Opioid deaths in Canada fell 26 per cent between October 2024 and September 2025 compared with the previous 12-month period, according to new data from the federal government. Read More

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The G7 summit of world powers in France is being chaired by President Emmanuel Macron as host but on Wednesday his guest US President Donald Trump left no doubt over who he believed was in charge. Read More

EVIANS-LES-BAINS, FRANCE Prime Minister Mark Carney wrapped up his appearance at the G7 Leaders Summit on Wednesday, having had several conversations with U.S. President Donald Trump on a range of issues, despite no bilateral meeting. Read More

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OTTAWA Mark Carneys Liberal government is using its majority to expedite the adoption of some controversial bills in the last week of sitting in the House of Commons, just before MPs head off to their constituencies for the barbecue circuit this summer. Read More

As details of U.S. President Donald Trumps new Iran framework agreement begin to emerge, Jewish organizations and policy experts said that questions remain whether its terms go far enough and if Tehran can be trusted to adhere to them. Read More

BRUSSELS, Belgium -- European lawmakers are to give final approval Wednesday to tougher migration rules that will grant authorities broader powers to detain irregular arrivals and allow for the creation of deportation centres outside the bloc. Read More

EVIANS-LES-BAINS, FRANCE Prime Minister Mark Carney says he has seen the Iran peace deal brokered by the United States and calls it a "gamechanger" for how leaders could approach a peace process with Ukraine and Russia. Read More

Ghana midfielder Thomas Partey, who is facing trial on rape charges in Britain, lost a court challenge on Tuesday that would have allowed him to enter Canada for his side's World Cup opener in Toronto. Read More

Three young women and two environmental groups on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against the Canadian government seeking to force it to develop an action plan to meet its key climate goals. Read More

OTTAWA Prime Minister Mark Carney has missed so many question periods in the House of Commons that he hit a new milestone worth celebrating or not with a sweet treat. Read More

Its Tuesday, June 16. Here are the top stories were following today. Read More

Marc Miller, federal minister for Canadian identity and culture, refused to weigh in on an evolving controversy surrounding the upcoming "Nakba" exhibit at the Canadian Museum of Human Rights, under Conservative questioning in the House of Commons on Tuesday afternoon. Read More

When Rogers stunned the hockey world in the fall of 2013 by scooping up the whole of the NHLs national broadcast rights in Canada, Hubert Lacroix, then the head of the CBC, was at the press conference, like a guest at his own funeral. Read More

If events in Orillia, Ontario are anything to go by, reconciliation in the Canada of 2026 seems to mean that if a few angry Indigenous protesters don't want something to happen, they get a veto. Read More

A study released Monday by the think tank says Alberta's relatively high employment rates, higher average incomes, and younger population mean the province makes an outsized contribution, paying more to federal revenues and national programs than it receives in transfers and federal spending. Read More

It was a tempest in a tree pot. On Sunday, Prime Minister Mark Carney was accused of planting a tree still in its protective plastic pot while in Ireland. Read More

OTTAWA The majority Liberal government is pulling out the "guillotine" for one of its most contentious pieces of legislation, moving to give MPs until Friday to pass its controversial bill facilitating police and intelligence agencies ability to intercept and collect personal information. Read More

EVIANS-LES-BAINS, FRANCE Prime Minister Mark Carney defended Canadas Chinese electric vehicle deal with China to U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday, an agreement that has been criticized by the U.S. administration and the auto sector. Read More

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EVIANS-LES-BAINS, FRANCE - Prime Minister Mark Carney announced a fresh round of sanctions against Russia on Tuesday, telling Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that a Ukrainian victory in the four-year conflict is not in doubt. Read More

Canadians arent big on civil disobedience, at least not if it comes with consequences. Theyll march, occupy, beset, harass and intimidate, but theyll generally insist they have a constitutional right to do all that in the name of protest. The most famous civil rights icons knew they would get arrested, and knew it could be much worse than that. But most modern protesters dont want to risk missing a day of work or board-game night, or having to pay a fine, on behalf of their principles. Read More

Last week the United Nations agency responsible for Gaza fired 70 of its workers amid allegations of deep ties to Hamas terrorists in the enclave. Read More

Four years ago, I wrote an op-ed arguing that the World Cup should not be used as a veneer that lets the Islamic Republic of Iran pass itself off as a normal country. Today, as the 2026 World Cup gets underway throughout North America, FIFA has managed to do something I did not think possible: it has taken the side of the regime, over the very people it oppresses. Read More

A judge has reserved a decision on whether a transgender inmate being held at a men's prison, Amanda Cooper, should be moved to a women's facility. Read More

The United States and Iranannounced Sunday nightthat they had agreed to a 60-day ceasefire that will reopen the Strait of Hormuz and end the American naval blockade of Iranian ports. Whether this constitutes a victory for Washington or Tehran remains unclear, as both sides have providedwildly different accountsof what was conceded. Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump keeps repeating that the Strait of Hormuz through which one fifth of the worlds oil and liquefied natural gas supplies normally flow will reopen by Friday. Read More

The European Union opened membership talks with Ukraine and Moldova after the new Hungarian government dropped its opposition, kickstarting a process that will likely take years to complete. Read More

OTTAWA The federal Liberal government will be handing responsibilities for enforcing new privacy provisions to the recently announced digital regulator that will steer the government's online safety regime. Read More