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Copy URL Facebook Linked In X (Twitter) Loading account options Sign In Manage Account Close account menu Sign Out Steven Galloway walks out of the B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver, on Oct. 5, 2026. (Arlen Redekop/Postmedia) By National Post October 21, 2026 at 5:25 p.m. Last Updated: October 21, 2026 at 5:36 p.m. It’s Wednesday, October 21. Here are the top stories we’re following today.
Author Steven Galloway’s accuser once alleged that the head of campus security at the University of British Columbia had warned that Galloway was a “serial predator.” But at Galloway’s defamation trial, the man in question says he has no memory of that ever happening.
Danielle Smith has been vindicated: Rick Bell National Post’s Rob Breakenridge is joined by veteran Calgary Sun political columnist Rick Bell for a closer look at the results and political fallout from Monday’s referendum in Alberta. Bell says the results should give Premier Danielle Smith a stronger hand in pushing back against separatist elements within her own party. At the same time, he warns that the federal government shouldn’t take this result as a ringing endorsement of Canada’s status quo.
A shipment of gold and cash worth $22.5 million disappeared from this Air Canada cargo holding facility known as Cargo West at Toronto’s Pearson airport. Peter J. Thompson/National Post Air Canada security camera could have caught insider in Toronto airport gold heist but wasn’t working that day A witness at the trial of former Air Canada employee Parmpal Sidhu testified on Wednesday that “there was no fingerprint of Mr. Sidhu on the air waybill” for the crate that contained $22.5 million in gold and cash. Also, “whoever picked (the waybill) up from the printer was not captured on video” because the security camera was inoperable.
Abdulrahman El Bahnasawy, 20, before he was arrested and convicted for his part in planning a mass casualty event in New York City on behalf of ISIS. File /PST Mother of ISIS terrorist from Ontario running for school board trustee in Milton Dr. Khdiga Metwally’s son, 28-year-old Abdulrahman El Bahnasawy, was convicted in the U.S. for plotting to carry out 9/11-style attacks in New York City in 2016 on behalf of ISIS. Metwally says her son “has a documented history of severe mental illness” and the “painful experience” has strengthened her “determination, as a school board trustee candidate, to work so that no child or family goes through a similar tragedy.”
The Royal Canadian Legion’s poppy campaign is starting Oct. 24, about a week earlier than normal. Handout/Royal Canadian Legion The Legion is launching its poppy campaign early. Here’s what to know Well before last week’s tragedy at CFB Wainwright in Alberta, the Royal Canadian Legion had already decided this year’s national poppy campaign would start earlier than it traditionally has. But now, with four more soldiers killed during training exercises at the military base, Canadians should have even more reason to wear a poppy in honour of the country’s fallen service members this Remembrance Day.
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