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Bob Hamilton, the commissioner and chief executive officer of the Canada Revenue Agency, is retiring at the end of March, a letter independently verified by the Ottawa Citizen revealed. Read More
January 26, 2026 - 16:14 | Matteo Cimellaro | Ottawa Citizen
Canada is likely to see more F-35 fighter jets one way or another, according to U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra.
If Canada doesn’t go ahead with purchasing 88 of the jets, that would mean the United States would have to buy more of the advanced fighter aircraft for its own air force, Hoekstra told the CBC during a recent interview at Luke Air Force Base in Arizona. And it would fly them more often into Canadian airspace to address threats approaching the U.S.
“If Canada is no longer going to provide that (capability), then we have to fill those gaps,” Hoekstra told the CBC.
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January 26, 2026 - 16:09 | National Post Staff | National Post
The South Korean company pursuing a multi-billion dollar contract to build submarines for Canada has unveiled an industrial benefits package which proposes alliances with some of the top firms in the country. Read More
January 26, 2026 - 16:04 | David Pugliese, Ottawa Citizen | Ottawa Citizen
OTTAWA — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she’s losing patience with what she views as the reticence of federal officials to give her a “number” indicating how much in assets Alberta would receive if it were to exit Canada Pension Plan (CPP) and transition to its own provincial fund.
Smith said on her weekly radio show that she raised the long-simmering issue with Prime Minister Mark Carney
when the two met...
January 26, 2026 - 15:44 | Rahim Mohamed | National Post
A Jamaican permanent resident who stabbed an Alberta man 50 times in a “lengthy and brutal” attack in April 2022, put the victim into the trunk of his own car, then drove it deep into a wooded area before abandoning it, leaving the area on foot and hiding his clothes in a swamp has been sentenced to 11 years in prison.
Mounties arrested Stavon Maurice Allen on May 1, 2022, and charged him with first-degree murder in Ralph Calder’s death. Allen, 42, pled guilty to a single count of manslaughter on the first day of trial in Alberta’s Court of King’s Bench.
“The length of time it must...
January 26, 2026 - 15:19 | Chris Lambie | National Post
Marineland’s belugas have cleared a significant hurdle after federal Fisheries Minister Joanne Thompson conditionally approved the export of the theme park’s whales to the United States.Thompson met with Marineland on Monday to discuss the proposed plan by the Niagara Falls, Ont., tourist attraction to ship its whales south. They are the last whales being held in captivity in Canada.
January 26, 2026 - 15:14 | Liam Casey | The Globe and Mail
