A Toronto man who helped kidnap a Vaughan woman at gunpoint while his accomplice shot at a "Good Samaritan" who tried to intervene, is now facing a 13-year prison sentence. Read More

The federal government spent $71.1 billion on personnel costs in fiscal year 2024-25, the Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) has estimated, up from $69.6 billion the year before. Unfortunately, even though the number of public service jobs fell by about three per cent in 2025, the count of full-time equivalents, which accounts for whether those jobs were full-time or part-time, continued to grow, helping drive the cost increase. And despite the slight decline in the count of public servants in 2025, last year still capped off a decade of significant growth: from 257,034 in 2015, the federal public service expanded by more than 100,000, or over 39 per cent, to 357,965 by 2025. Read More

Toronto police are warning residents of a certain kind of crime that's on the rise in the city: distraction theft. Read More

TORONTO — “I wish I had more bad things to say about him,” Bill Murray says in the opening moments of the documentary “John Candy: I Like Me.” Read More

OTTAWA — Canada is being “stifled by red tape” so much that businesses now rank excessive regulation as more of a threat to investment than the Trump tariffs, a new report from a leading Canadian business group has found. Read More

TORONTO — Prime Minister Mark Carney announced wide-ranging new measures to support industries most heavily impacted by U.S. tariffs, including new "buy Canadian" rules for the federal government as well as reviews of controversial Justin Trudeau-era climate policies on Friday. Read More

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Mark Carney has said no to scrapping temporary foreign workers program, after Pierre Poilievre called on the federal government to eliminate it due to spike in Canadian youth unemployment rates, saying "it’s time for Canadian jobs for Canadian workers." Read More

It’s time to disband the Concordia Student Union. This year’s CSU student handbook doesn’t look like a guide to academic life. It looks like a political manifesto. Plastered with slogans such as “Stop Genocide” and “Free Palestine,” it positions Concordia not as a university for all students, but as a staging ground for militant activism. For Jewish students, the message is unmistakable: their presence and perspectives are unwelcome. Read More

OTTAWA — One of Prime Minister Carney's top advisers was hedging his bets against the Liberal government's oil and gas emissions cap months before it was announced in late 2023, according to documents obtained through access-to-information. Read More

A Kanata doctor who "admits that she engaged in sexual abuse" of one male patient and “engaged in disgraceful, dishonourable or unprofessional conduct” with two others she professed her love for in writing, has been suspended. Read More

Our cookbook of the week is The Spanish Mediterranean Islands Cookbook by Barcelona and Menorca-based writer Jeff Koehler. Read More

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Carmine Nigro is best known in Toronto as a developer and businessman. He has chaired the LCBO and Ontario Place, serves on the board of Invest Ontario, and is principal of Craft Development Corporation. But, he says, his newest role is the one that means the most to him: chair of Friends of the Orphans Canada, a charity that funds schools, clinics and homes for vulnerable children across Latin America. Nigro spoke with National Post about Fotocan and his role in it. This interview has been edited for clarity and brevity. Read More

Most Americans still see Canada as a solid trading partner and Prime Minister Mark Carney as a respected leader despite the ongoing trade war, a new Leger poll has found. Read More

Pierre Poilievre’s call for the Carney government to permanently scrap the temporary foreign workers program may well prove to be a winner with voters who agree with the Conservative leader that the Liberals broke the immigration system. Read More

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OTTAWA — Work is underway for an upcoming review on whether the tariffs Canada applied to China's electric vehicles, steel and aluminum should remain at the current rates, the federal finance minister's office has confirmed. Read More

VICTORIA -- British Columbia Premier David Eby said the temporary foreign worker program should "be cancelled or significantly reformed" because the province can't have an immigration system that's linked to high youth unemployment, while putting pressure on homeless shelters and food banks. Read More

TAMPA, Fla.  — The U.S. Justice Department is ramping up efforts to target human smuggling operations exploiting America’s northern border, officials announced Thursday, citing growing concerns about sophisticated criminal networks that transport migrants for profit expanding beyond the southern border. Read More

TORONTO — "Tough" budget decisions, public service adjustments, incoming aid for sectors hardest hit by U.S. tariffs and the latest on ongoing trade negotiations with President Donald Trump were all on the menu for the federal Liberal cabinet meeting this week. Read More

Youth unemployment stands at 14.6 per cent, according to Statistics Canada’s latest release. That’s the highest non-pandemic July figure since 2009 (15.9 per cent), at the nadir of the Great Recession. It makes nothing but good sense that Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre would position himself, as he did on Wednesday, foursquare athwart bringing in any more temporary foreign workers to fill positions that certain employers swear blind they cannot fill with younger Canadians at any conceivable price. Read More

Even losing can feel like winning sometimes. Just look at Canadian pro-tennis players participating in the U.S. Open. Read More