark Carney announced on Monday that he’d ordered the drafting of a national strategy to “(strengthen) domestic food production.” Which was laughable, considering that only days before, the federal government began closing down seven of its critical agricultural research sites. Read More

Canada is undergoing a quiet but profound erosion of national cohesion, authority and cultural confidence. At every level of government, political leadership has increasingly substituted ideological appeasement for the basic responsibilities of maintaining social order, enforcing the law and protecting the integrity of Canadian citizenship. Read More

There are three sides that should know what really happened last week in Mexico when Ryan Wedding was taken into custody by the FBI: the U.S. government, Mexico's government and Wedding himself. Read More

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OTTAWA — Canada's Liberals have received another boost in voter support after Prime Minister Mark Carney's recent tour to China and Davos, Switzerland, with nearly half of Canadians now saying they would likely vote Liberal if a federal election were held today. Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Prime Minister Mark Carney told the world at Davos last week that Canada is building strength at home amid a rupture in globalization and positioning itself as a middle power that similar nations can trust to be a responsible leader in the diplomatic arena. Read More

OTTAWA — When Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre takes the stage at his party's convention on Friday night, he will be  facing two very different audiences.  Read More

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un oversaw the test of an upgraded large-caliber multiple rocket system designed for specific attacks as the nation seeks to raise its deterrent against nuclear war, state media reported on Wednesday. Read More

Brazil's Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and France's Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday defended the United Nations in the wake of U.S. President Donald Trump's creation of a "Board of Peace." Read More