A powerful explosion rocked the façade of a synagogue in Liège, Belgium, early on Monday morning, resulting in no injuries. 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

Ashley Chand spent more than a decade working her way up through the ranks of human resources and administration positions at some of Vancouver’s most prestigious law firms. Read More

Monday, March 9, marks 250 years since the publication of Adam Smith's An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. National Post has asked experts and Smith admirers to reflect on the meaning of this seminal work. Read More

Statistics Canada will soon release the February labour force survey. When it arrives next Friday, headlines will focus on the unemployment rate and net job creation. Those numbers will matter, particularly as the economy contracted 0.2 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2025 and posted just 1.7 per cent growth for the full year, the weakest since the pandemic. Read More

The folly of Canada’s last decade of energy policy is a never-ending saga for which the costs to Canadians and Canadian industry seem only to rise. As the price of a barrel of oil and LNG skyrocket due to American and Israel military action in Iran and its fallout, Canada should be sitting on a massive opportunity to benefit from soaring prices. However, a decade of neglect and underinvestment in pipelines and egress capacity sees us looking wistfully on as other nations, such as the Untied States benefit while we toil away for little gain. Read More

The last 10 or 15 years have not been kind to Canada. Along with a decline in prosperity has come an erosion of the things that made our society great, a decline of what held us together and made us the envy of the world: things like resilience, friendship and service. In this series, National Post writers consider What We’ve Lost. Read More

It looks like critics who were concerned about whether there would be bias in the upcoming Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) exhibit "Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present" had cause to be concerned, after all. Read More

There's been much focus on - and debate around - the problems in Canada's immigration system and whether the prime minister is prepared to seriously address the mess left by his predecessor. Although overall immigration levels have come down, there are still significant pressures on the system, notably when it comes to asylum claims. The opposition Conservatives are pressing the government to crack down on those whose claims have been found to be bogus and to limit government benefits to those who remain in Canada despite rejected claims. Rob Breakenridge speaks with Conservative MP and Shadow Minister for Citizenship and Immigration Michelle Rempel-Garner. Read More

Iraq, which had recently regained some stability after decades of conflict, was immediately dragged into the Middle East war triggered when the United States and Israel attacked Iran last weekend. Read More

A homemade incendiary thrown near anti-Islam protesters outside the New York mayor's residence was a viable improvised explosive device "that could have caused serious injury or death," police said Sunday. Read More

The issue of shots being fired at three Toronto-area synagogues in less than a week is no longer just a Jewish one. It’s fast becoming a Canadian issue and the impetus to do something about it has never been more immediately vital. Read More

Iran picked a new supreme leader and kept up attacks on the ninth day of the war in the Middle East, hitting a water plant in Bahrain, while Israel struck fuel depots in Tehran and threatened the Islamic Republic’s power grid. Read More

Eye-popping colours, carefree swirls and fluid fabrics — Pucci prints defined the summer of 2025, endorsed by It girls such as Hailey Bieber and Amelia Gray Hamlin. Online searches for Pucci fashions were at an all-time high, according to Google Trends, and social media was awash in the psychedelic pattern. Read More

Prime Minister Mark Carney has announced three byelections for ridings in Ontario and Quebec, which could result in the governing Liberals securing a razor-thin majority in the House of Commons. Read More

Huge fireballs and clouds of thick smoke erupted over Tehran on Sunday after U.S.-Israeli air strikes hit fuel depots in the city, as Iran's Revolutionary Guards vowed to fight on for months to come. Read More

On Jan. 7, Heather McPherson, the longtime member of Parliament for Edmonton-Strathcona and current leadership candidate for the federal New Democratic Party, sponsored an openly antisemitic petition that seeks to investigate and charge any Canadians who served in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).  Read More

It happened. Shots were fired Friday night at my synagogue, Shaarei Shomayim. To be honest, I have been expecting this. It is not as if this area, like every other Jewish neighbourhood, has not had an increased police presence for over two years. Indeed, I wonder if the increased presence of security personnel may have made this neighbourhood seem like more of a target. Read More

Canadian diplomacy just did an about-face with India. Read More

The biggest long-range danger looming over the remaining liberal democracies does not come from U.S. President Donald Trump, Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin or the nutty mullahs in Iran now being pummelled. Instead, it comes from the seemingly inexorable force of technology that increasingly threatens not just to aid humanity, but replace it. Read More

Whatever else happens when the dust settles on the war against Iran, one certain casualty will be the Palestinians’ delusion that Iran’s terrorist “ring of fire” would vanquish the “Zionist entity,” home to half the world’s Jews. Read More

Monday, March 9, marks 250 years since the publication of Adam Smith's An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. National Post has asked experts and Smith admirers to reflect on the meaning of this seminal work. Read More

The early months of 2026 have witnessed a most welcome elevation in the quality of our political rhetoric. Prime Minister Mark Carney took the lead at Davos, quoting Thucydides and Vaclav Havel. Read More