The 22-year-old suspect arrested for killing Charlie Kirk "had a text message exchange ... in which he claimed he had an 'opportunity to take out Charlie Kirk' and he was going to do it because of his hatred for what Charlie stood for," FBI Director Kash Patel said. Read More

WASHINGTON D.C. — The economies of both the United States and Canada are facing headwinds generated by U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff war. With central bank decisions looming in both countries amid rising unemployment, the National Post spoke with American economist Douglas Holtz-Eakin this week to discuss where things are heading. Read More

A Toronto teacher has been suspended after showing a group of Grade 5 and 6 students “a portion of a violent video” related to the assassination of U.S. conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Read More

Families Minister Nahanni Fontaine won't lose her job over comments she made online about Charlie Kirk's assassination, Manitoba's premier Wab Kinew said in a statement. Fontaine was told to apologize instead. Read More

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Three Jewish sites in Halifax were vandalized with antisemitic graffiti overnight Saturday, an act the Nova Scotia premier called “disgraceful” and a local rabbi described as an “escalation.” Read More

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Though involvement has diminished in recent decades, Canada has traditionally portrayed itself and operated as a peacekeeping nation since the Second World War. Read More

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Say you’re a step-parent of a young child for a few years. Say you break up with that child’s biological parent. Should you be put on that child’s birth certificate in addition to the biological parents, and be awarded partial custody? In New Brunswick, the answer is yes. Read More

OTTAWA — The start of the new fall session on Monday will see Prime Minister Mark Carney facing off against Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre in the House of Commons for the first time after Poilievre regained a seat over the summer. Read More

In an astounding coincidence, as the news arrived that Charlie Kirk, founder and head of the enlightened traditionalist movement Turning Point USA, had been assassinated, I was sitting in the Oval Office of the White House across the Resolute Desk from the President of the United States. Although I have known him for more than 25 years and have generally been in touch with him throughout that period, I had not seen him in person for some years. I have written approximately two million words about him, almost all of it reasonably or unambiguously favourable, though not uncritically so, mainly on U.S. Internet sites, as well as a book that was appreciative of him though no hagiography, (A President Like no Other). Read More

RCMP say two men and two women who were from a northern Manitoba First Nation died in a plane crash in the province on Saturday. Read More

The man arrested over conservative influencer Charlie Kirk's assassination was romantically involved with a transgender roommate and had "leftist ideology," Utah's governor said Sunday, confirming details likely to inflame the contentious national debate over the killing. Read More

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney announced the launch of Build Canada Homes (BCH) on Sunday, with initial funding of $13 billion, in the hopes of getting more affordable housing built faster in Canada. Read More

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrived in Israel on Sunday for meetings in Jerusalem with top officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Read More

Utah Governor Spencer Cox blamed social-media companies for helping foment divisiveness that led to the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, calling them “conflict entrepreneurs” that profit from political polarization. Read More

The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue, Canadian director Barry Avrich’s gripping account of one family’s fight for survival during Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack on Israel, has won the People’s Choice Documentary Award at the Toronto International Film Festival. Read More

For some Americans on the far right, Charlie Kirk died a "martyr" and any criticism of the hugely popular conservative activist must be punished. Read More

Born in Damascus and raised in Lebanon, where she spent 18 years, Rawan Osman grew up believing what politicians, teachers, media, and leaders all said about Jews, Zionists and Israelis: they were one in the same, and they were the enemy. She was, as she described, a “fan” of Hezbollah — the extremist Islamic group considered a terror entity by the Canadian government. Read More

Ten people were arrested when a demonstration calling for deportations and an end to mass immigration was met by a counter-demonstration in a Toronto park known as the scene of an historic antisemitic riot. Read More

Toronto doesn’t need another steakhouse. They sprout up with investor money, promising marble counters and imported beef, only to sag once the gloss wears off. What Toronto does need — and what most restaurants fatally lack — is soul. Read More

Over a 40-year-career, Leo de Bever has had a hand on the tiller inside eight financial institutions — in Canada, the U.S., Japan and Australia. Read More