OTTAWA Prime Minister Mark Carney announced on Monday morning the creation of Canada's first national sovereign wealth fund, starting with an initial endowment of $25 billion. Read More

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday convened coalition leaders and top ministers to prepare for a possible collapse of the U.S.-Iran talks, according to Hebrew media reports. Read More

Two of Albertas biggest unions advertised in favour of a petition to keep the province in Canada, with the labour groups spending more than 40 times those of the organizations who backed Albertas pro-separatist effort, according to a provincial public registry. Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump welcomed King Charles III to the White House for a visit fraught with doubt about the future of Britains so-called special relationship with America and fresh security concerns in the wake of the shooting at the White House correspondents dinner. Read More

France said Monday that Iran must be ready to make "major concessions" to end a crisis, as countries piled pressure on Tehran at a UN session on its control of the key Strait of Hormuz. Read More

Prime Minister Mark Carney told the CBC hes in no hurry to sign a minor deal for tariff relief with the U.S., arguing that other governments that have done so arent happy with the results. Read More

Its Monday, April 27. Here are the top stories were following today. Read More

As the world burns, Vancouver Operas season closer La Bohme is on track to become the highest-grossingoperain the company's 66-year history, surpassing the record formerly held by the 2023-2024 season production ofCarmen. Read More

OTTAWA Artificial Intelligence Minister Evan Solomon will be among the ministers that parents and children rallying for federal government action to better protect kids online will meet Monday, after concerns were expressed that the minister did not have the time. Read More

His Majesty King Charles III and Her Majesty Queen Camilla arrived in Washington, DC, Monday for Charles's first visit to the United States as King, following his ascension in 2022. However, the Royals won't be seeing Charles' son Harry, who now lives in the U.S. Here's what to know about their itinerary. Read More

Elon Musk's courtroom showdown with Sam Altman got underway here Monday with the start of jury selection in a trial over the billionaire's accusation that his OpenAI co-founders betrayed a non-profit mission to build artificial intelligence for the good of humanity and not for the money. Read More

Several airline executives have indicated that the current high ticket prices may become the new normal, even if cost pressures ease. Read More

A California man accused of storming a gala dinner attended by President Donald Trump was to appear in court Monday over a shooting that marked the latest spasm of political violence in deeply divided America. Read More

When someone who spent decades inside a police service starts raising concerns publicly, people pay attention. Former Toronto police homicide inspector Hank Idsinga has done exactly that, and what he has alleged should concern every resident of this city. Read More

OTTAWA Alexandre Boulerice, the NDPs lone Quebec MP, has announced he will be seeking the nomination for Qubec solidaire (QS) in the Montreal riding of Gouin and that he will be sitting as an independent MP until the election set to happen in the fall. Read More

OTTAWA Prime Minister Mark Carney announced the creation of a sovereign wealth fund one day ahead of his governments spring fiscal update, with an initial endowment of $25 billion. Read More

Former Newfoundland premier Brian Peckford is the one man still alive who was personally in the room with then-prime minister Pierre Trudeau when the provinces and the federal government agreed, together, to a new Constitution Act and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. He talks to Brian Lilley about the real basis for Section 33 the notwithstanding clause and how it came into being. He explains why the story that the federal government is telling about the clauses alleged misuse is false, why Ottawas attempts to override it are unconstitutional and why the Supreme Court has no authority to weigh in on its use, as the justices are now doing at the justice ministers request. (Recorded April 17, 2026.) Read More

The suspected attacker in a shooting that plunged a press gala attended by U.S. President Donald Trump into chaos has been identified by news media as a 31-year-old mechanical engineer from California. Read More

Efforts to resume peace talks over the Iran war stalled after U.S. President Donald Trump cancelled a planned trip by his top envoys and the Islamic Republic said it wont negotiate so long as its being threatened. Read More

The man accused of storming the White House Correspondents Dinner spent years quietly acquiring his arsenal, purchasing a shotgun from a Torrance, California, firearms dealer eight months before the attack and a semi-automatic pistol two years earlier, according to a law enforcement intelligence profile reviewed by Bloomberg. Read More

In early April after a month of disruption around one of the worlds most important energy chokepoints U.S. President Donald Trump wrote that with a little more time, we can easily OPEN THE HORMUZ STRAIT, TAKE THE OIL, & MAKE A FORTUNE. Read More

President Donald Trump jumped on Saturday nights shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner to add a security rationale to his case for building a massive White House ballroom that he has wanted for years. Read More

Manitoba plans to prohibit young people from accessing social media and artificial intelligence chatbots, said Wab Kinew. Read More

More than three years after acquiring Twitter, Elon Musk says hes nearing his long-stated goal of turning it into an everything app with a new financial services tool that he pledged to launch for the public this month. Read More

To say the special relationship is going through a rough patch ahead of King Charles IIIs visit would be an exercise in British understatement. Read More

World leaders expressed shock after a shooter charged a glitzy media gala in Washington on Saturday night attended by U.S. President Donald Trump and relief that there were no casualties. Read More

Investigators on Sunday said the gunman who tried to storm a gala dinner attended by U.S. President Donald Trump planned to target top government officials, as scrutiny grew over the event's security. Read More

Canadians now have just days before the April 30 deadline to file their taxes. Read More

Two Australian academics working in celebrity studiespublished an article this monththat refers to J.K. Rowlings fame in the past tense andarguesthat Rowling has morphed into the evilfictionalsupervillain of her own series. Read More

We sometimes forget that the bad economic policy choices of U.S. politicians often pale in comparison to those of their counterparts in other countries. The result is that, despite the governments best efforts, Americans are growing more prosperous at a faster rate than their peers elsewhere. The divergence is happening so rapidly, the U.K.s Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) recently pointed out, that Britons (among others) lose track of how quickly theyre falling behind Americans wealth and living standards. A return to free-market principles could help to once again even the score. Read More