On Oct. 13, United States President Donald Trump told the world and various Middle East leaders at an Egyptian resort, “The skies are calm, the guns are silent, the sirens are still…. This is not only the end of a war, this is the end of an age of terror and death, and the beginning of the age of faith and hope.” They were gathered to sign a historic peace deal that looked impossible to seal for generations. Read More

OTTAWA — The Department of National Defence and Canadian Forces are suing an intelligence watchdog to prevent it from releasing without further redactions a review that found that some of their human intelligence source handling activities may break the law.  Read More

A Quebec man who was paid to illegally smuggle a pregnant woman from Canada into the United States, in a winter plot that ended with her drowning in a freezing river near the border, has pleaded guilty in New York. Read More

Washington — U.S. President Donald Trump held a crucial phone call with Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Thursday, a day before Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky meets the U.S. president to push for Tomahawk missiles. Read More

Justin Trudeau's legacy is a frivolous joke. It's a pair of blue sneakers worn for the throne speech of King Charles and a GQ cover referring to him as "that new suave Canadian leader dude." It's his celebrity pop star girlfriend — and God knows what's next. Compare this with former Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who makes the news when he has something valuable to say about public policy or Canada's role in world affairs. Read More

Last weekend’s American-enforced ceasefire freeing the last living Israeli hostages from Hamas captivity in Gaza can be quite easily described in terms that flatter U.S. President Donald Trump at the expense of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Read More

If admitting you have a problem is the first step toward solving it, then perhaps things are looking just a bit up at Canada's public broadcaster. Catherine Tait, CBC’s spectacularly out-of-touch Brooklyn-based president, is gone. And CBC’s new five-year strategic plan, revealed this week by recently installed president Marie-Philippe Bouchard, correctly diagnoses several of the Crown corporation’s problems: Young people don’t consume its content very much, and nor do western and rural Canadians, and nor do new Canadians. Read More

Rep. Dave Taylor (R-Ohio) said he requested that the U.S. Capitol Police investigate an American flag with a swastika on it found Tuesday in his office. Read More

A B.C. man originally given house arrest after admitting to drugging, sexually assaulting and taking nude photos of his blacked out sister-in-law will now spend time in a federal prison. Read More

Ontario Premier Doug Ford's government is facing quite a flap over how the province treats internationally trained doctors. It is giving priority for medical residency applications to those who grew up in Ontario, but took their medical degree abroad. That has sparked charges of unfairness and discrimination. Read More

Canada is "relatively successful" at attracting highly educated immigrants, but their counterparts in the United States earn more and have access to better opportunities, a new study says. Read More

They blindfolded eight men accused of collaborating with Israel, made them kneel and executed them at point-blank range on a busy street in Gaza City. They sent jeeps filled with fighters to pursue the Astal militia, whose leader said it coordinates with Israel and had recently taken up arms alongside other gangs. Read More

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney says his Liberal government has "learned lessons" when it comes to criminals' access to bail and is preparing to undo some measures from past governments, including his predecessor's. Read More

Madrid (AFP) -- The European Union's top court ruled Thursday that a dog travelling in an aeroplane's cargo hold counts as baggage, meaning airlines are not required to pay higher compensation if the animal is lost. Read More

A rumoured summer romance between Justin Trudeau and Katy Perry was confirmed last week via photos of the pair reportedly canoodling atop her yacht in California recently, vaulting them into the stratosphere of the most talked-about celebrity couple conversation. Read More

A new study published this week in the Lancet Journal of Health Longevity is reinforcing the negative effects of smoking on cognitive health and offering new evidence to support quitting among seniors. Read More

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Film buffs will tell you that Frankenstein, the newest tale from writer/director Guillermo del Toro, is the movie he’s been working on his whole life. And the filmmaker, who just turned 61 last week, confirms it. Read More

Someone presenting themselves as a Montreal professor took to social media on the weekend to suggest a peculiar approach to dealing with “hardcore Zionists.” The advice: “Kill them all.” Read More

Skepticism of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s stated desire to fast-track development in Canada is warranted. But we don’t have to wait forever, or even for long, to see how genuine he is: all he has to do is greenlight Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s plan for a new pipeline, and it’ll be clear where he stands. Read More

The erosion of liberal education in Canada’s kindergarten to Grade 12 schools is no longer a matter for speculation — it is now undeniable. Thirty years ago, Peter Emberley and Waller Newell’s Bankrupt Education (1994) offered a prophetic warning. They diagnosed a “crisis of public confidence” in our schools, highlighting the rise of a “vague and value-laden” curriculum in which “substance” was giving way to “social experimentation.” Students and teachers, they claimed, were reduced to guinea pigs in a system steadily abandoning knowledge, intellectual rigour, and preparation for higher education. Read More