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VANCOUVER — Kerry-Lynne Findlay is out as B.C. Conservative leader. Elected leader on May 30, her tenure did make it longer than a head of lettuce, but had anyone bet on a pumpkin or squash to outlast her, the noble gourds would have paid out handsomely. From nearly day one it has been a sad tale of mismanagement and woe that saw the B.C. Conservative party implode as infighting and MLAs fleeing a sinking ship seemed destined to hand the NDP another victory. It is no exaggeration to say that Fin

The United States warned that fighting between Saudi Arabia and the Iran-backed Houthis could "escalate rapidly" after a missile attack targeted Riyadh for the first time since the Yemen conflict resumed. Read More

Italy will ban burqas and niqabs in schools and limit the number of foreign students per class, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said Sunday. Read More

Prudent yet conciliatory, Pope Leo XIV has gradually imprinted his style on the leadership of the Catholic Church, finding his voice as he takes on some of the world's most pressing issues, from bloody conflicts to artificial intelligence. Read More

French President Emmanuel Macron and Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney announced closer ties Sunday, speaking from France's tiny territory of St-Pierre-Miquelon, just off Canada's Atlantic coast. Read More

A massive arch that Donald Trump wants to build on a historic location in Washington will double as a base for drones and snipers, the U.S. president announced on Sunday. Read More

Denmark on Saturday hailed a "binding" deal announced by U.S. President Donald Trump to give Washington "permanent control" over Greenland's security and bar Russian and Chinese bases from the Arctic territory. Read More

Prime Minister Mark Carney was in Toronto this week selling Canada as a place that still builds things. The prospectus for his inaugural investment summit runs to 167 projects: mines, ports, LNG, data centres, powered by the usual nation-building adjectives. Read More

OTTAWA — The 1943 Douglas C-47 Skytrain, or Dakota, transport plane was part of one of Canada’s biggest ever military missions, dropping troops into Normandy on D-Day. Read More

Support for Prime Minister Mark Carney's plan to "privatize" operations at Vancouver's, Calgary's, Toronto's and Montreal's international airports, and the lack of support for it, is dividing along interesting lines. Read More

It’s official: Canada’s counter tariffs kicked in at 12 a.m. Tuesday, slamming an eclectic list of goods that includes dairy products, cosmetics, haircare, softwood, steel rods and window frames. All will cost between 25 and 50 per cent more, in response to U.S. tariffs that show no sign of going away any time soon. To the contrary, U.S. President Donald Trump is just getting started, sending a stream of over 60 posts on Truth Social Monday in which he threatened to ban aerospace giant Bombardie

Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh teaming up for a buddy action comedy likely wasn’t something movie fans had on their 2026 bingo cards. Read More

Over the weekend, a thunderbolt reverberated through German politics as the right-wing, anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party took home a thumping victory in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, receiving 43.8 per cent of the vote. Its next-closest rival, the centrist Christian Democratic Union (CDU), came in a distant second at 17.2 per cent. Notable were the vote differences from 2021: the AfD's share went up 23 points, while the CDU lost nearly 20 points. Read More

OTTAWA — On the same day Canadian tariffs on $28 billion worth of U.S. imports came into effect, Prime Minister Mark Carney said he doesn’t believe in escalating the trade conflict. Read More

Postmedia’s Political Hack team, Tasha Kheiriddin and Stuart Thomson, join Brian Lilley to assess the political spin contest over the collapse of U.S.-Canada trade talks. Despite the economic damage, they discuss why neither side has an incentive to make a deal. Prime Minister Mark Carney just crushed three byelections, securing his majority and grinding down the Conservatives — and there are several more coming up. And they explain how U.S. President Donald Trump’s strategy is to use the trade

WASHINGTON, D.C. — As both Canada and the United States enjoyed a day off and family BBQs on Monday, U.S. President Donald Trump was busy posting on his social media platform.  Read More

A Canadian condo developer has launched a $10-million lawsuit against online critics whose videos complaining about two of the company’s newest projects have racked up hundreds of thousands of views on social media sites TikTok and RedNote. Read More

Cleaning your refrigerator isn’t the most fun task, but it’s a necessary one, especially when food safety is concerned. Read More

What communication did Ontario Premier Doug Ford have with developers who could have benefited from his removal of Greenbelt protections before he walked that back? Read More

Ask Rebecca is smart, honest advice to readers' questions about life, family and relationships by columnist Rebecca Eckler. Got a question for Rebecca? Submit it anonymously on the form here. You can also send an email to NPadvice@postmedia.com. Read More