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. Read More

Acting President Delcy Rodríguez said Venezuela has “had enough” of US interference as the government faces growing pushback from public-sector groups and leftist parties over plans to overhaul the oil industry. Read More

In a statement on Monday, Ye apologized for a history of "impulsive" behavior, including using antisemitic imagery and describing himself as a Nazi. Read More

The Israel Defense Forces on Monday confirmed its soldiers recovered the body of Master Sgt. Ran Gvili, the last remaining hostage, from the Gaza Strip. Read More

NATO chief Mark Rutte warned Monday Europe cannot defend itself without the United States, in the face of calls for the continent to stand on its own feet after tensions over Greenland. Read More

OTTAWA— Members of Parliament on the House of Commons' justice committee voted Monday in favour of pausing work on a controversial government hate crimes bill, to instead turn attention to the Liberals' bail reform package.  Read More

Vowing to put "more money back in Canadians' pockets," Prime Minister Mark Carney announced a new GST rebate in Ottawa on Monday. Formerly known as the Goods and Services Tax (GST) credit, here's what you need to know about the new Canada Groceries and Essentials Benefit. Read More

Canadians are sharing photos of wintery weather after record-breaking snowfall blanketed the Greater Toronto Area on Sunday. Read More

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OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney said his government is not considering a federal election this spring as Parliament resumed on Monday. Read More

A retired couple's trip from London, Ont., to Kelowna, B.C., to visit family and do a little skiing turned into a "trip from hell" with multiple delays and lost luggage on both the outbound and homeward journeys, they say. Read More

Politicians rarely say anything very interesting in speeches. At most, there might be a kernel of news slipped in between the banalities and outpourings of self-congratulation. Read More

The bromance between U.S. President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Mark Carney is over. The president is back to jeering at the prime minister after Carney’s “hegemon” speech in Switzerland. And Liberals are back in their election comfort zone, acting as defenders of Canada against American hostility, as Brian Lilley discusses with Stuart Thomson and Tasha Kheiriddin, editors of Postmedia’s Political Hack newsletter. It worked so well for Carney during the last election, they say this could be just the thing for him to call an election to try for a majority. They get into the advantages and risks, and the problem for Conservatives, who are still trying to regroup from the last time they got flattened by this drama. (Recorded Jan. 23, 2026.) Read More

Ukraine said it hit a small oil refinery in southern Russia, the third attack this month on its foe’s fuel-producing industry. Read More

Donald Trump lauded the UK’s military after Prime Minister Keir Starmer urged the US president to apologize for downplaying the role of NATO troops in the war in Afghanistan. Read More

Paris — A U.S.-based rights group said on Monday it had confirmed the deaths of nearly 6,000 people during a wave of protests in Iran suppressed by security forces, as Tehran warned Washington against intervening. Read More

First Reading is a Canadian politics newsletter curated by the National Post’s own Tristin Hopper. To get an early version sent directly to your inbox, sign up here. Read More

Billionaire Elon Musk — owner of xAI, which developed the Grok chatbot — took a jab at his AI competitor this week. “Don’t let your loved ones use ChatGPT,” he posted on X, above an allegation that ChatGPT has been linked to at least nine deaths. Read More

So 2026 is beginning the way 2025 ended, with a display of ineptitude by the Canadian state so far-reaching that it becomes difficult on any given file to determine whether they aren’t doing something because they don’t want to, because they can’t or both. It’s no way to run a country. Read More

Somewhere across this great land, someone or something great is just getting started. This country is built on game-changing people, ideas and initiatives: Wayne Gretzky redefined a game; oilsands innovations helped us prosper; Frederick Banting transformed millions of lives; Loblaws changed how we live. Today, we continue our series that celebrates Canadian greatness, in whatever form we find it. Read More

Iran’s exiled crown prince, Reza Pahlavi, wants to lead a transitional government should the Islamic regime in Tehran eventually collapse. His vision for the country — articulated in a detailed proposal published last year — has earned the confidence of many once-skeptical Iranians, particularly within the diaspora, and should assuage those who worry that foreign military intervention could produce a failed state.  Read More

OTTAWA — Alberta and Ontario are two of Canada's biggest provincial economies, but they're going in opposite directions when it comes to building homes for their residents. Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Andrew Hale, an economist and trade expert based in Washington, D.C., is a citizen of both the United Kingdom and the United States, and a former resident of Canada, where he attended the former Grenville Christian College boarding school as a teen, and later CEGEP and Western University. Hale led a campaign to expose abuses against pupils at Grenville, having experienced them firsthand under the tenure of the headmaster, Rev. Charles R. Farnsworth.  Read More

In a coffee shop in Greenland's capital Nuuk, Lykke Lynge looked fondly at her four kids as they sipped their hot chocolate, seemingly oblivious to the world's convulsions. Read More