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Alberta RCMP stop demonstrators from gathering on the Trans-Canada Highway near Highway 22 west of Calgary on Tuesday, April 2, 2024.

FIRST READING: It turns out Canadian police can actually stop a protest blockade if they feel like it

First Reading is a daily newsletter keeping you posted on the travails of Canadian politicos, all curated by the National Post’s own Tristin Hopper. To get an early version sent directly to your inbox, sign up here. TOP STORY ...
Updated Apr. 11, 2024 |7 min read Gallery Premium content

Colby Cosh: Alberta's red tape reduction minister ... demands more red tape on vodka
Updated Apr. 11, 2024 |4 min read Premium content
Four-litre jugs of vodka are shown at Super Value Liquor in Edmonton on Tuesday April 9, 2024.

John Ivison: On Chinese interference, Trudeau sounds like someone with something to hide
Updated Apr. 10, 2024 |7 min read Premium content
A document is displayed on a screen behind Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as he appears as a witness at the Public Inquiry Into Foreign Interference in Federal Electoral Processes and Democratic Institutions in Ottawa on Wednesday, April 10, 2024.

FIRST READING: With 'safer supply' showing up in busts, RCMP told to step carefully
Updated Apr. 10, 2024 |8 min read Gallery Premium content

John Ivison: Liberals have a chance to reverse their fiscal doom spiral. Expect them to pass
Updated Apr. 10, 2024 |6 min read Premium content

FIRST READING: Rents, home prices set to get way worse until at least the next election
Updated Apr. 9, 2024 |5 min read Gallery Premium content
The Canadian National Vimy Memorial at Vimy Ridge, France. Courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

SCOTT TAYLOR: The Chanak crisis, not Vimy, was Canada’s true coming of age as a nation

Scott Taylor |Updated Apr. 9, 2024 |3 min read Premium content

This week marks the 107th anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge. While April 9 is the day of commemoration, the battle itself lasted three days. What is amazing is the myth that has grown around that April 1917, First World War clash in Northern ...
From left, Defence Minister Bill Blair and Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland were on hand Monday at 8 Wing Trenton as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau helped unveil “Our North, Strong and Free,” a new defence policy to guide Canada’s military for the next 20 years.

John Ivison: The new Liberal defence policy's in no hurry to face dangerous global realities

John Ivison |Updated Apr. 8, 2024 |7 min read Premium content

For many years, there was no political payback for increasing defence expenditure, so governments in Ottawa didn’t bother. But recent polls suggest voters are sufficiently spooked by events in Ukraine and the Middle East, not to mention by the ...
Anti-Israel protesters outside Toronto's city hall on Saturday, April 6, 2024.

Toronto demonstrators urged to 'live up to the example' of Hamas

Tristin Hopper · Postmedia News |Updated Apr. 8, 2024 |5 min read Premium content

Even after six months of routine anti-Israel rallies hitting the streets of Toronto, a series of weekend demonstrations featured a notable increase in pro-terror rhetoric and extremist symbology. On Saturday, a child holding a sign ...
The last 12 months have seen the Trudeau government lean so heavily into housing policy that basically every public appearance by the prime minister is now at the ribbon-cutting for a new condo development. But the above new numbers by the CMHC show that federal promises to “build more homes, faster” don’t appear to be doing all that much to stop the housing crisis from getting worse. Even the agency’s most optimistic estimates for housing starts show that they will be significantly behind the 240,267 housing starts recorded in 2023. Amid unprecedented numbers of immigrants continuing to pour into the country, this means that the housing shortage – and real estate prices – are statistically poised to get worse.

FIRST READING: What Canada forsook by failing to develop LNG

Tristin Hopper · Postmedia News |Updated Apr. 8, 2024 |7 min read Gallery Premium content

First Reading is a daily newsletter keeping you posted on the travails of Canadian politicos, all curated by the National Post’s own Tristin Hopper. To get an early version sent directly to your inbox, sign up here. TOP STORY ...
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'Who are you to stop someone blowing crack smoke at a newborn?' Inside the thoughts of B.C.'s harm reduction program

Tristin Hopper · Postmedia News |Updated Apr. 6, 2024 |4 min read Premium content

This week, a leaked memo in B.C. revealed that hospital workers were being told not to confiscate weapons or illicit drugs from patients – and to look the other way at in-hospital drug dealers. It caused a stir in the B.C. Legislature, but it’s ...
A child’s dress is seen on a cross outside the former residential school in Kamloops, B.C., on June 13, 2021.

Conrad Black: A better approach than 'reconciliation'

Conrad Black |Updated Apr. 6, 2024 |5 min read Premium content

A number of people have recently written to the National Post or directly to me taking issue with my suggestion that a comprehensive reform of Canada’s policy toward Indigenous people be negotiated with responsible and high-achievement leaders ...
B.C. health minister Adrian Dix rises in the B.C. Legislative Assembly to respond to a leaked memo in which hospital workers were told not to confiscate weapons or illicit drugs from patients.

FIRST READING: B.C. tells nurses to ignore rising phenomenon of armed patients doing drugs in hospitals

Tristin Hopper · Postmedia News |Updated Apr. 5, 2024 |7 min read Gallery Premium content

First Reading is a daily newsletter keeping you posted on the travails of Canadian politicos, all curated by the National Post’s own Tristin Hopper. To get an early version sent directly to your inbox, sign up here. TOP STORY ...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau listens to a speaker during a housing announcement in Vancouver, Wednesday, March 27, 2024.

FIRST READING: Trudeau's weird habit of denouncing his own government

Tristin Hopper · Postmedia News |Updated Apr. 4, 2024 |7 min read Gallery Premium content

First Reading is a daily newsletter keeping you posted on the travails of Canadian politicos, all curated by the National Post’s own Tristin Hopper. To get an early version sent directly to your inbox, sign up here. TOP STORY ...
Linda Stone, then a trustee for the Durham District School Board, is pictured in a November 2021 school board meeting.

Anti-woke Ontario school trustee driven from office again

Tristin Hopper · Postmedia News |Updated Apr. 3, 2024 |4 min read Premium content

An Ontario school trustee who has been publicly critical of the province’s gender-identity policies has once again resigned her position with the Durham District School Board after being repeatedly targeted for censure and barred from meetings. ...
This was the prime minister’s social media post accompanying the announcement of his National School Food Program. By all accounts, Trudeau was a pretty engaged teacher, but his instructional career happened to take place in some of the least food insecure schools in the country. Trudeau’s longest tenure was at West Point Grey Academy, a Vancouver private school with tuition currently costing about $30,000 per year. He would also teach at several public schools serving predominantly wealthy areas in South Vancouver.

FIRST READING: Colorado official recorded trying to send illegal migrants to Canada

Tristin Hopper · Postmedia News |Updated Apr. 3, 2024 |8 min read Gallery Premium content

First Reading is a daily newsletter keeping you posted on the travails of Canadian politicos, all curated by the National Post’s own Tristin Hopper. To get an early version sent directly to your inbox, sign up here. TOP STORY ...
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