Brazilian lawmakers voted to override President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s veto of a bill to reduce Jair Bolsonaro’s prison sentence, dealing another major blow to the leftist leader ahead of his reelection bid this year. Read More

A new poll from Leger has found Liberal voters are more likely to support the use of the notwithstanding clause than Conservatives. This despite the fact that the Carney government submitted a written document to the Supreme Court last fall calling on the court to put limits on the use of the clause, which could be gutted by the court in its eventual ruling. Read More

A Brampton, Ont., man who abducted a nine-year-old boy has failed to convince a judge it was a "cultural misunderstanding." Read More

The Metropolitan police of London, U.K. have released bodycam footage showing the moment when two officers arrested a man suspected of stabbing two Jewish men in north-west London neighbourhood, Golders Green. Read More

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney is hitting back against what Liberals call "disinformation" about the state of private property rights in British Columbia amid Indigenous land title claims. Read More

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney said Thursday that politicians travelling to Washington who are not part of his government often return home not having learned "anything new" about Canada-U.S. trade. Read More

Where are the parents? That’s the first question that arises in response to Ontario’s astonishingly large rate of school absenteeism. The provincial government expects students to show up for class 90 per cent of the time, which seems fairly lax. And yet, only 40 per cent of students meet that standard in secondary schools. In elementary schools it's 55 per cent. Read More

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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