The B.C. Supreme Court has found a section of the Criminal Code unconstitutional because it treats all offenders convicted of first-degree murder the same, regardless of the number of people they kill. Read More

A 40-year-old strip club owner from Sydney, Australia, has been found not guilty of rape after his lawyers successfully argued he suffers from "sexsomnia." Read More

Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc sent a video of Canada's border security efforts to the man U.S. President Donald Trump has chosen to oversee his tariff agenda — part of Canada's pitch to avoid devastating duties that could come as soon as Saturday. Read More

NEW YORK (AP) -- New York City police are searching for a group of people they say took a subway train on a joyride. Read More

Being too stoned to open the door for police while on house arrest is not a reasonable excuse, according to a recent court ruling out of Newfoundland. Read More

A Michigan priest had his license revoked by the Anglican Catholic Church after he mimicked a straight-arm gesture performed by Elon Musk during a speech earlier this month that some have interpreted as a Nazi salute. Read More

A U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration task force officer who stole seized cocaine and switched it with a 3D-printed version in order for the theft to go undetected has been sentenced to more than 17 years in federal prison. Read More

A good salesman can sell any product. It’s a real skill. The only problem is, after you’ve bought the pitch, you could be stuck with a lousy product. Read More

OTTAWA — As U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he intends to move ahead with tariffs, with the possible exception of oil, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh called on the Liberals to recall Parliament and work with opposition leaders on a potential support package for workers who could be hit by the impending trade levies. Read More

BRUSSELS — Dutch authorities on Wednesday arrested three suspects after the theft of a priceless ancient golden helmet that is considered a cultural icon of Romania and had been on display in a small museum in the Netherlands. There was no sign that the intricate helmet dating back some 2,500 years had been recovered. Read More

Ontario Premier Doug Ford officially launched his re-election campaign in Windsor, Wednesday in front of the Ambassador Bridge. Standing at the podium in front of a "Protect Ontario" sign, he told the crowd that he couldn't imagine a better place to start his campaign than the manufacturing city. He asked the people of Ontario for "their trust" and for a "strong stable four-year mandate to do whatever it takes" to protect the province. The entire campaign kick-off was focused on Trump's potential tariffs. Ford also mentioned priorities such as cutting red tape and streamlining approvals to "get big things built fast" and "fighting the job-killing Liberal carbon tax." At no point in his campaign launch speech did Ford mention Ontario's crisis in health care. Read More

An Ontario fur auction house says they have no connection to an American fur and urine farm where hundreds of animals, such as coyotes and foxes, were kept in "disturbing" conditions. Read More

Three Israelis and five Thais were redeemed from terrorist captivity in the Gaza Strip on Thursday as part of Hamas’s truce with Jerusalem, 482 days after they were taken captive during the Oct. 7, 2023, massacre. Read More

OTTAWA — Ontario’s police chiefs say numerous criminal cases, including drug trafficking charges, have been stayed in the province since January because of budget cuts at the federal prosecution service limiting how much it spends on contract prosecutors. Read More

All 64 people aboard an American Airlines jet that collided with an Army helicopter were feared dead in what was likely to be the worst U.S. aviation disaster in almost a quarter century, officials said Thursday. Read More

First Reading is a daily newsletter keeping you posted on the travails of Canadian politicos, all curated by the National Post’s own Tristin Hopper. To get an early version sent directly to your inbox, sign up here. Read More

A Swedish man has been convicted for flying a drone while under the influence. Read More

OTTAWA — After Premier Danielle Smith fell out with provinces and federal Liberals over asking Alberta to bear the cost of using oil exports to fight U.S. tariffs, a new Postmedia-Leger poll shows most Canadians agree that no province should have to bear an unfair retaliation burden. Read More

Toronto Metropolitan University remains committed to medical school admissions through “equity pathways” (admissions streams for Black, Indigenous and other equity deserving groups) though it has developed a vocabulary that obscures their discriminatory impact: “excellence, inclusion and innovation;” students “from the community, for the community.” But according to TMU vice-president and dean of medicine, Teresa Chan, the university remains “committed to admitting a majority of students through equity pathways.” Read More

For you, Canadian everyman, our nation’s scandals aren’t experienced all that differently: news of deep corruption or incompetence catches wind, people get mad, bureaucratic bodies diffuse blame — and ultimately, no one pays the price. Well, except for you, who has to learn to do better. Read More

Canada would be better off being America’s 51st state because Canadians would have “much better health coverage,” Donald Trump said last week. Read More

With the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 47th president of the United States, how to appropriately respond to his administration’s initiatives — not the rumoured initiatives but the actual ones — becomes a highly relevant question for Canadians and our governments. Read More