While it's been acknowledged for some time that visceral fat — belly fat —that wraps around internal organs is a health hazard, new research suggests it's particularly dangerous to the male heart. Read More

OTTAWA — Conservatives say a deal between Liberals and the Bloc Québécois to remove a religious exemption from hate-speech laws in exchange for passing a bill targeting hate and terror symbols is an "assault" on freedom of speech and religion. Read More

I was five years old when the doors began to close. Read More

LONDON — If Carl von Clausewitz was right that war is a continuation of politics by other means, then perhaps the reverse is also true: politics can become a form of war. By that logic, China has waged a "good war" in recent decades, precisely because so few in the West grasp that we are in the middle of one. Read More

In the early ’80s, I set out to find the best restaurant in Bangkok. Read More

OTTAWA — In a small cabinet shuffle on Monday, Prime Minister Mark Carney distributed Steven Guilbeault’s many roles to two existing ministers and a former Trudeau-era minister he is bringing back into cabinet. Read More

The Trump administration has been lambasted for its proposed peace plan to end the Russia-Ukraine war given its generosity to Moscow — yet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said he’s willing to build from it. As Matthew Bondy discusses with Brian Lilley, Kyiv has few options but to encourage America to step in and end the brutal, nearly four-year-long war, despite the deal’s insulting terms and the White House’s apparent warmth toward Russia. That’s because Ukraine isn’t winning, and Europe, Canada and other purported supporters keep offering more lip service than meaningful help. Bondy, a senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, tells Lilley that if western countries won’t stop a barbarous but weak Russia, it raises the question of whether they care to defend western civilization at all. (Recorded Nov. 28, 2025) Read More

Sri Lanka and Indonesia deployed military personnel on Monday to help victims of devastating flooding that has killed nearly 1,000 people across four countries in Asia in recent days. Read More

Elon Musk, the richest person in the world, has already shown that when a city’s rules won’t bend to his will, he’ll create a new city and new rules. That’s how Starbase, the self-governing town built around SpaceX’s southern Texas launch site, came to be. Read More

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Canadian addiction experts say that Ontario needs to better regulate “safer supply” prescribing, because unscrupulous doctors have been cashing in by opening "electronic pill mills” — video terminals where addicts can receive enormous opioid prescriptions after only a few minutes of remote consultation. Read More

The Alberta government’s Bill 13, the regulated professions neutrality act, is an exciting proposal that would protect freedom of thought and speech for the thousands of Albertans in regulated professions. It should be passed and replicated in all provinces. Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — It’s a high-flying tale of carrots, sticks and political flip-flops. Read More

OTTAWA — The Liberals have agreed to remove religious exemptions from Canada's hate-speech laws to secure Bloc Québécois support to help pass its bill targeting hate and terror symbols, National Post has learned. Read More

Alberta independence means becoming the Mongolia of North America, sandwiched between two greater powers and cut off from the global market. A conservative party that aims for that goal is likely to experience breakup and election loss. This is why it’s such a relief that the United Conservative Party membership didn’t vote to load their board with separatists this weekend. Read More

U.S. and Ukrainian negotiators said they had productive discussions about a framework for a peace deal, but there was no final breakthrough as President Donald Trump continues to push for a truce with Russia. Read More

The White House launched a page on its website Friday devoted to naming and shaming media outlets and reporters that publish stories it disagrees with. Read More

U.S. officials are meeting with a Ukrainian delegation in south Florida as the White House continues its drive toward an agreement on ending the Kremlin’s almost four-year war on Ukraine. Read More

A Dubai restaurant has opened that prides itself on having the world's "first AI chef", the latest ostentatious dive into new technology in a city obsessed with being on the cutting edge of the future. Read More

U.S. authorities believe the shooter suspected of killing one National Guard member and seriously wounding another in Washington, D.C., was radicalized while in the U.S., Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said. Read More

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu submitted a formal request for a pardon to President Isaac Herzog, the head of state said Sunday. Read More

A leading Jewish group is continuing its legal battle against the University of Windsor's boycott of Israel, enacted as part of an agreement with protesters to end anti-Israel encampments on campus last year. Read More

Amid the economic uncertainty of the trade war between the United States and Canada are some silver linings. Companies are choosing to leave the U.S. for a new home north of the border, thanks to changes in trading policies, immigration practices and even energy regulations under the Trump administration. Read More