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

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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

Rachel Bailey finally saw a future for herself running a fine dining restaurant in the Rocky Mountain paradise of Jasper, Alberta. Read More

We have clearly entered the realm of the ludicrous when a local government in Canada is banning what most reasonable people would regard as the dictionary definition of what is a woman. Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday morning called for an agreement to return Israeli hostages held by Hamas in Gaza. Read More

Capping a tumultuous night, the Republican-controlled Senate advanced President Donald Trump's package of tax breaks, spending cuts and increased deportation money, with more weekend work ahead as Congress races to meet his Fourth of July deadline for passage. Read More

The U.K. government said on Sunday that the BBC had questions to answer over criticism of Israel by musicians at Glastonbury festival that police are probing. Read More

A judge has authorized a class action lawsuit over emails Tim Hortons sent out in error to participants in its popular Roll Up to Win promotion — but only for Quebec residents. Read More

Canada's largest private sector union says a three-week lockout and strike at DHL Express Canada is ending after workers ratified a new agreement. Read More

Captain James T. Kirk would be appalled at the rapid acceleration of climate change on Earth, says William Shatner, the Montreal-born actor who played the head of the USS Enterprise in the "Star Trek" franchise for decades. Read More

Canada's first liquefied natural gas cargoes will soon arrive on Asian shores, a milestone touted — and doubted — as a boon for global emissions-cutting efforts. Read More

Justice Minister Sean Fraser says the federal government plans to take a “fresh” look at its online harms legislation over the summer, but it’s not clear yet exactly what the bill will look like when it is reintroduced. Read More

A Hamas captivity survivor on a speaking tour in Canada this month said she won’t “let terror sympathizers control the narrative” after anti-Israel demonstrators allegedly blocked the exit of her venue last week. Read More

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to call a byelection on Monday in the Alberta riding of Battle River—Crowfoot, where Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre will be looking to regain a seat, the National Post has learned. Read More

Former Canadian diplomat Norman Spector doesn’t have a reputation for wishful thinking. So when he proposes we talk about how the issues around terrorism, atrocities and hostages are being framed in the aftermath of the October 7 attacks in Israel, I know I’m in for a stiff shot of realpolitik. Read More

It is an elite club, numbering 28,486 people from 51 countries, unimaginably courageous non-Jews who risked their lives to rescue Jews during the Holocaust. Read More

Back during the second season of the first iteration of the Sex and the City series, prim and proper Charlotte — then York, now York Goldenblatt — unexpectedly finds herself caught up in a circle of wealthy, stylish “Power Lesbians.” Fed up with Manhattan's heartless heterosexual dating pool, she’s drawn to the Lesbians’ autonomy and elan — their #wedontneedaman bravado paired with a strong dose of sisterhood and fun. Read More

President Donald Trump was positively exultant over the “12 Day War” in Iran. After being badly outwitted by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and maneuvered into a war that the United States had sought to avoid for more than twenty years, Trump decided that it was his achievement all along. Read More

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I wasn’t expecting a school class trip to invoke despair about the state of Canadian history. But it happened anyway. Read More

As Canada turns 158 on Tuesday, a birthday celebrated during tumultuous political and international agitation, Canadians remain proud of their country and their place in it — with considerable intensity for a nation often too modest to boast — but riding on that red-and-white wave are hard questions of what kind of country Canadians want. Read More

As a lifelong student and educator, I’ve been in academia and the arts for the last quarter-century. I was a witness to the first Israeli Apartheid Weeks at York University in the early 2000s. I’ve followed, and fought, the anti-Israel obsession of CUPE 3903 (York University's contract faculty union), including introducing a motion to stop them from manipulating their platform to promote non-labour issues on campus. It didn’t take. Read More