OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney's government says that while it has no intention of revising its climate targets that were set under the Paris Agreement, it has also not committed to meeting them for 2030 and 2035. Read More

When you’re getting ready to play a real-life convict, you have to be ready to receive phone calls from a super-maximum security prison at any time of day. Read More

How do you start a movement? The National Healing Forest Initiative (nationalhealingforests.ca) began with a conversation between two strangers. Ten years later, there are more than 30 healing forests in Canada. Read More

From fixing your posture to finding your perfect shade of lipstick, artificial intelligence (AI) can be a powerful personal assistant if you know how to use it. Read More

Marc Bendavid was 12 years old when he saw her for the first time. Decades later, he can still vividly recall the moment when his new art teacher entered the classroom. He realizes now that this was when his life began to shift. It’s also the reason for the appearance this autumn of his uniquely personal novel, The Sapling. Read More

I first saw The Rocky Horror Picture Show a couple of months after it premièred in September of 1975 in the movie theatre at the Canadian Forces Base in Winnipeg. Read More

Mark Carney says that Benjamin Netanyahu would be arrested if he travelled to Canada. Read More

U.S. media, fans and the internet just can't get enough of one of the most defining moments from the game after the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Seattle Mariners last night. Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — It’s been a tough year for the lumber trade. With U.S. housing starts unusually low, demand and prices for lumber are down — even as trade costs, especially for Canadian producers, keep rising. Read More

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is quite talented at causing his enemies' minds to explode. His latest missive on social media this week pointing out that "Nazi socialism" was indeed a form of socialism set off a thousand furiously self-righteous posts. Leaving aside for the moment whether it was wise for Poilievre to make this point, it is neither inaccurate nor misleading to say that Germany's National Socialist party was "socialist" in much more than name, as much as Poilievre's left-wing critics want to pretend otherwise. Read More

Our cookbook of the week is La Cucina di Terroni by Toronto restaurateur Cosimo Mammoliti with Milan-based Canadian food and travel writer Meredith Erickson. 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

Alberta has legal and constitutional pathways to seizing more power for itself within Confederation, argues a new paper from the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, but the province would need to demonstrate that it can responsibly govern itself and its citizens, the author says. Read More

A former Sudanese politician deemed inadmissible to Canada for being a member of a party that engaged in "acts of subversion against a democratic government, institution or process” has won a reprieve. Read More

The government is here to help the economy with some smart interventions that deliver widespread benefits and growth. Read More

On Oct. 13, United States President Donald Trump told the world and various Middle East leaders at an Egyptian resort, “The skies are calm, the guns are silent, the sirens are still…. This is not only the end of a war, this is the end of an age of terror and death, and the beginning of the age of faith and hope.” They were gathered to sign a historic peace deal that looked impossible to seal for generations. Read More

OTTAWA — The Department of National Defence and Canadian Forces are suing an intelligence watchdog to prevent it from releasing without further redactions a review that found that some of their human intelligence source handling activities may break the law.  Read More

A Quebec man who was paid to illegally smuggle a pregnant woman from Canada into the United States, in a winter plot that ended with her drowning in a freezing river near the border, has pleaded guilty in New York. Read More

Washington — U.S. President Donald Trump held a crucial phone call with Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Thursday, a day before Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky meets the U.S. president to push for Tomahawk missiles. Read More

Justin Trudeau's legacy is a frivolous joke. It's a pair of blue sneakers worn for the throne speech of King Charles and a GQ cover referring to him as "that new suave Canadian leader dude." It's his celebrity pop star girlfriend — and God knows what's next. Compare this with former Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who makes the news when he has something valuable to say about public policy or Canada's role in world affairs. Read More

Last weekend’s American-enforced ceasefire freeing the last living Israeli hostages from Hamas captivity in Gaza can be quite easily described in terms that flatter U.S. President Donald Trump at the expense of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Read More

If admitting you have a problem is the first step toward solving it, then perhaps things are looking just a bit up at Canada's public broadcaster. Catherine Tait, CBC’s spectacularly out-of-touch Brooklyn-based president, is gone. And CBC’s new five-year strategic plan, revealed this week by recently installed president Marie-Philippe Bouchard, correctly diagnoses several of the Crown corporation’s problems: Young people don’t consume its content very much, and nor do western and rural Canadians, and nor do new Canadians. Read More

Rep. Dave Taylor (R-Ohio) said he requested that the U.S. Capitol Police investigate an American flag with a swastika on it found Tuesday in his office. Read More