The Trump administration’s maximum pressure campaign on Cuba is taking aim at the shadowy, military-run conglomerate that prevails over the island’s banking, retail and tourism sectors. Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. President Donald Trump is in Beijing this week for a high-stakes summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping — their first meeting of 2026 after a year of tariff escalation and just months after Prime Minister Mark Carney’s own trip to China.  Read More

OTTAWA — Alberta and the federal government are looking at a fall date for when Prime Minister Mark Carney's cabinet will designate a pipeline to the West Coast as being in the national interest, National Post has learned. Read More

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Ontario lawyer Gavin McNeill Grant impregnated a 17-year-old Crown ward, showed off pictures of her in lingerie to his coworker, and assaulted two women, including a client-turned-girlfriend, according to a decision of Ontario’s Law Society Tribunal. Read More

A British Columbia judge has sentenced a fraudster to two years less a day of house arrest for bilking an "extremely vulnerable" client out of $155,800 that he frittered away on gambling. Read More

A shocking new report that for the first time reveals in full the grotesque and gruesome horrors of October 7 is headlined: Silenced No More.   Read More

The mysterious Quebec prog-rock duo Angine de Poitrine are continuing their journey to world conquest this month, and as we all know, the path goes through England. “Klek” and “Khn,” musician pals from Saguenay who have developed their own genre of fast, tightly choreographed microtonal music, arrived for a tour last week and were promptly the subject of an illustrated profile in the Guardian. Read More

The federal government has proposed legislative changes to streamline the review process for major project approvals and to target a one-year federal review timeline. This is a necessary and overdue step for the country, especially for Alberta. Read More

Second in a series from advocates for the five Canadian cities vying to be the home of the new Defence, Security and Resilience Bank. Read More

While B.C.’s human rights code notionally protects people on the basis of political belief, this didn’t help a Simon Fraser University political science professor who was denied a job over his lack of support for DEI. Indeed, the tribunal decided in April not to give the matter a hearing. Read More