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New research bears out what many young Canadians already know: The country’s housing crisis is fuelling a happiness crisis

CEO behind failed federal prescription service dismissed

Michael Green removed from role as MPs investigate how $300-million was spent The head of an organization that oversaw a $300-million federal digital prescription service has been removed in the midst of a probe by a parliamentary committee into how...

King stresses importance of NATO unity, ‘shared values’ in speech to U.S. Congress

King Charles III called for the United States to recommit itself to its historic alliance with Britain and other NATO countries – and not to become “more inward-looking” – as he sought to repair relations with U.S. President Donald Trump during a...

A ROYAL WELCOME

The King arrives in Washington for his first visit as monarch on a mission to mend ties between the U.S. and Britain

HIS TIME HAS COME

Kenya’s Sabastian Sawe shatters two-hour barrier at London Marathon, a historic feat repeated by Ethiopia’s Yomif Kejelcha seconds later

Emboldened by allies in the Knesset and in Washington, the once-fringe settler movement has designs to expand Israel’s borders

Emboldened by allies in the Knesset and in Washington, the once-fringe movement has designs to expand Israel’s borders Hadar Bar-Chai stood on a green hill in southwestern Israel, the grey ruins of Gaza visible behind her, and raised a megaphone to...

BACK TO THE BIRDS

New Zealand’s ambitious effort to save some of its weirdest, most wonderful inhabitants from invasive predators is showing remarkable results

A LIGHT TOUCH

Come springtime, winemakers in France’s Chablis region bring out the candles to fight frost with fire

MEXICO ATTACK PLANNED, OFFICIALS SAY

Authorities suggest gunman may have timed shooting, which left one Canadian tourist dead, to coincide with Columbine anniversary

A BATTLE FOR THE AGES

Taking to the streets and even risking jail time, these senior Canadians are spending their twilight years advocating for climate action

HABS NAB IT

Canadiens’ Slafkovsky completes hat trick with OT goal to down Lightning in Game 1 of playoff series. For the full story, visit GLOBESPORTS.COM

MADE IN CANADA

Throughout April, we are spotlighting artworks from the Vancouver Art Gallery, one of North America’s most innovative visual arts institutions. Home to a world-renowned collection of art by Emily Carr and celebrated for its leadership in Indigenous and...

ANOTHER TRUCE TAKES HOLD

Trump announces 10-day ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon, but Netanyahu says troops will remain in ‘security zone’

Most prediction-market traders are losing money – while the top 1 per cent reap the rewards

Prediction markets sweeping the retail trading scene are being dominated by sophisticated users who capture nearly all of the profits, leaving most retail participants on the losing side. A working paper published in early April that analyzed trades...

At Boston Marathon, Six Nations runner hopes to channel the icon in his bloodline

Descendant of Tom Longboat finds purpose ‘following in his footsteps’ Kristian Jamieson is a 24-year-old elite Indigenous marathon runner from Six Nations of the Grand River reserve outside Brantford, Ont., with running royalty in his genes. The...

In feud with the Pope, Trump crosses red lines for some faithful supporters

As best Francis Rooney can recall, the last time a world leader openly sparred with the leader of the Catholic Church, it was Joseph Stalin asking how many military divisions the Pope had at his beck and call. Nearly a century later, Donald Trump has...

BACK IN THE SWING OF THINGS

Rory McIlroy prevails at Augusta, becoming only the fourth back-to-back champion in Masters history

Perfect Pitch

Five years, three countries, 16 stadiums: Inside the massive effort to grow grass for the World Cup

For many in Middle East, strikes come with no warning – and no place to run

Lack of sirens and shelter heightens danger in Lebanon, West Bank The missile that landed in a fig tree on Kayed Hussein’s property is a parable for the unfairness of modern war. It was just before 8:30 a.m. on a recent Thursday when the giant metal...

Confusion in strait, new attacks threaten to unravel ceasefire

U. S. touts victory, while Iran again shutters crucial waterway over deadly Israeli strikes in Lebanon

In Israeli town battered by Hezbollah, residents say the war must go on

Any deal that leaves Lebanese militia standing will fall short in Metula Avi Nadiv is tired of the war. But he also hopes it doesn’t end any time soon. Mr. Nadiv is the deputy mayor of Metula, a town at the northernmost tip of Israel that has become...

Over the moon: Artemis II crew becomes first to view far side in the internet age

The last time astronauts had their eyes on the moon’s far side, there was no digital photography, no real- time dialogue with scientists on the ground and no internet to send their conversations live around the globe. On Monday, the Artemis II mission...

Trump issues profane threat to Iran over blocked strait

After U. S. airman’s rescue, President vows to hit power plants, bridges if Hormuz isn’t reopened U. S. President Donald Trump on Sunday made expletive- laden new threats to escalate strikes on Iran and its infrastructure if it doesn’t open the Strait...

The Vanishing

The second season of our photojournalism series begins in the Northwest Territories, where Indigenous researchers are trying to save a dwindling caribou herd

LEGAULT’S LAST PLEA

Premier reflects on his tenure and calls on Quebec to protect its values in emotional final address to the legislature

Canadian heads to lunar orbit as NASA’s Artemis II takes flight

Mission marks crucial test for agency’s ambitions to return humans to moon’s surface by 2028 Jeremy Hansen’s journey to the moon has begun. Seventeen years after he was named an astronaut with the Canadian Space Agency, Colonel Hansen is in space for...

READY FOR LIFTOFF

Artemis II teams prepare for array of contingencies, exit plans ahead of first manned mission to the moon in a half- century

In the Strait of Hormuz, Iran reveals an ancient weapon’s enduring power

Narrow waterway has held outsized economic influence for centuries It’s just a narrow bend of seawater between two dry, hilly coasts, a space where ships are forced to crawl through shallow sea lanes to get from the Persian Gulf to the mouth of the...

NELLY’S NIGHT

Junos fete Furtado with induction into Canadian Music Hall of Fame, Joni Mitchell with lifetime achievement prize. For full coverage, visit TGAM. CA

MOON SHOT

For the first time in more than 50 years, astronauts are set to fly around the moon. The goal is to one day stay

LABOUR OF LOVE

A scientist’s chance sighting of a sperm whale’s birth reveals the depth of these gentle giants’ bonds – and may offer lessons for humanity

In NWT, residents and government pay the price for dental- care deserts

Many forced to travel far away for treatment – or suffer without Wind whips along the shores of the Northwest Territories’ Great Bear Lake as Déline is blanketed in the season’s first snowfall. The fly- in Dene community, located just below the Arctic...

LOCKING HORNS

In the grasslands of Montana, an effort to bring back the iconic bison collides with Trump- era politics

Officials launch probe into fatal Air Canada crash at LaGuardia

Two pilots pronounced dead after plane collides with fire truck on New York airport’s runway Authorities are investigating the collision of an Air Canada Express plane and a fire truck that killed two pilots on a runway at New York’s LaGuardia airport...

Gerry Wright has spent his career looking for ways to fight back against superbugs. He’s convinced the answer could be in your own backyard

Canadian researcher Gerry Wright is racing to find a life-saving cure against superbugs linked to more than five million deaths every year To the doctor in the emergency department, the case seemed run-of-the-mill. It was July, 2010, and the patient...

THE END IN SIGHT

A man holds his son up to a telescope to glimpse the new moon ahead of Eid al- Fitr, which marks the end of the Islamic holy fasting month of Ramadan, at Indonesia’s Lhoknga Beach on Thursday.

Police search Mraiche firm’s HQ in Alberta procurement probe

Mounties descend on offices of medical equipment supplier owned by Edmonton businessman The RCMP have executed search warrants as part of their investigation into procurement irregularities at Alberta’s health authority, a controversy that has dogged...

Israel kills top Iranian officials in latest attack on leadership

Tehran renews fire across region after strikes on security chief, head of IRGC’s volunteer militia Israel killed two senior Iranian security officials in a major blow to the Islamic Republic’s leadership as it faces its greatest test in decades, and...

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