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Zachareah Quraishi of Airdrie, Alta., was released from the Canadian Armed Forces reserves on July 10, last summer. Within 12 days, he’d bought a plane ticket to Israel, rented a car, and obtained a large kitchen knife. Read More

In this episode of "NP Talks," the National Post's Jesse Kline sits down with Michael Kovrig for a wide-ranging discussion on the threat posed by the Communist Party of China. Watch the full video directly above. Read More

There are perspectives from which a snap federal election call might make sense. There are far more perspectives from which it looks like a fever dream trapped in a bubble. Many of them have to do with the New Democrats, who aren’t even an official party in the House of Commons. Read More

Last year, the world watched as biological male Olympic boxers first beat the crap out of women in the ring and then stole their medals. It was a shame. Read More

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney’s minority government will face a crucial test on Monday, Nov. 17, as it will face a third and final confidence vote on his budget. Read More

OTTAWA — As Mark Carney sought to restart Canada's relationship with India, a top official advised the prime minister in May that a reset should require a "public commitment from India" on accountability measures amid claims the country is behind a rash of criminal activity and murders. Read More

When Customs and Border Protection Officers asked Jesse Agus Martinez about the suspicious bulge in his pants, he claimed that the protrusion was natural — using a Spanish word for a male appendage. But on further inspection, officers say they found two heavily sedated parakeets in his underwear. Read More

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government faces a decisive moment on Monday when Canada’s House of Commons votes on a proposed budget that would increase borrowing to spend on the military and infrastructure. Read More

A Calgary man died trying to save his five-year-old daughter from a rogue wave that swept her away at Garrapata State Beach in California on Friday. The girl is still missing. Read More

A new deployment of federal agents arrived in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Saturday as part of President Donald Trump’s expanding immigration enforcement campaign, marking the latest push to carry out large-scale arrests in Democratic-led cities. Read More

The euphoria surrounding Labubu toys is starting to resemble the boom-and-bust cycle that ended in the collapse of Beanie Babies in the 1990s, a warning sign for investors, a bearish analyst says. Read More

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene said President Donald Trump is putting her life in danger with a social post calling her a traitor to the Republican Party amid a falling-out centred on government files on the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Read More

The words “Kill the Jews” were found scrawled inside a building at Concordia University in Montreal over the weekend, marking the latest antisemitic incident in Canada. Read More

Accused of being biased by some and defended as a champion of impartiality by others, the BBC is once again the subject of a thorny debate about the role of a publicly funded broadcaster in an increasingly polarized landscape. Read More

Jerusalem will not allow a Palestinian state in Judea, Samaria and Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday, rejecting a U.S.-backed statement calling for a “pathway” for creating “Palestine.” Read More

Prime Minister Mark Carney rolled out a second wave of “nation-building projects” on Thursday and an oil pipeline from Alberta was not on the list. Read More

A Jewish Montreal woman says she was told by a Canadian passport office employee that she could not indicate Israel as her country of birth because it is "a conflict zone." Read More

Timothy Rohan headed out from his home in Holyoke, Mass., eight years ago on an unlikely mission. Read More

Since taking office, U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly called out the National Guard to enforce law and order in American cities. Generally, he does so under the color of protecting federal facilities and enabling Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers to pursue undocumented immigrants in the face of sometimes violent opposition, though he also invokes the supposedly “lawless” nature of Democrat-run jurisdictions (which are, to be clear, not well-run). This way, he can argue both that his political opponents are defying the federal government and that they’re too incompetent to govern. Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — “Coke is it” was a popular TV ad for the famed soda back in 1982, featuring teens singing Coca-Cola’s praises around a piano. It was around that same time when the company started using high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) instead of cane sugar in their main product — and would soon launch the flop known as “New Coke” — so a better catchphrase might have been, “Which Coke is it?” Read More

Canada’s Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, prominent this past Remembrance Day at the National War Memorial in Ottawa, is only 25 years old. The remains of an unknown soldier from the Great War were placed there on May 28, 2000; King Charles III laid a wreath on his recent visit, the day before the anniversary. Read More

Canada, a country that considers itself a global leader in mining and its associated knowledge economy, has increasingly lamented that where it once led, it now follows. Yet Canada has the opportunity to lead once more, to meet a challenge that might otherwise be economically and materially existential. Read More

Recent data from both sides of the border show that Canadians are travelling to the U.S. in much smaller numbers, thanks to an ongoing trade war, U.S. President Donald Trump's talk of annexation, more intrusive border crossing requirements and a weak Canadian dollar. Read More