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Key allies spurn Trump’s call to help reopen Strait of Hormuz

U. S. President Donald Trump’s call for allies to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz has been largely rebuffed by European leaders, who expressed reluctance to commit military resources to a war they didn’t start. Mr. Trump has said NATO members should...

AN ANIMATED GROUP

Canadian co- director of KPop Demon Hunters among the early winners at the 98th Academy Awards.

There will be pain

The telltale signs of an energy crisis – supply shocks, rations and hoarding – are here, putting the global economy in harm’s way In November, 1973, just weeks into the Arab oil embargo that had already sent fuel prices skyrocketing and triggered...

As displaced Lebanese flood Beirut, a sense of civic duty takes hold

Beirut’s Camille Chamoun Sports City Stadium, the largest arena in Lebanon, has rarely hosted actual sporting events since the Beirut port explosion, triggered by the apparently accidental ignition of thousands of tonnes of ammonium nitrate, levelled...

Iran targets ships, Dubai airport as top UN body calls for halt

U. S., Israel continue bombardment while Tehran escalates efforts to inflict global economic pain Iran targeted the world’s busiest international airport Wednesday and attacked commercial ships as U. S. and Israeli strikes rocked Tehran and the UN’s...

ATTACK ON U. S. CONSULATE

Carney vows co- ordinated effort to catch perpetrators as police deem shots fired at Toronto office a ‘ national- security incident’

Lebanese minister warns Israel aims to split country in two

Israel looks to be establishing a buffer zone in southern Lebanon akin to the one created by the “Yellow Line” that has divided the devastated Gaza Strip in two, a Lebanese cabinet minister says. The Israeli military has ordered the evacuation of all...

Iran names Khamenei’s son as Supreme Leader, defying U. S.

Regime signals continued hard line as week- old conflict expands, driving up oil prices Iran on Monday named Mojtaba Khamenei to succeed his father, Ali Khamenei, as Supreme Leader, signalling that hardliners remain firmly in charge, as the weekold U....

Explosion at Iranian elementary school was likely from U.S. air strikes

Blast killed more than 165 people, most of them of children, according to Iranian state media Satellite images, expert analysis and information released by the U.S. and Israeli militaries suggest an explosion that killed scores of Iranian students at...

Anger mounts against Hezbollah after Lebanon pulled into another fight

There was a time when Fatima Daoud supported Hezbollah and saw the group as defending Lebanon’s sovereignty. But her affection for the “Party of God” expired as it dragged her country into war after war, driving her family from one home to...

Shock, fear grip Lebanon as Israeli attacks expand beyond Hezbollah strongholds

Mustafa Taha didn’t pick up the first call, or the second, from the foreign number that kept ringing his mobile phone Tuesday evening. It was almost time to break the daylong Ramadan fast, and he was too hungry and distracted to have a conversation...

War spreads as Israel sends troops into Lebanon to push back Hezbollah

Israeli ground troops crossed into southern Lebanon on Tuesday, marking yet another escalation in a region- wide war that also saw the U. S. and Israel continue to pound targets in Iran. Iran countered Tuesday by hitting the U. S. embassy in Riyadh...

Trump outlines goals of war in Iran, predicting weeks- long operation

President Donald Trump said Monday that the U. S. war with Iran is planned to last “four to five weeks” but could go “far longer,” while Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth did not rule out deploying ground troops. In their first public appearances since...

WAR IN IRAN

U. S. and Israel intensify attacks after assassinating Supreme Leader Khamenei Trump vows to avenge American troops killed in counteroffensive Conflict swells as Tehran fires retaliatory strikes across Persian Gulf

Trump’s tariffs have changed the global economy. Just not the way he planned

U.S.President Donald Trump returned to power promising to shatter the global economic order and restore his country’s industrial greatness. His tool of choice: tariffs. On March 4 last year, Mr. Trump hit Canada and Mexico with socalled “fentanyl...

U. S. and Iran conclude nuclear talks with no deal as military threat looms

Iran and the United States held hours of indirect negotiations Thursday over Tehran’s nuclear program but walked away without a deal, leaving the danger of another Mideast war on the table as the U. S. has gathered a massive fleet of aircraft and...

GUIDED HOME

Indigenous leaders welcome the return of a Métis model dog sled held in the Vatican’s collection for more than a century

A CONFLICT’S COST

Zelensky strikes defiant tone on fourth anniversary of Russian invasion, asserting Putin ‘ has not broken Ukrainians’

Flights to Mexico set to resume as violence appears to let up

Unrest sparked by cartel leader’s killing has left thousands of Canadians stranded in country Canadians stuck in the Mexican state of Jalisco were recovering Monday from the shock of watching their holiday paradise attacked by a major drug cartel, as...

GLORY AND HEARTBREAK

Globe reporters reflect on the highs and lows of Milan Cortina as a sprawling and spectacular Olympics draws to a close

TRUMP VOWS TO FIGHT BACK AFTER SUPREME COURT STRIKES DOWN TARIFFS

How the President could continue his global trade war

Canada’s women come up short, but the effort was heroic

Our Rumble in the Jungle moment ends in an overtime heartbreak It is ridiculous to suggest that one team of professionals could or would rope- a- dope another for an entire year. It’s not that it’s not doable. It’s that it would require an impossible...

IN A TIGHT CORNER

Team Canada survives its toughest Olympic test yet, beating Czechia 4- 3 in OT to advance to semi- finals

GOLDEN AGAIN Skaters Weidemann, Blondin and Maltais defend their crown – and bring Canada its third gold – in what they expect to be their last race together

Canadian trio repeated as Olympic champions, four years after claiming gold in Beijing Isabelle Weidemann turned to Ivanie Blondin on the bench and said “last one” before stepping to the start line with Valérie Maltais for the women’s team...

Sticking the landing: Oldham vaults to the top of the big- air podium

Skier claims her second Olympic medal – another gold for Canada Canadian freestyle skier Megan Oldham earned double redemption on a snowy Monday evening in Livigno, winning her second Olympic medal, this time in big air – and this time gold. Not only...

Canada’s gold- medal drought, and an Olympic career, end on the moguls

After a near- perfect run, ski star Kingsbury leaves Italy on a high Canada needed that gold. So did Mikaël Kingsbury. Mr. Kingsbury, the world’s greatest freestyle skier, broke Canada’s Olympic gold- medal drought on Sunday after beating Japan’s...

‘We’ve all lost somebody’

The tight-knit community is now struggling to understand what happened and what they can do for one another to move forward It began so quietly. So quietly, that even the closest neighbour to the house on Fellers Avenue didn’t know what terror was...

Eight lives lost in British Columbia: Their names and stories

Eight people were killed by a teenage shooter, including five children at school, an educator and two family members Abudding scientist. An aspiring artist. A keen hockey player. Tumbler Ridge, B. C., a remote mining community of 2,400 people tucked...

Canada hopes new NATO mission in Arctic will be permanent, Anand says

At least 10 dead in B. C. mass shooting

Seven people killed in attack at Tumbler Ridge high school; suspect, two others at residence linked to incident also dead, RCMP say At least seven people were killed in a school shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B. C., on Tuesday, RCMP said. The suspected...

NEW HEIGHTS

Megan Oldham shakes off a bumpy landing to capture bronze in freeski slopestyle, and bring Canada its second medal

TALONS OUT

A dominant defence carries Seahawks to 29- 13 victory over Patriots, and their second Super Bowl title

The opening ceremony

Milan Cortina Games kick off with a celebration for the ages

TORONTO POLICE CHARGED IN ORGANIZED CRIME PROBE

■ Investigation began after alleged plot to kill superintendent at correctional facility ■ Allegations include sharing information with gang members, theft and drug trafficking ■ Officers all suspended as mayor, others demand systemic changes within...

Lacing up for her fifth Olympics, Captain Clutch keeps the fire burning

For women’s hockey legend Poulin, U. S. rivalry is as strong as ever There’s a phrase Marie- Philip Poulin dropped into conversation recently when asked about all the hockey she has played over the years. “La vie va vite.” Life goes by quickly. They...

A TOWN IN MOURNING

Tributes pour in after three junior hockey players with Stavely’s Southern Alberta Mustangs were killed in a car crash

UNITED FRONT

Former PMs Chrétien and Harper urge Canadians to stand together, diversify trade away from U. S. to confront Trump threat

GETTING THE SHOW ROLLING

Olivia Dean earns best new artist, while Kendrick Lamar sets a rap music record at the Grammy Awards. For full coverage, visit ■ TGAM. CA

CATHERINE O’HARA

1954-2026

Thrust into the Olympic spotlight, a tiny town hopes to keep its character

Historic Bormio has little desire to become Italy’s next glam destination On the morning of Sunday, Jan. 17, the square in front of the medieval Church of St. Anthony turned into a barnyard. Donkeys, horses, geese, chickens and dogs were all making a...

‘ COMMON GROUND’

Alberta and B. C. premiers find consensus on plans for Trans Mountain pipeline expansion in talks with PM

EXPANDING OUR HORIZONS

In B. C.’ s Okanagan, a crop of radio dishes prepares to comb the cosmos, and signals a new step for Canada’s scientific ambitions

After the storm: Torontonians dig out from a record- breaking snowfall

Residents, crews get to work as blizzard brings city to near- standstill In Toronto’s west end, eager kids carrying toboggans took over the “dog bowl,” a steep pit in Trinity Bellwoods Park usually reserved for four- legged fun seekers. Nearby, Darryl...

Second killing in Minneapolis brings tensions to a boil

As White House pushes baseless claims, protesters say shooting has hardened their resolve For nearly two months, Minnesota has been the target of the largest operation of U. S. President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, with 3,000 federal agents...

Game change

A CAUTIOUS STEP FORWARD

Negotiators from Russia, Ukraine and U. S. to hold first trilateral talks after Zelensky, Trump tout positive meeting on peace terms

Trump drops tariff threat, citing ‘ framework’ deal on Greenland

Details remain scarce, but NATO says agreement focuses on united effort to ensure Arctic security Leaders across Europe breathed a sigh of relief on Wednesday after Donald Trump said he would drop his threat to impose new tariffs on countries that...

Rules- based world order is over, PM warns in blunt Davos speech

Carney takes aim at U. S. disruption, economic coercion while calling on smaller countries to unite Prime Minister Mark Carney said Tuesday that middle powers must stop pretending the rules- based international order is still functioning, and instead...

U. S. President ties Greenland threats to Nobel snub in exchange with Norwegian leader

U. S. President Donald Trump linked his aggressive stance on Greenland to last year’s decision not to award him the Nobel Peace Prize, telling Norway’s Prime Minister that he no longer felt “an obligation to think purely of Peace,” in a text message...

ONE YEAR OF TRUMP 2.0

Debra Thompson on the disaster it’s been for American democracy David Shribman on the depth and breadth of the Trump revolution

Legault steps down, upending Quebec’s political landscape

With election looming, Premier’s party has struggled in polls as rival PQ pledges sovereignty vote François Legault, the nationalist Quebec Premier who has toughened language laws but shelved talk of separation, announced on Wednesday that he would...

IRAN, U. S. SEND MIXED SIGNALS

Trump says Tehran wants to negotiate, while Islamic Republic blames Washington for fomenting unrest

The promise – and peril – of doing business in Latin America

Canadian resource businesses have poured tens of billions of dollars into the region over the past three decades. Now the U.S. President’s Donroe Doctrine threatens their stability Neil Woodyer was on top of the world heading into 2026. The company he...

KILLING ROILS MINNEAPOLIS

Federal officials rush to defend ICE officer who fatally shot woman as mayor demands immigration agency leave city

As Trump muses about next moves, Colombians brace for deeper instability

Venezuelan raid has already driven powerful armed groups across border Before Mauricio Alvarez was threatened with death, he lived in the northeast Colombian village of La Gabarra, in an area that has farmed coca since the late 1980s. The business of...

Framing operation as part of ‘ Donroe Doctrine’ of hegemony, Trump signals wider ambitions

U. S. President Donald Trump is signalling that he plans to leave Venezuela’s authoritarian regime in place so long as it takes orders from Washington, even as he threatened military action against Colombia, reiterated calls for the U. S. to annex...

Blueprint for 2026

30 charts that will define the economy for Canada in the year ahead

Dozens dead after fire breaks out in nightclub at Swiss ski resort

Officials unsure what caused blaze that spread quickly through crowded New Year’s Eve party Around 40 people were killed and 115 injured when a fire ripped through a crowded bar during a New Year’s Eve party in the upscale Swiss ski resort of Crans-...

LET THE SPARKS FLY

World welcomes 2026 with fireworks, light shows and calls for peace and kindness

Britain’s off- the- wall darts championship hits the mark with a growing fanbase

They dress up as nuns, traffic cones, bowling pins, bees, sharks, witches and just about every other kind of character. They sing, chant, dance, wave signs and drink an awful lot of beer. And in between, they manage to watch some darts. The annual...

A Newfoundland winter brings new risks to Coast Guard’s biggest- ever operation

Crews at mercy of the elements as they work to clean up grounded ship On a damp and blustery morning, three- metre swells crash into the cracked hull of the MSC Baltic III, which was grounded on a pinnacle of rock on the west coast of Newfoundland...

Hey, Gen Z: It’s not the end. It’s a new beginning. Seriously.

Don’t lose hope, Doug Saunders writes. You’re not watching the world end – you’re about to build a new one If you are under 30, there’s a message you’ve likely received many times during this painful year: You’re inheriting the wreckage of a...

Zelensky speaks with U. S. officials as peace negotiations inch forward

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Thursday that he had spoken with U. S. President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff and son- in- law Jared Kushner for roughly an hour about how to end the war in his country. “It was a really...

W

inter came early and hard this year in much of the country. Still, in the era of climate change, this snow scene by Ukrainian- Canadian artist William Kurelek feels like nostalgia. Those who remember the snows of yesteryear will immediately recognize...

How online sellers in China and India are complicating North America’s fight against fentanyl

The company in Moradabad, a city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, about 150 kilometres east of New Delhi, describes itself as a “leading manufacturer of premium singing bowls,” which are used in sound therapy and religious practices. On...

More energy, less minister Tim Hodgson’s approach in Ottawa is all about the deal

After a decades- long legal fight, Timothy Rees clears his name

Toronto man spent 23 years in prison over 1989 murder of a young girl Standing outside a Toronto courthouse Thursday, Timothy Rees said an enormous burden had been lifted from his shoulders. Finally, nobody can call him a murderer. In a Nov. 27...

At St. James, a half- hour of holiday spirit for churchgoers in a hurry

Merry Moments offer a traditional Christmas service for a modern age When Very Rev. Stephen Hance goes to the theatre, he first looks up the runtime of the play, just to know what he’s in for. “If it’s a three- hour extravaganza, I know I need to...

LAI VERDICT DRAWS CONDEMNATION

Canadian relatives and MPs call for Hong Kong media tycoon’s release after conviction in landmark national security trial

Gunmen kill at least 15 in attack on Australian Hanukkah event

PM calls massacre at popular Sydney beach an act of terrorism, vows to stamp out antisemitism A celebration of the first night of Hanukkah turned to terror and bloodshed Sunday when two men opened fire on a gathering at Sydney’s popular Bondi Beach,...

A decade of dignity

10 years after thalidomide survivors finally received hard-won compensation from the government, The Globe checked in to see how their lives have changed

Hundreds in Fraser Valley forced to flee as floodwaters rush across U. S. border

Rising rivers submerge towns in neighbouring Washington, prompting statewide emergency Hundreds of people and countless livestock in British Columbia’s agricultural heartland were displaced Thursday after torrential rainfall and historic flooding that...

An Ontario city bears the scars of its long fight against opioids

Despite extensive actions, Barrie has struggled to turn the tide In early November, workers in pickup trucks arrived at Milligan’s Pond, a wooded oasis in Barrie, Ont., an hour north of Toronto. Their orders were clear. After a double murder nearby...

As foreign aid dries up, South Sudan plunges deeper into hunger crisis

Western cuts another blow to country beset by conflict and corruption Outside a nutrition centre in South Sudan, 10- year- old Akem Akuot wraps her thin arms around her brother Garang, who is 3. His eyes are glossy, and his head falls heavily onto his...