The U.S. airstrikes on Saturday at three Iranian nuclear facilities will undoubtedly raise tensions in the Middle East, but have almost certainly made the world a safer place. Read More

OTTAWA Prime Minister Mark Carney lowered expectations on Monday about reaching an agreement with the United States for an economic and security pact by July 21. Read More

A British Columbia professor who is trapped in Iran says he's been told by officials there's "almost nothing" the Canadian government can do to help him and his family. Read More

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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told ABC News on Monday morning that Iran was an "imminent threat" and that President Donald Trump is the "first president with the guts to actually do something about it." She was definitive about the outcome of the surprise U.S. strikes against Iran over the weekend, saying they "took away Iran's ability to create a nuclear bomb." American stealth bombers, fighter jets and a submarine struck Iran with bombs and missiles joining Israel's attempt to wipe out Iran's nuclear program. Read More

Among the many concerns surrounding the ongoing conflict involving Israel, Iran and the United States is the state of the Strait of Hormuz, a vital shipping lane for much of the world's oil and natural gas. Here's what to know. Read More

A 42-year-old man is facing a murder charge after police confirmed partial human remains found last month in a Hamilton landfill are those of a woman who was last heard from in December. Read More

Iran fired missiles at a U.S. air base in Qatar in retaliation for President Donald Trumps weekend airstrikes on three of its nuclear facilities. Read More

A total of 145 people in France were reportedly assaulted with syringes while attending a country-wide street music festival over the weekend. Read More

Correctional Service Canada says a convicted killer has escaped from a prison in Quebec's Laurentians region. Read More

U.S. rapper Kanye West, who released a song in May glorifying Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, will perform at a rap festival in Bratislava in July, the organizers said on Monday. Read More

Yvette Shmilovitz, a 95-year-old Holocaust survivor, was confirmed Monday as the fourth fatality when an Iranian missile struck the Israeli city of Petah Tikva on June 16. Read More

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The Israeli Air Force struck key regime targets across Tehran on Monday, including a headquarters of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Read More

Blame the heat dome hanging over Ontario and Quebec for some of the strange weather hitting other parts of the country. Read More

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He's the most valuable player. The scoring champion. And now, an NBA champion along with NBA Finals MVP. Read More

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Israeli Defense Minister Gideon Saar on Sunday condemned the suicide bombing in a church in the Dweila neighborhood of Syrias capital that killed at least 20 people and injured dozens more earlier in the day. Read More

An Anti-Canada Day barbeque and fundraiser will be hosted in Montreal on July 1 by the McGill students' union, a group called the Palestinian Feminist Collective and other equally worthy student activist groups. Read More

On June 14, as Minnesota police sought a man who allegedly murdered a state lawmaker and her husband and shot another and his wife, I was working security in front of an Arizona synagogue, wearing body armour and packing a pistol and pepper spray. As they arrived, members of the congregation, worried by a recent Molotov cocktail attack on Jews in Boulder, Colo., the double murder at the Jewish museum in Washington, D.C. and tensions over the war between Israel and Iran, thanked me for accepting the rabbis request to help out. Well, of course; my wife was inside. Adding to fears were the No Kings protests some of which turned into riots scheduled that day nationwide. Read More

Forty years after the Air India bombing, the worst terrorist attack in Canadian history, more than half of Canadians say that it has never been treated like a national tragedy. Read More

OTTAWA Federal Justice Minister Sean Fraser says he is "open" to including the term "femicide" in the Criminal Code, which has long been called for by researchers and advocates looking to shine a spotlight on the issue of the killing of women and girls. Read More

A suicide bomber in Syria opened fire then detonated an explosive vest inside a Greek Orthodox church filled with people praying on Sunday, killing at least 22 and wounding 63 others, state media reported. Read More

A Quebec man who drove into pedestrians with his pickup truck in a rural town, killing three people and injuring nine others, was found guilty of first-degree murder by a jury Saturday. Read More

Russia shows no signs it plans to wind down its war in Ukraine, with an estimated 695,000 troops deployed across an expanded front line and another 121,000 in strategic reserve, according to Ukraines commander-in-chief Oleksandr Syrskyi. Read More

The Carney government largely failed to help Canadian citizens safely and quickly exit Israel as Iran began its deadly bombardment of civilian areas late last week, according to two evacuees. Read More

John McCallum, a former Liberal cabinet minister and a mainstay of 21st-century Canadian politics, has died at age 75, his family confirms. Read More

The Bank of Canada will get a fresh look at national inflation figures this week a picture that's been particularly murky as of late amid tax changes and trade wars. Read More

Its June: the western worlds Holy Month of Pride, and, as such, we must all be on our best behaviour so as not to offend the delicate sensibilities of gender activists you know, the ones that occupy the latter half of the expanding LGBTQ2S+ acronym. Read More