Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk took the stage at an inaugural event for U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday, pumping his fists and then making what some critics said appeared to be a fascist salute as he thanked the crowd. Some supporters are dismissing those claims, saying that Musk was merely gesturing ‘from my heart to you.’ Musk was tapped by Trump to co-lead an advisory group aimed at carrying out dramatic cuts to the U.S. government, dubbed DOGE.

Canada’s Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault said the world needs to collectively continue fighting climate change, no matter what what President Donald Trump does in his second term.

An Ottawa man testified Monday that he received “a flurry of right-hand punches” to his face from an off-duty Windsor police officer in a bar bathroom in 2023, as the assault trial for Sgt. Deler Bal began Monday in the nation’s capital.

Best Friends Family Diner sits at the intersection of New York and Vermont states on the border with Quebec, just a few kilometres from Roxham Road, an unofficial border crossing where thousands of asylum seekers walked into Canada before it effectively closed in 2023.

Canada might be spared from Donald Trump’s tariffs for now after media reports confirmed the president wouldn’t impose a 25 per cent tax on imported goods during his first day in office. But Canadian business leaders and owners are prepared anyway.

Doubling down on his pre-inauguration threat to reimpose U.S. control over the canal, Trump, in his inauguration speech Monday, again accused Panama of breaking the promises it made for the final transfer of the strategic waterway in 1999 and of ceding its operation to China — claims that Panama has vehemently denied.

Rescue workers and families are searching for an estimated 10,000 bodies of loved ones believed to still be beneath the rubble in Gaza a day after the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas took effect.

A 31-year-old Saskatchewan man has been charged with three counts of second-degree murder in the shooting deaths of a father and his two adult sons in Lloydminster, Sask. Brent Peters, 66, and his sons Brennan, 34, and Matthew, 32, were found dead inside a home in the border city on Sept. 11.

Montreal needs to come up with a plan to avoid dismantling homeless encampments and supervise them when necessary, according to a new city-commissioned report.

As President Biden finishes his term as U.S. president, one of his final acts was to grant executive clemency to Aim activist Leonard Peltier, who has spent over 50 years in jail for the murders of two FBI Agents, during the AIM movement in 1975.

City joins Toronto and Mississauga in calling on upper levels of government to increase social assistance rates to meet basic needs.

Melania Trump launched her own cryptocurrency Sunday on the eve of her husband’s presidential inauguration, and just a day after his own coin was launched. The moves are raising ethical concerns among crypto industry observers.