The IOC responded to Katie Uhlaender's appeal for Milan Cortina Olympics spot after Team Canada's withdrawal allegedly affected skeleton qualification points system.

OTTAWA— Members of Parliament on the House of Commons' justice committee voted Monday in favour of pausing its study on a controversial government hate crimes bill, to instead turn its attention to the Liberals' bail reform package.  Read More

Some parts of city were buried under nearly 60cm of snow and over 500 flights were cancelled Sunday

Toronto is beginning to dig itself out from the largest snowfall in the city’s history, a process which officials say is likely to take “several days”.

Some parts of Canada’s largest city were buried under nearly 60cm (about 23in) of snow and more than 500 flights were cancelled Sunday after Toronto’s main airport was snowed in.

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© Photograph: Leyland Cecco/The Guardian

© Photograph: Leyland Cecco/The Guardian

Vowing to put "more money back in Canadians' pockets," Prime Minister Mark Carney announced a new GST rebate in Ottawa on Monday. Formerly known as the Goods and Services Tax (GST) credit, here's what you need to know about the new Canada Groceries and Essentials Benefit. Read More

Canadians are sharing photos of wintery weather after record-breaking snowfall blanketed the Greater Toronto Area on Sunday. Read More

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney said his government is not considering a federal election this spring as Parliament resumed on Monday. Read More

A retired couple's trip from London, Ont., to Kelowna, B.C., to visit family and do a little skiing turned into a "trip from hell" with multiple delays and lost luggage on both the outbound and homeward journeys, they say. Read More

Depuis vendredi, le passage de la tempête de neige Fern a provoqué des conditions quasi apocalyptiques en Amérique du Nord. Du Canada jusqu’au sud des États-Unis, elle a semé le chaos chez plus de 230 millions d’Américains et les images sont toutes plus incroyables les unes que les autres.  

OTTAWA — Alberta and Ontario are two of Canada's biggest provincial economies, but they're going in opposite directions when it comes to building homes for their residents. Read More

Canadian PM Mark Carney pushes back against Trump's 100% tariff threat, firmly denying plans for China free trade deal after recent diplomatic visit.

PM says recent agreement just cuts tariffs on a few sectors, as Trump threatens 100% tariffs on Canadian imports

Canada’s prime minister, Mark Carney, said on Sunday his country had no intention of pursuing a free trade deal with China, responding to Donald Trump’s threat to impose a 100% tariff on goods imported from Canada if the US’s northern neighbour went ahead with a trade deal with Beijing.

Carney said his recent agreement with China merely cut tariffs on a few sectors that were recently hit with them.

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© Photograph: Sean Kilpatrick/AP

© Photograph: Sean Kilpatrick/AP

U.S. President Donald Trump took aim at Canada and China's limited trade deal again on Sunday, one he said "will go down as one of the worst deals, of any kind, in history." Read More

A Team USA skeleton racer who accused Canada of deliberately corrupting the Olympics qualifying process has launched an appeal to be granted a "wildcard" entry to next month's Milan-Cortina Winter Games. Read More

President Donald Trump’s latest tariff threats may signal an early escalation in what’s expected to be months of volatile posturing as the U.S., Canada and Mexico prepare to review their trade pact this year. Read More

Faut-il imposer les mêmes règles aux vélos et aux voitures ? Si la loi actuelle prône l’égalité stricte, elle ignore souvent la réalité du cyclisme. Découvrez les atouts de l’« arrêt Idaho », une approche qui adapte le Code de la route pour mieux concilier sécurité et fluidité urbaine.

Proclaiming America’s post-1945 grand bargain is over, Trump insists there's a price for safety and security in the world — stay tuned. Read More

In the search for stability, some western nations are turning to a country that many in Washington see as an existential threat

If geopolitics relies at least in part on bonhomie between global leaders, China made an unexpected play for Ireland’s good graces when the taoiseach visited Beijing this month. Meeting Ireland’s leader, Micheál Martin, in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China’s president, Xi Jinping, said a favourite book of his as a teenager was The Gadfly, by the Irish author Ethel Voynich, a novel set in the revolutionary fervour of Italy in the 1840s.

“It was unusual that we ended up discussing The Gadfly and its impact on both of us but there you are,” Martin told reporters in Beijing.

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OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney's Liberal government is pushing back against U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest threat to impose 100 per cent tariffs on all Canadian imports if Ottawa makes a trade deal with China, insisting there is no deal in the works. Read More

Les 4 astronautes de la mission Artémis II doivent bientôt décoller pour un voyage lunaire. Mais que se passerait-il si l'un d'eux tombait malade juste avant le grand jour ?

President Donald Trump threatened Canada with 100% tariffs against all its exports to the U.S. if it makes a trade deal with China, escalating tensions between the U.S. and its northern neighbor. Read More

Set for release Jan. 27, Lament for a Literature is the new book from Richard Stursberg, in which he laments the decline of Canadian literature, for which he blames multiple factors. In this excerpt, he addresses the impact of Justin Trudeau's Liberals, arguing they took over a badly weakened cultural sector from the Harper Conservatives and threw money at it without addressing the difficult structural issues affecting it, only making things worse. The government, he said, did not understand "that as Canadian media eroded and Canadians embraced the new foreign digital platforms, they walked away from Canada itself. They no longer consumed Canadian news, laughed at Canadian comedies, read Canadian books, watched Canadian documentaries, or heard the opinions of Canadian experts on domestic social, cultural, political, economic, or historical issues. They effectively left the national conversation and moved to another amorphous, filter-bubbling virtual country." Read More

OTTAWA — The member of Parliament representing Canada's northernmost territory says ever since U.S. President Donald Trump began escalating his desire to control Greenland, constituents have been reaching out, concerned.  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

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