On Wednesday, our lame-duck PM quacked out the news that “Canada is getting high-speed rail”: this is of course duckspeak for “the usual engineering firms are being handed billions of dollars to devise a plan for high-speed rail in a 1,000-kilometre strip of Ontario and Quebec.” In the new spirit of national unity, I suppose I am not allowed to object to the idea on behalf of any of the other eight provinces. But, like a troll in a riddle, I have questions three before this railroad you will see. And the first is the Inevitable Mike Moffatt Question, already asked by the economist and tribune of southwestern Ontario: Read More

A Toronto fraudster who was born into a prominent Ontario medical family has been sentenced to five years in a U.S. prison for a lofty diamond investment scam that stripped hundreds of victims of more than $21 million. Read More

A 15-year-old boy is facing first-degree murder charges in the shooting deaths of four people on a First Nation in southern Saskatchewan. Read More

A woman in the United States is suing a fertility clinic after she gave birth to a baby — who she raised as her own for five months — but then had to surrender him to his biological parents. Read More

Canadian grocers, large and small, are seeking alternatives to U.S. products ahead of a potential trade war, while highlighting homegrown products already available on their shelves. Read More

Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) wrote following the news: “There is no moral universe in which a terrorist organization of baby-killers can remain in power. None. Every vestige of Hamas must be eradicated from the face of the earth. The acceptance of anything less is an unforgivable moral failure.” Read More

A new poll suggests that more than a quarter of Canadians — 27 per cent — now see the United States as an "enemy" country, while another 30 per cent still say they consider the U.S. an ally. Read More

The wreck of a crashed Delta Air Lines jet has been cleared from a runway at Toronto's Pearson International Airport. Read More

Advance voting in the Ontario election opens today as party leaders continue to make campaign stops in the Greater Toronto Area and Kitchener. Read More

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It’s possible, as President Donald Trump flings executive orders hither and yon, that he may sign one to regulate the flow of waters in the Gulf of America, or the tides in what may become the American Ocean. After all, did not King Canute do the same? Read More

An army captain demoted from the rank of major for getting drunk and making “comments of a sexualized and homophobic nature” as well as racist remarks to four of his subordinates has won a chance to regain his title. Read More

A dead letter law is one that remains on the books but can be ignored because it is not enforced; this includes legislation that has not been repealed but has fallen into disuse or irrelevance with the passage of time. However, a recent study by the Aristotle Foundation suggests that Section 15(1) of Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedom may be comparable to dead letter law in university appointment processes because individual equality and freedom from discrimination are sidelined in the interests of affirmative action. Read More

OTTAWA — As Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre promises to cut foreign aid that he says is flowing to "dictators and terrorists," his office is silent as to whether that includes assistance to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. Read More

OTTAWA -- The government's fiscal watchdog says a guaranteed basic income program at the federal level could cut poverty rates in Canada by up to 40 per cent. Read More

OTTAWA -- More Canadians have expressed an interest in joining the military since U.S. President Donald Trump took office on Jan. 20 -- but the Canadian Armed Forces isn't attributing that spike to Trump and his talk of annexing Canada. Read More

The obvious explanation for the inattentiveness of Canada’s NATO allies to Canada’s troubles with U.S. president Donald Trump at the recent Munich Security Conference appears to have eluded Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly, who prefers to imagine that it’s simply because Europe “has its own challenges” at the moment. Read More

OTTAWA -- Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is slamming Liberal leadership candidate Mark Carney's plan to split the federal budget, calling it a "sneaky accounting trick" to avoid balancing the books. Read More

National Post’s Chris Selley and National Post contributor Anthony Furey discuss the latest in the 2025 Ontario election. Watch the video or read the transcript. Read More

British Columbia is revising its rules around the safer supply of opioids, mandating that the consumption of prescribed drugs must be done under the supervision of a medical professional. Read More

OTTAWA — Liberal leadership candidate Mark Carney may have the backing of the party establishment and donors with deep pockets, but the average donation to his campaign happens to be the lowest, almost neck and neck with contender Karina Gould. Read More

MISSION, Kan. -- An 86-year-old Missouri man has died just days after pleading guilty to a lesser charge in the 2023 shooting of Ralph Yarl, a Black honor student who rang the white man's doorbell by mistake, prosecutors announced Wednesday. Read More

Amy Jordan needed to scare the daylights out of the reader early in her new thriller, The Dark Hours. She wanted them to share the terrors experienced by a young Irish cop named Julia Harte when she and her partner assume they are responding to a routine noise complaint in a residential area. Read More

Canadians may remember a video from October 7 of a mother holding her red-haired babies, one in each arm, draped in a blanket, frantically looking from side-to-side, terrified, after being kidnapped from her home by armed, plain-clothed captors. These Palestinian Islamists, proud of their barbaric achievements, uploaded this and other disturbing videos to the popular messaging platform Telegram. Somehow, the response since that horrific day from far too many in the media, universities, and the general public has ranged from excuses to support in the streets to boycotting Jewish businesses. We now know the fate of that terrified mother and her babies. Read More

QUEBEC -- The Quebec government has tabled a new bill to limit the duration of strikes and lockouts. Read More

OTTAWA — For the first time since Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his resignation last month, a new poll shows Canadian politics experiencing a rare phenomenon: stability. Read More

The Hamas terrorist group has agreed to double to six the number of hostages scheduled to be freed on Saturday as part of the ceasefire with Israel, the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office announced on Tuesday. Read More

U.S.-based video game retailer GameStop has announced plans to sell off its French and Canadian operations "as part of its evaluation of its international assets." Read More

Most Canadians have grown up only being told of the glory of the Summit Series. Read More

Team USA “would love it” if U.S. President Donald Trump attended Thursday night’s 4 Nations Face-Off championship game against Canada. Read More

The federal government is moving ahead with the next phase of a high-speed rail network between Quebec City and Toronto, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Wednesday. Read More

OTTAWA — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is cancelling a trip to Washington, D.C., planned for this week, but says she's not giving up on her strategy of face-to-face engagement with U.S. lawmakers to head off the threat of tariffs. Read More

President Donald Trump on Wednesday called Volodymyr Zelenskyy a “dictator without elections,” lashing out after the Ukrainian president said Trump was being influenced by Russian disinformation as he moves to end the Kremlin’s war against Ukraine on terms that Kyiv says are too favorable to Moscow. Read More

Well past the NHL season’s halfway mark, it’s a safe bet most players in both the Team Canada and Team USA locker rooms ahead of Thursday night’s 4 Nations Face-Off finale are dealing with some manner of injury. Read More