The Gaza war mostly behind him - or perhaps not - Benjamin Netanyahu must soon face a volatile Israeli electorate. Read More

In recent decades the humanities and social sciences in many of our universities have declined in substance and stature. "Studies" programs, often ideologically slanted and emphasizing victimhood, and the emergence of postmodern influences, have undermined their importance. Read More

In the run-up to the recent 30th annual United Nations "global climate action" gathering — this one in Brazil — former Liberal environment minister Catherine McKenna declared the crisis far from over. Read More

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, resigned last Friday amid a deepening corruption scandal that has rocked the nation. Yermak’s ouster is expected to be destabilizing, as his unusually close relationship with Zelenskyy made him Ukraine’s second-most powerful man, but critics seem hopeful that it will strengthen the country’s democracy. Read More

Prime Minister Mark Carney has displayed a remarkable willingness to dismantle the legacy of his predecessor across the public policy board. Read More

This November began with good news for Pablo Rodriguez’s Quebec Liberal Party (QLP): a Léger poll showed the party slowly closing the gap with the separatist Parti Québécois (PQ), trailing by only five points, after months of double-digit deficits. Then, two weeks ago, everything unravelled. Rodriguez is now engulfed in a crisis that could seriously damage the QLP’s chances of winning the October 2026 provincial election. Read More

The children of Hong Kong's jailed pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai are voicing new alarm for his health, saying his condition has continued to deteriorate. Read More

After being apprehended in a furious five-day manhunt for the killer of an insurance executive in midtown Manhattan, Luigi Mangione casually told a prison guard he had a 3-D gun in his backpack and chatted with another about George Orwell’s literature, according to court testimony. Read More

Federal prosecutors charged a man suspected of shooting two National Guard members — one of whom later died — with first-degree murder and assault with intent to kill. Read More

When it comes to apocalypses, Hollywood has generally been more interested in what happens afterward than the down-and-dirty of the actual event that led to destruction. Read More

In Canada, if you commit a crime deemed worthy in court of six months' imprisonment or longer, the law says you should be deemed inadmissible to the country “on grounds of serious criminality.” And then, in theory, you should be sent home. Read More

OTTAWA — Auto giant Stellantis says the government, not the company, insisted on redacting copies of a controversial agreement with Ottawa worth hundreds of millions of dollars requested by a Commons committee. Read More

OTTAWA — Canada’s fiscal watchdog suggested to a parliamentary committee on Tuesday that Ottawa should need House of Commons approval to change or eliminate long-held fiscal targets, as the Carney government did just weeks ago. Read More

It was the return of Bruce Willis’s childhood stutter that gave his wife Emma Heming Willis her first hint that something was wrong. Read More

The United States has "only just begun" targeting alleged drug-trafficking boats, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth insisted Tuesday, despite a growing outcry over strikes that critics say amount to extrajudicial killings. Read More

Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak says the Carney government's federal budget "represents a significant setback" for First Nations communities. Read More

OTTAWA — A Liberal cabinet minister pushed back on Tuesday against accusations that removing a provision that shields individuals from a hate speech conviction should they express a statement based on a religious belief amounts to an attack on religious freedom. Read More

Is Canada going continental? This week, Prime Minister Mark Carney quietly signed Canada up for the Security Action for Europe (SAFE) initiative, part of the European Union’s plan to rebuild its military industrial base by 2030. Membership gives countries access to 150-billion euros (C$243 billion) in loans to back defence manufacturing. Read More

The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) has started a 30-day consultation period on a proposed change that would let international travellers arriving at Canadian airports skip their CBSA check-in before leaving Canada for another destination. Read More

The federal Liberals insist their new bill is needed to protect religious Canadians from hate. In reality, it does the opposite — it will expose people of faith to criminal prosecution for the simple act of quoting their own sacred texts. Read More

The Canadian publisher of the Franklin the Turtle children’s book series condemned U.S. Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth’s use of the normally friendly anthropomorphic animal’s image in a "violent" meme posted to social media. Read More

Costco Wholesale Corp. joined a fast-growing list of businesses suing the Trump administration to ensure eligibility for refunds if the U.S. Supreme Court strikes down the president’s signature global tariffs policy. 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

The market-liberal economist/pundit Noah Smith has written a fun “stranger in a strange land” essay about his unusual fondness for the emerging species of “generative” artificial-intelligence bots. Smith points out that 100 years of science fiction has prepared us all to have convenient, convincingly intelligent, multilingual automaton life assistants; they are an accepted part of the background of almost all imagined futures, with exceptions like Frank Herbert’s Dune universe (wherein even basic mathematical computing is outlawed on religious principle). Read More