The most basic job of government, at all levels, is to keep citizens safe. That is twice as true when it comes to government-operated transit systems. Unfortunately, the latest national investigation into transit violence paints a troubling picture that reflects what riders in Toronto and across the country experience every single day. According to new data released in a CBC feature story, the number of reported assaults on Toronto-area transit has risen by 160 per cent since 2015. Overall, violent incidents are up 127 per cent. Read More

If Canadians want to understand why our country faces persistent tensions on questions of Indigenous rights and belonging, we must move beyond the oversimplified narrative espoused by Tom Flanagan and Mark Milke in the National Post that everyone is a settler and therefore no one has obligations to First Nations. Read More

Good news, cheese lovers. A study out of Sweden has found that eating high-fat cheese is associated with a lower risk of all forms of dementia. Read More

Well, who needs some silly old king anyway? He’s only the head of state, right? Read More

Among the hundreds of Canadian leaders I have taken to visit Auschwitz, one prevailing question always emerges: "How could this happen?" The answer is quite simple, I reply: “People chose to look the other way while bad people murdered six million Jews in Europe.”  Read More

Ten months away from a crucial provincial election, the Quebec Liberal Party (QLP) finds itself without a leader. Pablo Rodriguez, elected head of the party just last June, was forced to resign following a series of internal disputes and allegations of improprieties in the funding of his leadership campaign. For Rodriguez, a kind, affable man, this is nothing short of a tragedy. I am certain that he was unaware of the schemes devised by a few bad apples amongst his supporters. In a court of law, his innocence would be easy to establish. But this is the court of politics, where perceptions alone matter. Unfair. Cruel. Sad. Read More

The world is still reeling from the heart-rending massacre of Jews attending a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, where on Dec. 14 at least 15 people were murdered and 40 were hospitalized. The youngest fatal victim was a 10-year-old girl. Read More

OTTAWA — Canada’s largest public service union is facing at least three separate lawsuits filed by sidelined executives at its component unions, court documents show. Read More

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Officials have found the dead body of the suspected shooter in a Brown University rampage and the murder of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor in his Boston-area home. Read More

Australia will start a gun buyback of surplus, newly-banned and illegal firearms after terrorists killed 15 people in a Hanukkah attack at Bondi Beach. Read More

NEW YORK CITY -- An official appointed by incoming New York mayor Zohran Mamdani to a senior role in his transition team resigned one day later on Thursday after past antisemitic posts on social media emerged, U.S. media reported. Read More

The board of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts voted Thursday to rename Washington’s premier arts venue after President Donald Trump as well as the late former president. Read More

Perhaps in search of a Chanukah and holiday season miracle, JNS asked many of the high-ranking United Nations officials, including those who denounce Israel regularly, if they spare a few words about something—anything—that Israel is doing right and honourably, in a manner that could be a model for others. Read More

Planning to make a donation to help others this Christmas? Maybe a contribution to a children’s hospital, a fund that provides snow suits for kids, a group that offers Christmas meals to the poor or perhaps some money in the Salvation Army kettle? Read More

U.S. House Democrats on Thursday published a fresh batch of photographs from Jeffrey Epstein's estate, stepping up pressure on Donald Trump's administration on the eve of its deadline to release federal files on the late financier and convicted sex offender. Read More

Tax changes reflective of inflation are afoot for Canadian workers in 2026, potentially leaving more money for them after federal and provincial taxes. Read More

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Thursday that efforts to see U.S. President Donald Trump remove or lessen tariffs on Canadian sectors will now be dealt with alongside their joint review of the trilateral trade agreement with Mexico. Read More

One of the most basic expectations of citizenship is loyalty to the Canadian state. Well, unless you’re an orthodox Sikh. Read More

The final Canada Pension Plan (CPP) and Old Age Security (OAS) payments of 2025 will be in the mail — or deposited directly into bank accounts — on Monday. Here's what to know. Read More

It’s Australia’s great shame that the worst atrocity to befall Jewish people since the October 7 massacre should have taken place here. Australia now joins all the other Western countries that are obviously plagued by militant Islam, notwithstanding the heroics of a Muslim bystander, who wrestled a gun off one of the attackers. Read More

Peter Arnett, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who became one of the world's foremost combat correspondents, died Wednesday at 91, according to US media reports. Read More

Besancon, France — A French court on Thursday sentenced a doctor to life in jail for poisoning 30 child and adult patients, 12 of whom died, reportedly in an attempt to discredit co-workers. Read More

Police agents on Thursday detained seven men who were traveling in two cars to Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, a Jewish community leader told JNS based on initial reports from the scene. Read More