(Dec. 28, 2024 / JNS) -- The Israel Defense Forces overnight Friday intercepted a missile fired by Houthi terrorists in Yemen that triggered air-raid sirens across the Jerusalem, Judea and Dead Sea areas. Read More

The war in Gaza has become a new flashpoint between Canada's largest protestant church and Jewish groups, who say that the famously activist church is dividing Canadians with its "unhealthy obsession with Israel and Jews." Read More

As Canada enters 2025, the Conservative Party is riding a historic high in the polls that only seems to grow stronger with each passing week. The party has long been poised to win a majority in the next election, but amid the very public self-immolation of the Trudeau government, they are now looking at the possibility of a victory so total that the Liberals won’t even form opposition in the next Parliament. Read More

At a recent family gathering, a relative approached me to chat about my work fighting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s invocation of the Emergencies Act during the convoy protests in February 2022. He was unsure whether invocation was right. He agreed that freezing bank accounts was a frightening response to a political protest. But, he said, the situation was out of control. The honking was outrageous. The streets were blockaded. Something had to be done. Read More

In early October, word got around that the Chief Justice of Canada had made some flaky remarks about older judgments issued by the Supreme Court he leads. That court is stubbornly refusing to translate Supreme Court caselaw from before 1970 into both official languages — something that flies in the face of the Official Languages Act, according to the advice of the Official Languages Commissioner. Read More

Not that he needs any help, given the aid he’s getting from the self-destructing Liberals, but if Pierre Poilievre wants an easy way to win votes, he could please a lot of Canadians by pledging to compel Canada’s airlines to treat their customers with greater respect. Read More

Jewish community leaders are condemning a Boxing Day rally held inside Toronto's Eaton Centre that saw anti-Israel protesters shouting "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" over megaphones as people shopped in the busy downtown mall. Read More

In response to U.S. president-elect Donald Trump's promotion of annexing Canada as an American state, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau posted a video on X made by legendary American newsman, Tom Brokaw, who was anchor of NBC Nightly News during the decades when most Americans got their news via their televisions. Read More

A gay U.S. couple will spend the rest of their lives behind bars after being sentenced for raping their two adopted sons. Read More

Yesterday, as shoppers were returning unwanted presents, revelling in Boxing Day sales and enjoying the Christmas tree light show at the Toronto Eaton Centre, a group of anti-Israel protesters disrupted the joyful experience by harassing bargain-hunters and unfurling a large banner with a crude likeness of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with the words "arrest this criminal" emblazoned in red. Like the twisted image of Netanyahu, and the chants that filled the mall, nothing these protesters say or do is to be trusted. Read More

Canadian business mogul Kevin O’Leary has expressed an interest in meeting with Donald Trump to discuss the idea of “an economic union” between the United States and Canada. Read More

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is taking his vacation away from the country's capital this year. According to his itinerary, he is scheduled to be in British Columbia as of Thursday, one day after Christmas, although no official plans were listed. Read More

A former chief adviser and close friend to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he doesn't think Trudeau will stay on to lead the Liberals in the next election. Read More

Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc and Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly are in Florida to meet with officials from president-elect Donald Trump's incoming administration. Read More

Wayne Gretzky may not have shown any interest in Donald Trump’s suggestion the Hall of Famer attempt to become the prime minister of canada, but it appears his wife, Janet Gretzky, might feel differently. Read More

The man accused of burning a woman to death inside a New York City subway train has been indicted on state charges, a prosecutor said on Friday, as authorities continue working to confirm the victim's identity. Read More

A pregnant woman in Florida was stabbed after reportedly leaving a small tip on a pizza delivery order. Read More

Former Canadian justice minister and international human rights campaigner Irwin Cotler sat down with National Post columnist John Ivison in December to discuss life under the threat of assassination by Iran, the threat to Western democracies of a concerted “Axis of Evil,” the rise of a new antisemitism, arrest warrants against Israeli leaders by the International Criminal Court and his pessimism about a two-state solution in the Middle East. Read More

A mystery seller is asking $200 million for an empty waterfront lot next door to the properties Jeff Bezos bought in South Florida. Read More

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has a plan to get the "carbon tax election" he has been calling for sooner rather than later. Read More

Russia’s aviation chief said Friday that a Ukrainian drone attack was underway in the Russian region that an airliner was destined for before it diverted and crashed earlier this week. Read More

In 2024, Cook This explored the boundlessness of pasta and the diversity of the food of the Jewish diaspora. It traced one author's journey from the Republic of the Congo to Quebec, and another's to the Indian, Atlantic and Pacific Ocean islands. Recipes showcased new ways to spin scraps and transform leftovers and offered a window into the world's largest Syrian refugee camp and a farm in southern Turkey after devastating earthquakes hit. Read More