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Received today — 7 May 2026 National Post Canada

Canada’s millennials twice as likely to live with parents as boomers once were

7 May 2026 at 02:33
Millennials were twice as likely to live with their parents in 2021 than baby boomers were at the same age, a trend that was particularly acute in expensive cities but not fully attributed to affordability challenges. Read More

Iran weighing latest U.S. proposal to reopen Strait of Hormuz

7 May 2026 at 01:20
The U.S. and Iran were circling around a fresh proposal to end the war on Wednesday, as President Donald Trump searches for an exit from a conflict that has elevated energy prices and damaged his political standing. Read More

Trump administration eyeing oil under U.S. military bases for reserve refill

7 May 2026 at 00:29
The Trump administration is studying using oil under land at U.S. military bases and other Department of War sites to help refill the nation’s depleted emergency reserves, according to a person familiar with the matter. Read More
Received yesterday — 6 May 2026 National Post Canada

Hantavirus patients evacuated as cruise ship steams for the Canary Islands

6 May 2026 at 23:26
A vessel grappling with a deadly outbreak of hantavirus evacuated three people on Wednesday, including two in serious condition, and will head toward Spain’s Canary Islands to disembark the roughly 150 passengers still on board. Read More

Furor erupts among Barrie, Ont. parents after ‘safer snorting’ booklet passed out at school by CMHA

6 May 2026 at 21:44
A furore among Barrie, Ontario parents has developed after a harm reduction booklet entitled "safer snorting" was distributed by the Canadian Mental Health Association at a local high school. Read More

Here’s the political baggage Louise Arbour brings to the role of governor general

6 May 2026 at 21:22
Whenever a new governor general is selected, it usually takes a while to find any dirt on them. Even Julie Payette, whose term became enough of a disaster to prompt her early resignation, was greeted at the outset as an accomplished scientist and one of only a handful of Canadians to have visited space. Read More

‘My message to Canada: do not expand’: Dutch psychiatrists warn on MAID 

6 May 2026 at 21:20
Euthanasia for mental suffering can be the equivalent of suicide carried out by a doctor and it's irresponsible to frame MAID as a way to prevent people from dying by suicide at their own hands, parliamentarians heard this week. Read More

Scott Stinson: Ontario’s crackdown on drugs on public transit has been a long time coming

6 May 2026 at 20:12
After the Progressive Conservative government announced plans this week to grant new powers to public-transit special constables so that they can arrest drug users, there was nary a word of protest from the opposition parties at Queen’s Park. Read More
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