Israeli troops carried out a targeted overnight operation in southern Syria to apprehend operatives from the Jaama Islamiya terrorist organization, encountering heavy gunfire that left six IDF soldiers wounded, three of them seriously, the military said on Friday. Read More

Dr. Ahmed Bayoumi, a prominent harm reduction researcher known as the godfather of Toronto’s injection sites, provided testimony in a court hearing early this year that asserted there is “no evidence” that such sites “lead to increased drug selling.” Read More

Iran is to boycott next week's World Cup finals draw in Washington because the United States refused to grant visas to several members of the delegation, the Iranian football federation announced on Friday. Read More

President Donald Trump called for “reverse migration” in the U.S. as he outlined a further crackdown on immigration following the shooting of two National Guard members in Washington. Read More

Our cookbook of the week is 108 Asian Cookies by Kat Lieu. Read More

There are moments in a nation’s story when a single leader bends the arc of its history toward a new destination. In Canada, no figure accomplished this more sweepingly or more deliberately than Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Agree with him or despise his legacy, and I remain firmly in the latter camp, Trudeau was not merely a prime minister. He was a founder. He took a country with deep British institutional roots, a Westminster state shaped by inherited constitutional tradition, civic restraint, common law sensibilities, and a political culture that still thought of itself, quietly but undeniably, as part of the wider Anglosphere, and he transformed it into something wholly different. Read More

If Aesop was right that “a man is known by the company he keeps,” then Prime Minister Mark Carney and his government may be due for severe judgment. Read More

Canada’s museums have transformed themselves in the last decade, adopting identity-driven makeovers under pressure from the Trudeau-led Liberals. National Post visited institutions from coast to coast to survey the damage and consider its implications. Today, Tristin Hopper laments what has happened to his beloved Royal B.C. Museum. Read More

An Ontario man who admitted to participating in two 'sham' marriages to help Indian women immigrate to Canada in return for services and cash has failed in his efforts to prove he's married to the mother of his three children. Read More

It was 3:26 in the morning when a long-haul tractor trailer loaded with steel bars pulled up on the U.S. side of the Blue Water Bridge at the southern end of Lake Huron, connecting Ontario and Michigan. Read More

A controversial exhibit, Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present, is coming to the Canadian Museum of Human Rights in June, and at least one Globe and Mail columnists thinks concerned Jews are overreacting — except they aren't. Read More

OTTAWA — Deciding how long it will take for Alberta's industrial carbon tax to hit its new "minimum" of $130 per tonne should be based on what "industry can afford," says Alberta Premier Danielle Smith. Read More

MONTREAL — If now-backbench Liberal MP Steven Guilbeault was looking for sympathy, he won't find it from four of the five candidates vying to be the next NDP leader. Read More

Has the Doug Ford government absolutely run out of ideas? Read More

When Donald Trump welcomes the Group of 20 to his private golf resort in Miami next year, he’ll decide who’s on the guest list. Read More

The Alberta-based Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms has filed a legal challenge over Waterloo Region District School Board’s decision to mandate the reading of land acknowledgements at school council meetings, while prohibiting debate on the issue. Read More

Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith signed a memorandum of understanding on Thursday to work towards building a new pipeline to the West Coast. But don’t count the chickens just yet, as no eggs have actually hatched, and for all we know, they could be duds. Read More

NDP leadership candidates are taking part in the first official debate of the campaign Thursday evening in Montreal. Read More

OTTAWA — Former environment minister Steven Guilbeault is stepping down from cabinet, but staying on as a Liberal MP, in protest of his government's memorandum of understanding with Alberta to build a new oil pipeline towards the West Coast. Read More

Alberta’s use this month of the notwithstanding clause to shield three controversial laws from judicial scrutiny has more or less united the chattering classes in outrage. Even Amnesty International got in on the act, accusing Alberta of “violat(ing) the spirit of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.” Read More

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith credited former prime minister Justin Trudeau for creating the independence movement in her province, thanks to a litany of nine "bad laws" — and his successor, Mark Carney, for taking the wind out of separatism with "good policy that genuinely addresses the concerns of Albertans." Read More

A self-admitted "nasty drunk" sentenced to six years in prison nearly five years ago for killing a Halifax man with one punch has just been identified as a homicide victim. Read More

One of the two members of the National Guard who were shot while patrolling in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday has died, according to U.S. President Donald Trump. Read More