Strong leadership or political theatre? Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s attack Tuesday on international booze corporation Diageo can be seen either way. Read More

Several major media outlets reported this week that an association of leading genocide scholars had passed a resolution condemning Israel’s war in Gaza. Yet, online sleuths quickly discovered that the story was a sham, as the organization has no real membership requirements and seemingly torqued its processes to reach a preordained conclusion. Read More

A question that is about to break like a tsunami over social media: wait, did Malcolm Gladwell really say that? On Tuesday, the renowned Ontarian journalist, podcaster and former youth track star appeared on the Real Science of Sport podcast, and you would have to say he immediately established a hell of a pace. Read More

More than 16,000 square feet of living space. An indoor and an outdoor pool. Ten parking spaces. Eight bedrooms and 17 bathrooms. A garden, a library and a concert hall set up for classical music performances. Read More

A passenger was rescued after going overboard during a BC Ferries sailing that departed from Metro Vancouver's Tsawwassen terminal on Wednesday. Read More

Terra Nord’s paintings often feature natural themes, but this year, Donald Trump inspired a more political edge to her work. When the U.S. president provoked Canadians with his “51st state” rhetoric and tariffs, Nord created products to meet the moment. Read More

RCMP say two people, including a suspect, are dead after a mass stabbing at Hollow Water First Nation in Manitoba. Read More

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s cabinet planned to hear from a key architect of Project 2025 as the Canadian government tries to strike a trade deal with US President Donald Trump, but the appearance was canceled last minute. Read More

A spokesperson for Global Affairs Canada told National Post two Canadian citizens are missing following a fatal streetcar crash in Portugal’s capital city on Wednesday. Read More

The Greater Toronto Area (GTA) is at a critical juncture in addressing its housing crisis. The latest whitepaper from BILD, The Pathway for Rental Housing Stock – Second Edition, developed with Urbanation and Finnegan Marshall, underscores an urgent reality: purpose-built rental (PBR) construction is not keeping pace with the region’s growing population and escalating housing needs.  Read More

Another beluga whale and a harbour seal have died at Marineland, and those deaths have caught the attention of Ontario Premier Doug Ford, The Canadian Press has learned. Read More

Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russia President Vladimir Putin chatted about how advances in science could prolong the human life span in a rare hot mic moment in the Chinese capital. Read More

Giorgio Armani, the Italian designer who turned the concept of understated elegance into a multibillion-dollar fashion empire, has died, his fashion house confirmed. He was 91. 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

Four people, two of them teenagers, have been charged after a violent home invasion and kidnapping that began as a staged car crash in the GTA on Monday morning. Read More

For many Canadians, an annual household income of $100,000 is necessary to feel comfortable, according to a new survey. Read More

The Toronto International Film Festival turns 50 this year, and you know what that means. Cake! Read More

Artificial intelligence companies are flagrantly scraping and summarizing content directly from published news articles via retrieval-augmented generation. News media is by far the most frequently cited source of current information for large language models (LLMs), which are using news content without authorization or fair compensation. AI overviews combine many sources of unlicensed content to provide an effective substitute to the original source. With the user staying within Big Tech’s increasingly taller walled garden, rather than being pointed electronically to news websites via links, publishers are deprived of audience and their ability to sell advertising and subscriptions is significantly diminished. No clicks mean no cash for news businesses. Yet, AI companies are selling ads against copyrighted (and often paywalled) content as well as subscriptions for their premium products. Read More

A chart showing the value of Turkey's currency against Canada's resembles a very long, slow, but relentless slide down a steep hill. Read More

Who Canada honours is a direct reflection on our country and our values, and nothing conveys that more profoundly than our nation’s highest civilian honour: the Order of Canada. Read More

Last Sunday, 46-year-old Abdul Aleem Farooqi was shot to death in his Vaughan home just after midnight. The shooter was part of a band of armed, masked intruders seeking to rob the house. Read More

OTTAWA — Alberta United Conservative Party MLA Jason Stephan is doubling down on his call for a referendum on the province's independence next year, saying the vote would be a critical expression of popular will. Read More

KIMBERLEY -- Police say the bodies of two hikers have been recovered and a third person is presumed dead after the trio fell over a waterfall in southeastern British Columbia. Read More