WARNING: This article may affect those who have experienced​ ​​​sexual violence or know someone affected by it. French prosecutors have asked for the maximum 20-year prison sentence for Dominique Pelicot, who organized the repeated mass rape of his then-wife by knocking her unconscious with drugs and inviting dozens of strangers to abuse her in …

Andrea Arnold knows a lot about what goes on in the Village of McBride, a community of about 600 people in British Columbia’s Robson Valley. As a reporter for the Rocky Mountain Goat newspaper, she keeps track of wildfires, local sports teams and pretty much everything happening in the picturesque mountain …

Just two days after taking out a loan to set up a makeshift home in a tent encampment for his family, Mohammed Kark felt water at his feet as the family was sleeping Sunday night. “All of a sudden I saw the ocean attacking me and my kids and people …

Two federal politicians have asked Canada’s competition commissioner to investigate whether companies have been conspiring to raise the price of frozen potato products — like fries and tater tots — after similar allegations were made in the United States. NDP MPs Alistair MacGregor and Brian Masse — the Opposition critics for food price inflation and …

A simmering monthslong feud between the president and vice-president of Philippines, each part of separate political dynasties, erupted over the weekend with an apparent public death threat. For good measure on Monday, Vice-President Sara Duterte insinuated that the dictator father of current President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. was behind the 1980s …

About 600,000 small businesses will start receiving their long-awaited federal carbon rebates today. The federal government has promised to return about $2.5 billion collected from small and medium-sized businesses through carbon pricing since 2019. The initial plan was to return the money annually through various programs to encourage energy-efficiency investments, but …

U.S. President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron are expected to announce a ceasefire in Lebanon between the armed group Hezbollah and Israel imminently, four senior Lebanese sources said on Monday. In Washington, White House national security spokesperson John Kirby said, “We’re close” but “nothing is done until everything is done.” The French presidency …

Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante condemned the actions of protesters and defended police after chaos broke out at a demonstration Friday evening against the NATO Parliamentary Assembly taking place in the city. Plante held a news conference Monday afternoon, saying Montreal police officers have attended nearly 500 protests since the war in …

A tourist yacht sank in the Red Sea on Monday after warnings of rough waters and 16 people were missing, Egyptian officials said. The governor of the Red Sea region, Amr Hanafy, said rescuers saved 28 people from the vessel south of the coastal town of Marsa Alam, and some …

Mechanics and clerks at Canadian National Railway Co. have voted overwhelmingly in favour of a strike mandate that could see workers walk off the job as early as New Year’s Day. Unifor says 97 per cent and 96 per cent of the two groups, respectively, cast their ballots in favour, …