OTTAWA — Canada has received its first pair of new F-35 fighter jets, with Ottawa still deliberating on how many of the American planes it will buy. The Royal Canadian Air Force announced receiving the two Lockheed Martin jets Friday on social media with a photo from Phoenix showing one plane with a maple-leaf roundel. […]

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Alaska’s Democratic Senate candidate Mary Peltola and her family suffered minor injuries Saturday in a car crash while driving to a campaign stop, her campaign said. Peltola required medical attention after the accident, which happened when another vehicle crashed into the one transporting Peltola and her family, the campaign said. The family was on their […]

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Dave Leaderhouse The conditions were less than ideal, but the Carlton Crusaders didn’t let any wind or rain stop them from advancing to their third straight North Saskatchewan Football League final following a convincing 41-9 triumph over the Lloydminster Barons on Friday at Max Clunie Field. “We knew something like this was coming in, but […]

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RIGA — It takes an average of just six weeks for opposing forces to develop a countermeasure to new technology deployed on the battlefield in Ukraine. That rapid pace of innovation, driven by drones and robotics, is forcing NATO and its member countries to rethink how they acquire military equipment, while raising questions about whether […]

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When B.C. premier-designate Lorne Doerksen considers potential cabinet members in the days ahead, there’s a good chance he will look at two notably tattooed young women with unique lived experience who would put an unexpected face on the government’s conservative policies. Claire Rattée, a 34-year-old tattoo shop owner and one-time Kitimat city councillor, is a […]

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Todd Blanche on Sunday defended the Trump administration’s lawsuit to block certification of Alaska’s Senate results if Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan loses the race and argued that the legal challenge was a necessary step to avoid confusing voters in the closely watched midterm race. President Donald Trump, who said Friday […]

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DETROIT — Former president Barack Obama took aim at U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canadian goods Saturday during an impassioned speech at a Democrat campaign rally in Detroit, Michigan, ahead of next month’s U.S. mid-term elections. Obama mocked the current president’s tariff war with its northern neighbour while jokingly referring to Canada as a […]

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McALLEN, Texas (AP) — The Nov. 3 election is fast approaching at a moment when some Republican voters, frustrated by ever-rising prices, could turn on their party. Cindy Banda, a Texan and three-time supporter of President Donald Trump, is one of them. For Banda, 46, her political shift began after she was diagnosed with breast […]

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A new word entered the political lexicon of British Columbia Saturday night: “to Eby.” Sadly for its namesake — outgoing premier David Eby — it is not an auspicious word. It means massive self-inflicted failure due to a colossal and hubristic miscalculation. Indeed, the scale and magnitude of Eby’s misreading of the B.C. electorate in […]

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For the past year and a half, Canada and the European Union have been working with speed and determination to forge an ambitious new partnership. One that leverages our complementary strengths and delivers greater certainty, security, and prosperity on both sides of the Atlantic. To advance this partnership, Canada will host the Canada-European Union (EU) […]

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VANCOUVER — British Columbia has turned blue, electing a B.C. Conservative government with an overwhelming two-thirds majority. Premier-designate Lorne Doerkson says he’ll follow through on campaign promises to supercharge the province’s economy, while outgoing Premier David Eby has announced his resignation as NDP leader. Eby’s decision to call a snap election two years early will […]

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VANCOUVER — British Columbia has turned blue, electing a B.C. Conservative government with an overwhelming two-thirds majority. Premier-designate Lorne Doerkson says he’ll follow through on campaign promises to supercharge the province’s economy, while outgoing Premier David Eby has announced his resignation as NDP leader. Eby’s decision to call a snap election two years early will […]

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Ahead of this week's Canada-European Union summit, Prime Minister Mark Carney said both parties are hammering out a "new, ambitious alliance" after pledging deeper ties with Europe last month.

McALLEN, Texas (AP) — The Nov. 3 election is fast approaching at a moment when some Republican voters, frustrated by ever-rising prices, could turn on their party. Cindy Banda, a Texan and three-time supporter of President Donald Trump, is one of them. For Banda, 46, her political shift began after she was diagnosed with breast […]

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“The people have spoken, I accept what they’ve said,” says Keith Wilson, co-founder of the Let Alberta Decide campaign and one of the more even-tempered advocates for Alberta independence. “And they really want, in my view, the premier to make an earnest effort at seeking fairness for Alberta. That’s how I interpret this.” Albertans spoke […]

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In a rapidly changing world, Canada’s government is focused on what we can control: building our strength at home and diversifying our partnerships abroad. Canada has transformed our relationship with the United Arab Emirates (UAE), securing landmark agreements catalysing major new investment, and expanding opportunities for both countries. To that end, the Prime Minister, Mark Carney, […]

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VANCOUVER — “I want our sons and daughters to grow up in a B.C. that is the envy of the world,” newly-elected B.C. Premier Lorne Doerkson emphatically told an ecstatic, screaming crowd at the Rocky Mountaineer Station in Vancouver Saturday night. The crowd howled repeatedly throughout his victory speech, perhaps at maximum decibels when Doerkson […]

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McALLEN, Texas (AP) — The Ford Expedition rumbled to a stop and Cindy Banda’s bedazzled flip-flops landed on the asphalt of the Houston cancer center’s vast parking lot. She threaded through the rows of cars, a tally of patients who gather here to sit with chemotherapy needles or lie on radiation machines. The elevator dinged […]

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ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (AP) — President Donald Trump has clocked about 70 hours aboard Air Force One so far this month, racing from rally to rally across the United States to try to bolster his Republican Party in the midterm elections. Also along for the ride: an entourage ranging from aging boxing champions to […]

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After weeks of assailing Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed in rallies across the country, President Donald Trump on Sunday is bringing his midterm barnstorming to Michigan, where Republicans see a chance to pick up an open seat on Election Day. El-Sayed, a onetime public health official, faces Republican Mike Rogers, a former congressman backed by […]

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Nathan Fielder’s new documentary, You Can See Everything, landed in cinemas on Oct. 16, bringing in US$15 million in its opening weekend and marking the biggest opening weekend for a documentary in North America in more than 20 years. The Canadian-American comedian and filmmaker had already risen to fame with his TV shows including The […]

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Parked in his truck along a rural Idaho highway on his way to an elk hunt, Neill Goodfellow pondered a question that will appear on his November ballot: which of six historic firearms to choose as the official state gun? Goodfellow is going to vote for the M1 Garand, a semiautomatic rifle widely carried by […]

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The Parti Québécois (PQ) has barely won an election and is already training its fire on the Crown. Premier Paul St-Pierre Plamondon has vowed to defund the office of the lieutenant governor, said he will seek legal advice on keeping the Crown’s representative out of the opening of the legislature and has promised to cut […]

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It seems like only yesterday that the Toronto mayoral election appeared to be a foregone conclusion. Olivia Chow, in spite of her left-wing ideology, fiscal irresponsibility and tax-and-spend mentality, had led in the polls from the start. She had outpaced and outlasted an assortment of potential challengers, including former mayor John Tory, and was on […]

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‘Referendum in Alberta could result in both good and bad’ Re: Albertans choose Canada. Perhaps Canada could choose us back — Carson Jerema; Failure was inevitable for Alberta separatists — Colby Cosh; and The awakened separatist dragon will not easily go back to sleep — John Ivison, all Oct. 20 This week’s referendum in Alberta […]

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The defamation trial of University of British Columbia denizens who alleged or publicly supported others’ allegations of rape against former UBC creative writing department head Steven Galloway continues rivetingly apace. Between the reports of columnists Jamie Sarkonak and Amy Hamm , National Post readers have been kept fully informed of the 10-year-long vendetta that laid […]

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In 1992, James Carville put three reminders on a sign inside Bill Clinton’s campaign headquarters. One outlived the election: “ The economy, stupid .” It was American campaign shorthand, but Canadians understood the compact. Prosperity was the soil from which much else grew. Work, save, take a risk, start a company, buy a home, raise […]

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Hamas has said it is prepared to carry out an attack similar to the October 7, 2023 massacre, according to Israeli news website Ynet. Senior Hamas officials delivered the message to UN humanitarian coordinator Dr. Ramiz Alakbarov, whom they met at his office in Gaza last week, the publication reports . The group said it […]

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OTTAWA — First Nations leaders are gathering with Prime Minister Mark Carney and the country’s premiers in Ottawa today for a ceremony ahead of a historic meeting on Monday. Monday’s meeting will the first such gathering since the Kelowna Accord talks of 2005, which brought premiers and then-prime minister Paul Martin together with Indigenous leaders […]

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The rise in homelessness is one of the most pressing issues mayors and councillors elected next week across Ontario will have to face as the struggle to fund housing, mental health and addiction services persists. A seminal study from the Association of Municipalities of Ontario warned last year that the province was at a “tipping […]

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OTTAWA — American Democrats living in Canada are prepared to shout their political choices from the rooftops ahead of next month’s midterm elections — while some of those who back Republican candidates seem leery of speaking out fearing a backlash from their neighbours. Tammy Wilsker Mermelstein, a Texas voter who moved to the Greater Toronto […]

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