Canadian relatives of those who were murdered or held hostage by Hamas and Palestinians whose families have been killed by Israel’s bombardment of Gaza greeted the news of a ceasefire with a mixture of cautious optimism and... read more
We have arrived at the place where climate scientists say we shouldn’t be. For the first time, the world’s average annual temperature has exceeded 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels during a calendar year. A report... read more
Twenty-six government bills – including one designed to make voting easier in a general election – have been stopped in their tracks with the halting of Parliament. The bills had yet to pass the parliamentary... read more
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, facing an increasing loss of support within his party and low popularity in polls, says he will resign after just over nine years in office and only months before a federal... read more
Donald Trump’s repeated calls to claim Canada are nothing more than empty threats aimed at winning trade concessions, experts in U.S. relations and defence studies say, as Ontario’s Premier called the idea “ridiculous and a waste... read more
It’s Donald Trump’s new favourite line: The U.S. should annex Canada to erase the American trade deficit with its neighbour to the north. There is no serious movement in either country for any such thing.... read more
Thirteen violent years after Syria first rose up, the Arab Spring has finally prevailed in Damascus. On Sunday, the country got the change it first demanded in February, 2011, when a wave of pro-democracy revolutions was... read more
The federal government is banning even more firearms as it seeks to fulfill a long-standing promise to enact the tightest gun restrictions in a generation, and is also finally getting its much-delayed buyback program off... read more
Nicole Hannah is preparing to tell her two teenage kids that their Christmas presents won’t be coming this year – not on time, at least, as the postal strike drags on. Ms. Hannah had ordered... read more
Israel announced a ceasefire plan with Lebanon after more than a year of war that has brought trauma and destruction to both sides of the border and forced hundreds of thousands of people from their homes. The... read more
U.S. president-elect Donald Trump is vowing to impose 25-per-cent tariffs on all products from Canada and Mexico as soon as he takes office, saying he will keep them in place until both countries crack down... read more
Vladimir Putin has escalated Russia’s hybrid war against the West again and again over the past decade, betting each time that the United States, in particular, will back down before he does. Now Mr. Putin is upping... read more
Three separate Greater Toronto Area police forces are investigating scores of complaints about Taylor Swift concert ticket scams, including one that is alleged to have affected hundreds of people, among them enthusiasts travelling from other... read more
Thousands of Canada Post workers went on strike Friday, after the national postal service and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers failed to reach a deal for a new collective agreement. The strike will significantly... read more
Donald Trump has tapped Matt Gaetz as his attorney-general, seeking to install a man once investigated for alleged sex trafficking as the U.S.’s top justice official. And he has named Tulsi Gabbard as director of... read more
