OTTAWA — The Conservative party added more detail Wednesday to its leader's plan to shrink the federal public service, saying the bureaucracy could be cut by 17,000 jobs a year just by not replacing employees who leave their jobs. Read More

OTTAWA — Quebec Premier François Legault says his government will be "very, very careful" with the border because it does not want to "end up with a new Roxham" after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to expel migrants. Read More

Much has been made of the U.S. presidential tool known as an executive order in recent days. Read More

OTTAWA — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has gained two allies in her push to take energy exports off the table, as Canada's first ministers ponder a response to United States President Donald Trump's threatened 25 per cent tariff on all Canadian goods. Read More

A former Haitian soldier Canada's immigration minister believes was involved in an attempted coup on the troubled Caribbean island has won another chance to stay here as a refugee. Read More

Brad Neufeld, the vice-president of a Toronto-based health-care firm, was in Tel Aviv when the first sirens went off on Oct. 7, 2023. It was early Saturday morning, and Hamas terrorists had hit Israel with everything they had, murdering, raping and kidnapping civilians. Read More

The Canadian Armed Forces is no longer automatically disqualifying applicants with certain medical conditions such as allergies and ADHD, as it works to improve its numbers and grow the size of Canada's military. Read More

The president said he will impose tariffs Feb. 1 on products from Canada, Mexico and China, countries that together account for more than a third of U.S. trade.

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From inside a Canadian immigration detention facility in British Columbia, Antony Vo, an Indiana man and ardent Donald Trump supporter, was able to watch as the newly inaugurated U.S. president announced and then signed an executive order to pardon over 1,500 Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot convicts. Read More

MONTREAL -- A Quebec coroner says a 44-year-old Haitian man who was found dead in 2023 after trying to cross into the United States likely experienced hypothermia before drowning in shallow water. Read More

MONTREAL -- Amazon Canada says it is closing all seven of its warehouses in Quebec over the next two months. Read More

Two suspects involved in a fatal gunfight that left a U.S. Border Patrol agent dead near the Canadian border stayed six nights at a Vermont hotel before the highway confrontation — and were keen on privacy, always wearing medical face masks, according to hotel staff. Read More

If an election were called in Ontario today, a new poll suggests the voters would hand Premier Doug Ford a clear victory. Read More

OTTAWA – Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says he will shrink the federal public service and wants to find ways to monitor bureaucrats' productivity, because “work isn’t getting done." Read More

The president wants to begin renegotiating a U.S. trade deal with Canada and Mexico earlier than a scheduled 2026 review, people familiar with his thinking said.

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OTTAWA -- Groups representing U.S. businesses and big tech companies are warning the CRTC that its efforts to modernize Canadian content rules could worsen trade relations with the United States. Read More

Netflix is raising its prices in Canada. Read More

The president said the planned duties were a response to China’s failure to curb fentanyl exports.

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TORONTO -- A Canadian global health specialist says staff at the World Health Organization are "devastated" by President Donald Trump's executive order to pull the U.S. out of the agency. Read More

A masked man wielding two knives attacked a dog in a park near Toronto's tony Rosedale neighbourhood, stabbing the pet multiple times before fleeing, police said. Read More

New details on a deadly gunfight between a U.S. Border Patrol agent and the occupants of a car stopped on a highway just south of the Canadian border names the agent killed as David “Chris” Maland and the civilian who died as a German national legally in the U.S. on a valid visa. Read More

OTTAWA — A majority of Americans oppose U.S. President Donald Trump's statements about expanding the country's territory and slapping tariffs on trade partners, including when it comes to Canada, a new survey suggests.  Read More

OTTAWA — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said Tuesday she continues to favour cross-border diplomacy over retaliatory threats, even with newly installed President Donald Trump pledging to bring in across-the-board 25 per cent tariffs on Canada and Mexico by Feb. 1.  Read More

Innovative organist with the Band, the rock group who changed the way their contemporaries thought about music

His high forehead and long, bushy beard, suggestive of a country preacher or a backwoods boffin, offered an early sign that Garth Hudson, who has died aged 87, was bringing something different to the world of rock music in the 1960s. As the organist with the Hawks, who backed Bob Dylan on a famous series of concerts before turning into the Band, he looked and sounded like a figure from a different age, or perhaps one in whom many ages and cultures were being magically combined.

Music from Big Pink, the Band’s widely influential first album, released in 1968, bore witness to a process to which each of the five musicians – four Canadians and an American – made a distinctive and equal contribution. Levon Helm, the drummer, awakened memories of the old South. Robbie Robertson played guitar with a rare and pointed economy. Rick Danko, the bassist, evoked the intimacy of backporch music-making. Richard Manuel, the pianist, sang with an aching fragility. And Hudson, an enigmatic figure half-hidden behind his organ console, brought the sound of mystery.

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