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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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Humans gaze on moon's dark side for the first time
An image released on Tuesday shows a crescent Earth along the edge of the visible surface of the moon, as seen from the Orion spacecraft on Monday. U.S. President Donald Trump praised Canadian Jeremy Hansen and the rest of the Artemis II crew as...
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THE STUBBORN, SURPRISING RISKS OF CHILDBIRTH IN 2026
Samantha Hemmings stood in the operating room entrance, watching her sister Sophia on the table. “Help me, please,” she recalls her sister saying. “I can't breathe.” In the spring of 2009, Sophia went into cardiac arrest while undergoing a caesarean...
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Is this the best way to spend $90B of taxpayers' money?
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said that if he ever became prime minister, he would scrap the Alto rail project, a $90-billion program announced in the final days of Justin Trudeau's premiership that proposed to build high-speed rail between...
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MDs fight to blow whistle on health system failings
Canada's emergency doctors are demanding better protection against administrative harassment and bullying for speaking out about dangerous overcrowding and unreported deaths in the country's emergency rooms. Among other measures, the Canadian...
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`A relationship of mutual respect,' Poilievre says
Speaking at the National Prayer Breakfast in Ottawa last week, Prime Minister Mark Carney ended his remarks by making a tongue-in-cheek comment to Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, who was sitting at the head table with him. “I know there are some...
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A doctor offered MAID. She had other plans.
Miriam Lancaster, on the day she was offered medically assisted death in a B.C. hospital. Miriam Lancaster, 10 months later while on vacation in Guatemala.
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Social media meets its Big Tobacco moment
Apair of successful U.S. civil lawsuits against social media giants this week could be a “turning point” in society's larger understanding that use of their various apps is not harmless and can be damaging and dangerous, particularly to children. “For...
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The easiest way for Iranians to gain asylum: Christianity
At a downtown Vancouver church, a Christian baptism takes place during a recent Sunday service. Amid the incense and infants dressed in white getting ready to receive the holy water is a group of four Iranian nationals also waiting to be baptized. As...
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The Liberal who may stave off a third Quebec referendum
As soon as he stepped inside the café, Charles Milliard began turning heads. Among those enjoying their coffee who spotted the new Quebec Liberal Party leader as he made his way through Café Hubert Saint-Jean, located in the province's Eastern...
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Notwithstanding clause under attack
There is an important constitutional conference going on in Ottawa this week. Haven't heard about it? Don't feel badly. Neither have most provincial governments, which stand to lose one of the most important powers they acquired with the adoption of...
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UNEQUAL JUSTICE
Lady Justice, her eyes blindfolded to highlight the ideal that justice should be applied evenly regardless of wealth, power or race, is a fitting symbol for any legal system. Yet over the past 30 years, Parliament and the courts have restored her...
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McGuinty shifts story on what he knew, when
Defence Minister David McGuinty now says he was briefed immediately after an Iranian strike hit a base in Kuwait where members of the Canadian Armed Forces were stationed, the government's first admission that it had knowledge of the base attack before...
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PUSHBACK ON MAID
• Lawmakers in the Scottish Parliament, some fighting tears, rejected legislation that would have made Scotland the first part of the United Kingdom to legalize assisted dying for the terminally ill. Members of the Edinburgh-based legislature voted 69...
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LIBERALS PRESSED TO BAN `GLORIFICATION' OF TERRORISM
With the Liberals' anti-hate bill set to return to the House of Commons next week, major Jewish advocacy groups are pressing the federal government to take action against what they see as the glorification and promotion of terrorism. Canada's criminal...
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IN SIR JOHN A.'S HOMETOWN, 71% WANT STATUE RESTORED
No prophet is accepted in his hometown and great men are sometimes rejected by their country. Canada's first prime minister, John A. Macdonald, the Father of Confederation and the man who built the Canadian Pacific Railway, has been much maligned,...
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WHAT WE'VE LOST
The past 10 or 15 years have not been kind to Canada. Along with a decline in prosperity has come an erosion of the things that made our society great, a decline of what held us together and made us the envy of the world: things like resilience,...
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Ambassador calls Canada a global centre of antisemitism
The Israeli ambassador to Canada called the country “one of the centres of antisemitism globally” during a visit to a Thornhill, Ont., synagogue that was shot at last week. While Ambassador Iddo Moed noticed “a rising trend in antisemitism” following...
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OTTAWA MUST END THE ANTISEMITIC DISORDER
Following the targeted shootings of three Toronto-area synagogues last week, Prime Minister Mark Carney said the federal government would use “every tool available to confront antisemitic violence and hatred.” If the Liberals are serious about tackling...
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CBC accused of `tokenism masquerading as diversity'
Former CBC journalist Travis Dhanraj told MPs Tuesday he was silenced, bullied and intimidated by senior leadership and hosts at the public broadcaster, which he says needs a “wake-up call.” Dhanraj, who worked at the CBC until his public and fiery...
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Carney's credibility faces friendly-fire in the war with Iran
It is progress that the Prime Minister's Office is now letting Canadians know when Mark Carney speaks with President Donald Trump, but it would be much better if the readout that followed didn't subtract from the sum of human knowledge. The PMO said...
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250 YEARS OF ADAM SMITH
`It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own...
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Tory leader pitches Canadian energy to Berlin
The German government's posture is that they'll have to “see it to believe it” when it comes to Canada's promises to build the infrastructure necessary to boost natural gas exports to Europe, said Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre. In an interview...
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The death of PRIVATE LIFE
By the time the Class of 2026 convenes this spring, the world will already know all sorts of personal details about these mostly 25-and-under university and college grads, things no one would have even thought to ask about the generations that preceded...
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TORIES LAY OUT TRUMP PLAN
OTTAWA • Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said trade with China is no substitute for trade with the United States and Canada should build on its leverage to secure a tariff-free trade deal with our neighbour to the south. “Canada's prosperity and...
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FOUR YEARS OF TORTUROUS WAR, BUT PUTIN `HAS NOT BROKEN UKRAINIANS'
Tuesday marked four years since Russia's invasion, with one think tank estimating up to 140,000 Ukrainian troops have been killed, including the thousands buried at Kharkiv's 18 Cemetery.
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Dwindling options for Canadians seeking a place in the sun
`Don't go to Mexico,” Ontario Premier Doug Ford urged travellers on Monday after the killing of a powerful drug cartel boss by Mexico's army Sunday led to burning cars and shootouts with security forces in cities across Mexico — and adding to the...
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IRAN ON THE BRINK
• Five European nations have announced a new program to produce low-cost air defence systems and autonomous drones using Ukrainian expertise hard-won over the past four years of war against Russia. Friday's initiative of the E5 nations — France,...
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HEARTBREAK IN OVERTIME
MILAN • They came out determined to do it their way — the play your rear end off Canadian-style, with their version of elbows up to an American team seemingly ready to assert themselves as the best. They came to prove that all may not quite be as it...
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`My baby is in there ... but how much is left.'
In the intensive care unit at B.C. Children's Hospital in Vancouver, a week after the Tumbler Ridge tragedy, Cia Edmonds is still singing and talking to her daughter, Maya Gebala, “(telling) her how proud we are and that the entire world is cheering...
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$500B defence strategy aims to build at home
Canada will spend more of its growing military budget with domestic firms and less with U.S. companies under a defence-industrial strategy that's meant to unleash more than $500 billion in investment over a decade. The government wants to more than...
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`SOMEBODY IS HURT, SOMEBODY IS IN DISTRESS'
Alicia Hill knew something had gone horribly wrong at 112 Fellers Ave. when she saw a trail of shotgun shells leading up the stairs and into the living room.
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MOURNING THE DEAD, SEARCHING FOR ANSWERS
In a Facebook update in August 2024, the mother of the Tumbler Ridge suspected shooter posted a photo of rifles in a gun cabinet. “Think it's time to take them out for some target practice,” the caption reads. If the photo is authentic, it has left Dr....
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`IN COLD BLOOD'
Tumbler Ridge will never be the same. As a small town of fewer than 2,500 people, places like the local high school are a daily gathering place for a community in which everyone knows everyone. Both teachers and parents can see the future on the faces...
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ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
Dear President Donald J. Trump, on behalf of all Canadians, I would like to say: You're welcome for building you a $6.4-billion bridge. You can thank us later. We appreciate the wonderful relationship our two countries have had since we burnt down the...
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Lai sentence a test for PM's new relationship with China
The Canadian government's response to the 20-year sentence imposed on Hong Kong publisher Jimmy Lai is the first test of the government's new “pragmatic engagement” with China. The early signs are that Ottawa is broadly in favour of the pursuit of...
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THE WINE WAR
Canadian wines are having their moment, thanks to a uniquely thirsty kind of patriotism. Vintners say Trump's trade war has created `explosive growth' in Canada's thriving wine regions.
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Stronach trial begins with allegations of tainted witnesses
The Toronto sex assault trial for Canadian business titan Frank Stronach, one of the country's richest men, was pushed into unsteady territory before it even started by allegations the prosecution improperly coached female witnesses who are set to...
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Danielle Smith's worthy recipe for a better judiciary Alberta judge discounts sentence for sex assault
An Alberta judge has discounted the prison sentence for a former university football player with Indigenous roots who bled profusely while sexually assaulting a woman, despite her repeated protests over the attack. An Edmonton jury found Aaron Moore...
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Bill Blair's enviable history of failing upwards
The now-burning question at the heart of Canadian politics: Is high commissioner to the United Kingdom Bill Blair's final incarnation in public life, or does he have room to fail even further upward? Ambassador to the United Nations, perhaps? Governor...
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The Gripen the latest pawn in U.S./Canada power game
The petulance displayed by the U.S. ambassador to Canada is exactly what you might expect from Peter Hoekstra if he had just been informed that Canada may spend half the money earmarked for new F-35 fighter jets on the rival Swedish Gripen. Hoekstra...
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