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Perfect Pitch

Five years, three countries, 16 stadiums: Inside the massive effort to grow grass for the World Cup

For many in Middle East, strikes come with no warning – and no place to run

Lack of sirens and shelter heightens danger in Lebanon, West Bank The missile that landed in a fig tree on Kayed Hussein’s property is a parable for the unfairness of modern war. It was just before 8:30 a.m. on a recent Thursday when the giant metal...

Confusion in strait, new attacks threaten to unravel ceasefire

U.S. touts victory, while Iran again shutters crucial waterway over deadly Israeli strikes in Lebanon

In Israeli town battered by Hezbollah, residents say the war must go on

Avi Nadiv is tired of the war. But he also hopes it doesn’t end any time soon. Mr. Nadiv is the deputy mayor of Metula, a town at the northernmost tip of Israel that has become almost lifeless as the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran enters its sixth week....

Over the moon: Artemis II crew becomes first to view far side in the internet age

The last time astronauts had their eyes on the moon’s far side, there was no digital photography, no real-time dialogue with scientists on the ground and no internet to send their conversations live around the globe. On Monday, the Artemis II mission...

Trump issues profane threat to Iran over blocked strait

After U.S. airman’s rescue, President vows to hit power plants, bridges if Hormuz isn’t reopened U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday made expletive-laden new threats to escalate strikes on Iran and its infrastructure if it doesn’t open the Strait of...

The Vanishing

The second season of our photojournalism series begins in the Northwest Territories, where Indigenous researchers are trying to save a dwindling caribou herd

LEGAULT’S LAST PLEA

Premier reflects on his tenure and calls on Quebec to protect its values in emotional final address to the legislature

Canadian heads to lunar orbit as NASA’s Artemis II takes flight

Mission marks crucial test for agency’s ambitions to return humans to moon’s surface by 2028 Jeremy Hansen’s journey to the moon has begun. Seventeen years after he was named an astronaut with the Canadian Space Agency, Colonel Hansen is in space for...

In the Strait of Hormuz, Iran reveals an ancient weapon’s enduring power

Narrow waterway has held outsized economic influence for centuries It’s just a narrow bend of seawater between two dry, hilly coasts, a space where ships are forced to crawl through shallow sea lanes to get from the Persian Gulf to the mouth of the...

NELLY’S NIGHT

Junos fete Furtado with induction into Canadian Music Hall of Fame, Joni Mitchell with lifetime achievement prize. For full coverage, visit TGAM.CA

MOON SHOT

In January, when NASA first rolled out the massive rocket built to send the Artemis II mission around the moon, the event had a surprising spectator. As the rocket – known as the Space Launch System or SLS – neared its launch pad at the Kennedy Space...

LABOUR OF LOVE

A scientist’s chance sighting of a sperm whale’s birth reveals the depth of these gentle giants’ bonds – and may offer lessons for humanity

In NWT, residents and government pay the price for dental-care deserts

Many forced to travel far away for treatment – or suffer without Wind whips along the shores of the Northwest Territories’ Great Bear Lake as Déline is blanketed in the season’s first snowfall. The fly-in Dene community, located just below the Arctic...

LOCKING HORNS

In the grasslands of Montana, an effort to bring back the iconic bison collides with Trump-era politics

Officials launch probe into fatal Air Canada crash at LaGuardia

Two pilots pronounced dead after plane collides with fire truck on New York airport’s runway Authorities are investigating the collision of an Air Canada Express plane and a fire truck that killed two pilots on a runway at New York’s LaGuardia airport...

POWER STRUGGLE

Cuba races to restore electricity after suffering its second countrywide blackout in a week amid a U.S. oil blockade

Gerry Wright has spent his career looking for ways to fight back against superbugs. He’s convinced the answer could be in your own backyard

THE END IN SIGHT

A man holds his son up to a telescope to glimpse the new moon ahead of Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the Islamic holy fasting month of Ramadan, at Indonesia’s Lhoknga Beach on Thursday.

Police search Mraiche firm’s HQ in Alberta procurement probe

Mounties descend on offices of medical equipment supplier owned by Edmonton businessman The RCMP have executed search warrants as part of their investigation into procurement irregularities at Alberta’s health authority, a controversy that has dogged...

Israel kills top Iranian officials in latest attack on leadership

Tehran renews fire across region after strikes on security chief, head of IRGC’s volunteer militia Israel killed two senior Iranian security officials in a major blow to the Islamic Republic’s leadership as it faces its greatest test in decades, and...

FIT FOR PURPOSE

Canadian men’s soccer team makes a bold statement with the launch of its 2026 World Cup jerseys

AN ANIMATED GROUP

Canadian co-director of KPop Demon Hunters among the early winners at the 98th Academy Awards. For full coverage, visit TGAM.CA/ARTS

There will be pain

As displaced Lebanese flood Beirut, a sense of civic duty takes hold

Beirut’s Camille Chamoun Sports City Stadium, the largest arena in Lebanon, has rarely hosted actual sporting events since the Beirut port explosion, triggered by the apparently accidental ignition of thousands of tonnes of ammonium nitrate, levelled...

Iran targets ships, Dubai airport as top UN body calls for halt

U.S., Israel continue bombardment while Tehran escalates efforts to inflict global economic pain Iran targeted the world’s busiest international airport Wednesday and attacked commercial ships as U.S. and Israeli strikes rocked Tehran and the UN’s...

ATTACK ON U.S. CONSULATE

Carney vows co-ordinated effort to catch perpetrators as police deem shots fired at Toronto office a ‘national-security incident’

Lebanese minister warns Israel aims to split country in two

Official suggests plan is to establish depopulated buffer zone in south, pointing to actions in Gaza and Syria as precedents Israel looks to be establishing a buffer zone in southern Lebanon akin to the one created by the “Yellow Line” that has...

Iran names Khamenei’s son as Supreme Leader, defying U.S.

Regime signals continued hard line as week-old conflict expands, driving up oil prices Iran on Monday named Mojtaba Khamenei to succeed his father, Ali Khamenei, as Supreme Leader, signalling that hardliners remain firmly in charge, as the weekold...

Explosion at Iranian elementary school was likely from U.S. air strikes

Blast killed more than 165 people, most of them of children, according to Iranian state media Satellite images, expert analysis and information released by the U.S. and Israeli militaries suggest an explosion that killed scores of Iranian students at...

Fallout ripples across Mideast, beyond as Iran war escalates Anger mounts against Hezbollah after Lebanon pulled into another fight

There was a time when Fatima Daoud supported Hezbollah and saw the group as defending Lebanon’s sovereignty. But her affection for the “Party of God” expired as it dragged her country into war after war, driving her family from one home to...

Shock, fear grip Lebanon as Israeli attacks expand beyond Hezbollah strongholds

Mustafa Taha didn’t pick up the first call, or the second, from the foreign number that kept ringing his mobile phone Tuesday evening. It was almost time to break the daylong Ramadan fast, and he was too hungry and distracted to have a conversation...

War spreads as Israel sends troops into Lebanon to push back Hezbollah

Israeli ground troops crossed into southern Lebanon on Tuesday, marking yet another escalation in a region-wide war that also saw the U.S. and Israel continue to pound targets in Iran. Iran countered Tuesday by hitting the U.S. embassy in Riyadh with...

Trump outlines goals of war in Iran, predicting weeks-long operation

President Donald Trump said Monday that the U.S. war with Iran is planned to last “four to five weeks” but could go “far longer,” while Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth did not rule out deploying ground troops. In their first public appearances since...

WAR IN IRAN

▪ U.S. and Israel intensify attacks after assassinating Supreme Leader Khamenei ▪ Trump vows to avenge American troops killed in counteroffensive ▪ Conflict swells as Tehran fires retaliatory strikes across Persian Gulf

Trump’s tariffs have changed the global economy. Just not the way he planned

U.S. President Donald Trump returned to power promising to shatter the global economic order and restore his country’s industrial greatness. His tool of choice: tariffs. On March 4 last year, Mr. Trump hit Canada and Mexico with socalled “fentanyl...

U.S. and Iran conclude nuclear talks with no deal as military threat looms

Iran and the United States held hours of indirect negotiations Thursday over Tehran’s nuclear program but walked away without a deal, leaving the danger of another Mideast war on the table as the U.S. has gathered a massive fleet of aircraft and...

GUIDED HOME

Indigenous leaders welcome the return of a Métis model dog sled held in the Vatican’s collection for more than a century

GLORY AND HEARTBREAK

Globe reporters reflect on the highs and lows of Milan Cortina as a sprawling and spectacular Olympics draws to a close

What Alabama – yes, Alabama – can teach Canada about productivity

In December, Tommy Battle’s dream came true. The five-term Mayor of Huntsville is Alabama to the bone, born in Birmingham and a graduate of the state university in Tuscaloosa, but for the past 18 years he’s tried to distance his city from the state’s...

Canada’s women come up short, but the effort was heroic

Our Rumble in the Jungle moment ends in an overtime heartbreak It is ridiculous to suggest that one team of professionals could or would rope-a-dope another for an entire year. It’s not that it’s not doable. It’s that it would require an impossible...

IN A TIGHT CORNER

Team Canada survives its toughest Olympic test yet, beating Czechia 4-3 in OT to advance to semi-finals

GOLDEN AGAIN

Skaters Weidemann, Blondin and Maltais defend their crown – and bring Canada its third gold – in what they expect to be their last race together

Sticking the landing: Oldham vaults to the top of the big-air podium

Skier claims her second Olympic medal – another gold for Canada Canadian freestyle skier Megan Oldham earned double redemption on a snowy Monday evening in Livigno, winning her second Olympic medal, this time in big air – and this time gold. Not only...

Canada’s gold-medal drought, and an Olympic career, end on the moguls

After a near-perfect run, ski star Kingsbury leaves Italy on a high Canada needed that gold. So did Mikaël Kingsbury. Mr. Kingsbury, the world’s greatest freestyle skier, broke Canada’s Olympic gold-medal drought on Sunday after beating Japan’s Ikuma...

‘We’ve all lost somebody’

The tight-knit community is now struggling to understand what happened and what they can do for one another to move forward It began so quietly. So quietly, that even the closest neighbour to the house on Fellers Avenue didn’t know what terror was...

Eight lives lost in British Columbia: Their names and stories

Eight people were killed by a teenage shooter, including five children at school, an educator and two family members Abudding scientist. An aspiring artist. A keen hockey player. Tumbler Ridge, B.C., a remote mining community of 2,400 people tucked...

TRAGEDY IN TUMBLER RIDGE

■ Close-knit community, nation left reeling after attack at secondary school ■ Five students, aged 12 and 13, and educator among dead, RCMP say ■ Police identify shooter, report mother and stepbrother also killed

At least 10 dead in B.C. mass shooting

Seven people killed in attack at Tumbler Ridge high school; suspect, two others at residence linked to incident also dead, RCMP say At least seven people were killed in a school shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., on Tuesday, RCMP said. The suspected...

NEW HEIGHTS

Megan Oldham shakes off a bumpy landing to capture bronze in freeski slopestyle, and bring Canada its second medal

TALONS OUT

A dominant defence carries Seahawks to 29-13 victory over Patriots, and their second Super Bowl title

The coach

Jon Cooper, the man leading Canada in its quest for hockey gold, is not your typical bench boss. He’s a calculated thinker with an unusual background. And his record of success is uncanny In the winter of 2009, Patrick McCadden was a forward for the...

TORONTO POLICE CHARGED IN ORGANIZED CRIME PROBE

Seven Toronto Police Service officers and a retired constable are among 27 people charged in one of the largest investigations into police corruption Canada has ever seen – a probe that began after an alleged plot to kill an Ontario corrections officer...

Lacing up for her fifth Olympics, Captain Clutch keeps the fire burning

For women’s hockey legend Poulin, U.S. rivalry is as strong as ever There’s a phrase Marie-Philip Poulin dropped into conversation recently when asked about all the hockey she has played over the years. “La vie va vite.” Life goes by quickly. They...

A TOWN IN MOURNING

Tributes pour in after three junior hockey players with Stavely’s Southern Alberta Mustangs were killed in a car crash

UNITED FRONT

Former PMs Chrétien and Harper urge Canadians to stand together, diversify trade away from U.S. to confront Trump threat

GETTING THE SHOW ROLLING

Olivia Dean earns best new artist, while Kendrick Lamar sets a rap music record at the Grammy Awards. For full coverage, visit TGAM.CA

CATHERINE O’HARA 1954-2026

Star of two of Canada’s greatest television comedy exports died on Friday after brief illness In a 2013 issue of Vanity Fair, Canada’s Catherine O’Hara took part in the magazine’s Proust Questionnaire. Asked which trait she most deplored about...

Thrust into the Olympic spotlight, a tiny town hopes to keep its character

Historic Bormio has little desire to become Italy’s next glam destination On the morning of Sunday, Jan. 17, the square in front of the medieval Church of St. Anthony turned into a barnyard. Donkeys, horses, geese, chickens and dogs were all making a...

‘COMMON GROUND’

Alberta and B.C. premiers find consensus on plans for Trans Mountain pipeline expansion in talks with PM

EXPANDING OUR HORIZONS

In B.C.’s Okanagan, a crop of radio dishes prepares to comb the cosmos, and signals a new step for Canada’s scientific ambitions

After the storm: Torontonians dig out from a record-breaking snowfall

Residents, crews get to work as blizzard brings city to near-standstill In Toronto’s west end, eager kids carrying toboggans took over the “dog bowl,” a steep pit in Trinity Bellwoods Park usually reserved for four-legged fun seekers. Nearby, Darryl...

The battle for America is being waged in Minnesota

As ICE raids separate families, people across the political spectrum try to figure out what comes next Trinity Lutheran church is a small, rural congregation in Sibley County, Minn., a district southwest of Minneapolis that voted more than two-thirds...

A CAUTIOUS STEP FORWARD

Negotiators from Russia, Ukraine and U.S. to hold first trilateral talks after Zelensky, Trump tout positive meeting on peace terms

Trump drops tariff threat, citing ‘framework’ deal on Greenland

Leaders across Europe breathed a sigh of relief on Wednesday after Donald Trump said he would drop his threat to impose new tariffs on countries that oppose his plan to acquire Greenland. The U.S. President announced on social media that after...

Rules-based world order is over, PM warns in blunt Davos speech

Carney takes aim at U.S. disruption, economic coercion while calling on smaller countries to unite Prime Minister Mark Carney said Tuesday that middle powers must stop pretending the rules-based international order is still functioning, and instead...

U.S. President ties Greenland threats to Nobel snub in exchange with Norwegian leader

U.S. President Donald Trump linked his aggressive stance on Greenland to last year’s decision not to award him the Nobel Peace Prize, telling Norway’s Prime Minister that he no longer felt “an obligation to think purely of Peace,” in a text message...

Canada weighs sending soldiers to Greenland in face of U.S. threats

Move risks angering Trump after he vowed new tariffs against allies taking part in NATO exercise Canada has drawn up plans to send a small contingent of soldiers to Greenland for military exercises with NATO allies in the face of threats from U.S....

ONE YEAR OF TRUMP 2.0

Debra Thompson on the disaster it’s been for American democracy David Shribman on the depth and breadth of the Trump revolution

Legault steps down, upending Quebec’s political landscape

François Legault, the nationalist Quebec Premier who has toughened language laws but shelved talk of separation, announced on Wednesday that he would resign just months before a scheduled provincial election. In a hastily arranged news conference at...