From Darfur to Donbas, growing numbers of Colombian soldiers-for-hire are leaving their South American home to fight and die in foreign wars, placing Colombia’s mercenaries at the centre of intense controversy at home and abroad. Read More

OTTAWA — Canada’s financial intelligence agency has imposed its largest penalty ever on a Vancouver cryptocurrency company for failing to report suspicious financial transactions suspected of being connected to laundering money from trafficking in child sexual abuse material, fraud, ransomware payments and evading sanctions. Read More

OTTAWA — A Canadian organization focused on combatting the spread of child sex abuse images says a new analysis has found the presence of such images in a dataset used to train AI models. Read More

On Monday, Alberta Conservative House Leader Joseph Schow mentioned to reporters that the province’s government has legislation in the works to protect the Alberta electoral system from the shenanigans of the Longest Ballot Committee (LBC). That’s the protest group that has been flooding some federal election ballots with spurious candidates — most recently in the federal riding of Battle River-Crowfoot, where Elections Canada had to desperately improvise an all-new write-in system after the LBC persuaded more than 200 people to contest an August by-election. Read More

Alberta’s top court has quashed the contempt conviction for a Crown attorney who ran afoul of a justice of the peace who wouldn't listen to him at a bail hearing. Read More

On Oct. 10, a U.S.-brokered peace deal, backed by Egypt and Qatar, was signed by representatives of Israel and Hamas in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, though fragile ever since, came into effect. Read More

If I express relief that Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) praised cousin marriage, you might denounce me as insane, perverted or both. But while things look terrible in the United Kingdom, and ominous for Canada given our tendency to strike out boldly in their footsteps, I was encouraged because surely this preemptive surrender to Islamism constituted “jumping the shark.” Too crass and obsequious, it would become a rallying point for people fed up with the woke-Islamist alliance and takeover. And I think it is. Read More

Since the early summer, Ukrainian forces have destroyed a significant portion of Russia’s oil refining infrastructure, causing widespread gasoline shortages in the country. The strategy has provided Kyiv with a much-needed win, but allies should supply more long-range weapons to keep this momentum going. Read More

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U.S. President Donald Trump addressed reports Tuesday that he was seeking hundreds of millions of dollars in damages from his own Justice Department, saying it would be "awfully strange" to effectively pay himself. Read More

The National Post’s masthead, crafted in the stylish PostSerif font, conjures up certain qualities: an open mind, a broad worldview, perhaps a little mischief. Read More

The total number of home invasions in the Toronto area has doubled in the year to date, local police say. Read More

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Washington — U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday brushed off criticism over the demolition of part of the White House to build a new ballroom, saying the sound of the construction work was "music to my ears." Read More

Baked into a wide-ranging bill aimed at protecting and strengthening Ontario’s economy tabled by Doug Ford’s government on Monday, was a provision that would bring about the end of speed cameras province-wide. Read More

A flight from Nebraska to Los Angeles made a quick turnaround just a few kilometres from the airport on Monday, after the pilot heard noises outside the cockpit and thought someone was trying to break in. Read More

Rejoice! The Information Commissioner of Canada has finally published the agency’s report on the CBC’s refusal to disclose how many people are subscribing to the paid version of its English-language digital streaming service, CBC Gem. The report was completed on Aug. 20, and is now the subject of a judicial review application at the Federal Court, so your NP Platformed had been checking in every few days to see when the information commissioner would finally put this information on the information commissioner’s website. It took a little longer than you might expect, unless you have absolutely any experience whatsoever with Canadian government. Read More

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The head of CBC and Radio-Canada says there's no need to "stop everything to do a full investigation" into antisemitism within its reporting and within the organization. Read More

The Trump administration says there are “no plans” for President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin to meet in the immediate future, marking an abrupt postponement of a meeting Trump said a few days ago would happen in Hungary. Read More

The Alberta government’s recent proposal for an oil pipeline to the northwest coast has been met with opposition — primarily from B.C. Premier David Eby. I want to help set the record straight. Alberta’s government isn’t spending billions of taxpayer dollars to build a pipeline. They are merely paving a pathway for industry to invest in British Columbia which will significantly boost Canada’s GDP. Read More

OTTAWA — Liberal House Leader Steven MacKinnon said Tuesday he is starting to worry that Parliament's two main opposition parties are signalling that the government should not count on their support for its upcoming budget. Read More

Canadian teenager Victoria Mboko has jumped from 350 to 23 in international rankings this year is big Blue Jays fan. Read More

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