Unpublished Newswire
A Turkish man denied refugee status in Canada a decade back because he shot two bystanders at a restaurant 18 years ago when he was aiming at his former brother-in-law has won a chance to stay in this country. Nevzat Etik took his case to Federal Court looking for a judicial review after Canada’s Refugee Appeal Division (RAD) determined that the Refugee Protection Division (RPD) concluded correctly that “there are serious reasons to believe that he committed a serious crime and dismissed his appeal.” Etik was convicted for “intentionally injuring two persons in a restaurant with...
July 3, 2026 - 07:00 | Chris Lambie | National Post
WASHINGTON — About 40 of us commoners are hanging around Statuary Hall at the United States Capitol, waiting for the King of Canada. It is April 2026, and Charles III — finally a sovereign after all those decades in the bullpen — has come to the Capitol to put the best possible spin on the worst road defeat his ball club ever suffered — the loss of 13 prideful and persecuted colonies in the American Revolution 250 years ago this summer. In that seven-year, savage, earth-shaking and probably unnecessary conflict, the United States of America came to be a country, but Canada didn’t. It...
July 3, 2026 - 07:00 | Allen Abel | National Post
Good morning. The Canadian men’s soccer team will face its toughest challenge so far at the World Cup when it plays Morocco on Saturday. More on that below, along with EV range busters and extreme weather in parts of Canada. But first:
July 3, 2026 - 06:06 | Angela Pacienza | The Globe and Mail
As the United States celebrates its 250th anniversary of declaring independence of our common mother country, Canadians remain uneasy siblings with Americans, a new poll suggests. A new Postmedia-Leger poll shows 64 per cent of us think we’re nicer than Americans; another 54 per cent think we’re more cultured. Two-thirds find Americans more arrogant, while 82 per cent think we’re more admired in the world. “From the data I would say we have a sense of superiority over Americans in a number of areas — Canadians believe they are more humble, cultured and generally nicer,” said Andrew...
July 3, 2026 - 06:00 | Chris Lambie | National Post
North America’s busiest international trade corridor, linking Windsor, Ont. to Detroit, Mich., has a shiny new bridge for tourists and commercial traffic. Only, none of them can use it right now. The Gordie Howe Bridge, with its six lanes and modern technology, promises to ease cross-border bottlenecks. The idea is no more border holdups, except, there is one big holdup: Donald Trump. The U.S. president has blocked the bridge’s grand opening, which had been scheduled for last month. He is demanding trade concessions, including ownership of a bridge that is already jointly owned by...
July 3, 2026 - 06:00 | Tracy Moran | National Post
July 3, 2026 - 05:44 | Bill Graveland | The Globe and Mail
