New from me: the sexual assault trial of self-styled Edmonton spiritual leader John de Ruiter is scheduled for a whopping four months edmontonjournal.com/news/crime/joh…

saskatoonpolice.ca/news/2025624 The hed about a "20-year-old mystery" conceals the extraordinary genealogical solving of a murder perpetrated 100+ years ago.

Awful update this afternoon from Edmonton police in the case of a missing 14-year-old Indigenous boy. Missing Edmonton teen Samuel Bird presumed dead, homicide investigating: EPS #yeg edmontonjournal.com/news/crime/sam…

Just 70,000 signatures to go to get the federalist separation question one step further towards a provincial referendum.

Great story here

Impressive, stomach turning investigation Matthew Black and MacEwan U into Edmonton/Alberta’s archaic food safety inspection regime (including more details on the Tres Carnales debacle). 250 YEG restaurants went at least two years between inspections edmontonjournal.com/news/local-new…

Statement from the Parliamentary Press Gallery president on the unprecedented and dismaying decision to exclude Canadian media from travelling — and even knowing about travel until mere hours before departure — with PM Mark Carney to Egypt this weekend⬇️

Astonishing, amateurish, deeply incriminating evidence found on the phones of Canadian drug mules caught at the border reveal a transnational cocaine network: texts, emails, group chats and even secret recordings. My story: nationalpost.com/feature/exclus…

The We Are The Dead projects is coming to an end. The account has been tweeting the names of Canadian fallen since 2011. After more than 119,000 hourly posts, the account will send out the final name on the list of our war dead at 4 p.m. tomorrow.

Guys, it feels like 2014 all over again. Time to pick a licence plate design. (At least this time it has a motto on it and not "Alberta.ca". alberta.ca/alberta-pick-a…

I suspect we're going to hear a fair bit about this.

An exquisite piece of magazine writing.

Keith Gerein: Party politics have proven to be strange experiment in Edmonton's civic election edmontonjournal.com/opinion/column…

Wherein I offer a little history lesson on Alberta's licence-plate debate. Governments have tried, twice in recent memory, to re-do the plates and remove the slogan from them. Both times, it failed. link.postmedia.com/view/5ea85fdaf…

Dominic LeBlanc beat cancer. Now he's hoping his next comeback includes a U.S. trade deal nationalpost.com/news/canada/do… via National Post

The Alberta government may yet rue the day when it introduced the ability for the public to try and recall politicians.

1/2 New from me: The Ontario government’s anti-U.S. tariff ad will run multiple times during the U.S. broadcast of World Series game 1 Friday, less than 24 hours after President Donald Trump “terminated” trade talks with Canada over the commercial. Link and details in below 🔽

2/2 nationalpost.com/news/politics/…

A strategic bitcoin reserve. Studies on the health effects of telecommunications towers. Merging with Yukon and NWT. Here are some of the policies UCP members want debated. nationalpost.com/news/exclusive…

Some personal news. Today is my last day at National Post. On Monday, I join the Globe and Mail's opinion-editing team.