TORONTO — Ontario’s solicitor general and his No. 2 have apologized for “inadvertently” saying officials apprehended all 157 criminals who were mistakenly released from the province’s jails over the past five years.
Michael Kerzner repeatedly said last week during question period at Queen’s Park, and afterward to journalists, that the criminals were caught immediately after being improperly released.
Kerzner says he meant to say local police were notified immediately.
Donald Trump’s Truth Social post announcing that the ceasefire has been extended is revelatory, and is the clearest glimpse we have had today at the administration’s current thinking on the possibility of talks.
For one, Trump’s post lays out that, in his view, it is unclear what exactly the Iranian proposal is, and who in the Tehran government is actually in charge.
The Turkish Association in Germany has accused the government of promoting a “racist” interpretation of crime statistics.
The criticism follows the release of the latest police crime figures, which show a mixed trend. While overall recorded crime fell by 5.6% in 2025 to around 5.5 million cases—largely due to changes in drug laws—serious offences increased. Murder and manslaughter rose by 6.5%, while rape and other serious sexual offences climbed by 8.5%. Knife-related incidents also remained high, with around 29,000 cases recorded, averaging roughly 80 per day.
Prime Minister Mark Carney has released the names of his new advisory committee on Canada-U.S. economic relations.
The list includes experts, industry and union leaders and retired high-profile politicians such as former Quebec Premier Jean Charest, former Conservative leader Erin O’Toole and former Conservative cabinet minister Lisa Raitt.
According to a government statement, the committee will serve as a forum where members can develop strategy for how Canada should approach its economic relationship with the U.S.
Six in ten adults in France believe that their country is facing a “great replacement” with the mass importation of non-European immigrants.
A survey conducted by the Institut français d’opinion publique (Ifop) research firm has found that 60 per cent of French people believe that their country is experiencing a “profound demographic transformation” and that the French are being “progressively replaced by non-European populations, primarily from the African continent.”
A man found not criminally responsible on three counts of attempted murder for a March 2016 knife attack at a Canadian Forces Recruiting Centre in Toronto has been granted a three-week travel pass for Saudi Arabia and Somalia, despite the fact that he “continues to pose a significant threat to public safety.”
Ayanle Hassan Ali, who is Muslim, plans to go on a pilgrimage to Mecca with his father and meet a potential bride his dad found for him in Somalia.
The official crime statistics for Germany have now been released for 2025, and they show a continued “upward trend” in the proportion of non-German suspects, particularly in serious and violent crime categories like murder, rape, and robbery.
OTTAWA — Despite saying they earn a decent salary, more than half of working Canadians say they’re having trouble making ends meet.
That’s according to a new survey commissioned by H&R Block that paints a bleak picture of Canada’s ongoing affordability crisis, with those in Atlantic Canada reportedly the most concerned.
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The Reservist Association of the German Armed Forces has called for the government to raise the age limit for army reservists from 65 to 70 years.
As Bastian Ernst, the association’s new president, told news agency RND today, this was necessary to counter the army’s manpower shortage problem:
“We should raise the age limit for reservists from 65 to 70. In our view, this makes sense in many respects. After all, the retirement age is rising in other areas too.
Canada’s fuel excise tax is now frozen until September.
It sounds promising, especially when you see the signs at gas stations, but what does it mean for Canadians right now?
Two U.S. embassy officials who died in an automobile accident in northern Mexico as they returned from the scene of a counternarcotic operation worked for the Central Intelligence Agency as part of a significantly expanded role in battling narcotics trafficking in the Western Hemisphere, according to two people familiar with the matter.
The deadly car crash Sunday in the state of Chihuahua also took the lives of two Mexican officials and prompted Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum to say she would investigate whether the operation ran afoul of the country’s national security laws.
The CIA declined to comment.
Sudanese Canadians, former politicians and humanitarian groups are ramping up pressure on the Canadian government to take more action to aid Sudan — in what the United Nations has called the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.
But in marking the three-year anniversary of the brutal civil war, those same groups say they’re concerned that Canada and other western nations aren’t giving the same attention to Sudan as they have to other war-ridden nations.
According to experts, those reasons range from security to racism to political ties.
President Donald Trump said in a new interview that the Strait of Hormuz will remain closed until the United States and Iran reach a peace deal to end the ongoing war.
The two nations are set to begin a second round of peace deal talks this week in Islamabad, Pakistan, as a two-week ceasefire is expected to expire.
WATCH IN FULL: President Trump's interview on CNBC. pic.twitter.com/pPzI2iImSe
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The mispronunciation of Regina — as in, the capital of Saskatchewan — was a clue. Then there was the reference to B.C. MLA Dallas Brodie, a woman, as a “he.”
These slip-ups helped lead researchers at the Media Ecosystem Observatory (MEO) in Montreal to what they say is a network of affiliated YouTube accounts that appear to belong to concerned Canadians, sympathize with some Albertans’ grievances and push the idea of American annexation.
“The video narrators performed ‘Albertan,’ but there were these moments where you’re like, ‘OK, so this person is not from here,’ ” said Chris Ross, the senior analyst at the Observatory, who led his team’s recent probe into thousands of suspicious YouTube videos.
Who is behind this? Who stands to gain? Russia? China? Liberal Party members? Likely the latter.
AI makes it easy to create a click-bait video the creator(s) may have simply found a rich vein to mine for cash.
Both the president and vice president have thrown out the term “grand bargain” in recent days to describe their aspirations for a deal with the Iranian rump regime.
It’s a term fraught with past failures that screams Iranian deception, not the interests of America First.
Bill Clinton was the first to use the phrase toward the end of his second term to describe his aspiration to end a low-intensity conflict that had been simmering for 20 years.
