
Ottawa paramedics were called for a serious stabbing of a man outside the Rideau Centre late Wednesday afternoon. Read More
November 6, 2025 - 08:51 | Norman Provencher | Ottawa Citizen
On Nov. 5, deputy Ottawa bureau chief Bill Curry, economics reporter Mark Rendell and reporter Jason Kirby answered reader questions on Mark Carney’s first budget as prime minister, and what it means for Canadians. Both Mr. Carney and Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne billed the new budget as a “generational” shift aimed at forcing a fundamental retooling of the Canadian economy, with a deficit amounting to $78.3-billion in the 2025-2026 fiscal year, and plans to reduce the amount of federal public service employees, increase defence spending and get the corporate world...
November 6, 2025 - 08:00 | Bill Curry, Mark Rendell, Jason Kirby | The Globe and Mail
It’s early fall on a shallow stretch of the Rideau River in Ottawa, a few hundred metres below Hog’s Back Falls. That’s the point where the Rideau Canal splits off from the once-natural waterway it has commandeered as a boat channel for almost 200 years, and where the liberated river finally reasserts its wildness.
In this remnant feral section of the Rideau, which runs past Carleton University, hundreds of Canada geese — showing an untamed spirit, like the stream that has drawn them here — are massing in a honking, splashing, fluttering maelstrom of exuberance.
They arrive on this...
November 6, 2025 - 07:00 | Special to National Post | National Post
A Portuguese immigrant ordered deported six years ago for his role in the killing of a McMaster University mechanical engineering student has won a chance to restore his status as a permanent resident.
Luis Carlos Rebelo was initially convicted of manslaughter in 2017 and sentenced to over eight years in prison for his role in the group attack on Tyler Johnson, who died of a gunshot wound inflicted by another man. Johnson was gunned down in Hamilton during an early-morning altercation on Nov. 30, 2013, in front of Vida La Pita, a restaurant on King Street West at Caroline, just west...
November 6, 2025 - 07:00 | Chris Lambie | National Post
The Supreme Court of Canada is set to release its decision on whether to hear a B.C. ostrich farm's final appeal to save its flock.
November 6, 2025 - 06:49 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Canada
Canada’s premiers are too quick to use the notwithstanding clause for “marginal reasons” and have lost sight of its original purpose, former prime minister Jean Chrétien said Wednesday evening. Chrétien, who as justice minister negotiated the clause’s inclusion in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1981, said provinces are using it “for anything” 40 years later.
November 6, 2025 - 06:45 | Cassidy McMackon | The Globe and Mail
