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`A bad deal for Canada from the start'
We learned this week the outcome of Canada’s gunpoint renegotiation with the United States over revenue from the new Gordie Howe International Bridge, an impressive $6.4-billion cross-border span that Canada paid for and is now finally able to open for...
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William Shatner is 95 years old. And this. Dramatic. Montrealer. Will. Not. Go. Quietly.
Even as he faces his own final frontier, 95-yearold William Shatner is in constant motion, burnishing his legacy as one of Canada's most versatile, consequential — and busiest — entertainers. An actor, author, singer, astronaut and icon, Shatner has...
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SCENES FROM A TORONTO IN DECLINE
What if Canada's largest city started shrinking, and it wasn't all that huge an issue, even with a municipal election just months away? This is the odd situation in which Toronto, forever caught between aspiring to and boasting of “world class” status,...
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One law for First Nations, another for everyone else
There are two kinds of lobster trappers in St. Mary's Bay, Nova Scotia: the non-Indigenous ones who have to abide by federal law, and the Indigenous ones who apparently don't. The Liberal approach to governing the fishery has bred tension and violence...
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THE TERRIFYING RISE OF THE BISHNOI GANG IN CANADA
On May 4, a gunman strolled casually into a business complex in Surrey, B.C., in broad daylight and shot Gurvikramjeet Singh Warring, an Indian immigrant who was renting an office space there. Warring, as the CBC's Fifth Estate would later report,...
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Carney no match for Bond villain Trump T
here was a cinematic quality to the Wall Street Journal's profile of Prime Minister Mark Carney this week, entitled, “The Canadian Who Steered Europe Away from the U.S.” It's almost as if the authors had an eye on the movie version. President Donald...
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PM backs U.S. strikes on Iran, Trump warns more to come
Prime Minister Mark Carney said Washington responded “as appropriate” to Tehran's attacks in the Strait of Hormuz. U.S. President Donald Trump, meanwhile, declared that the ceasefire with Iran's “cuckoo” leaders is “over” and threatened further...
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Sisters symbols of freedom in brutal, emboldened Iran
Mandana and Mahsa Sotoudeh are free now. That's the good news. It's bittersweet, all the same. Last Wednesday morning, without any explanation, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' intelligence forces released 38-year-old Mandana and her...
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Hamas lays bare PM's big mistake on recognizing `Palestine.'
The obvious problem with rewarding terrorists is that they tend to take advantage. So it is with Hamas. Almost a year ago, Mark Carney signalled his intention to recognize the state of “Palestine” and since then Hamas has: grown stronger; rearmed;...
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SIBLING RIVALRY
The United States of America turns 250 today, and Canadians can celebrate a long, remarkable alliance while chafing at our growing conflicts. Our anti-American streak is only getting stronger, with a new poll revealing we have a far more negative view...
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KYIV SHAKEN BY WORST DAY OF WAR YET
When 17-year-old Karolina Shevchuk's phone warned a Russian missile was headed toward her district of Kyiv, she decided against seeking shelter, choosing instead to stay in her apartment. It was only when she went outside to look for her cat and a...
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Iranian embassy a dangerous proposition
The suggestion last week by Prime Minister Mark Carney that Canada should consider reopening an embassy in the Islamic Republic of Iran for the sake of “engagement” could lead to dangerous results. Reopening embassies are not one-way streets. If Iran...
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How this man became Canada's favourite arrogant American
When Jesse Marsch was the head coach of one of the biggest football clubs in northern England, supporters there were quick to give him a nickname: Ted Lasso. It was not intended as a compliment. Leeds United fans were not comparing Marsch to the...
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DOMINION of FREEDOM
While Canadians are a patriotic lot, one in four are not overly confident in the country's long-term future, according to a new Postmedia-Leger poll. The survey found that 15 per cent of Canadians do not think Canada “with its current borders and...
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PM ghosts Israeli ambassador over `Nakba' exhibit concerns
The National Post has learned that Prime Minister Mark Carney has not responded to a letter sent more than a week ago by Israel's ambassador to Canada, outlining his concerns about the Canadian Museum for Human Rights' “Nakba” exhibit, which is slated...
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Canada lives to play another day at World Cup, despite 2-1 loss
Canada, in white, pushed hard till the end, but fell 2-1 to Switzerland in their World Cup showdown in Vancouver Wednesday. Still, Canada finished second in its group and advances to the knockout round.
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A GUNMAN'S LONG TRAIL OF ROILING RESENTMENTS
On Monday, in Montreal's Côte-des-Neiges neighbourhood, 25-year-old Seth Hatfield of Lethbridge, Alta., is alleged to have carried out a shooting that resulted in the deaths of an officer and a civilian before he was fatally shot by police. Initial...
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`SHOOTING IN ALL DIRECTIONS': MELÉE CLAIMS POLICE, CIVILIAN
Adramatic shootout between police and an armed man in a busy Montreal neighbourhood left three people dead Monday morning, including a police officer, a civilian and the alleged shooter himself. A second officer was shot but expected to survive....
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Stronach, 93, convicted
Frank Stronach, the auto parts billionaire accused of preying on young women at the Toronto nightclub he owned in the 1980s and pressuring them into his condo for sex against their will, is guilty of one count of sexual assault and one of indecent...
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Recent Charter rulings are eroding democracy
The 1982 enactment of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms was seen as a pivotal moment in our nation's history. Yet, even at the time of its adoption, some voices in the legal profession and legal academy argued it would weaken Canada's tradition of...
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SpaceX IPO sends Ontario teachers' pension soaring
In one of the more notable ironies of SpaceX's multitrillion-dollar initial public offering, one of Canada's greatest beneficiaries of the launch is a demographic ideologically opposed to a lot of what CEO Elon Musk stands for. A major early investor...
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`Tide is turning,' Carney tells Zelenskyy at G7
Prime Minister Mark Carney announced a fresh round of sanctions against Russia on Tuesday, telling Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that a Ukrainian victory in the four-year conflict is not in doubt. “The tide is turning as expected in this...
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In Canadian first, Yukon creates race-based parking
As part of their stated commitment to “decolonization and Indigenization” in health care, the Yukon is debuting Indigenous-only parking spaces at all three of its hospitals. In a social media post last week, Yukon Hospitals announced that the...
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`THEY'RE ABSOLUTELY FRINGE'
At the height of protests in Iran this Januar y, Mona Ghassani, the president of the Iranian Canadian Congress (ICC), was invited to speak on CBC. Amid news reports estimating government forces had killed upwards of 20,000 civilians, Ghassani told...
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OFFICER SLAIN IN RAID TIED TO CONSULATE SHOOTING
A Toronto police officer was killed early Thursday morning during a raid on an apartment building tied to an investigation into the American consulate shooting. “It is with deep and profound sorrow that I must confirm the death of Police Constable Marc...
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From an MBA to killer to freedom
The schizophrenic woman who committed a notorious killing of an innocent stranger in a downtown Toronto Shoppers Drug Mart more than 10 years ago has been granted an absolute discharge, freeing her entirely from the restrictions of the justice...
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Carney government to ban social media for children under 16
Prime Minister Mark Carney's government is expected to table its long-awaited legislation aimed at online safety this week, including a ban on social media platforms for children under 16 years old. A government official, speaking on the condition of...
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Islamic extremism & Canada's hate plague
Canada has an antisemitism problem, but listening to our politicians, government agencies and some in the media, it’s easy to get the impression that no one really knows where the hatred is coming from or who is committing attacks against Jews. In his...
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FEAR WON'T FURTHER RECONCILIATION
CCHIEF AARON PETE anada should take residential schools seriously. That means taking both truth and reconciliation seriously. But the Senate's work on criminalizing “residential school denialism” raises a difficult question: when a country faces a...
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As antisemitism rises, a new exodus grows
The chief of cardiac surgery at the Jewish General Hospital has tendered his resignation and plans to move to Atlanta in September, citing rising antisemitism in Montreal and worsening problems with the province's healthcare system, according to a...
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`CANADA'S CIVIC COMPACT FAILING JEWISH CANADIANS,' PM ADMITS C
anada's Jewish community is being “brutally targeted” amid a crisis of antisemitism, Prime Minister Mark Carney said during a speech in which he declared the country “is failing Jewish Canadians.” Speaking from Holy Blossom Temple synagogue in Toronto...
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The alarming rise of ER `chair care'
As demand outstrips capacity, Canadian patients are being examined in Emergency Room waiting rooms, closets and washrooms due to a chronic bed shortage. `You, by definition, are basically kind of MacGyver-ing it,' says one of the many ER doctors trying...
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Defence push seen as requiring lasting commitment
Prime Minister Mark Carney says the federal government is on track to meet the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's target for defence spending of five per cent of gross domestic product by 2035, but turning that into sustained economic growth may be a...
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Can suicide be murder? We may never know
The British journalist's sting that brought Kenneth Law to the attention of Canadian police three years ago played out with high cinematic tension. Chasing reports of do-it-yourself poison kits marketed through an online suicide instructional chatroom...
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Were they septic pipes all along?
Less than two months after Tk'emlúps te Secwepemc issued the explosive announcement on May 27, 2021 that they'd uncovered the “remains of 215 children” at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School, they hosted a press conference admitting that they...
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Former employee accuses tech firm of hostility, bias
A Canadian global tech company is facing a workplace harassment probe over complaints of targeted hostility against an employee because she is Jewish. In allegations filed with Quebec's labour tribunal, Amanda Rafael said she faced a pattern of...
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THE `GRAVES' MISTAKE
Canada has paid a massive price for the error that began in Kamloops: moral panic, diminished national pride, costly federal spending, and profound damage to attempts at reconciliation with Indigenous Canadians. Not a single confirmed burial site has...
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Russia's Latvia threats put heat on Canadians
An extraordinary exchange with potentially dramatic consequences for Canada took place at the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday. Vasily Nebenzya, Russia's potato-faced permanent representative at the UN, told the council that his country's...
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THE DISTINCTIVE TILT OF UNIVERSITY HONOUREES
Remember that time Stephen Harper was given an honorary degree by a Canadian university? Of course you don't. Because it never happened. Despite leaving office more than a decade ago, no Canadian university has offered this long-serving prime minister...
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Jewish professor says he's leaving Canada for own safety
At the precise moment that his book Suicidal Empathy is topping world bestseller charts, prominent Canadian academic Gad Saad has announced he is permanently leaving Montreal for the United States, citing escalating threats to his personal safety. In...
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Liberals play legal hardball over water with First Nations
Prime Minister Mark Carney's Liberal government is playing legal hardball with First Nations fighting for clean drinking water — and First Nations are fighting back. Interviews and hundreds of pages of court documents reviewed by the Investigative...
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Many Canadian Jews have lost their sense of belonging in a country they don't recognize
Talia Klein Leighton compares being a Canadian Jew since October 7 to a frog in a pot of boiling water. “Every time I wake up and I realize that the water's getting hotter, somebody greases the bowl,” Leighton, president of Canadian Women Against...
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Muslim activist who dined with Hamas barred from Canada
AMuslim activist who has lunched with Hamas's leadership and defended its strategy of taking hostages has been barred entry to Canada, where he was due to speak at an event hosted by the Muslim Association of Canada — a group that hosted a joint event...
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PIPELINE DEAL ON HORIZON
OTTAWA • Alberta and the federal government are looking at a fall date for when Prime Minister Mark Carney's cabinet will designate a pipeline to the West Coast as being in the national interest, National Post has learned. Building a...
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Where is Iran's supreme leader?
Iran's supreme leader's long absence from public view has led to growing speculation that the injuries he sustained in an airstrike on Feb. 28 are more severe than the regime is letting on. In Tehran's first public statement on Ayatollah Mojtaba...
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`It lacks character; it lacks definition'
Canada's proposed Afghanistan war memorial is having trouble connecting with the people it's designed to honour: The Canadians who fought in the 12-year war. Ground was officially broken on the future site of the National Monument to Canada's Mission...
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ALBERTA'S SEPARATIST MOVEMENT SERIOUSLY The belief in the systematic undermining of Alberta since its inception that has driven the separatist movement.
In 1904, as part of Canada's campaign to populate the prairies, then-premier of the Northwest Territories Sir Frederick Haultain proposed establishing a new western province called Buffalo, comprising all of what is now Alberta and Saskatchewan. With...
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Nobody home at mansion as paranoid Putin in hiding
When Ilya Remeslo, a longtime Kremlin attack lawyer and propagandist, first turned against Vladimir Putin in March, posting publicly that the Russian president should resign and be brought to justice as “a war criminal and a thief,” the Russian...
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Turns out, cleaning up transit criminality is a popular move
After Ontario's Progressive Conservative government announced plans this week to grant new powers to public transit special constables so that they can arrest drug users, there was nary a word of protest from the opposition parties at Queen's...
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For next GG, a smaller stage
They did it again. It's absolutely extraordinary. The Liberals have appointed another opinionated Type A personality from the most central realms of Central Canada as the next governor general, and it's Louise Arbour — former Supreme Court justice,...
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MacIsaac sues Google over AI sex-crime mixup
Maritime musician Ashley MacIsaac is used to a rough ride in the public eye. During a frequently controversial career, the Cape Breton-born fiddler's political views, sexuality, pre-legalization cannabis use and onstage antics have all prompted...
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CANADA'S LOST LIBERAL DECADE
For years, people throughout the land have had a sense that something is amiss. But the governing Liberals carried on as though then-prime minister Justin Trudeau's “sunny ways” were still a defining feature of our body politic. When Prime Minister...
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Act now: antisemitism is a global emergency
Words. Words. Words. This week, two Jewish men were stabbed in Golders Green, a Jewish area on the outskirts of London. Former prime minister Boris Johnson called it “sickening” and asked, “What is the useless [London Mayor] Sadiq Khan doing?” The...
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Toxic drug supply amps up ER nightmare
An increasingly toxic drug supply is having a knock-on effect on Canada's already overloaded emergency rooms, forcing doctors to balance reversing overdoses while avoiding users going into such severe withdrawal they endanger others. Illicit street...
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Oil revenue windfall shrinks Carney's deficit Five things you will, and won't, find in the economic update.
Prime Minister Mark Carney's spring fiscal update showed a smaller than projected budget shortfall of $66.9 billion for the fiscal year that just ended, thanks to a Canadian economy that performed stronger than expected and increased personal and...
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CLOCK'S TICKING FOR CARNEY
Sovereign wealth funds are typically established by countries to manage their surplus wealth. Canada has just established the Canada Strong Fund — this country's first national sovereign wealth fund — despite being deeply in the red. In short, there is...
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WANTED: A NEW KIND OF GOVERNOR GENERAL
It's time to put duty to country and sacrifice for the good of others ahead of all other considerations. Knowing when to be inspirational and when to be quiet wouldn't go amiss, either.
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Alberta premier says it's time to drill – in Nova Scotia
Canada's natural gas reserves now rank amongst the Top 10 largest reserves in the world. Alberta's 2025 reserve study proved that our province's natural gas reserves hold 1.36 quadrillion cubic feet of gas, with 144 trillion cubic feet of recoverable...
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B.C. PREMIER'S DAYS IN OFFICE ARE NUMBERED
Though no one in British Columbia's current NDP government will say it, it's clear that David Eby's days as premier are numbered. He has backed himself into a corner from which there can be no escape, despite his preference to protect his own political...
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`I just really wanted to tell the truth. It's very ugly'
When Hersh Goldberg-Polin was in the tunnels in Gaza, fellow hostages say he often quoted a line from Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl: “Those who have a `why' to live, can bear with almost any `how.'” Through his long months in captivity, family and...
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Man deemed `a significant threat' gets travel pass to meet bride
A man found not criminally responsible on three counts of attempted murder for a March 2016 knife attack at a Canadian Forces Recruiting Centre in Toronto has been granted a three-week travel pass for Saudi Arabia and Somalia, despite the fact that he...
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The evolution of one gender-care doctor: `WE NEED TO REASSESS'
She was one of the first doctors in Canada to provide hormones to trans-identifying youth. She now believes most children should not be medicalized.
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