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In a bizarre and disturbing series of events, an officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police has been put on trial for torturing and starving his 11-year-old son, whom he considered to be possessed by the devil. The officer also attempted to enlist his brother — a Catholic priest — to perform an exorcism on the child.

Tens of thousands of Armenians gathered internationally to commemorate the 101st anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, in which the Ottoman Empire murdered 1.5 million Armenians.

Immigration officials in Windsor, Canada, have arrested an illegal immigrant from Africa who has been playing basketball for a local Catholic high school for the past six months. Authorities suspect the immigrant is a 30-year-old man, and not a teenager.

Two Canadian hostages have surfaced in a video to make a “final urgent appeal” for their government to save them from imminent decapitation by the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL)-linked jihadist group Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines.

Contents: EU threatens to impose travel restrictions on US/Canada visitors; EU migrant crisis moves to Italy as Austria begins closing border; Austria begins construction on border controls with Italy

A 16-year-old Canadian boy, whose family immigrated from Algeria in 2003, has been sentenced to two years in detention by a Canadian court for robbing a convenience store with plans to use the money for a trip to Syria, so he could join the Islamic State.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union executive is considering whether to make U.S. and Canadian citizens apply for visas before traveling to the bloc, a move that could raise tensions as Brussels negotiates a trade pact with Washington. Only Britain

A tech start-up in Canada is inviting U.S. tech workers who fear a Donald Trump presidency to emigrate northwards and work for the company.

VANCOUVER (Reuters) – Medical marijuana patients in Canada will regain the right to grow their own cannabis after the government said on Thursday it would comply with a federal court decision against a ban introduced by the previous Conservative government.

Alarmists have airbrushed a top female scientist out of ‘women in climate’ history because she has taken the ‘wrong’ side on global warming. Dr Judith Curry, is professor and former chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at

The Jerusalem Post reports: TORONTO – More stickers advising consumers not to purchase products made in Israel are popping up across Canada. Facebook posts now show the stickers on Sabra hummus, Keter and SodaStream products, Glutino biscuits, dates and tangerines

French right-wing politician Marine Le Pen, who is touring the Canadian province of Quebec, said on Sunday the country’s immigration policy was on the “wrong path,” at an event where one of her bodyguards reportedly struck a protester. The Canadian

On Tuesday morning, Toronto police chief Mark Saunders identified the man who attacked a Canadian Armed Forces recruiting center on Monday as Ayanle Hassan Ali, 27. According to Saunders, during the attack Ali shouted, “Allah told me to do this. Allah told me to come here and kill people.”

Australians, Brits, New Zealanders and Canadians would support the right to live and work in each others’ countries visa-free, a poll suggests. The survey by the Royal Commonwealth Society (RCS) shows large support for a free-movement zone between the four

President Barack Obama decided to “troll” visiting Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday over who is better at hockey – Americans or Canadians.

Tuesday night Donald Trump scored wins in primary states Michigan and Mississippi and as results came in, the hashtag #IfTrumpWins began trending on Twitter across the United States, putting on display ugly anti-Trump hate with unimaginative Hitler and KKK comparisons.

Using every weapon in his arsenal, Toronto Cardinal Thomas Collins (pictured) wrote a scathing letter against new legislation that will make doctor-assisted suicide legal across the country, and had it read aloud at every Catholic Mass in his archdiocese on

Libertarian commentator Lauren Southern was assaulted and allegedly “covered in piss” by activists in the streets of Vancouver, in a new low for the regressive left. Her crime? Saying there are “only two genders.”

A breed of sheep believed to have been raised by the Jewish patriarch Jacob may soon be brought to Israel, its Biblical homeland, after an Israeli couple gathered a herd in Canada and brokered a bureaucratic detente to import the

Having won 7 of the available 11 states, Donald Trump was the clear winner in the Republican camp on Super Tuesday.

The international coalition made a mistake by dethroning the Taliban regime in response to the 9/11 attacks on the United States and should have instead only focused on al Qaeda, argues the Canadian commander who led NATO into southern Afghanistan nearly a decade ago.

An Islamic community near the North Pole has inaugurated a new mosque in Iqaluit, in the region of Nunavut, Canada, becoming the second mosque built at the North Pole after a Saudi journalist arranged for the construction of a mosque

A radical Canadian imam called for Muslims to “look forward” as “Rome will be conquered,” in a Friday sermon posted on the Internet on Feb. 16 and translated by the Middle East Monitoring Research Institute (MEMRI).

On Sunday’s “The Cats Roundtable” AM 970 in New York, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) told host John Catsimatidis that he is a “concerned” over the fact that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has tripled Syrian refugee flow. “Of course, with Prime Minister Trudeau’s announced

The Times of Israel reports: With broad bipartisan support, Canada stands poised to reject the Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment (BDS) campaign against Israel. The Liberals, who comprise the majority of seats in the House of Commons, said the party will

A Canadian island is using Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s potential victory as a way to fix “a bit of a population problem.”

Canada’s Liberal government is facing heavy criticism from the Conservative opposition after International Development Minister, Marie-Claude Bibeau, admitted that Canadian humanitarian assistance could help terrorists, including ISIS and Hamas.

Pink Floyd front man and notorious anti-Israel activist Roger Waters published an open letter slamming a Jewish businessman for pulling financial support from a Canadian university over a mural that has sparked controversy for depicting what critics see as anti-Semitic

The government of Canada has ordered its military to draw up plans for migrant camps that will allow more than 6,000 Muslims to be housed on a long-term basis at several Canadian Forces Bases. Planning documents for migrant camps requested by the centre-left Liberal

The Illinois Board of Elections has nixed an attempt to get Texas Senator Ted Cruz thrown off the ballot over questions about his status as a natural born citizen.

The Zika virus has reached Canada in the form of four Canadian travelers confirmed to have contracted it by visiting Central America, South America, and the Caribbean.

As Latin America’s Zika outbreak continues to spread, the United States is rejecting blood donations from individuals traveling to countries affected by the Zika virus, while the Canadian government considers similar action.

A school in northern Canada was on lockdown for a time after a school shooting reportedly left two dead and one in custody.

U.S. News has spoken: The best country in the world is — Germany.

Joshua Green at Bloomberg writes: “In the latest Bloomberg Politics/Des Moines Register Iowa Poll, 15 percent of respondents say they are ‘bothered'” that Ted Cruz was born in Canada.

Two men have been charged with attempted murder in the Canadian city of Calgary after a nightclub shooting early Sunday morning. Mohamed Elmi, 31, and Mohamed Salad, 29, also face a host of other charges, including unauthorised possession of a