An increasingly toxic drug supply is having a knock-on effect on Canada's already overloaded emergency rooms, forcing doctors to balance reversing overdoses while avoiding users going into such severe withdrawal they endanger others. Read More

The weekend attack at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner was at least the third attempt to assassinate President Donald Trump. It also threatened administration officials, journalists, and the people assigned to protect them — a Secret Service agent was injured. Unfortunately, it was just the latest incident in a rising tide of shootings, fire-bombings, and other politically motivated acts of violence that currently plagues the United States. Read More

I don't know about you, but I'm in favour of Canada being strong. Read More

King Charles III made America sound older than 250 during his visit this week to Washington, D.C., in advance of the semiquincentennial anniversary of the U.S. Declaration of Independence on July 4. In his speech to Congress on Tuesday, His Majesty joked that Britain and America shared everything but language. President Donald Trump replied with his own banter and royal compliments during a state dinner that evening. Read More

Among the many disorienting upheavals in global trade and international relations since U.S. President Donald Trump’s first inauguration on Jan. 20, 2017, there is a single dominant trend line: the expansion and consolidation of the global reach of the People’s Republic of China, and the decline of the United States as the lodestar of the world’s democracies. Read More

As Canada stares down economic uncertainty and various threats to our prosperity, a new National Post analysis reveals that our starting position is much weaker than it otherwise could have been. In his new piece, The 13 Charts That Prove the Lost Liberal Decade, deputy comment editor Jesse Kline lays out the data that reveals stagnant per capita GDP growth, declining living standards, an affordability crisis, expanding government and an erosion in social cohesion. Read More

To get straight to the point about the federal government’s spring economic update: the Liberals are spending even more of our money than they previously estimated. This fiscal year, program spending is now expected to be $536.2 billion, which is $7.6 billion higher than in the fall budget. The new spending projections for the following year are also higher than in the fall budget, and the same for the year after that, and even the year after that. All told, the Liberals’ economic update raises program spending by a cumulative $25 billion over four years versus their fall budget and they now propose to push spending to $575.4 billion by 2029-30. Read More

President Donald Trump said the U.S. is reviewing its troop levels in Germany and will decide soon whether to reduce that number, escalating tensions with a top NATO ally over the war in Iran. Read More

A mysterious “golden orb” discovered almost three years ago in the Gulf of Alaska has finally been identified. It’s not an egg, a sponge or the remnant of an alien, as some had speculated. Read More

OTTAWA — Quebec’s representative for the upcoming review of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) is warning that Ottawa’s strategy of “waiting and not rushing” to sign a tariff relief deal with the U.S. carries its own risk “because things could get worse.” Read More

Top Iranian football officials left Canada before the start of this week's FIFA Congress due to the behaviour of immigration officials during checks at Toronto's international airport, Iranian media reported Wednesday. Read More

The U.S. Supreme Court sharply limited the use of the Voting Rights Act to create predominantly Black or Hispanic election districts in a major ruling that buttresses Republican efforts to keep control of the House in this year’s midterms and beyond. Read More