WASHINGTON, D.C. — Pay 50 per cent on raw metal shipments — while other industries pay 25 per cent tariffs on the full price of finished goods containing those metals — or move production. Read More

Nowhere has the progressive takeover of our institutions been more complete, or more destructive, than in British Columbia. Thankfully, the Opposition B.C. Conservative Party has the opportunity to elect a leader (voting starts May 9) whose platform is a beacon of hope for the province and indeed the rest of Canada. Caroline Elliott, a longtime B.C. activist and commentator, doesn't just want to bring in minor reforms to staunch the bleeding, she is pledging to gut the whole operation and build it anew. Conservatives across Canada take note, if Elliott wins the leadership and then wins power, B.C. will be leading the way on what a Conservative government can achieve. Read More

Mounties are still investigating the disappearance of Lilly and Jack Sullivan a year after the children went missing from their home in northeastern Nova Scotia. Read More

OTTAWA — Liberal MP Jonathan Wilkinson says he's accepted an offer from Prime Minister Mark Carney to serve as Canada's Ambassador to the European Union. Read More

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An Ontario man found not criminally responsible for stabbing an 83-year-old stranger in the eye after using crystal methamphetamine and smoking two or three cannabis joints has seen his drug ban lifted. Read More

Toronto has started tunnelling on its new subway route. The Ontario Line will open up 15 stops between Exhibition Place, west of downtown, and the old location of the Ontario Science Centre in North York. The project is over 15 kilometres long, with more than half of the line running underground. Read More

After more than a day of scratching at his protruding brain implant until it bled, Kenny, a research macaque who lives inside a York University lab, reportedly pulled out the implant from his right ear, revealing an oozing wound. Read More

An increasingly toxic drug supply is having a knock-on effect on Canada's already overloaded emergency rooms, forcing doctors to balance reversing overdoses while avoiding users going into such severe withdrawal they endanger others. Read More

The weekend attack at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner was at least the third attempt to assassinate President Donald Trump. It also threatened administration officials, journalists, and the people assigned to protect them — a Secret Service agent was injured. Unfortunately, it was just the latest incident in a rising tide of shootings, fire-bombings, and other politically motivated acts of violence that currently plagues the United States. Read More

I don't know about you, but I'm in favour of Canada being strong. Read More

King Charles III made America sound older than 250 during his visit this week to Washington, D.C., in advance of the semiquincentennial anniversary of the U.S. Declaration of Independence on July 4. In his speech to Congress on Tuesday, His Majesty joked that Britain and America shared everything but language. President Donald Trump replied with his own banter and royal compliments during a state dinner that evening. Read More