In Edmonton last month, a judge laid the groundwork to acquit a man who, while sporting clear hallmarks of drug dealing, was caught by police packing a loaded Glock. If you’re ever wondering why crime is on the rise in Canada, you can look straight to decisions like these by our courts. Read More

OTTAWA — The federal government is set to make a highly anticipated decision in the coming weeks regarding internet affordability. Read More

The city of Mirabel, Que., says it's in mourning after its mayor, Patrick Charbonneau, died suddenly at the age of 46. Read More

When Pascal Robinson-Foster, 34, a rapper from Ipswich, U.K., who goes by "Bobby Vylan" came on stage Saturday afternoon at Britain's Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts in front of a Palestine flag, there was already tension in the festival's executive offices. Read More

The family of a Canadian tourist who was found dead in a northern part of the Dominican Republic is raising money to bring his remains home. Read More

Police say six people are in custody after an investigation into an armed home invasion shut down a major artery into Ontario’s cottage country and kept commuters locked in their cars on Tuesday. Read More

A 20-year-old man's life appeared to have begun to unravel in the months before authorities say he fatally shot two firefighters and severely wounded a third as they responded to a wildfire near Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Read More

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and the Oklahoma City Thunder have agreed on a record-setting 4-year, $285 million extension that would give him the highest single-season average salary in NBA history, a person with knowledge of the agreement said Tuesday. Read More

President Donald Trump will turn a new immigration detention center in a remote area of the Florida Everglades into a symbol of his border crackdown when he visits on Tuesday. Read More

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U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday he could consider deporting Elon Musk, after the South African-born billionaire slammed his flagship spending bill. Read More

Canadians took to parks and civic squares across the country Tuesday to show unity on Canada Day, amid American threats, economic uncertainty and Western alienation. Read More

Steven Guilbeault, federal minister of identity and culture, came to his new job just as the whole country was looking at itself in the mirror. Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Ottawa could almost taste the tax revenues. Read More

OTTAWA — Two architects of Alberta NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi's surprise victory in the 2010 Calgary mayor's race say they're feeling déjà vu after seeing another thirty-something Shia Muslim — with family ties to East Africa and Gujarat, India — upend the politics of a major North American city. Read More

TORONTO -- More than 250 workers at the CN Tower, one of the most iconic tourist sites in Toronto, have been locked out just before Canada Day, their union said on Monday. Read More

COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho — A man who started a wildfire and then fatally shot two firefighters and wounded another in northern Idaho was a 20-year-old transient who attacked the first responders after they asked him to move his vehicle, a sheriff said Monday. Read More

Montreal Liberal MP Anthony Housefather is calling on the Canadian government to bar the British rap duo Bob Vylan from Canada after the group led the crowd in a chant of death to the Israeli military at the Glastonbury Festival in the United Kingdom over the weekend. Read More

CALGARY -- Fluoride is back in Calgary's drinking water. Read More

Brian Thomas Isaac’s voice is quietly matter of fact when he talks about growing up poor in a home without electricity in British Columbia’s Okanagan Indian Reserve. “That was simply how it was,” he remembers. Read More

With a middle-class tax cut promised by Prime Minister Mark Carney and the Liberal government coming into effect Tuesday, some Canadians in the lowest tax brackets may find extra cause to celebrate Canada Day. Read More

The U.S. Justice Department says an Alberta man is awaiting trial on charges of conspiracy and mail fraud after he allegedly operated a mail scam with other people that targeted vulnerable American seniors. Read More

OTTAWA — With Canada’s digital services tax now scrapped, a free trade deal between Canada and the Unites States is just a question of time, U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra told National Post on Monday. Read More

For a while there, things were going so well. Prime Minister Mark Carney — aka “the Trump whisperer” — had morphed from critic to texting buddy of the U.S. President. Over the past three months, Carney had been chatting with Donald Trump, building backchannel goodwill. After the successful G7 summit in Kananaskis, Alta., hopes were high that Ottawa would strike a deal with Washington in 30 days, and that the rhetoric of making us the “51st state” had finally been retired. Read More

Canada and the United States have restarted trade talks after Prime Minister Mark Carney's government dropped Canada's digital services tax. Read More

Manitoba’s minister responsible for accessibility Nahanni Fontaine has apologized after she groused on a hot mic about sharing the stage with an American Sign Language interpreter. Read More

Canada's largest private-sector union says more than 250 CN Tower workers have been locked out by the Crown corporation operating the Toronto tourist attraction. Read More

A little girl who fell from a Disney Cruise Line vessel into the Atlantic Ocean, and her father, who jumped in after her, were both rescued by fast-acting crew members on Sunday afternoon. Read More

Make no mistake: the blows that Israel and America delivered to the Islamic tyrants in Tehran were in many ways crippling. As Kaveh Shahrooz, an Iranian-born Mideast analyst and human rights activist, tells Brian this week, the devastating targeted assassinations of nuclear scientists and military leaders indicate Israel has infiltrated the regime at its highest level. Its nuclear program is shattered, although we wait to learn by how much. And Israel has amputated Iran’s terror network by crushing Hamas and Hezbollah and helping end Syria’s Assad dictatorship. But, as Shahrooz explains, the ayatollahs face a disorganized opposition and will use all means necessary to keep their mafia-like hold on Iran. Expect more weapons, brutality and mayhem. (Recorded June 27, 2025) Read More

Below the swell of goose-vs-eagle elbows-up patriotism that continues to gush through the nation lies an undercurrent of worry: half of Canadians feel that we’re losing a collective sense of what it means to be Canadian. Read More

A man armed with a rifle started a wildfire Sunday and then began shooting at first responders in a northern Idaho mountain community, killing two firefighters and wounding a third during a barrage of gunfire over several hours, authorities said. 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

U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has thanked Canada for dropping its digital services tax in a move to resume trade negotiations with the United States. Read More

Tech giants such as Amazon and Google will not have to shell out close to $2 billion as expected today, as Canada moved to cancel the controversial digital services tax on Sunday, just one day before the first payment was due. Read More