OTTAWA — NDP leadership candidate Rob Ashton says that he'd be open to lifting the federal moratorium on coastal tanker traffic as prime minister, if he saw clear support for shipping heavy oil through British Columbia's northern coast. Read More

They were two young women from out of town. They were shot dead at an Airbnb in small-town Ontario in mysterious circumstances. A Scarborough rapper is now on trial for the double murder. Read More

Many months into a trade war brought on by tariffs and economic threats brought on by U.S. President Donald Trump and his administration, Canadian consumers have continued to fight back by supporting and promoting a “buy Canadian” movement. Read More

Before it wrapped last year, Blue Bloods star Donnie Wahlberg didn’t want his time on the popular cop drama to end. Read More

Berlin -- The German company that made the furniture hoist used in the Louvre heist has been taking advantage of the scandal to promote the device, posting tongue-in-cheek adverts about the quality of its equipment. Read More

OTTAWA — With its next budget just a couple of weeks away, the Liberal government has received a lousy report card from a leading think tank for poor fiscal accountability. Read More

A five-year-old girl who fell overboard on a Disney cruise ship in June had been posing on a railing in an open porthole at the behest of her mother, a Florida police report published in mid-October revealed. Read More

OTTAWA — After days of backlash over Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre's comments on the RCMP, a string of his MPs lined up in support of the leader on Wednesday and pushed back against the controversy itself.  Read More

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with U.S. Vice-President JD Vance at his Jerusalem office on Wednesday morning, the second day of Vance’s visit to the Jewish state. Read More

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney is busy meeting with opposition leaders on Wednesday to discuss the upcoming federal budget as Liberal MPs urge opposition parties to support the government's agenda. Read More

(Bloomberg) — Russia launched multiple drone and missile strikes on Ukraine as the latest peace attempts by U.S. President Donald Trump appeared to be floundering. Read More

The maker of the world's most popular chatbot, ChatGPT, launched a web browser this week that promises to make surfing the internet smarter. In exchange, ChatGPT Atlas wants permission to watch and remember everything you do online. Read More

Tens of thousands of people who received or were approved for dental care courtesy of the federal government’s highly touted plan were not eligible, Health Canada announced Tuesday. Read More

From Darfur to Donbas, growing numbers of Colombian soldiers-for-hire are leaving their South American home to fight and die in foreign wars, placing Colombia’s mercenaries at the centre of intense controversy at home and abroad. Read More

OTTAWA — Canada’s financial intelligence agency has imposed its largest penalty ever on a Vancouver cryptocurrency company for failing to report suspicious financial transactions suspected of being connected to laundering money from trafficking in child sexual abuse material, fraud, ransomware payments and evading sanctions. Read More

OTTAWA — A Canadian organization focused on combatting the spread of child sex abuse images says a new analysis has found the presence of such images in a dataset used to train AI models. Read More

On Monday, Alberta Conservative House Leader Joseph Schow mentioned to reporters that the province’s government has legislation in the works to protect the Alberta electoral system from the shenanigans of the Longest Ballot Committee (LBC). That’s the protest group that has been flooding some federal election ballots with spurious candidates — most recently in the federal riding of Battle River-Crowfoot, where Elections Canada had to desperately improvise an all-new write-in system after the LBC persuaded more than 200 people to contest an August by-election. Read More

Alberta’s top court has quashed the contempt conviction for a Crown attorney who ran afoul of a justice of the peace who wouldn't listen to him at a bail hearing. Read More

On Oct. 10, a U.S.-brokered peace deal, backed by Egypt and Qatar, was signed by representatives of Israel and Hamas in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, though fragile ever since, came into effect. Read More

If I express relief that Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) praised cousin marriage, you might denounce me as insane, perverted or both. But while things look terrible in the United Kingdom, and ominous for Canada given our tendency to strike out boldly in their footsteps, I was encouraged because surely this preemptive surrender to Islamism constituted “jumping the shark.” Too crass and obsequious, it would become a rallying point for people fed up with the woke-Islamist alliance and takeover. And I think it is. Read More

Since the early summer, Ukrainian forces have destroyed a significant portion of Russia’s oil refining infrastructure, causing widespread gasoline shortages in the country. The strategy has provided Kyiv with a much-needed win, but allies should supply more long-range weapons to keep this momentum going. Read More

U.S. President Donald Trump addressed reports Tuesday that he was seeking hundreds of millions of dollars in damages from his own Justice Department, saying it would be "awfully strange" to effectively pay himself. Read More

The National Post’s masthead, crafted in the stylish PostSerif font, conjures up certain qualities: an open mind, a broad worldview, perhaps a little mischief. Read More