Chinese President Xi Jinping will not join the Group of 20 summit next week, a move that will be a blow to host South Africa that’s already facing a boycott by US President Donald Trump. Read More

In a world saturated with constant notifications and overloaded schedules, I’d almost forgotten what it felt like to be still. Amid a flurry of deadlines and digital noise, I felt a desperate need to connect with something deeper, away from the hustle and bustle of daily life in Canada. Read More

You’ve got to give the ivory-tower folk credit where credit is due. In May of this year — a mere six months ago! — Alberta’s UCP government passed an omnibus election-procedures bill that lowered the threshold for petitioners seeking to use the province’s voter-recall legislation. Under the new rules, anyone who wants to dump their MLA has 90 days to gather a number of eligible-voter signatures in the riding that equals 60 per cent of the total votes cast there in the last general election. This was defended by the Conservative government, not in any great detail, as an accountability measure. And it was opposed by the New Democrat opposition, as one might expect. Read More

Unionized Starbucks baristas are launching a wave of walkouts Thursday, a work stoppage they say could grow to become their biggest strike to date. Read More

Writer David Szalay deliberately dared his readers to face up to the "ickiness" of an affair between a 15-year-old boy and his much older married neighbour in the first chapter of his new book, "Flesh". Read More

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. Read More

Rahm Emanuel, former chief of staff to president Barack Obama and a potential presidential candidate in 2028, is an unlikely advocate for a program not normally associated with the Democrats: national service. Read More

In British Columbia, property rights are in turmoil. The B.C. Supreme Court recently declared that Aboriginal title exists on 800 acres of land in Richmond, a suburb of Vancouver. Aboriginal title, said the court, is “senior and prior” to fee simple interests. In the shadow of the decision, given the implications, Aboriginal title claims are receiving more attention. Kamloops and Sun Peaks ski resort are targets in one such claim. Meanwhile, the B.C. government has been conferring Aboriginal title across the province too. It continues to make agreements, such as on Haida Gwaii, to transfer control over land use in the province. Read More

It would have been sufficiently surreal that a U.S. president was entertaining a former al-Qaida militant at the White House who only two weeks earlier was still listed as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist with a $10 million bounty on his head. “Surreal” is a word that’s come up a lot in conversation about the event. Read More

The province of Ontario did something last month it has never done before — it defunded a supervised injection site because the chaos and disorder it was causing had reached unacceptable levels for the surrounding neighbours. Read More

An Indian man who paid a fixer $15,000 in a failed attempt to extend his work permit in Canada entered into an "illegal contract" and is not entitled to get his money back, according to a recent decision from Alberta's Court of Justice. Read More

PARIS — A decade on from deadly attacks in Paris, the world's two most notorious jihadist groups Islamic State (IS) and Al-Qaida have significantly evolved and their branches still pose a global security threat, especially from Africa, analysts say. Read More

A six-week clash between U.S. President Donald Trump and congressional Democrats that disrupted flights across the country and delayed food aid for millions is set to end within hours after the House passed a temporary funding bill. Read More

A man who stole an idling city bus in Hamilton took passengers on a nighttime joyride through the city — making stops, letting riders on and off, and even made someone with an expired bus pass put money in the fare box, police said. Read More

If you’re among the Canadians hoping for a white Christmas this year, there’s good news and bad news. Read More

In the wake of a violent anti-Israel protest at an event hosted by Toronto Metropolitan University students on Nov. 5, two prominent Jewish organizations are calling on the Ontario government to act. Read More

The CBC is at a watershed moment, observes longtime CBC insider David Cayley. The previous era of Canada’s publicly funded broadcaster has exhausted itself, Cayley concludes, and in the new era that’s unfolding, what the country desperately needs and deserves is a dialogue, not a monologue. Read More

A national travel association in the United States says spending by visiting tourists is projected to fall to just 80 per cent of pre-pandemic levels this year, a drop of $5.7 billion from last year. And Canada is a big part of the reason. Read More

Jeffrey Epstein alleged Donald Trump spent “hours at (his) house” with one of Epstein’s victims according to emails released Wednesday by U.S. House democrats. Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump has sent a letter to Israeli President Isaac Herzog requesting a full pardon for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in his corruption trial, Herzog’s office said on Wednesday. Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump said he had an "obligation" to sue the BBC over a misleading speech edit, stopping short of announcing legal action in a Fox News interview aired on Tuesday. Read More

According to the real-estate research firm Urbanation, 63 per cent of purpose-built rental (PBR) buildings across the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA) offered incentives during the third quarter of 2025; 33 per cent offered free rent for two months or more, up from 11 per cent a year ago. This marks a sharp shift that signals growing pressure on landlords, and a rare moment of leverage for tenants.   Read More

Former U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris is making a Toronto stop during the fall 2025 tour to support her new book, 107 Days. Read More