
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. Dear Rebecca What are the rules these days around who pays for what at weddings? Our daughter is getting married this year. She’s a millennial who has been with her partner for some time. I mention the millennial bit because she is not traditional at all. In fact, I was surprised they were getting married. They live together, have bought a...
June 18, 2026 - 06:30 | Rebecca Eckler | National Post
A disturbing effect of the Trump era is how the most routine bureaucratic exercises become freighted with existential panic. Case in point: the mandatory review of the Canada–United States–Mexico Agreement, set to begin in a few weeks. Signed in 2018 to replace the earlier North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), CUSMA is the playbook that allows North America to function as a deeply integrated market rather than three separate ones. It establishes common rules for everything from auto manufacturing to agricultural exports.
Despite having negotiated it himself, Donald Trump has...
June 18, 2026 - 06:30 | Carmine Starnino | Walrus
Fertility Inc. is a five-part series by the Investigative Journalism Bureau that delves into the Wild West of the egg-freezing industry, its aggressive marketing, the high costs and the chances of an eventual successful pregnancy. An Ontario fertility clinic chain employs at least four doctors who currently have restrictions on their medical licences due to previous serious misconduct or allegations of misconduct. These include a physician once at the centre of a multi-million-dollar lawsuit, and one who faced 16 counts of professional misconduct in another province. But patients who...
June 18, 2026 - 06:30 | Investigative Journalism Bureau | National Post
One usage, aim your words toward the air
and being born in time, taught how it’s done
can anybody teach you such a thing
or how an actor learns the ropes, he must
just walk the boards, rehearsal already
action, intention rattling around
redundancy, the more I read the more
believe the lines a document of fact
of things that happened and keep happening
at times it seems to dare you disbelieve,
belief then presupposed, his eyes put out
which adds to me, look there, were not our own
relieved to take it in the way a death
will energize, I made a pot of tea
the morning the phone rang as in a...
June 18, 2026 - 06:29 | Jana Prikryl | Walrus
Thousands gathered in Mississauga for the funeral of an Ontario Provincial Police constable who was killed on the job earlier this month.
June 18, 2026 - 06:26 | | CBC News - Canada
June 18, 2026 - 06:23 | Jim Bronskill | The Globe and Mail




