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
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
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
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
Financial uncertainties for 2025 are piling up, but we at least have a degree of clarity on interest rates and the economy. Twelve months ago, we waited anxiously for interest rates to finally start falling... 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
Karen Man and her husband Elliot Pobjoy did not consider themselves entrepreneurial types until a few years ago. A dentist and a lawyer, respectively, they fit the classic “work your way up while working for... read more
Gift-giving is a life skill and the holidays are the ideal time to teach your kids how to do it in a thoughtful and budget-friendly way. Giving gifts can be a beautiful experience for both... 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
A family of four could pay $800 more for groceries in 2025 because of climate change, labour challenges, new policies and geopolitical events, says a report published Thursday. The 2025 Food Price Report used artificial-intelligence... 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
Cynthia Appiah never imagined herself becoming an Olympic bobsledder. Growing up in Toronto Community Housing as the child of Ghanaian immigrants, she didn’t dream of steering a fiberglass sled down an icy track at breakneck... read more
If you work with yarn and need some guidance, Sharon Hudemka has got you sorted. Along with spinning wheels, needles and other supplies, the owner of Knitting Time in Lethbridge, Alta., carries more than 2,000... 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
