OTTAWA — There should be limits on the use of the notwithstanding clause that is being increasingly invoked by provinces to curtail people’s Charter rights, the federal government I argued in the challenge of Quebec’s secularism law at the Supreme Court. Read More

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre offered Prime Minister Mark Carney a backhanded compliment while grilling him on the size of the deficit in the upcoming budget — which led to Carney boasting about his economic expertise. Read More

A law professor at the University of Alberta has been placed on non-disciplinary leave while the university conducts a review of online comments made in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder. Read More

OTTAWA — The federal Liberal government is planning to make it a crime to intentionally promote hate against an identifiable group by displaying designated terror and hate symbols in public, National Post has learned. Read More

President Donald Trump and his gang have always appealed much more to the authoritarian wing of the American conservative coalition than to the libertarian wing. He talks as good a game on “freedom” as any other Republican — freedom of speech on university campuses has been a major preoccupation, for example — but many doctrinaire libertarians can’t stand the sight of him. His obvious affinity for “strong man” leaders like Vladimir Putin and the most generous Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani Al-Thani understandably rankles. Read More

When she first saw photos U.S. law enforcement released of Charlie Kirk’s suspected shooter the day after his killing on a Utah Valley University (UVU) quad on Sept. 10, Tyler Robinson’s mother told police that she immediately thought the person resembled her son. Read More

The pressure is building on Mark Carney from the progressive wing of his own party as he pursues his “grand bargain” with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith on the development of Canada’s resources. Read More

OTTAWA — Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet says he's willing to meet with leaders of Alberta's growing pro-independence movement, following provincial counterpart Paul St-Pierre Plamondon's whirlwind Calgary visit last week. Read More

A vigil was held for Charlie Kirk in Winnipeg on Tuesday, with a crowd of more than a thousand people "full of kindness," says one woman who attended. Read More

The Alberta Court of Appeal has upped the sentence of a child pornographer and child abuser, saying the trial judge made a mistake when refusing to accept a joint sentence submission from the defence and the Crown and declining to view the images made by the accused pedophile. Read More

"Kissing bug" disease, also known as Chagas disease, is now considered an endemic illness in the United States, according to research in an infectious-disease journal published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this month. Read More

A vicious organism so “armed to the teeth” it can dodge most drugs thrown at it and a fungus with a kill rate of up to 60 percent lead a new list of pathogens federal health officials say pose the greatest threats to Canadians.  Read More

OTTAWA — As Justice Minister Sean Fraser prepares to table his bill to legislate against the obstruction of places of worship, schools, and community centres, he says he wants to see it passed quickly.  Read More

A teacher in British Columbia who had exchanged hundreds of "increasingly personal and intimate messages" with a student has been banned from the job for 15 years. Between the two, more than 1,000 calls were made over the phone, according to a summary of the consent resolution agreement published Tuesday. Read More

A U.S. immigration lawyer says warnings about the revocation of visas of foreign visitors who celebrate the death of Charlie Kirk could have a “chilling effect” on Canadians entering or already in the U.S., though she said it’s unlikely anyone will be deported. Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — When it comes to Canada-U.S. trade negotiations, things have been eerily quiet in Washington, D.C. recently. Read More

Halifax Regional Police have charged a 31-year-old man with public incitement of hatred after an investigation into six antisemitic graffiti messages painted last weekend on three Jewish sites. Read More

Edmonton-based novelist and poet Tim Bowling is among the five writers who’ve made the shortlist for the 2025 Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. Bowling, previously a two-time Governor General’s Award finalist, is in the running for his first collection of short stories, Graveyard Shift at the Lemonade Stand. Read More

Yulia Navalnaya, widow of the celebrated late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, said Wednesday she had evidence for the first time from laboratories in two Western countries that her husband had been poisoned in a penal colony in February of last year. Read More

Authorities are searching for a man they say rammed a vehicle into the gate of the Pittsburgh FBI field office in the early hours of Wednesday, in what the agency called a targeted "act of terror." Read More

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A senior in Ontario was robbed in broad daylight in what is being described as distraction theft by the Hamilton police. Read More

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