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U.S. President Donald Trump’s second term in office has borne witness to a dramatic and unprecedented escalation in tensions between the U.S. and President Nicolás Maduro’s Venezuela.
The White House has deployed a naval task force towards Venezuela and destroyed over 20 boats with the purported aim of preventing the flow of narcotics to American shores.
However, many view the buildup as a pretext for regime change; Trump has repeatedly suggested that Maduro’s days in power are numbered and has authorized the CIA to conduct covert operations on Venezuelan soil.
But as the Trump...
December 14, 2025 - 07:00 | Special to National Post | National Post
November 24, 2025 - 12:38 | | CBC News - Canada
Alberta’s top court has quashed the contempt conviction for a Crown attorney who ran afoul of a justice of the peace who wouldn’t listen to him at a bail hearing.
Justice of the Peace Diane T. Luttmer ejected prosecutor James D. Wilson from her courtroom and convicted him of contempt this past May. The Court of Appeal recently overturned Wilson’s conviction.
“The right of a party to be heard … is a fundamental principle of natural justice,” said a recent decision out of Calgary from the three-judge panel.
“Breach of that right leads to a denial of natural justice, harms the...
October 22, 2025 - 06:00 | Chris Lambie | National Post
Warning: This story contains some graphic images
Three blind Canadians regained their sight this year and three more are in line to recover theirs in the coming months, all of them thanks to their own tooth being attached to their eyeball.
While that may sound macabre to some, the highly specialized ophthalmological procedure initially devised in the 1960s has been nothing short of miraculous for the hundreds of patients who’ve undergone it, many of whom have been blessed with sight for decades afterward.
The osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis operation (OOKP), often aptly referred to...
August 22, 2025 - 06:00 | Kenn Oliver | National Post
ASHLAND, Montana — It is Seniors Night in Big Sky Country. Onto the volleyball court trot the Lady Braves of the St. Labre Indian School, a Catholic residential academy for the daughters and sons of the Crow and Northern Cheyenne tribes of Montana, now in its 141st year. Opposing them today are the Lady Indians of a rival school called Lodge Grass High from a Crow town on the Little Bighorn River where the median income for an entire family is US$22,222 a year.
The players and coaches on the competing squads are named Bigback, Bullcoming, Killsnight, Bad Bear, Rides Horse, Lefthand,...
November 20, 2024 - 07:00 | Allen Abel | National Post
WASHINGTON — The patriot is wearing unsoiled work boots, crisp new chinos, a pinstriped shirt and a dark suit jacket — very demure, very mindful. He is sitting alone on a bench in the hallway of the federal courthouse in Washington, a few hundred metres from the glaring white dome of the United States Capitol. It isn’t his first visit to D.C.
“Are you here for the sentencing of the guy from January 6?” I ask him.
Jan. 6, 2021...
October 23, 2024 - 07:00 | Allen Abel | National Post
