Unravelling a Father’s Day tragedy; the alarming details of 14-year-old’s murder of Ontario senior; and more

Leaside Bridge in Toronto. Photo by Peter J. Thompson/National Post

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It’s Thursday, June 18. Here are the top stories we’re following today.

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Fatal Father’s Day: The man who fell ‘out of the sky’

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Writer Allen Abel explores a “terrible tragedy” on Father’s Day 2024, when someone plunged from Toronto’s Leaside Bridge onto a car passing below. The moment united two men in death — one a 76-year-old father and the other a son.

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Images of the 14-year-old killer were captured on a neighbour’s security video before and after the stabbing of Eleanor Doney and provided to National Post. Photo by Courtesy of John Meloche

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The alarming details behind a 14-year-old’s random murder of a retired teacher in Ontario

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A doorbell camera video, the police investigation, and the boy’s confessions captured the brutality and banality of 83-year-old Eleanor Doney’s murder, and reveal the killer’s disturbing obsessions.

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SpaceX employees celebrate the market close of the SpaceX initial public offering (IPO) at the Nasdaq Marketsite on June 12, 2026, in New York City. Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images

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FIRST READING: Ontario teachers make billions from SpaceX IPO

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With both CEO Elon Musk and the Ontario Teacher’s Pension Plan ranking as the largest Canadian beneficiaries of the SpaceX IPO (with stakes worth around $700 billion and $15.5 billion respectively), it’s notable that both are firmly entrenched on opposite sides of the political spectrum, Tristin Hopper writes.

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New Democratic Party leader Avi Lewis takes part in a news conference in the House of Commons foyer on June 17, 2026. Photo by Blair Gable/Postmedia

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Poilievre finally gets some good polling news — but it’s not about the Conservatives

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The NDP’s comeback, leaving the party just a stone’s throw from its traditional support level of 15 to 20 per cent, is seen as one of the keys to the Conservatives closing the gap with the Liberals and finding a path to power.

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Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to nominate his preferred candidate for the Supreme Court of Canada before the end of the month after presenting his decision to cabinet. Photo by Blair Gable/Postmedia

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New Supreme Court appointment coming ‘imminently’ as Mark Carney considers two top applicants

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Multiple government and judicial sources confirmed to National Post that the two candidates being considered are Glenn Joyal, chief justice of the Court of King’s Bench of Manitoba, and Anna Loparco, a Court of King’s Bench of Alberta judge.

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