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A week before New York City’s mayoral election, every poll shows Zohran Mamdani with a double-digit lead. The Democrat and “democratic socialist” is almost certain to be the city’s next top elected official. But before the disproportionately young and prosperous voters who are driving his success start celebrating his victory, let’s consider the radical and hateful movement he’s leading and why his looming win is bad news for America’s leading city. Read More

I asked my new best friend ChatGPT to drum up some examples of government "investments" in climate change projects that went disastrously wrong. Read More

William Lyon Mackenzie King (who had been the Liberal prime minister since 1921) decided that his government would seek re-election on Oct. 29, 1925. He felt he had no choice. The rumbling inside the cabinet was driving him crazy and he was so tired that he even welcomed the idea of being defeated. He was 51 years old. Finally, he told his diary, he could get some rest. Read More

The problem with simply cramming never-before-seen volumes of students who can’t speak English into overcrowded classrooms is that, one day, the teachers will snap. And that’s kind of what we’re seeing in Alberta — though neither the government nor the teachers’ association has made a point of trying to solve the issue. Read More

Only in 2025 could a Harry Potter–themed event in Stanley Park become the latest front in Canada’s culture wars. What began as an ordinary bit of municipal business, namely approving a family-friendly fantasy fair, somehow morphed into a national emergency two weeks ago for National Post pundits Michael Higgins and Adam Pankratz, and manosphere guardian Ben Mulroney. Read More

OTTAWA — When Ontario’s two top judges took the stage during the opening of the province’s courts in September, they did something that hadn’t happened in years: they both pleaded for Ottawa to pay for more judges. Read More

OTTAWA — The upcoming federal budget will feature a broad new strategy to boost the performance of Canadian business, including measures to allow companies to write off their new machinery and other capital costs more aggressively, National Post has learned. Read More

OTTAWA — When Mark Carney was first campaigning for the job of Liberal leader and, ultimately, prime minister, he cast himself as a political outsider. Read More

While the American military blows up boats it claims are transporting drugs from Venezuela, observers say tankers shipping Venezuelan oil in violation of a U.S. embargo continue to navigate the very same Caribbean waters undisturbed. Read More

Brazilian police launched their most lethal operation ever in Rio de Janeiro, leaving at least 64 dead as authorities squared off against a major gang in the global tourist destination just ahead of next week’s climate summit. Read More

Canada is on the verge of losing the measles-elimination status it has held since 1998. Read More

OTTAWA — The aunt of a Kelowna, B.C., woman killed in an intimate partner violence case is set to discuss a bill aimed at addressing such violence with Justice Minister Sean Fraser on Wednesday. Read More

There may be no better illustration of the basic laws of supply and demand than when tickets go on sale for a wildly anticipated concert or sporting event — the World Series, say, which the Toronto Blue Jays are in the midst of contesting for the first time in 32 years. You can literally go on Ticketmaster’s website and watch resale prices fluctuate in real time. And you can appreciate just how much people are willing to pay to see the Jays, come hell or high water, or four-digit ticket prices: For games in Toronto, resellers have been asking no less than $1,000 for the cheapest seats. Read More

Veteran British journalist Andrew Marr offered a dystopian view of the U.K.’s politics in this week’s New Statesman magazine. It’s an article that should probably be viewed as a cautionary tale by Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal government. Read More

A City of Richmond letter to property owners in the Cowichan Aboriginal title area recognized by the B.C. Supreme Court has brought the judgment’s potential impacts into stark reality. Read More

OTTAWA — With one week to go before Mark Carney’s government tables its first budget with no clear partner in sight, the Liberals and opposition parties are pointing fingers at each other in an attempt to shift the blame in case of a snap election. Read More

OTTAWA — Federal NDP leadership candidates are backing Alberta's spurned labour unions after the Alberta government used the notwithstanding clause to force striking teachers back to the classroom.  Read More

Hurricane Melissa came ashore as the strongest recorded storm to strike Jamaica, threatening to be the most destructive of the 2025 season. The storm is expected to strike Cuba overnight. Read More

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered “forceful strikes” in Gaza on Tuesday after accusing Hamas of violating the ceasefire-for-hostages agreement. Read More

While the White House and loyal members of his administration will swear to Donald Trump’s popularity among the American people, a CNN analysis of polling data claims that U.S. citizens actually like Canada more. Read More

New York (AFP) -- Elon Musk's company xAI has launched a website called Grokipedia to compete with online encyclopedia Wikipedia, which he and others on the American right wing have accused of ideological bias. Read More

OTTAWA — Opposition Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said on Tuesday that Prime Minister Mark Carney "approved" Ontario's anti-tariff ads, which U.S. President Donald Trump blamed as the reason for ending trade talks with Canada.  Read More

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s in a bind. On one side, there’s U.S. President Donald Trump, strangling our auto industry and cutting off trade talks, in the wake of Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s “Reagan was right, you are wrong” ad campaign. On the other, there’s Chinese leader Xi Jinping, offering to lift restrictions on agriculture and seafood imports in exchange for Canada dropping its ban on electric vehicle imports from China. Decisions, decisions. Read More