Prime Minister Mark Carney has made his first Senate appointments — including a sitting Conservative MP and the PM’s former principal secretary.

When Justin Trudeau became prime minister, he ended the practice of making partisan appointments to the Senate, kicking every Liberal senator out of his caucus, and creating an independent panel to make senate recommendations. But now, Carney seems to be going back to the old way of doing things — with a twist.

Host Maria Kestane speaks with Eleanor Wand, a political reporter from the Hill Times ,

Toronto emergency crews responded overnight to another fire at a Toronto Community Housing Corporation (TCHC) apartment building on Victoria Park Avenue — the same Scarborough building where a fatal blaze occurred less than two weeks ago.

Police say the call came in at 1:52 a.m. Thursday for reports of a fire at 1420 Victoria Park Ave. near O’Connor Drive and Eglinton Avenue East. Toronto Fire and police arrived to find smoke and flames inside the building. The fire was quickly knocked down.

A TTC bus driver was taken to hospital with non‑life‑threatening injuries Wednesday evening after police say the employee was assaulted with a weapon during an incident at Wilson Station.

Toronto police were called to the station, located near Wilson Avenue and Bathurst Street in North York, at 6:29 p.m. on July 8 for an assault in progress. When officers arrived, they were told a suspect had attacked the bus driver while armed with a weapon.

Police have not yet specified what type of weapon

JEDDAH — Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand called it “unacceptable” that Iran has launched attacks on commercial ships in recent days as it attempts to tighten its grip over the Strait of Hormuz.

The comments follow new airstrikes by the United States against Iran early Thursday, with Tehran firing at Kuwait and Qatar.

The escalating hostilities have upended a June ceasefire agreement aimed at ending the war the United States launched against Iran earlier this year.

Speaking with reporters in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on Thursday after meeting with the country’s

Bonnie Tyler, the gravelly voiced, Grammy-nominated Welsh pop star best known for singing the chart-topping power ballad “Total Eclipse of the Heart” in 1983 and seeing new generations succumb to its bombastic charms during solar and lunar eclipses, has died. She was 75.

Tyler died “unexpectedly” in a hospital in Portugal where she was being treated for an illness, her family said Thursday in a statement on her website. She was hospitalized in May in Faro, where she had a

Alex Shved is fighting his Stage 4 cancer on two fronts.

The medication he is receiving as part of an early-stage trial is working with his body, he hopes, to attack melanoma that has metastasized. At the same time, he is taking up arms against another formidable foe: the health-care bureaucracy.

Shved, 37, has tried various treatments since first discovering a growing mole in 2020 and continues to feel well, working in private equity and parenting his two daughters, both under

OTTAWA — Canada is putting international law as one of its top priorities at the United Nations — as others accuse Ottawa of pulling its punches.

Canada’s UN ambassador David Lametti says international rules are “under strain” by major and regional powers, and that Ottawa is alarmed by countries killing civilians, aid workers and UN staff.

“I don’t think anyone’s attacking humanitarian law,” he told The Canadian Press in a recent interview. “They’re not being attacked directly, they’re

OTTAWA — Federal officials are set to provide an update about the national wildfire season today, as an out-of-control fire in British Columbia forced evacuations this week.

The latest information from the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre shows there have been 3,100 fires so far this season, compared to around 2,900 at this time last year.

But the total area burned this year is less than last year, at around 12,000 square kilometres down from 46,

JEDDAH — Prime Minister Mark Carney was gifted a personalized pistol and ammunition by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the NATO summit.

Erdogan, who hosted this year’s summit in Ankara, gifted every NATO leader a name-engraved firearm.

Global Affairs Canada says the RCMP is having the weapon decommissioned so it no longer fires and that the ammunition was left in Turkey.

The government will look for a home for the gift, potentially a museum.

Carney is in Jeddah today to meet with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at