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Tankers anchored in the Strait of Hormuz off the coast of Qeshm Island, Iran, on Saturday.

Iran reverses course on opening Strait of Hormuz, fires on ships

Revolutionary Guard gunboats open fire, with unknown projectile causing damage to container: British military

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A member of Canada's Special Operations Forces mentors officers from Niger during the Flintlock military exercise near Jacqueville, Ivory Coast, in 2023.

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Canada skips U.S.-sponsored military exercise in Africa as it reviews resources

Decision could signal that Department of National Defence is stretched thin, with growing list of commitments elsewhere, analyst says

Geoffrey York and Steven Chase

3 min read

The country is behind in the global drone race. But not for long

As the federal government spends billions on military modernization, Canadian drone innovators are vying to meet the moment in the sky, on land and in the water

Pippa Norman

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Police are set to provide an update today in the case of an Ontario man accused of selling a lethal substance to individuals at risk of self-harm. Kenneth Law appears in court in Brampton, Ont., Wednesday, May 3, 2023 in an artist's sketch. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Alexandra Newbould

Kenneth Law to plead guilty to assisting suicide, 14 murder charges to be dropped: Crown e-mails

Ontario man alleged to have mailed toxic salts to people globally; prosecutors’ message to two family members indicate guilty pleas will resolve the case

Colin Freeze and Mike Hager

3 min read

Iranians gather around a bonfire amid anti-government protests as they chant “You’re the pervert. You’re the whore. I’m a free woman” on the streets in Iran in 2022. The chant, which became widespread during the 2022 uprising and beyond, is a declaration of defiance and liberation against the state’s enforcement of strict dress codes and its policing of women’s bodies. Photo by Parisa Azadi. Video Source: Vahid Online

With literal flames, photographer reframes pictures of Iran’s protests

Iranian-Canadian photojournalist Parisa Azadi uses altered instant photographs to examine protest imagery, memory and risk

Aisling Murphy and Photography by Parisa Azadi

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In this image provided by NASA, the Artemis II crew captured this view of Earth on April 6 as they flew around the Moon.

opinion

As we continue to explore space, we must keep human health in mind

Humans have been flying to space for 65 years. Much has been learned about how space affects the body since then

Scott Solomon

6 min read

A resident of south east Calgary checks for mail in his Canada Post super box in Calgary, Alberta.

These are the first postal codes Canada Post is converting to community mailboxes

Thirteen communities across Canada will be converted in late 2026 and early 2027

Sarah Wallace

2 min read

The University of Toronto's downtown campus in October, 2025.

In the midst of ‘cancel culture,’ universities create ways to encourage uncomfortable debate

Some academics and administrators worry that students are no longer able to freely express the broadest range of thought

Joe Friesen

5 min read

How we live

Home of the Week: A modern Prince Edward County farmhouse found online

The owner found the property on a site that flips old houses and watched it transform from a construction zone to his home

Home of the Week, 456 Cold Creek Rd., Hillier, Ont.

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How Modern Whore made the leap from the bedroom to the strip club to the big screen

Andrea Werhun in Modern Whore (2025) Modern Whore film stills.

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review

The Last Titans sizes up the leaders of England and France during war and its aftermath

David Shribman

FILE - In this Nov. 12, 1944 file photo, Britain's Prime Minister Winston Churchill, left, and General Charles De Gaulle, centre, salute at France's Unknown Warrior at the Arc De Triomphe in Paris. Though allies in World War II, De Gaulle twice vetoed Britain's application in the 1960s to join what was then known as the European Economic Community. On Wednesday, April 10 2019, British Prime Minister Theresa May is to ask EU leaders in Brussels for an extension to Britain's departure from the European Union. French President Emmanuel Macron has been taking a hard-line ahead of the summit. (AP Photo, File)

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Indigenous-owned KWE Cocktails brings the flavours of northern boreal forests to consumers

Sarah Kate

KWE Cocktails
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A boreal-inspired mocktail celebrating the Festival REGARD, featuring the richness of wild cranberries and forest flavors that transport you straight to northern nature.

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The hidden stories behind jersey numbers

Bruce Grierson

Toronto Blue Jays starting pitcher Dylan Cease (84) pitches to the Los Angeles Dodgers during the second inning at Rogers Centre.

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How a simple question could help reduce youth homelessness

Erin Anderssen and Yang Sun

Amber Dougherty, program manager at RAFT, sits in one of the rooms at the shelter for at-risk youth in downtown St. Catharines, Ontario, on Friday, March 6, 2026. (Nick Iwanyshyn/The Globe and Mail)

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Deputy minister who breached conflict of interest rules should have said she made a mistake, expert says

Marie Woolf

National Defence Deputy Minister Christiane Fox waits to appear as witnesses at the Standing Committee on Public Accounts in Ottawa on April 13.

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Cosmic catcher: At 25, the iconic Canadarm2 has quietly become an all-star on the International Space Station

Ivan Semeniuk

2005-08-03 - Mission STS-114 was known as “The Return to Flight,” being the first shuttle launch since the Columbia tragedy. Among its many tasks, Canadarm2 assisted astronauts during their spacewalks. In this image, NASA astronaut Stephen Robinson is held aloft by Canadarm2 during the crew’s third spacewalk. (Credit: NASA)

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How the promise of AI is taking hold at Canada’s biggest banks

Stefanie Marotta

Maksims Volkovs, chief AI scientist at TD's Layer 6, and Luke Gee, the bank's chief analytics and AI officer, stand in the soon-to-be-expanded office of Layer 6 in Toronto's MaRS Discovery District.

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Toronto abandons plan to charge entry to FIFA World Cup fan zones

Andrea Woo

Fans in Toronto watch the FIFA World Cup group draw take place on Dec. 5, 2025.

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Pope Leo downplays feud with Trump, says ‘not in my interest’ to debate him

Pope Leo XIV arrives at the Luanda International Airport in Angola on Saturday, the sixth day of his tour of Africa.

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Lyrid meteor shower is visible now and peaking soon. Here’s how to spot it

FILE - The milky way and traces of meteors illuminate the sky over Burg on the Baltic Sea island of Fehmarn, northern Germany, April 20, 2018. (Daniel Reinhardt/dpa via AP, File)

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Nova Scotians mourn on sixth anniversary of deadliest mass shooting in Canada

A woman pays her respects at a roadblock in Portapique, N.S. on Wednesday, April 22, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan

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Raptors tap pianist Tony Ann to craft neoclassical sound for playoff hype videos

Pianist Tony Ann is shown in this undated handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Handout - Adit Dixit (Mandatory Credit)

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Opinion

Are we approaching the ‘Silent Spring’ of artificial intelligence?

Peter W. Klein

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The end of the ‘if only’ Prime Minister

The Editorial Board

Prime Minister Mark Carney rises during Question Period on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Wednesday, April 15, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

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News To Me – Priorities, priorities

Gabrielle Drolet

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Want to keep Canada together? Take a lesson from those who know how it’s done: First Nations people

Douglas Sanderson and Michael Bryant

Grand Chief Trevor Mercredi speaks as First Nations chiefs, band councillors and elders gather at the Alberta legislature in Edmonton on Monday, March 9.

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With firestorm behind them, pesky Senators are peaking at the right time

Roy MacGregor

4 min read

Trudeau can live his postpolitical life however he wants, but it will invariably reflect on his time in office

Robyn Urback

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A solar panel installation being made in Scugog, Ontario on April 27, 2016. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn

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Ontario is buying clean generation. But its long-term plans remain anything but technologically agnostic

Matthew McClearn

6 min read

Air Canada planes sits on the tarmac at Pearson Airport in Toronto on February 23, 2026. (Sammy Kogan/The Globe and Mail)

Air Canada suspends flights to New York’s JFK airport, citing surging jet fuel costs

Nicolas Van Praet

3 min read

Liberal MP Navdeep Bains delivers a farewell speech in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Tuesday, June 15, 2021. The House of Commons ethics committee is inviting the Lobbying Commissioner to testify on the appointment of former industry minister Navdeep Bains to an executive role at Rogers. THE CANADIAN PRESS/ Patrick Doyle

Former minister Navdeep Bains leaving position at Rogers, memo says

Irene Galea

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Canada is behind in the global drone race. But not for long

As the federal government spends billions on military modernization, Canadian drone innovators are vying to meet the moment in the sky, on land and in the water

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Home of the Week: A modern Prince Edward County farmhouse found online

Shane Dingman

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Credit cards as seen Thursday, July 1, 2021, in Orlando, Fla. Statistics Canada says the amount Canadians owe relative to their income moved higher in the second quarter as the level of debt grew faster than their earnings. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP/John Raoux

Four ways to take debt into your own hands, today

Meera Raman

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You can ask the CRA chatbot tax questions without getting too personal.

I tried out Charlie, the CRA’s AI-powered chatbot. Here’s how it went

Erica Alini

2 min read

Opinion and Analysis

Waiter walking holding two dishes ready to serve to guests. Waitress serving food at restaurant. Female server taking food to a table in a cafe.

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Why companies shouldn’t use online reviews to evaluate employee performance

Eileen Dooley

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A wind farm on the south shore of Montreal in October, 2025.

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When an oil shock is renewable energy’s best friend

John Rapley

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Federal regulators announced Thursday that they have ordered mobile-phone carriers to put in place a “wireless public alerting system.”

Should banks send deadline-based alerts about a pending charge? Research suggests it would help

Preet Banerjee

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The latest round of geopolitical chaos unleashed by the U.S. President is succeeding where climate advocacy often falls short: making the political case for renewables, like rooftop solar, urgent and hard to ignore, writes Paul Kershaw.

Global conflict is making the case for renewables that climate politics couldn’t

Paul Kershaw

4 min read

Life & Culture

After the largest art fraud in history, the Morrisseau family is picking up the pieces

Norval Morrisseau’s daughter Lisa has never spoken about the scandal that has tainted the legacy of one of Canada’s most famous artists, until now

Lisa Morrisseau, daughter of famous Anishinaabe painter Norval Morrisseau, at her home in Keewaywin First Nation with her brother’s paintings on the wall. In the same Woodland art style their father made famous, Eugene’s depicts their parents and Christian’s is on the right. Keewaywin is a remote Oji-Cree fly-in reserve about 580 km flight northwest of Thunder Bay, Ont. Ms. Morrisseau says she’s made less than a thousand dollars from her father’s art. The second youngest of Norval Morrisseau’s seven children said she was not aware of the $100-million art fraud involving her father’s work until she watched a documentary about the case.
February 8, 2026
(Melissa Tait/The Globe and Mail)

Ben Kaplan

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The Last Titans sizes up the leaders of England and France during war and its aftermath

David Shribman

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Ontario winemakers unite to blend barrels for charity auction

Christopher Waters

From left, Ontario winemakers Thomas Bachelder, Ilya Senchuk and Matt Smith consult on their blend for the Cuvée from the Heart Niagara Pinot Noir.

2 min read

Advice from the pros on boosting your post-winter skin

Ingrie Williams

4 min read

How Modern Whore made the leap from the bedroom to the strip club to the big screen

Radheyan Simonpillai

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Canada & World

Power lines coming from the BC Hydro Skeena Substation are pictured in Terrace, B.C., on Thursday, Nov. 13, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ethan Cairns

B.C. faces surge in electricity demand, looks to dust off big dam plans

Energy Minister has asked BC Hydro to look at new sources of power with no ideas barred from discussion

6 min read

Voters leave a polling station after casting ballots in an Alberta byelection for the Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills riding, in Cremona, Alta., Monday, June 23, 2025.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh

Smith dismisses gerrymandering accusations after rejecting proposed changes to Alberta electoral map

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Prime Minister Mark Carney walks with Liberal MPs Tatiana Auguste, left, Danielle Martin and Doly Begum as they make their way to a meeting of the Liberal Caucus in Ottawa, on Wednesday, April 15, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang

Prime Minister Mark Carney walks to caucus with new members of the Liberal caucus MP for Terrebonne Tatiana Auguste, MP for University-Rosedale Danielle Martin and MP for Scarborough Southwest Doly Begum on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Wednesday, April 15, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

Mark Carney can do no wrong in Quebec, despite his wobbly French and some gaffes

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A woman walks past a large billboard referring to the Strait of Hormuz in Tehran on April 15, 2026. The US president said on April 14 that US-Iran peace talks could resume this week, while Israel and Lebanon agreed to launch direct negotiations, signaling movement on two key fronts in efforts to ease the Middle East conflict. (Photo by AFP via Getty Images) /

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U.S. negotiators would do well to read some Iranian poetry. It matters, greatly

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Mayor Olivia Chow sports shin pads at a funding announcement for Toronto's FIFA World Cup hosting effort in May, 2024.

Toronto using World Cup to pitch itself as inclusive alternative to anti-immigrant U.S.

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A police officer stands in front of a bullet hole in the window of a Kyiv supermarket on Saturday.

Six die in Kyiv shooting, police kill gunman after hostage situation

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