OTTAWA — Natural Resources and Energy Minister Tim Hodgson says he reached out to apologize to Coastal First Nations in British Columbia after suggesting they could meet with him over Zoom to discuss their concerns about Alberta's proposal to build a new bitumen pipeline to the West Coast. Read More

Over the weekend, United Conservative Party members will gather in Edmonton to once again decide the fate of the party. Read More

As Canada approaches the ten-year mark of legalized doctor-assisted death, the number of annual deaths appears to be plateauing, according to the federal government's latest report on medical assistance in dying (MAID). Read More

Singapore — A plushy, AI-enabled teddy bear recalled after its chatbot was found to engage in sexually explicit conversations and offer instructions on where to find knives is again for sale, AFP found. Read More

In response to a question about the Carney government's relationship with the Indigenous community, Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand scolded senators for not beginning the meeting with a land acknowledgement, despite there being no requirement for them to do so. Read More

OTTAWA — Liberals had nice things to say about their colleague Steven Guilbeault, who resigned from cabinet on Thursday over the Ottawa-Alberta roadmap for a proposed new oil pipeline but they tempered his criticism of the deal which he “strongly” opposes. Read More

Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECC) has unveiled an overhaul to its national weather alert system, aiming to make the risks associated with its weather alerts clearer for Canadians. Read More

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his powerful chief of staff and lead negotiator in peace talks, Andriy Yermak, resigned after becoming ensnared in a corruption investigation. Read More

Canadians will need "advance permission" to travel to the United Kingdom next year. Without it, they could be denied boarding. Read More

Israeli troops carried out a targeted overnight operation in southern Syria to apprehend operatives from the Jaama Islamiya terrorist organization, encountering heavy gunfire that left six IDF soldiers wounded, three of them seriously, the military said on Friday. Read More

Dr. Ahmed Bayoumi, a prominent harm reduction researcher known as the godfather of Toronto’s injection sites, provided testimony in a court hearing early this year that asserted there is “no evidence” that such sites “lead to increased drug selling.” Read More

Iran is to boycott next week's World Cup finals draw in Washington because the United States refused to grant visas to several members of the delegation, the Iranian football federation announced on Friday. Read More

President Donald Trump called for “reverse migration” in the U.S. as he outlined a further crackdown on immigration following the shooting of two National Guard members in Washington. Read More

Our cookbook of the week is 108 Asian Cookies by Kat Lieu. Read More

There are moments in a nation’s story when a single leader bends the arc of its history toward a new destination. In Canada, no figure accomplished this more sweepingly or more deliberately than Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Agree with him or despise his legacy, and I remain firmly in the latter camp, Trudeau was not merely a prime minister. He was a founder. He took a country with deep British institutional roots, a Westminster state shaped by inherited constitutional tradition, civic restraint, common law sensibilities, and a political culture that still thought of itself, quietly but undeniably, as part of the wider Anglosphere, and he transformed it into something wholly different. Read More

If Aesop was right that “a man is known by the company he keeps,” then Prime Minister Mark Carney and his government may be due for severe judgment. Read More

Canada’s museums have transformed themselves in the last decade, adopting identity-driven makeovers under pressure from the Trudeau-led Liberals. National Post visited institutions from coast to coast to survey the damage and consider its implications. Today, Tristin Hopper laments what has happened to his beloved Royal B.C. Museum. Read More

An Ontario man who admitted to participating in two 'sham' marriages to help Indian women immigrate to Canada in return for services and cash has failed in his efforts to prove he's married to the mother of his three children. Read More

It was 3:26 in the morning when a long-haul tractor trailer loaded with steel bars pulled up on the U.S. side of the Blue Water Bridge at the southern end of Lake Huron, connecting Ontario and Michigan. Read More

A controversial exhibit, Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present, is coming to the Canadian Museum of Human Rights in June, and at least one Globe and Mail columnists thinks concerned Jews are overreacting — except they aren't. Read More

OTTAWA — Deciding how long it will take for Alberta's industrial carbon tax to hit its new "minimum" of $130 per tonne should be based on what "industry can afford," says Alberta Premier Danielle Smith. Read More

MONTREAL — If now-backbench Liberal MP Steven Guilbeault was looking for sympathy, he won't find it from four of the five candidates vying to be the next NDP leader. Read More