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As cases in which provincial legislators have deployed the override power of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms — the "notwithstanding clause" — have proliferated, so have defences of their doing so. Among the override’s most passionate defenders are lawyers and political scientists with expertise and prestige to support their arguments. Read More

Tuesday’s budget wasn’t like those of the high Trudeau years, encrusted with identity politics at every turn. But the spirit of the old regime lives on under Prime Minister Mark Carney, who has opted for a deficit of $78.3 billion along with the continuation of social justice programs and diversity mandates. Read More

An Ontario judge has sentenced two Indian immigrants to house arrest for running fraudulent truck driving schools that offered sub-standard training for newcomers from South Asia. Read More

Canada is not immune to the global rise of hate-motivated incidents. From vandalized places of worship to online harassment, intimidation at our universities/colleges, and public displays of extremist symbols, these are not isolated acts. They are part of a growing pattern that threatens the safety and cohesion of our country. Read More

Matlock has achieved a rare feat for a TV reboot — it has charmed both TV critics and viewers in its first season. The legal drama is a gender-swapped take on the original show, which starred Andy Griffith and aired from 1986 to 1995. Read More

Democrats reclaimed political momentum Tuesday with gubernatorial victories in Virginia and New Jersey, early signs that voter unease with the economy in President Donald Trump’s second term could give them a path to winning control of Congress next year. Read More

Lauren Graham said it herself at the Emmy Awards in September, when she and Gilmore Girls co-star Alexis Bledel reunited to pay tribute to the series. Read More

ALBA IULIA, Romania -- On the Mures river in central Romania, French armoured vehicles and Romanian trucks board a motorized floating bridge, part of a large military exercise to showcase NATO's ability to rapidly increase force levels on its eastern flank facing Russia. Read More

Prime Minister Mark Carney's government is proposing in the 2025 budget to follow through on a whopping investment to harness the power of artificial intelligence over the next five years. Read More

It may not be located at 1313 Mockingbird Lane, but a replica of the house from The Munsters looms large in Waxahachie, Texas. It belongs to Sandra McKee and her husband, Charles, who live next door and open the mansion up for private tours and murder mystery dinner parties. Read More

The federal budget announced Tuesday proposed a plan that would boost funding for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and its French-language counterpart, Radio-Canada — and included in that plan was the possibility that Canada could participate in Eurovision. Read More

OTTAWA — The federal budget is where a government explains its most ambitious long-term plans, with high-flown rhetoric and huge dollar figures. Read More

OTTAWA — Nova Scotia MP Chris d'Entremont crossed the floor from the Conservatives to Prime Minister Mark Carney's governing Liberals just hours after the minority government tabled its first budget. Read More

Only three hours into Ottawa’s budget lock-up and I’d already read so much about catalyzing, super-charging, launching, leveraging and empowering that I felt the need of a nap. And I was only 150 pages into the 406-page document. Maybe we should have a rule that the minister of finance has to read the entire budget into the parliamentary record. That would “incentivize” him or her, as they say in Ottawa, to keep it short. Read More

Prime Minister Mark Carney has tabled his first budget since entering politics earlier this year. Canada's 2025 federal budget forecasts a $78.3-billion deficit, the third highest in Canadian history and the highest ever in a non-pandemic year. On Monday, Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne called it an "investment budget" and a "generational shift." Champagne tabled the budget on Tuesday. Read the full budget document below, and find National Post's full coverage here. Read More

OTTAWA — Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne unveiled a budget with a chorus of new spending initiatives, but also included – and notably, did not include – several measures geared at tackling affordability. Read More

Since I was last propelled years ago into the purgatory known as “the lockup,” where journalists spend budget day, have either process or contents improved? No. Instead they now insert a false stolen-land “acknowledgement” before even getting to the same old same old labeled bold and new. Which is especially troubling at this supposedly critical juncture. Read More

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney's government is setting the stage to end the proposed oil and gas emissions cap and promising to do away with certain rules aimed at penalizing companies accused of "greenwashing." Read More

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney is billing his first budget as bold, but it won’t come cheap. Read More

OTTAWA — The federal government is taking a hatchet to temporary immigration levels, cutting the number of temporary students it will let in next year by half. Read More