FREDERICTON — The New Brunswick government has signed an exploration deal with a firm that plans to extract minerals from a long-closed mining site. U.S.-based Regeneration Enterprises says it wants to pull metals from rock and chemical waste left at the Nigadoo mine site in northern New Brunswick. The company says it will fund the […]

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OTTAWA — Canada’s financial intelligence agency revoked the registrations of 82 money service businesses in 2025-26, up from 12 the previous year. The Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre says it focused significant resources on the money services sector in the last year due to money laundering and terrorist financing risks associated with such businesses. […]

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The father of two Jewish students attending Western University in London, Ont. says his daughters remain courageous and will continue to be proud of their faith after a swastika was drawn near their off-campus home. “While I wanted to draw attention to the incident, I wanted to focus more on their response,” Darren Slavens told […]

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With residents in 444 Ontario cities and towns deciding who will lead them for the next four years, today is Canada’s busiest day in municipal politics. While many municipalities have their niche issues — like the cleanup of former General Motors land in St. Catharines or Mississauga’s Ridgeway Plaza — the topics most important to […]

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President Donald Trump is expecting the U.S. trade war with Canada to end “pretty soon.” At a rally in Port Huron, Michigan on Sunday, he repeated his allegation that Canada had been “ripping off” the U.S., giving him no choice but to impose levies on Canadian goods. He backed up his conclusion that the trade […]

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The World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), the News/Media Alliance (which represents news and magazine publishers in the U.S.) and News Media Canada are calling on Meta to suspend a provision in the company’s new commercial terms that would allow Meta to crawl and collect content from news publishers’ websites as a condition of using […]

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MONTREAL — The Crown has withdrawn all criminal charges against pro-Palestinian protesters arrested during a sit-in at a downtown Montreal bank more than two years ago. Fourteen out of the 44 people arrested at the protest pleaded guilty to violating a municipal noise bylaw and agreed to pay the $300 fines. Defence lawyer Barbara Bedont […]

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A recent article in the National Post hits at threats of violence against Avi Lewis.

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BRASILIA (AP) — President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva ‘s comeback to win Brazil’s presidential runoff Sunday is already facing its first hurdle as his competitor, Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro, challenges the results, setting the stage for a possible showdown between the country’s two polarizing political forces. Lula, who convinced an extra 10.4 million voters to […]

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NEW YORK (AP) — Maurene Comey, the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey, was unlawfully fired from her job as a federal prosecutor in New York last year, a federal judge ruled Monday. Judge Jesse M. Furman said that Comey, who was an assistant U.S. attorney for a decade, was illegally fired in July […]

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Canadian lawmakers heard from several experts on Monday morning as a parliamentary committee studies the impact of artificial intelligence on women, girls and 2SLGBTQ+ individuals.

Toronto police say they have found a vehicle believed to have been used to abduct three children from Scarborough on Friday, but the children and their mother have not been found.

This legal saga, which embroiled a university bureaucracy and now hangs on a decision in court, is one that should serve as a lesson — and a warning — to all Canadians interested in free speech. It’s the story of one student, but it could be any student at any North American university. Tim Haggstrom […]

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In the increasingly bitter legal standoff between President Donald Trump and media outlets whose reporting he dislikes, a new and crucial third party has emerged: citizens who watch and read the news and need it to do their jobs. A lawsuit filed Monday on behalf of six such citizens — effectively representing the audiences for […]

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HALIFAX — A former interim leader of Nova Scotia’s Progressive Conservatives has endorsed her former PC cabinet colleague to become the new provincial Liberal leader. Karla MacFarlane is a former speaker of the house of assembly in Nova Scotia and served as interim leader of the Progressive Conservatives for most of 2018 until Premier Tim […]

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OTTAWA — U.S. President Donald Trump says he expects his constantly evolving trade war with Canada to end “pretty soon” despite formal trade negotiations not resuming since they fell apart in August. Trump told a rally in Port Huron, Michigan, on Sunday that Canada had been “ripping off” the U.S. on trade and the U.S. […]

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BRASILIA (AP) — Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva ‘s comeback to win Brazil’s presidential runoff Sunday is already facing its first hurdle as his competitor, Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro challenges the results, setting the stage for a possible showdown between the country’s two polarizing political forces. Lula, who convinced an extra 10 million voters […]

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CHARLOTTETOWN — Prince Edward Island’s Liberal Party elected a new leader over the weekend. Dan Kutcher, former one-term mayor of Summerside, P.E.I., was acclaimed at a party leadership convention. Kutcher does not have a seat in the provincial legislature, where his party is the Official Opposition with four representatives. He replaces former leader Robert Mitchell, […]

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Twenty-five years ago they rewired the province’s political thinking with their landmark “Alberta Agenda,” a.k.a, the “firewall” letter: a manifesto for the premier to assert sovereignty within a systemically inequitable federation. Days after Alberta’s referendum on some of the same issues they raised — but also going drastically further in considering separation — Brian Lilley […]

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With the U.S.-Canada trade war dominating the final days of the U.S. midterm campaign, trade discussions between the two countries have intensified. But sources tell CBC News and Radio-Canada that doesn't mean a deal is imminent.

Attorney General Todd Blanche on Sunday defended the Trump administration’slawsuit to block certification of Alaska’s Senate results if Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan loses the race and argued he legal challenge was a necessary step to avoid confusing voters in the closely watched midterm race. Also, President Donald Trump intensified his anti-Muslim rhetoric against Michigan Senate […]

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SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — Senate Majority Leader John Thune says he wouldn’t be offended if some Republicans didn’t want to campaign with him. He knows that he’s taken intense criticism from the party’s base — and from President Donald Trump — for his chamber’s inability to pass voter legislation this year. But Republican candidates […]

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NEW YORK (AP) — Democrats and outside watchdogs are planning a massive presence at the polls on Election Day driven by concerns that President Donald Trump will further leverage the vast resources of the federal government to interfere with a midterm that could hobble his final two years in office. They won’t be the only […]

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The companies say Umios plans to establish High Liner Foods as the core platform for its North American business, while maintaining its headquarters in Nova Scotia.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has asked Prime Minister Mark Carney to repeal the oil tanker ban on British Columbia's northern coast months after Canada inked a deal not to change it.

Matt Lamkin says two pilot whales were stranded on the beach by his home and the community rallied to save them Sunday.

Since launching the war with Iran nearly eight months ago, U.S. President Donald Trump has struggled to quell soaring energy costs, undermining Republicans’ attempt to keep control of Congress in the midterm elections next week. Low gas prices were a key campaign pledge during Trump’s second presidential run. But the energy crisis spawned by the […]

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump would prefer that voters not worry about inflation. But it’s hard for them to ignore. Filling up a basic Ford F-150 truck now costs about $100, up $30 from a year ago. Mortgage rates have jumped to levels that have depressed home sales. And for the past 12 months, […]

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Last month, Lorne Doerkson was a well-liked but little-known B.C. MLA, a former rodeo rider and small-town newspaper publisher. Then, while he was on a layover at Amsterdam’s airport returning from a parliamentary association meeting in South Africa, he heard from Conservative Party of B.C. officials. They asked him to take the party’s helm. Leader […]

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First Reading is a Canadian politics newsletter curated by the National Post’s own Tristin Hopper. To get an early version sent directly to your inbox, sign up here. TOP STORY The Supreme Court of Canada had barely convened for its fall session when it upheld a decision ruling that a Nova Scotia man who badly […]

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The British government has turned down Ottawa's attempts to have it join the international Defence, Security and Resilience Bank, though London says it will work in lockstep with Canada to meet NATO spending targets.

EDMONTON — Though it was just announced on Wednesday that the legendary Canadian game studio BioWare was shutting down, it did not come as a shock. Many of us already mourned it years ago when it was clear that the company had become a Ship-of-Theseus simulacrum of the original. Back in its era of peak […]

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OTTAWA — Canada’s financial intelligence agency will report Monday that it stripped the licences last year of more than seven times as many money services operations as the previous year, part of an increased emphasis on a sector that can play a key role in money laundering and some other financial crimes. The Financial Transactions […]

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Canada has received its first pair of new F-35 fighter jets, with Ottawa still deliberating over how many of the American planes it will buy.

Guy Lapointe Jr., Quebec's new domestic security, said both the police ethics commissioner and the province's independent police watchdog, known as the BEI, will look into the allegations.

VICTORIA — B.C.’s newly minted Conservative government could take its seats in the legislature soon, but the premier-designate is not ruling out a shortened fall session. Lorne Doerkson told reporters Sunday, just one day after his election victory, that he was keeping the option open to recall the legislature in the fall. The Conservatives were […]

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OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has asked Prime Minister Mark Carney to repeal the oil tanker ban on British Columbia’s northern coast months after Canada inked a deal not to change it. Poilievre was one of several Opposition MPs who signed a letter to Carney as a federal Tory bill to scrap the tanker […]

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TORONTO — Provincial politicians are returning to the Ontario legislature Tuesday for the first time in 21 weeks with some new faces thanks to three byelections, a rejigged cabinet and a new cloud of scandal hanging over the government’s head. The spotlight in question period is expected to largely focus on Colleges and Universities Minister […]

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TORONTO — The next leader of Toronto is set to be decided on Monday, as Olivia Chow looks to hold off a challenge from city councillor Brad Bradford in what’s shaped up to be one of the most tightly contested re-election bids by a sitting mayor. Some pollsters who had Chow leading Bradford by double […]

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It’s election day in Ontario, with voters in more than 400 municipalities set to pick their local representatives. The election is headlined by mayoral races in Toronto, Mississauga and Ottawa, with recent polls showing all three to be closely fought. Incumbent Olivia Chow is looking to hold off city councillor Brad Bradford in Toronto, while […]

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