2 h. ago U.S. airstrikes kill 12 people in Yemen’s capital, Houthi rebels say

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — U.S. airstrikes targeting Yemen’s capital killed 12 people and wounded 30 others, the Houthi rebels said early Monday. The deaths mark the latest in America’s intensified campaign of strikes targeting the rebels. The U.S. military’s Central Command declined to answer questions about the strike or discuss civilian casualties from its […]

Economics

4 h. ago Ontario First Nation asks governments to respond to flooding emergency

NESKANTAGA FIRST NATION, Ont. — A First Nation in northern Ontario that has been under a boil-water advisory for over 30 years is calling on all levels of government to respond to a state of emergency in the area, days after announcing it would evacuate community members hundreds of kilometres south to Thunder Bay. Chief […]

Politics

5 h. ago Easter Egg Hunt for Dogs, Way of the Cross and Cavalry FC: What our photographers saw this weekend

Check out what Postmedia Calgary photographers saw in and around the city this weekend, from Easter celebrations to Cavalry FC's home opener

Other

7 h. ago It's a hit! London Majors' prank name leads to merchandise sales boom

An April Fools’ Day prank by a London baseball team has sent its merchandise sales skyrocketing as the team prepares to play two games under its made-up moniker this season.  The London Majors pranked their fans on April 1, announcing on social media that the franchise was rebranding to become the Forest City Cobra Chickens, […]

Politics

8 h. ago Global tensions have countries in a digital arms race to protect from cyberthreats: experts

Many in the U.S. are already calling for a more muscular approach to protecting the digital frontier

Other

9 h. ago Police investigate shooting on subway platform near Harvard University

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Transit police in Boston were investigating a shooting on a subway platform near Harvard University on Sunday that prompted the school to issue a shelter-in-place order for students and staff. Authorities rerouted passengers on part of the city’s subway system to shuttle buses as officers from various departments searched for a […]

Events

9 h. ago Salmonella risk prompts frozen pastry recall in Ontario and four other provinces

Products also sold in Alberta, Manitoba, Nova Scotia, and Quebec

Other

9 h. ago Pierre Poilievre promises to slash government consultant spending to pre

Conservative leader claims the current levels of outsourcing are costing the average family more than $1,000 in federal taxes

Politics

9 h. ago Will Pierre Poilievre or Jagmeet Singh skip Calgary this election campaign?

'You can get a fairly good idea of where a party's strengths and weaknesses are by where their leader is going,' said one political scientist

Politics

10 h. ago Weed and 4/20: Why cannabis culture day of celebration lands on April 20

The origins of the date, and the term '420' generally, were long murky

Culture

11 h. ago Outpouring of love, support for Indian student killed by stray bullet

Expressions of grief and sympathy came pouring in on Saturday for an international college student shot dead by mistake in Hamilton while waiting for a city bus. The death of 21-year-old Harsimrat Randhawa, who Hamilton police described as an innocent bystander killed by stray gunfire as occupants of one car shot at another, triggered expressions […]

Events

11 h. ago Lost hiker dies in North Vancouver’s Mount Seymour area: police

NORTH VANCOUVER — Police say a hiker has died in North Vancouver’s Mount Seymour area. RCMP say in a social media post that officers had worked with the local search and rescue team in an effort to find the hiker, who had become lost on Saturday. But the post from about 4:20 p.m. that day […]

Events

11 h. ago Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel won’t end war ‘before destroying Hamas’

Prime Minister rejects ceasefire proposals and says ending war now would be 'a strategic defeat'

Other

11 h. ago Is Trump overshadowing housing this federal election? Edmonton advocates weigh in

"Unfortunately, with this tenuous relationship between us and our friends in the south, this issue of housing, unfortunately, is kind of getting lost in the noise about tariffs and whatnot."

Politics

11 h. ago ELDER: Trump haters see only evil, hear only evil, speak only evil

Disdain for U.S. President Donald Trump translates into a refusal to accept reality if doing it gives Trump a political victory. Examples include, but are certainly not limited to, the continuing assertion that Trump, about Charlottesville, said some variation of, “There were good and bad white nationalists and neo-Nazis on both sides”; the denial of […]

Other

12 h. ago Maple Leafs’ Lorentz speaks to long grind of Stanley Cup playoffs

Steven Lorentz knows. The Maple Leafs winger knows what it takes to win the Stanley Cup, knows that properly handling the roller-coaster ride that can be a long playoff run is paramount. A year after lifting the Cup with the Florida Panthers, and on the morning of the Leafs’ Battle of Ontario opener against the […]

Other

12 h. ago Alito lambastes Supreme Court for late night order to block Trump’s deportation plans

'Literally in the middle of the night, the Court issued unprecedented and legally questionable relief," conservative judge wrote in dissent

Other

12 h. ago Kansas City has long been a federal hub in the U.S. The pain from DOGE’s cuts is everywhere

With nearly 30,000 workers, the federal government is the largest employer in the region.

Other

12 h. ago Quebec won’t make special efforts to recruit fleeing U.S. doctors, scientists

Ontario, British Columbia, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Saskatchewan have already stepped up recruitment

Science

13 h. ago Suspicious fire at commercial mall in Hamilton causes $1million in damage

HAMILTON — Hamilton’s fire chief says an early-morning blaze currently considered suspicious has damaged multiple stores at a strip mall in the city. David Cunliffe issued a statement saying crews were called to the fire at the mall on Upper Ottawa St. shortly before 3 a.m. on Easter Sunday. He says the fire began in […]

Events