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OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre's longtime chief of staff Ian Todd is retiring, marking the latest of several recent departures of senior staffers in his office. Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Emergency rooms are known for long waits — whether in Canada or south of the border — but they’re still among the shortest delays in health care. Read More

The growing sense about Prime Minister Mark Carney in Washington, D.C., is that maybe he doesn’t actually want trade peace, Tracy Moran, National Post correspondent in the U.S. capital, tells Brian Lilley. The prime minister’s “waiting game” tactic is out of runway: talks have dried up and there’s not enough time now to head off the July 1 deadline when U.S. President Donald Trump gets to revise, or worse, declare an end to the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement. Troublingly, Carney has managed to aggravate the Trump camp with continuous provocations, and the American public is souring on Canada. Meanwhile, she says, the White House is preparing tariffs that, this time, could be far more punishing than previous ones — with no more carve outs for CUSMA goods. (Recorded May 14, 2026.) Read More

A shooting at a mosque complex in California killed three people Monday, with two suspected teenage gunmen later found dead in a car from self-inflicted gunshot wounds, police said. Read More

Ben Shapiro says most people, Jews included, often mistakenly define Zionism. Read More

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According to a report by an Israeli NGO, Hamas's own internal memos show it has been working in tandem with Canadian government‑funded charities and non‑governmental organizations. Read More

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal government is playing legal hardball with First Nations fighting for clean drinking water — and First Nations are fighting back. Read More

Eleven years ago, the Swedish employment minister visited Canada for advice on how best to integrate immigrants and refugees into the workforce. With Sweden now implementing some of the toughest immigration policies in Europe, Canada might want to return the favour to find out how it all went wrong for the country that prided itself on being the ultimate “humanitarian powerhouse.” Read More

Instead of cracking down on online crimes like extortion and child sex abuse, the feds are planning to strip Canadians of their privacy instead. Read More

OTTAWA — Call it the coriander conundrum.  Read More

OTTAWA — Less than a week after winning last year's election and just days before he was set to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump, Prime Minister Mark Carney was looking for art to hang on his office walls. Read More

President Donald Trump said he’d called off a strike on Iran planned for Tuesday after an appeal by the leaders of Persian Gulf allies, who called for more time to pursue a diplomatic resolution. Read More

A jury rejected Elon Musk’s claims that OpenAI under Sam Altman’s leadership betrayed its mission to benefit the public by morphing into a for-profit business, finding that he waited too long to sue the company. Read More

The moment when Canada moved from Britain’s orbit into America’s can be dated precisely to Aug. 17, 1940. Read More

In the 1980s, cottage cheese was considered the ultimate diet food. After falling out of fashion, the fresh cheese is very much back in style. Read More

The former residence of Canada's consul general in New York has sold after nearly two years on the market. Read More

Time is running out for a deal, U.S. President Donald Trump warned the Iranian regime on Sunday. Read More

Toronto just hosted the conversation Canada has been avoiding. It hosted the first World Symposium Against Antizionism — a direct, unapologetic confrontation with one of the central ideological drivers of modern antisemitism. Read More

Infamously known online as the "Pee Pee Poo Poo Man," Samuel Opoku allegedly terrorized people in Toronto after flinging buckets of liquified poop on five strangers in 2019. Now, the 30-year-old has been arrested on two counts of sexual assault charges for two separate incidents within a day. Read More

OTTAWA — Neville Nankivell, seasoned journalist, editor, publisher and columnist for the Financial Post, died on May 3 at his home in Ottawa after a battle with cancer. He was 91. Read More

An independent candidate who looks and sounds a lot like El Salvador hardliner Nayib Bukele is winning over conservative Colombian voters tired of that country’s rising rates of violent crime and ever-increasing public deficit. Read More

When, in September 2025, Prof. Jason Stanley announced his move from Yale University to the University of Toronto, he framed the decision in stark, almost existential terms. The United States, he warned, was sliding toward fascism. He explained that his exodus to Canada was like leaving Germany during Adolf Hitler's rise. By comparing his departure from the United States to Jews fleeing Germany in the 1930s, Stanley transformed a university appointment into a dramatic indictment of America. Read More

An Ontario university is going on the offensive against a YouTube prankster in a unique lawsuit, asking a judge to force him to turn over the profits from viral videos filmed without permission on their campus. Read More

One unhappy First Nation makes headlines. Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Canada is grappling with debates over national identity and security as well as international trade. Ottawa is navigating U.S. tariffs and Donald Trump’s threats of higher trade duties ahead of this July’s review of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement, while also managing populist and separatist movements, hate crimes, and broader pressures on national cohesion.   Read More

If you’re taking on a bathroom renovation, one of the biggest decisions you’ll likely make is what kind of bathtub to get. There are many factors to consider — from aesthetic preferences to the space available, to the needs of whoever’s going to use it. Read More

The U.S. arrest of an alleged member of an Iran-backed Iraqi militia who is accused of plotting terrorism attacks against Jewish people in Toronto and elsewhere is “a chilling reminder” of indisputable and strengthening presence of “foreign-backed terrorism targeting Canadians,” the Centre for Israel and Jewish affairs said Sunday. Read More

China has agreed to purchase at least US$17 billion of agricultural products from the U.S. annually through 2028, the White House said in a fact sheet detailing President Donald Trump’s two-day summit in China. Read More

Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te said on Sunday that Taiwan will never be "traded away" as he pressed the United States to keep selling weapons to the island democracy to maintain regional peace. Read More

Around 10 "new" suspected victims have come forward in a French probe into the network of late U.S. sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a prosecutor said Sunday. Read More

The Libyan National Army (LNA), commanded by Marshall Khalifa Haftar and controlling southern and eastern Libya, is conducting what officers describe as its biggest military exercise yet — and a message for both friends and foes. Read More

A huge wave of almost 600 Ukrainian drones attacked Russia overnight, killing three people in the Moscow region and one in the Belgorod region, authorities said on Sunday. Read More

FIFA secretary general Mattias Grafstrom described as "excellent" and "constructive" the meeting held on Saturday in Istanbul with the Iranian federation to ensure Iran's participation in the 2026 World Cup in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Read More

The U.S. and Iran seemed far apart on a deal to end weeks of war and reopen the crucial Strait of Hormuz on Sunday, as a drone attack sparked a fire at a United Arab Emirates nuclear plant, spotlighting the risks of a fragile ceasefire. Read More

The World Health Organization declared an Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda a public health emergency of international concern, warning that a rare virus strain with no approved vaccine or treatment may already be spreading more widely than detected. Read More

A court has struck down one Alberta independence petition,” says Keith Wilson, the St. Albert lawyer and advocate for Alberta’s separation from Canada. “This does not mean the referendum is over.” Read More

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If you've ever felt tense, irritable or even freaked out in a supposedly haunted house, the reason might be more normal than paranormal. Canadian scientists have discovered that "infrasound," frequencies of noise that are too low for the human ear to detect, may still create an emotional response in people, possibly a haunted feeling. Read More

This week, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen devoted an address to EU leaders on the alleged problem of social media and the need, as she sees it, for regulating children’s access to the online world. She proposed legislation to limit kids’ access to popular internet platforms. The German Eurocrat isn’t alone. Around the world, government officials are moving to restrict or even ban social media. U.S. politicians are among them, though they face a First Amendment hurdle. They are also opposed by Americans who say that parents, not the government, should be setting rules for children. Read More

The B.C. NDP wants to reopen an infamously mismanaged Vancouver-based supervised consumption site despite opposition from the local mayor and city council. Not only is the province acting undemocratically, such sites have been shown to fuel crime and do not actually save lives. Read More

The May long weekend — the sovereign’s official birthday — brings forth recommended lists for summer reading. An excellent time, I would suggest, for Post readers to discover Conrad Black the Historian — he has longed earned the capital “H.” Read More

The case of Ahmadreza Djalali should have been resolved years ago. A Swedish-Iranian physician and disaster medicine scholar affiliated with leading European institutions, Djalali has spent the past decade in Evin Prison under a death sentence issued on fabricated charges following a sham trial. Djalali’s case is an emblematic case study of state hostage-taking and the Islamic Republic’s weaponization of its judiciary, its pervasive pattern of executions, hostage diplomacy, and escalating grave human rights violations — concerns that have become even more urgent amid rising geopolitical tensions and the deepening challenge of impunity. Read More

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The B.C. Provincial Health Office is reporting that one of four high risk individuals who was on the cruise ship M.V. Hondius and self-isolating on Vancouver Island has tested presumptive positive for the Andes hantavirus. Read More

U.S. and Nigerian forces killed an ISIS leader who was hiding in Africa, President Donald Trump said, adding that his death has “greatly diminished” the group’s global operations. Read More

Iran said transit through the Strait of Hormuz will normalize once security conditions are restored, after U.S. President Donald Trump returned from a visit to China with an agreed desire to reopen the critical maritime route but little in the way of a path to achieving it. Read More

Two major protests are taking place in London, with the Metropolitan police warning it may be one of its busiest days in recent years. Read More

A 38-year-old man died in a shark attack off Western Australia on Saturday, the second fatal incident reported in the country this year. Read More

Some 82% of religion-motivated hate crimes in Toronto in 2025 targeted Jews, compared to 14 per cent that were anti-Muslim, according to annual hate crime statistics that the Toronto Police Service released on Thursday. Read More

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith on Friday was quick to tout the potential economic benefits of her latest pipeline deal with Prime Minister Mark Carney. Beneath those headline claims, however, is a much less visible $600-million cost. Read More

A man found not criminally responsible for repeatedly stabbing a teenager he did not know at a Toronto Tim Hortons has been granted an absolute discharge. Read More

The world is nostalgic for a respected Britain, is waiting for a mature Canada, and India is surging. Instead of Britain standing outside the door of Europe and Canada and India shivering in the shadow of America or China, and the Anzacs alone at the end of the earth, we should collaborate, for our collective good and for the stability in the world. The United Kingdom is floundering through its seventh consecutive failed government and is attempting to redefine its secession from the European Union by creeping backwards toward it, having almost severed its alliance with the United States by equivocating between that country and Iran, the world‘s greatest state sponsor of terrorism in the current conflict. At the same time, Prime Minister Mark Carney has assigned Canada and himself the role of rounding up disgruntled, so-called middle powers that harbour grievances against the United States, in particular, and getting them all to stand upon each other’s shoulders so that they will be taken more seriously in the chancelleries of the world. Both the U.K. and Canada have been thrust into these improbable vocations by prolonged mismanagement of their own foreign relations and national interests. Read More

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A former colleague of mine recently sold his home in Montreal and made "aliyah" by moving to Israel with his wife. Aliyah, a Hebrew word, literally means "rise" or "ascent," but Jewish people define it as immigrating to Israel. Read More

The horrific February 2026 mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., has sparked fresh debate about public safety and the role of artificial intelligence. Some call for greater government regulation or even nationalization of AI companies. While the desire to prevent future tragedies is laudable, such measures risk seriously damaging Canadians’ privacy, autonomy and freedom of expression. Read More

U.S. authorities on Friday detailed charges against a commander of an Iran-backed Iraqi militia who was allegedly involved in plotting terrorism against Jewish people in Europe, Canada and the United States. Read More

Talk of Alberta separatism is reaching a simmer as supporters of independence brought forward what they say is a successful petition drive to get a question put to voters. Read More

It’s Friday, May 15. Here are the top stories we’re following today. Read More

What are voters to make of a political party that can’t properly manage a riding nomination? The Ontario Liberals are the latest to pose that question implicitly — and not for the first time — to the electorate. Nate Erskine-Smith, a departing federal Liberal MP and presumed candidate for the provincial party's leadership, alleges all manner of skulduggery in the matter of his 19-vote loss to Ahsanul Hafiz to represent the Liberals the forthcoming Scarborough Southwest byelection. Read More

The "plan" to approve a pipeline, which was detailed by the federal and Alberta governments on Friday, is a perfect example, not of federal-provincial co-operation, but of why Canada can't build infrastructure. Rather than being subject to market demand, the decision to build or not to build is being driven entirely by politics. Read More

The Toronto Police Service Board has made a request to Ontario’s Inspectorate of Policing to conduct an expedited inspection of recent antisemitism allegations levelled at the Toronto Police Service. Read More

Canada is welcome to join in on a future Eurovision Song Contest but “nothing” about an entry has come across his desk, contest director Martin Green told the BBC this week. Read More

Would Rubio under a different spelling still be a Rubio? Read More

The new web series Pioneer Girl isn’t your grandma’s history lesson. But maybe it should’ve been. The six-episode comedy is a feisty take on Canadian history that highlights the often-overlooked contributions that women have made to our fair land. Read More

An Ontario judge has sentenced a trucker to 30 months in prison for killing former Olympic figure skater Alexandra Paul and severely injuring several other people, including her infant son. Read More

Talia Klein Leighton compares being a Canadian Jew since October 7 to a frog in a pot of boiling water. Read More

A prominent Israeli legal organization is threatening legal action against the Canadian Museum for Human Rights over an upcoming exhibit on the Palestinian Nakba, alleging the Winnipeg museum is promoting a politically one-sided narrative that could fuel antisemitism and violate federal law. Read More

President Donald Trump said China’s Xi Jinping largely agrees with him on the risks of Iran becoming a nuclear power but said he did not push his Chinese counterpart to pressure Tehran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Read More

As embattled British Prime Minister Keir Starmer faces a likely leadership contest, several rivals are getting into position to stand against him to lead the Labour party and the country. Read More

First Reading is a Canadian politics newsletter curated by the National Post’s own Tristin Hopper. To get an early version sent directly to your inbox, sign up here. Read More

Our cookbook of the week is The Caribbean Cookbook by Rawlston Williams. Read More

According to Gad Saad, when empathy is stripped of limits, trade-offs and self-protection, it stops being humane and starts being suicidal. Read More

Canadian, 19, accused of running a multimillion-dollar cryptocurrency fraud ring out of South Florida spent money on luxury cars, jewelry and enjoying the Miami nightlife while overstaying his visa to stay in the U.S., federal prosecutors allege. Read More

Israel and Jews worldwide celebrate the independence of the state of Israel on the secular date of May 14, 1948, when the leader of the Jewish community in Palestine, David Ben-Gurion, read the Declaration of Independence of the state of Israel upon the expiry of the British Mandate for Palestine. Palestinians and their supporters have long labelled May 15 as the date of the Nakba (the catastrophe) which, they claim, includes the expulsion from Israel of some 700,000 Palestine Arabs, the permanent exile of those Arabs, the defeat of the five national armies of Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon by Israel and, the emergence of Israel and as a new independent country. The very word was introduced by the Syrian Arab intellectual Constantine Zureiq. Read More

If the goal of Alberta Court of King’s Bench Justice Shaina Leonard was to fuel the separatist fire, she’s doing an exquisite job. Read More

Wednesday's King’s Bench ruling that invalidated the Alberta citizen petition on separatism is intricate and complicated, so instead of tussling with the fine details, I had better put on my Albertologist hat and try to focus on the big picture. The judge in the case made a ruling that everyone seems to find a bit weird. Justice Shaina Leonard ruled that the chief electoral officer of Alberta made an error in allowing, as the written law provides, for the gathering of signatures for a citizen initiative on separation. The Crown in right of Alberta, she says, had a formal “duty to consult” with Aboriginal treaty parties before the CEO’s permission was given. Read More

Philosopher Hannah Arendt coined the infamous phrase, the “banality of evil,” to describe her observation of Adolf Eichmann during his trial in Jerusalem in 1961. She observed how ordinary Eichmann appeared, how disturbingly normal. A bureaucratic instrument in the killing of six million Jews, Eichmann was indeed evil, but he performed his part banally — like part of a machinery operating routinely. Killing was a strategy. There was no emotion. Read More

Third in a series from advocates for the five Canadian cities vying to be the home of the new Defence, Security and Resilience Bank. Read More

Eleven teachers of North African descent who were suspended with pay in 2024 have lost their licences after teaching Islamic religious concepts and creating a "climate of fear and intimidation" by imposing strict rules on students attending a Montreal public school. The incident proves that Quebec’s secularism laws are not only necessary, but that they should be adopted across Canada. Read More

With summer around the corner, Canadian consumers are being asked to fork out a small fortune for every slab of beef they throw on the grill. Read More

OTTAWA — The Supreme Court will decide today if a victim of family violence can sue a former spouse for damages linked to "a pattern of emotional and physical" intimate-partner abuse. Read More

OTTAWA — After weeks of negotiations, Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith are set to announce today the next phase of its agreement to pave the way for the construction of a new oil pipeline to the West Coast, in exchange for Alberta increasing its industrial carbon tax. Read More

The idea of updating a home can seem daunting — the mind reels with thoughts of kitchen renovations and bathroom overhauls. But not every project needs to involve huge amounts of time, money and planning. Read More

OTTAWA — A wide range of speakers took the stage on Thursday afternoon in Ottawa for the annual National March for Life to tell the country it "must do better" when it comes to medical assistance in dying (MAID) and abortion. Read More

At some point, when it comes to Doug Ford’s hilariously ill-advised purchase of a private plane for his travels, the opposition leaders at Queen’s Park are going to have to cool their jets. Read More

A student is raising questions about the Waterloo Region District School Board’s decision to spend $175,000 to rename a high school in Waterloo, Ont. Read More

It’s Thursday, May 14. Here are the top stories we’re following today. Read More

A Georgian national known as “Commander Butcher,” who admitted to plotting a mass-casualty attack targeting Jews and minorities in New York City, was sentenced on Wednesday to 15 years in federal prison, the U.S. Department of Justice said. Read More

Wes Streeting, whose ambitions for U.K.'s top job was one of No 10’s worst kept secrets, has always seemed to know where he stood: right in the centre. Read More

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency is pointing its finger at the Port of Vancouver, alleging it to be an entry point for the chemicals used to manufacture fentanyl, which can then find its way into the U.S. Read More

OTTAWA— Prime Minister Mark Carney called Honda’s decision not to move forward with its electric vehicle project in Alliston, Ont., a “disappointing decision.” Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump began his much-vaunted official state visit to China this week for talks with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping. Read More

More than half a century has passed since militant Quebec separatists captured and murdered a provincial cabinet minister. But that’s not all they had in mind. Governor General Roland Michener, symbol of the hated Crown, would also be kidnapped, and if Pierre Trudeau’s government did not meet their demands, there were discussions about executing him on live television. Read More

Twenty-six more Canadians who were on a flight with a confirmed case of hantavirus are now being contacted by public health officials but are considered to be at "low or minimal risk" of infection because of where they were seated, federal health officials said Thursday. Read More

OTTAWA — The national chief of the Assembly of First Nations said Thursday that the 30-day consultation window the federal government gave to collect feedback on a sweeping set of reforms to speed up the building of new infrastructure projects is "not acceptable." Read More

The young cry for reasons easily discerned — youthful tears possess an embarrassing specificity, but when Stafford Hopkins, 58, wakes up crying every morning in his lavish Maui estate, he doesn’t have a clue as to why. The former network TV executive, his life upended by imposed retirement, now starts his day, not ridiculing the actors he detests, but mopping up existential dread while surveying the view, and sipping strong tea from a tin cup with a broken handle. Read More

In this new monthly Postmedia column, we ask a Canadian librarian a burning question about the books on their shelves. Read More

This hasn’t been a great week for Ontario Education Minister Paul Calandra. The steaming mess that Ontario calls special education has been fully exposed in a new report from provincial Auditor General Shelley Spence. It’s a story of how students with special needs are being shortchanged by a lax, confusing and underfunded system. Read More

When Ottawa journalist Ann Marie McQueen moved to Abu Dhabi in 2008, she figured she’d stay for a year. Read More

Warning: this author travels with chia seeds in her water bottle, zinc tablets in her purse and a shelf-stable probiotic that’s become as non-negotiable as her passport. Whether that’s smart preparation or good luck, though, was unclear, so she went looking for answers. Read More

The odd overlap between church and state is the result of a recent piece of legislation. Bill C-3, known as the “Lost Canadians Act,“ came into effect in December and allows anyone with a direct ancestor born in Canada, regardless of how many generations back, to claim citizenship. Read More

You’ve probably heard the advice to limit ultra-processed foods. Research links them to a higher risk of chronic disease, so cutting back is a smart choice. But what exactly counts as ultra-processed — and how can you spot it? Read More

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney announced his government’s intention to adjust clean electricity regulations on Thursday, in an effort double the capacity of Canada’s grid by 2050. Read More

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If you're interested in how universities came to stifle ideas, Ric Esther Bienstock has made a movie for you. Read More

First Reading is a Canadian politics newsletter curated by the National Post’s own Tristin Hopper. To get an early version sent directly to your inbox, sign up here. Read More

Researchers at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto have discovered a gene may be responsible for the behaviours commonly linked to autism. Read More

On Wednesday, in its Athabascan Chipewyan First Nation v Alberta decision, a trial judge of the Alberta Court of King’s Bench quashed the Alberta secession referendum process. In particular, the judge quashed the chief electoral officer’s decision to allow signatures to be gathered to call for a referendum. Whatever your view on Alberta secession, the decision warrants attention for the readiness of the judge to prohibit a democratic process based on Indigenous rights claims.  Read More

About half of Ontarians say their impression of Premier Doug Ford has worsened in recent months and 56 per cent believe the province is headed in the wrong direction, according to a new Postmedia-Leger survey. Read More

Ontario Education Minister, Paul Calandra, probably wasn’t thinking about Aristotle’s observation, in The Metaphysics, that the thirst for knowledge is a universal human desire, when he recently made waves by sending a letter to school boards calling for graduation ceremonies to be “strictly student-centred, apolitical, inclusive and respectful.” The letter was reportedly written in reaction to a memo sent to teachers from the Hamilton Wentworth School Board Superintendent which stated that, in addition to student achievement, graduation ceremonies should also focus on “colonization and a whole host of other divisive issues.” Read More

Ethnic politics were all fun and games for MP Nate Erskine-Smith — until they devoured him last Saturday. Read More

OTTAWA — Nikita Anatolyevich Mishin, a Russian billionaire Canada says is an oligarch associated with Vladimir Putin, is suing the federal government to be removed from the country's sanctions list. Read More

LOS ANGELES -- An American woman who made headlines by writing a children's book about grief after poisoning her husband was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole Wednesday. Read More

An Alberta Court of King's Bench judge has blocked Elections Alberta's approval of a petition that would force a referendum on the province separating from Canada. Read More

It’s Wednesday, May 13. Here are the top stories we’re following today. Read More

OTTAWA — Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen has one message for the youth of this country: you will run into obstacles. Read More

OTTAWA — Liberal MPs and former cabinet ministers Jonathan Wilkinson and Nathaniel Erskine-Smith are expected to resign their federal seats in the coming weeks, bringing Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government to the majority threshold of 172 seats. Read More

Margaret Trudeau, mother of former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, made a rare public appearance Tuesday night, sitting courtside at an Ottawa Blackjacks game with Sophie Grégoire Trudeau. Read More

OTTAWA — Leaders of Canada’s largest pro-life group warned on Wednesday that eligibility for medical assistance in dying, or MAID, is poised to expand dramatically in less than a year if legislative action is not taken to halt the change. Read More

“Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan” is a 20-year-old movie about an idiot reporter from Kazakhstan government state media on tour in the United States. Some people my age love it, and tend to quote it ad nauseum. It was critically acclaimed. I hated every smug, smirking, mean-spirited, easy, unfunny, pointless second of it. Read More

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has been involved, the extent of which is currently unknown, in creating deceptive prank videos that target some of the country’s loudest political dissidents.   Read More

Australian singer Keli Holiday had his first North American tour cut short last week when he was “detained at the Canadian border” for several hours and later denied entry into the U.S. Read More

The Trump administration’s maximum pressure campaign on Cuba is taking aim at the shadowy, military-run conglomerate that prevails over the island’s banking, retail and tourism sectors. Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. President Donald Trump is in Beijing this week for a high-stakes summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping — their first meeting of 2026 after a year of tariff escalation and just months after Prime Minister Mark Carney’s own trip to China.  Read More

OTTAWA — Alberta and the federal government are looking at a fall date for when Prime Minister Mark Carney's cabinet will designate a pipeline to the West Coast as being in the national interest, National Post has learned. Read More

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Ontario lawyer Gavin McNeill Grant impregnated a 17-year-old Crown ward, showed off pictures of her in lingerie to his coworker, and assaulted two women, including a client-turned-girlfriend, according to a decision of Ontario’s Law Society Tribunal. Read More

A British Columbia judge has sentenced a fraudster to two years less a day of house arrest for bilking an "extremely vulnerable" client out of $155,800 that he frittered away on gambling. Read More

A shocking new report that for the first time reveals in full the grotesque and gruesome horrors of October 7 is headlined: Silenced No More.   Read More

The mysterious Quebec prog-rock duo Angine de Poitrine are continuing their journey to world conquest this month, and as we all know, the path goes through England. “Klek” and “Khn,” musician pals from Saguenay who have developed their own genre of fast, tightly choreographed microtonal music, arrived for a tour last week and were promptly the subject of an illustrated profile in the Guardian. Read More

The federal government has proposed legislative changes to streamline the review process for major project approvals and to target a one-year federal review timeline. This is a necessary and overdue step for the country, especially for Alberta. Read More

Second in a series from advocates for the five Canadian cities vying to be the home of the new Defence, Security and Resilience Bank. Read More

While B.C.’s human rights code notionally protects people on the basis of political belief, this didn’t help a Simon Fraser University political science professor who was denied a job over his lack of support for DEI. Indeed, the tribunal decided in April not to give the matter a hearing. Read More

He's an unlikely candidate for town council: Paul Hanlon's recent criminal history includes convictions for assault, a violent home invasion and trying to sell drugs to an undercover police officer. Read More

In the upcoming Netflix movie Remarkably Bright Creatures, you’ve got Sally Field. You’ve got a curmudgeonly octopus. You’ve also got a screenplay based on author Shelby Van Pelt’s bestselling 2022 novel. It all adds up to what promises to be a thoughtful and entertaining film — and it’s already generating Emmy buzz. Read More

Donald Trump is expecting economic deals and a “wild” welcome this week in China. He’ll arrive facing an emboldened Xi Jinping, just as his own hand is constrained by the conflict in Iran. Read More

OTTAWA — Vice-Admiral Angus Topshee, the outspoken head of the Royal Canadian Navy, has been promoted to the military's second-in-command. Read More

Readers, I bring glad tidings: Canada has solved a problem, and solved it well. Read More

Disney’s newest cruise ship is sailing again after a mechanical issue unexpectedly resulted in the entertainment company cancelling the previous voyage. Read More

OTTAWA — The Ontario government has launched a new offensive for Toronto to become the host city for the future Defence, Security and Resilience Bank (DSRB) headquarters — and a new booklet to support its bid is throwing a bit of shade to Montreal in the process. Read More

It’s Tuesday, May 12. Here are the top stories we’re following today. Read More

Nate Erskine-Smith is, evidently, unbothered by the maverick label. Read More

An elementary school in Winnipeg will send students home with "family gifts" this week, instead of traditional Mother's Day and Father's Day presents, part of a new trend among some Canadian schools downplaying or eliminating the traditional parental celebrations. Read More

Iran’s supreme leader's long absence from public view has led to growing speculation that the injuries he sustained in an airstrike on Feb. 28 are more severe than the regime is letting on. Read More

A majority of B.C. residents are on board with the federal plan to move ahead with Enbridge’s Westcoast LNG pipeline expansion, according to new data from the Angus Reid Institute. This support is evidence of the changing landscape of support for pipelines in Canada’s most western province, says ARI. Read More

Prime Minister Mark Carney is avidly wooing the west — but will his own caucus trip him up? Last Friday, Carney met with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith to reassure her that Ottawa’s got her back on a second bitumen pipeline from Alberta to Canada’s West Coast. After the tête-à-tête Smith said, "This morning I said 'if' a deal gets signed, and afterwards I said 'when' a deal gets signed,” describing it as “an indication of my improved level of confidence.”  Read More

Twenty-one days, 42, 45: Returning passengers from the hantavirus-hit MV Hondius cruise ship are facing different self-quarantining requirements, raising questions about how long is long enough to stay isolated from other humans. Read More

Keir Starmer was facing growing pressure to step down as Britain’s prime minister after dozens of members of Parliament, including Cabinet allies, joined the calls for him to set out a timetable for his departure. Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump told press on Monday at the White House that the ceasefire deal with Iran is “unbelievably weak” and is “on life support.” Read More

EDMONTON — Alberta's various independence leaders are insistent that there is no chance of altering how Canada functions; that Ottawa views the province as merely a source of revenue, and that this will never change. Alberta has tried everything, they say, and none of it has worked. This is a gross oversimplification. Read More

A large study of cellphone presence in more than 250 U.S. destinations reveals a sharp drop of up to 65 per cent in the number of Canadian visitors to American locations in the two years between April 2024 and March 2026. Read More

Once a staple in many homes, wall clocks are enjoying some time in the spotlight. Their re-emergence in home decor is likely part of the trend toward all things analog. Things like dumb phones, Poleroid cameras, and hands-on hobbies are all popular ways to get off screens and embrace nostalgia — especially for Gen Z. Read More

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In the roughly two-and-a-half years since the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attacks, Israel has presented extensive evidence of terrorists subjecting women and girls to sexual violence both during the attacks and subsequently in captivity in Gaza. A report, which the Civil Commission on Oct. 7 Crimes Against Women and Children released on Tuesday, aims to get the attention of both prosecutors and parliamentarians worldwide, according to the independent Israeli nonprofit. Read More

There may not have been a huge contingent of visiting Montreal Canadiens fans at the opening games of the team’s second-round playoff series against the Buffalo Sabres last week, but there were definitely more Canadians in the stands than meets the eye — and many of them bleed blue and gold. Read More

A Statistics Canada survey on quality of life in Canada has revealed which provinces have the highest life satisfaction — and which ranks the lowest. Read More

In a 2022 news conference, former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said there wasn't a clear business case for building liquified natural gas (LNG) terminals to export to Europe. This past week, Mark Carney suggested in a media interview that the first thing European authorities are interested in when they sit down with Canada is not our energy. He went on to say that energy is something Canada raises as being part of the solution in respect to nuclear and LNG. Read More

British Columbia Premier David Eby’s tenure has been terrible for British Columbians. In a survey published this week by the Business Council of B.C., 74 per cent of its members said they were decreasing their investment plans in British Columbia due to the disastrous implementation of DRIPA, B.C.’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples’ Act, which seeks to align B.C.’s laws with the United Nations declaration of the same name. The result has led to mass confusion and fear about who is truly in charge when it comes to running the province: its government or its First Nations? Read More

Hillman College is one step closer to welcoming a new batch of freshmen to our screens. The Netflix sequel series for A Different World has finished filming Season 1 in Atlanta, the streaming platform said at the end of April. Read More

President Donald Trump said he will discuss U.S. arms sales to Taiwan with Chinese leader Xi Jinping at a meeting this week, a move that risks undermining America’s longstanding support for the island. Read More

BEIJING -- Beijing said on Monday it was ready to work with the United States in pursuit of "more stability" and confirmed that Donald Trump will visit China this week, the first U.S. president to do so since 2017. Read More

WASHINGTON -- One of President Donald Trump's favourite metaphors is that he's got the cards -- that through the might of the United States and his own acumen he can overpower any adversary. Read More

BRUSSELS, Belgium -- The "resilient" NATO alliance can weather criticism from U.S. President Donald Trump and remains crucial to underpinning Western security in the face of Russia, Canada's Foreign Minister Anita Anand said Monday. Read More

On Friday evening, just before he had hoped to secure the Liberal nomination for a provincial byelection in Scarborough Southwest, Nate Erskine-Smith posted a video to his social media feeds that did not leave a lot of room for interpretation of his future plans. Read More

It’s Monday, May 11. Here are the top stories we’re following today. Read More

OTTAWA — Liberal MP Steven Guilbeault, a former federal environment minister, remained evasive about his political future after starkly criticizing his government’s new proposal to speed up Canada’s regulatory process for major projects. Read More

Building at speeds not seen in generations, as per Mark Carney’s oft-repeated election pledge, has been less hypersonic than the prime minister might have wished. Read More

OTTAWA — The Conservatives and NDP sit on opposite sides of the spectrum, but they're voicing similar concerns about the trajectory of Canada's medical assistance in dying (MAID) regime. Read More

By the end of 2025, at least 352,000 Russian soldiers had died in the war against Ukraine, a new investigation has found. Read More

In a rare reversal to a year-long trend, Statistics Canada found that return arrivals by Canadians, both from the United States and the rest of the world, increased in April over the same month in 2025. It was the first year-over-year increase in those numbers in more than a year. Read More

A Thunder Bay judge has issued an absolute discharge so an Indian trucker who pleaded guilty to dangerous driving in a fatal crash can avoid deportation. Read More

The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) is refunding more than $148 million collected as part of the digital services tax (DST) to 30 U.S.-based companies. Read More

Is injecting illicit fentanyl unsafe? Most people would unhesitatingly say “yes,” but Canada’s new Chief Public Health Officer, Dr. Joss Reimer, has refused to clearly answer this question, suggesting she is unfit for the position.   Read More