OTTAWA — Conservatives didn't waste any time going on offence as question period returned Monday, grilling the Liberals over emails that contradict their messaging on BC Ferries' controversial deal with a Chinese state-owned shipyard.  Read More

To say Bonnie Crombie left the Liberal Party of Ontario better off than she found them is definitely faint praise, considering she found the party as a minivan’s worth of seven MPPs crashed into a ditch with the air bags deployed and steam pouring out of the engine. But still: In February’s election she brought home five more seats than her woeful predecessor Steven Del Duca managed — enough to regain the party official status in the legislature — and 381,000 more votes across the province. Fundraising efforts rebounded impressively: The party claimed $2.9 million in contributions in 2024, Crombie’s first year on the job, up roughly 40 per cent from the year before and more than double what Del Duca managed, even adjusted for inflation, at the party’s nadir in 2019. Read More

Toronto Police announced Monday that they have made two arrests in connection with Toronto's 29th homicide of the year. The arrests were also made in connection with a series of violent robberies. Read More

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OTTAWA — Canada’s Chief Electoral Officer Stéphane Perrault hopes the government will increase minimum campaign periods because so many people are voting early that Elections Canada is struggling to keep up.  Read More

A Baltimore Orioles broadcast personality was in contrition mode Sunday after casting doubt on some Canadian fans’ baseball IQ during a game against the Toronto Blue Jays two days earlier. Read More

A former Toronto cop who resigned at 40 to study law "was willfully blind to fraudulent activity" when he helped scammers trying to launder $1.7 million, according to a decision from Ontario's law society tribunal. Read More

Robert Munsch, a beloved and complicated children's book author, has been granted a medically assisted death under Canada's MAID laws, though no date has been set. Read More

HALIFAX — On Sunday afternoon, I walked over to a local synagogue to see if they needed help removing a swastika. Read More

The 22-year-old suspect arrested for killing Charlie Kirk "had a text message exchange ... in which he claimed he had an 'opportunity to take out Charlie Kirk' and he was going to do it because of his hatred for what Charlie stood for," FBI Director Kash Patel said. Read More

WASHINGTON D.C. — The economies of both the United States and Canada are facing headwinds generated by U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff war. With central bank decisions looming in both countries amid rising unemployment, the National Post spoke with American economist Douglas Holtz-Eakin this week to discuss where things are heading. Read More

A Toronto teacher has been suspended after showing a group of Grade 5 and 6 students “a portion of a violent video” related to the assassination of U.S. conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Read More

Families Minister Nahanni Fontaine won't lose her job over comments she made online about Charlie Kirk's assassination, Manitoba's premier Wab Kinew said in a statement. Fontaine was told to apologize instead. Read More

Three Jewish sites in Halifax were vandalized with antisemitic graffiti overnight Saturday, an act the Nova Scotia premier called “disgraceful” and a local rabbi described as an “escalation.” Read More

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Though involvement has diminished in recent decades, Canada has traditionally portrayed itself and operated as a peacekeeping nation since the Second World War. Read More

Say you’re a step-parent of a young child for a few years. Say you break up with that child’s biological parent. Should you be put on that child’s birth certificate in addition to the biological parents, and be awarded partial custody? In New Brunswick, the answer is yes. Read More

OTTAWA — The start of the new fall session on Monday will see Prime Minister Mark Carney facing off against Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre in the House of Commons for the first time after Poilievre regained a seat over the summer. Read More

In an astounding coincidence, as the news arrived that Charlie Kirk, founder and head of the enlightened traditionalist movement Turning Point USA, had been assassinated, I was sitting in the Oval Office of the White House across the Resolute Desk from the President of the United States. Although I have known him for more than 25 years and have generally been in touch with him throughout that period, I had not seen him in person for some years. I have written approximately two million words about him, almost all of it reasonably or unambiguously favourable, though not uncritically so, mainly on U.S. Internet sites, as well as a book that was appreciative of him though no hagiography, (A President Like no Other). Read More